Scrap-book of songs, verses and lyrics Mostly printed, but some in manuscript. Titles of printed items include : "The Cruel Knight and the fortunate Farmer's Daughter" "Thre Golden Glove" "The Merry Broom-Field, or, The West-Country Wager" "The Politick Maid of Suffolk, or, The Lawyer Outwitted" "The Wandering young Gentlewoman, or Catskin" "The Age of Man" "The Penny-Worth of Wit" "Father and I" "The Garland of Trials" "The Bloody Gardener's Cruelty, or, The Shepherd's Daughter Betrayed" "The Contented Wife" "The Goodhurst Garland" "The Blink Ey'd Cobbler" "The Berkshire Lady" "Former Days compared with the Present Times" "The Roguish Miller, or, Nothing got by Cheating" "The Pretty Greencoat Boy's Garland" "The Golden Bull, or, Love's Craftiness" "The Plymouth Tragedy, or, Fair Susan's Overthrow" "The Great Messenger of Mortality" "Miss Bailey" "The Turkey Factor" "The Bride's Burial" "Ralph and Nell's Ramble to Oxford" "The Dorsetshire Garland" "The Yarmouth Tragedy" "The Politic Lovers, or, The Windsor Miser Outwitted" "The Weaver's Garland" "Lady Isabella's Tragedy" "The Jew Pedlar" "Naval Philosopher" "The Countryman's Garland" "The Faithless Captain" "A Bundle of Proverbs" "Constance & Anthony" "The Galley Slave" "The Spruce Mr. Clark" "Bath" "The Bristol Bridegroom" "Patient Grissel" "The Rakish Husband's Garland" "The Breath of Life" "The Woodman" "Nobody coming to Woo" "Yorkshire concert" "The Vicar and Moses" "The Woodpecker" "Collins Mulberry-Tree" "Dives and Lazarus" "May I never be married" "The Lucky Escape" "The New Langolee" "Lady Gonimble's Ghost" Many of the above are adorned with woodcuts. Among the manuscript entries are the titles : "The Crafty Tinker" "Robin's Courtship" "The Lucky Escape" "The Gentleman's Courtship" "Nothing at all" "The jolly brave Herring" "The Apology "The Tinker's Will" "Richard of Taunton Dean" "Auld Lang Syne" "Knowing Joey" There are 4 untitled songs in manuscript. Loosely enclose (no.26564) is a theatre poster for the Town Hall, Birmingham, for Wednesday evening, 12th May 1852, when the "amateur company of the Guild of Literature and Art" will perform Bulwer Lytton's new comedy "Not So Bad As We Seem". The cast includes Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and John Tenniel. This is to be followed by "Mr . Nightingale's Diary", a farce by Charles Dickens and Mark Lemon, both of whom figure in the cast, along with Wilkie Collins and others. Dickens is also the stage manager. The Guild referred to above is intended, among other worthy aims, "To encourage Life Assurance and other Provident habits among Authors and Artists"! 18th-19th century