Bound volume containing eight miscellaneous sequences of manuscript pages, or fragments, in the hand of Henry Reed, on topics in English literature and history. According to a note bound in at the front, dated 1913, these sections were regarded as fragments at that time because they could not be placed in any of the manuscripts in the present collection. During the present processing, several of the fragments were found to be related to other manuscripts in the present collection, dated circa 1847-1855; the others remain unidentified, and are undated. The fragments, in the order in which they are bound into the volume, are as follows: 1) leaves numbered i-v, comprising follow-up remarks on the poet Alexander Pope, regarding his poem Universal prayer, possibly belong to a preamble at the beginning of Lecture 8 of Reed's Lectures on English literature of 1850 (see Ms. Coll. 859, Box 4). 2) leaves numbered 15-16, concern the relationship of grammar to good style. 3) leaves numbered 33-39 form the conclusion of Lecture 3, on the literature of letter-writing, found in Reed's Lectures on English literature of March 1851 (see Ms. Coll. 859, Box 5); f. 34-35 verso have notes in the hand of Henry Reed's brother, William B. Reed, made by him when those lectures were prepared for publication in 1855. 4) one leaf, numbered 40, forms the conclusion of Lecture 10, given in 1847, of Reed's Lectures on modern history illustrated by Shakspere's English historical drama (see Ms. Coll. 859, Box 6). 5) leaves numbered 34-36 represent the conclusion of a lecture on English history, mentioning Henry VI's taking refuge in Edinburgh at the end of the War of the Roses, quoting Sir Walter Scott on Charles X, and alluding to the last lecture of the series occurring the following week. 6) leaves numbered 37-42 form the conclusion of Lecture 7, in Reed's Lectures on English literature of 1850 (see Ms. Coll. 859, Box 4); f. 37 verso has a note in the hand of William Reed, made by him when those lectures were prepared for publication in 1855. 7) leaves numbered 1-7 represent the beginning of a course of lectures on English literature in the early 18th century, the age of Queen Anne. 8) leaves numbered 1-10 represent opening remarks of a lecture on English literature in connection with political reading; Reed refers to several critical works, including John Ruskin's Modern painters, part 2 (1846) and Henry Taylor, Notes from books (1849).
