Beinecke Osborn d49

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  Frances Anne Greville Crewe is the dedicatee of the Crewe Hall album represented in Beinecke d49, not d49 itself, though it includes numerous poems from the Crewe Hall album in her honour. [The Crewe Hall Album is not extant.] 

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pp. 25–26

Local title: Verses, sent by a Gentleman, to his lady, with a present of a knife.

Attributed author: "(Said to be written by R.B. Sheridan Esqr)."

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Followed by another Samuel Bishop poem (though not attributed as such), "Thee, Mary, with this Ring I wed..."

pp. 271–274

Local title: Ode to Indifference.

Attributed author: Mrs. Greville.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Potentially copied from an album at Crewe Hall (manuscript source).

p. 328

Local title: Mason's Epitaph on his Wife, in the cathedral of Bristol.

Attributed author: Mason.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: The four last lines ("Tell them though 'tis an awful thing... behold their God'.") are annotated: "These four last lines, perhaps, the best of the whole, were written by Gray with whom Mason, at the time of his Wife's death, was extremely intimate."

pp. 300–306

Local title: Verses, sent to Mrs Crewe, with a manuscript Copy of the "School for Scandal"

Attributed author: R.B. Sheridan Esq.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Seemingly copied from the Crewe Hall Album.

pp. 161–162

Local title: On Mr Nash's Picture. At full length between the busts of Sir Isaac Newton, and Mr Pope, at Bath. 

Attributed author: the Earl of Chesterfield.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

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pp. 123–124

Local title: The Rose.

Attributed author: William Cowper Esq.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

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pp. 27–28

Local title: A Gentleman, on the late anniversary of his wedding-day, presented his wife with a Ring and the following Lines.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Preceded by another Samuel Bishop poem (though not attributed as such), "A Knife, dear girl, cuts love, they say..."

p. 270

Local title: On being desir'd to write something in Mrs Crewe's Album.

Attributed author: Mrs Greville.

Adaptation: n/a

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pp. 277–278

Local title: Verses to Mrs. Crewe.

Attributed author: the right honourable C.J. Fox

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Possibly copied from an album at Crewe Hall (like many other poems in the manuscript).

pp. 253–256

Local title: Crewe Hall Album—On the Requisition for the readers of this Book to make some additions to its contents. Crewe hall Aug 5th 1797. 

Attributed author: CB.senr.

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Possibly copied from an album at Crewe Hall (like many other poems in the manuscript).

Regular. Original poetry generally marked with initials and frequently with a location and date. Also occasional source attributions, including to a manuscript source, the "Crewe Hall Album."

Author attributions almost always appear as part of the title.

Pre-bound paperbook. Writing stays well away from the margins and given the consistency of style, the poems appear to have been copied as a group.

Half calf, with title: "Miscellaneous Poetry."

Single.

A group of poems composed at and/or about Crewe Hall or Mrs. Crewe (from about pp. 243–312) were seemingly copied, and maybe in order, from a Crewe Hall album composed in the 1780s/90s. Perhaps used as a way to memorialise the social circles of his father and aunt. 

Occasional footnotes, some seemingly copied intact from print sources (eg. p. 69 annotation, which is signed "Editor").

Does not include solutions to the riddles from the Crewe album.

Lines between items, even when items begin on a new page. 

Frequent lines under titles. 

Occasional groupings of one author (eg. Samuel Rogers pp. 163–168) suggest the compiler may have been copying out of collected works. The large Crewe Hall section (from about 243–312) suggests the author groupings were less of a deliberate organisational tactic than a consequence of the compiler's moving through different sources. 

Yes, up to half of the poetry is seemingly original to either Charles Parr Burney, his father, and I.L.B., or the Crewe Hall coterie of the 1780s and 90s. 

Charles Parr Burney bookplate.

Width of margins varies (e.g., p. 188 compared to 189).

Fairly liberal use of white space.

Paginated (1–342, 351, 356, 337–339, 360–367).

No title page at the beginning of the manuscript but there’s a title page for “The Year of Sorrow Written in the Spring of 1803, By W. R. Spencer” on p. 69 followed by a dedication in a very large font; also a title page on p. 313 for “Verses to the memory of Garrick. Spoken as a monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane,” also followed by a dedication in a large font.