[Manuscript] Chapters IV (continued) to VIII of the "Memoir of the Revd. Richard Harris Barham

Notebook, 9 x 7", black leather covers, worn, sl. hinge strain, some foxing, pages numbered 88-223, legible, scattering of pencil notes usually about placement of notes. It appears to be a fair copy, in R.H.D. Barham's hand, possibly a copy retained by the author or a family copy of the first Memoir of R.H. Barham which appeared in the first edition of the Third Series of the Ingoldsby Legends (1847). According to the Preface to "The LIfe and Letters of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham" (2 vols, 1870), written by R.H.D. Barham, the earlier memoir 'was hastily put together, occupied about a hundred and eighty pages, andhas long been out of print. This memoir forms the groundwork of the present volume. The earlier memoir (and this manuscript) contains a number of Barham's poems, diary entries and letters.