| Description | Front page reads 'Needwood Forest written in the year 1776. Never Published. Re-printed at the office of J Drewry 1811'. Following 'Needwood Forest' are a few shorter poems: 'To the Honorable Elizabeth Sedley, learning to spin, She and the Author equally having an aversion to a Spider', 'My Grand Climacteric, 1802', 'To My Grandson William, On his repeating to me most perfectly and accurately my Poem 'The Fall of Needwood' Which he had secretly got by heart. January 1809', 'On a Picture by R R Reinagle Representing me in an easy armed Chair, which Mrs. M took kind pains to procure for me; my grandson William reading to me; a volume of Burn's Justice, an Act of Parliament, and Books of Poetry on the table; the Portrait of myself a favoured likeness'
Included with the poem loose are two engravings: 'A View in Needwood Forest from the Holly Falls' and 'The Fall of Needwood', published 9 Nuly 1811 by J Landseer, London, M E Sneyd del |