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Contains extracts from his reading (chiefly Pope and Shakespeare) and rough drafts of projected essays on painting.

Contains records copied from the family Bible and quotations from his reading. The latest date in the book is a year after Reynolds went to London to study under Thomas Hudson.

Speech delivered to the Royal Academy at a special meeting held after Reynolds' death.

Inscribed: "A Painter's Journal through Flanders, Brabant, Holland, and part of Germany. June 24, 1781." Cased with Reynolds 37.

Draft of a never-completed dedication to William Mason of a new edition of du Fresnoy's Art of painting, a Latin poem translated by Mason and annotated by Reynolds (published by A. Ward, 1783).

Rough draft of a portion of catalogue for Reynolds' exhibition of his collection of Old Masters in the spring of 1791. [Appears to be a draft for a paragraph which was published in the Morning Chronicle, Fri., April 22, 1791.]

A reply in verse to a remark made by Johnson.