Mr Buxton-Forman has most generously allowed me to print a series of pieces from his collection of MSS. (B.F.). It includes the verses which are entirely in Crabbe’s handwriting, as is perhaps the signature appended, and which I have called _Hopeless Love_ (p. 510); the fragment _David Jones_ (p. 476) of which the text may be, the title is certainly not, in Crabbe’s hand; and the fragment which I have called _Robert and Catharine_ (p. 475), as to which it seems uncertain whether the text is in Crabbe’s hand. It is manifestly an early draft of _The Cousins_ (_Posthumous Tales_, XXI); but the actual phraseology in the two versions is very rarely the same. The following pieces are also derived from the same collection: those called by me _Union_ (p. 511) and _Revival_ (_ib._), of which latter the third stanza appears in a rather different form on a separate leaf; _Metamorphosis_ (p. 512); and _Contentment_ (p. 493), a fragment of a tale. Mr Buxton-Forman’s Crabbe MSS. also include memoranda for Tales and drafts of parts of _The Will_ (_Posthumous Tales_, XX) and of _Belinda Waters_ (_ib._ XV). In neither case are the variants offered by these drafts of importance. Finally, the late Duke of Rutland was so kind as to allow several pieces of verse in Crabbe’s own handwriting preserved at Belvoir to be transcribed for insertion in the present edition (B). Some of these, I cannot but think, were transcribed by the Duke’s own hand. Most of them were exhibited at the Crabbe Celebration held at Aldborough in September, 1905, and successfully arranged and organised by Mr Charles Ganz. The _Verses to the Duke of Rutland_ dated Belvoir, August, 1784, were most kindly transcribed for me after the death of the late Duke by his Grace’s Chaplain and Librarian, the Rev. F. W. Knox. Of these pieces, the _Verses written for the Duke of Rutland’s Birthday_ (_January 4, 1817_) (p. 499) and the lines entitled _La Femme Jalouse_ (_Teniers_) (p. 507) are here printed for the first time; to the latter a few variants have been furnished from an earlier copy in one of the MS. books in the possession of the University Press (U.P.). The stanzas For _the Drawing of the Lady in the Green Mantle_ (p. 520), and _Brompton Park Cottage_ (p. 506), are also printed for the first time, from transcripts made by the late Duke of Rutland, or by his Grace’s instructions, from the originals at Belvoir. In the former case the original states the “Fair Artist” who drew the picture to have been Miss Isabella Forrester. In the latter the drawing in question is stated to have been made by Lady Sophia Norman, the cottage having been lent to the Duke, when ill, by Mr Greenwood. In the former case the last three stanzas, and in the latter a few various readings, have been supplied from one of the Crabbe MS. books in the possession of the Cambridge University Press (U.P.). To the lines _From Belvoir Castle_ (p. 389), _Storm and Calm_ (p. 396), and _To Sarah, Countess of Jersey, on her