Scope and arrangement
· Holograph verses, "Hymn" : 20 October 1819 : (MISC 4023.16b) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "What is the first and greatest command? / To love thy God above . . ."; with two emendations; Roscoe's autograph signature, apparently clipped from a letter, is mounted at the foot of the page. Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes.
· To Thomas Cadell the younger, bookseller : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 March 1826 : (MISC 4476) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from Toxteth Park : begins, "My friend [John] McCreery having sent me in his account for printing the 3d part of my observations on criminal jurisprudence . . . .".
· To Henry Fuseli, painter and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Jun 1804 : (MISC 3754) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Liverp[ool] : beginning with a quotation from Shenstone ("The charm dissolves, the aerial music's past, The banquet ceases, & the vision flies"), and continuing, "Such are the sensations, my dear Friend, with which I look back on the hours we lately passed together at Allerton . . . .".
· To Joseph Cooper Walker, antiquarian : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 December 1799 : (MISC 4475) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Liverpool : begins, "I am greatly obliged by your kind communication informing me that the publication of Goetz of Berlingen in Dublin had done me the honour of attributing to me the translation . . . .".