The Roman Numeral Designation of the Major Manuscripts
	In his “Preliminary Note on the Original MSS. of the Poems,” Collingwood assigned roman numerals to the major manuscripts. These no longer quite correctly represent, as he believed, the manuscripts’ chronological order. Since these roman numerals have been used by generations of scholars, however, I retain them to avoid confusion.
	In his “Preliminary Note,” Collingwood also omitted manuscripts that contain exclusively prose. For many manuscripts omitted by Collingwood, Cook and Wedderburn in their revision of the “Preliminary Note” and, later, Viljoen in her “Dating MSS. of Boyhood” adopted one of Collingwood’s roman numerals and added an arabic letter, thus fitting the manuscript into Collingwood’s framework according to a rough chronological order. I have retained these assignations also, again to avoid confusion. Finally, I have invented a few roman numeral designations of my own, to name major manuscripts not mentioned in any of the earlier bibliographies. A very rough chronology has thus been preserved, but the reader should never take a manuscript roman numeral as necessarily reflecting its place in the overall chronological scheme of the juvenilia. Only the arabic numerals in part 1 reliably reflect chronology.
	One manuscript at Yale has come to be known by two names. Collingwood’s MS XI, which he described as “an envelope containing collected loose papers, including poems,” was bound in 1889 (and rebound in 1924, with additions) to form the volume “Ruskin MS., Early Poems and Letters to His Father, 1827, 1844–51, 1859,” the first of the six blue morocco volumes of Ruskin family letters, now held by Yale. Collingwood’s designation of MS XI for this collection was retained by Cook and Wedderburn, although it had long since been bound by the time of the Library Edition (and had been bound even by the time PJR was released). This first volume of the bound letters, however, has also come to be known familiarly as RMS I (i.e., “Ruskin MS.,” vol. 1), the abbreviation used by Van Akin Burd in his edition of the RFL, where much of its contents is published (see RFL, lviii; Burd’s RMS II is the second volume of the bound letters). For consistency’s sake, I have chosen to use the earlier designation, MS XI, for RMS I.