MS III
	W. G. Collingwood assigned the roman numeral III to this Red Book in his “Preliminary Note on the Original MSS. of the Poems” for Poems (1891) (Poems [4o, 1891], 1:262; Poems [8o, 1891], 1:263). 
	Two decades earlier, Ruskin himself had set the precedent for numbering the Red Books, including this one: on the title page for “Harry and Lucy,” Vol. 2, he wrote “Red book No. 2. Sept 8th 1870” (see “Harry and Lucy,” Vol. 2: Title). On the same day, he docketed MS IV as “Red book No. 1,” and MS I as “Red book No. 3.” For the meaning of this numbering, see Red Books.
	Apart from these numerical designations, Ruskin’s title—intended originally, it appears, for MS III in its entirety as well as for its main work—is “HARRY AND LUCY / CONCLUDED / BEING / THE LAST PART / OF / EARLY LESSONS / IN / FOUR VOLS / VOL 2 / WITH COPPER PLATES / HERNHILL” (see “Harry and Lucy,” Vol. 2: Title). This title page, like that for MS I and its main work, “Harry and Lucy,” Vol. 1, fails to take account of a poetry anthology situated toward the end of the manuscript, an anthology named, in this case, Poetry Descriptive. Despite its omission on the title page, however, Ruskin probably inserted the anthology at about the same time he entered the manuscript’s main work, “Harry and Lucy,” Vol. 2, because he wanted the manuscript’s contents to complement those of MS I. Despite this original intention, the contents of MS III over time grew much more miscellaneous than the title page indicated.
	See also System of Title Citation for Major Manuscripts.