Date of composition summer 1829 to early 1832.
	Beneath Ruskin’s main title for the anthology, “Miscellaneous Poetry,” and above the title of the first poem, John James Ruskin wrote,  “By J. Ruskin from 10 years to 11 to 12 to         of age,” with a long space left perhaps to allow for adding Ruskin’s ages as the years went by. As it turned out, the fair-copied poems in the notebook did not extend quite far enough into 1832 to justify John James entering age “13” into the space.
	W. G. Collingwood remarks: “The poems are nearly all dated, and range from June 28, 1829, to February 1832. The dates are probably those of production, for they are slightly inconsecutive; which would not be the case if they were dates of entry; and, when chronologically arranged, they tally with the order of the first drafts in No. VI” (Poems [4o, 1891], 1:263; Poems [8o, 1891], 1:264). See Discussion for speculation about why the anthology was not carried beyond 1832.
	The handmade booklet tipped in the back of MS V, Battle of Waterloo: A Play in Two Acts, with Other Small Poems, dates from 1829 in fair copy.
	See System of Date Citation.