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	a)  To Poesie  (no. 109) is listed first in Goodspeed, Cat. (item 83.A), and presumably appeared first in the original binding, although according to Works (2:534) this item either was added later to MS X as described by Collingwood or was omitted from that earlier description. Its place in front of the contents may account for its severe fire damage, much of the upper right corner being lost of the 10.3 × 18.8-cm sheet. (Similarly, the upper right corners of b, below, which probably lay immediately beneath a, were sacrificed.) For preservation, the sheet is encased in rice paper, and enclosed in a separte folder in  Miscellaneous Manuscripts. 
	Both Goodspeed, Cat. and Works are tentative in identifying the hand of this copy, but the hand is unquestionably Margaret’s. In a penciled note at the end of the poem, she apologizes  I am sorry this is no better writte[n b]ut my pen was bad & I coul[d] not make it better. 
	b) Journal of a Tour through France to Chamouni (no. 203), according to Works (2:534), was contained in  two paper books,  one of 26 pages for Canto I, and the second of 10 pages  as far as carried  for Canto II. Goodspeed, Cat. (item 83.B) summarizes  36 pp., 4to.  Despite the severe charring, the manuscript is preserved complete, although the  books  are cut into individual leaves, which are encased in rice paper.  Canto 1st  (the poem is untitled) is written on thirteen 15.5 × 19-cm sheets; the presumptive second canto (no such designation is supplied, only the stanzas are numbered) is written on five 22.5 × 18-cm sheets.
	In both  books,  the stanzas run continuously recto to verso, leaf by leaf. In canto two, two successive stanzas are numbered  24,  the editors of the Library Edition silently correcting the second to  25  and adjusting the successive numbering accordingly. The fragmentary twenty-ninth and final stanza (thirtieth, in the Library Edition) is not incomplete owing to missing manuscript, since it stops in the middle of a verso.
	With its very few corrections, the manuscript appears to be fair or semifinal copy (although one must never underestimate Ruskin’s facile ability to produce uncorrected draft). If fair copy, the manuscript, by comparison with Ruskin’s other travelogues, is no  copperplate  fair copy like the  Iteriad  in MS VII, much less an elaborately illustrated production like the Account of a Tour on the Continent in MS IX. Perhaps Ruskin was becoming less interested in bookmaking as an aspect of his poetry.
	c) Both descriptions (Goodspeed, Cat., item 83.C, and Works, 2:534) list a versified letter from abroad to Richard Fall, 14 June--2 September 1835 (no. 204), which is now kept inside a folder in a box at Yale,  Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 / Letters: F-H. 
	The description in Works specifies double columns on  5 large pages,  but Goodspeed, Cat. cites  10 pp.  On the folder containing the manuscript (resembling the other folders for items of the Goodspeed donation), as in Works,  5 p.  is notated. Goodspeed Cat. gives the erroneous description, since the manuscript presently consists of three sheets, 20.5 × 25 cm, two of them written in double columns on both sides, and the third written in double columns on one side. Nothing is missing, since these sheets constitute the entirety of the poem as published in Works, 2:429-38--including the  ms.  postscript, dropped into a note on p. 438.
	The charred sheets are encased in rice paper. The hand appears to be Margaret Ruskin’s.
	d) Both Goodspeed, Cat. (item 83.D) and Works (2:534) list  Conversation supposed to be held between Mr R. Mrs R. Miss R. & Master R. on New-years morning 1836  (no. 215). Both descriptions count six pages-- 6 pp., 4to,  according to Goodspeed--which correspond to the three extant 25 × 20-cm sheets, encased in plastic and enclosed in a separate folder in the box  Miscellaneous Manuscripts.  Fire damage was severe to the right edges, which show a curious vertical streak, as if the sheets had been folded along that crease; however, Ruskin’s writing carries across the crease.
	e) Both Goodspeed, Cat. (item 83.E) and Works (2:534) list a rhymed letter to John James Ruskin, 31 March 1836 (no. 230), which is now kept inside a folder in a box at Yale,  Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 / Letters: N-Z.  The 20.5 × 25-cm folded sheet, written in verse on three sides, with the address and a prose paragraph on the fourth side, corresponds to Goodspeed’s  3 pp., 4to, and address.  Charred and encased in rice paper. The most thorough transcription of the letter is in RFL, 358-64, which also provides a full description of the letter.
	This is the only item from MS X that is specifically identified among Goodspeed’s donations in YULG (17, no. 3 [January 1943]: 59). The remainder may have been included among the  31 sheets of poems  also listed in that acknowledgment, or they may have been comprised in the  other Ruskiniana  acknowledged later in YULG (19, no. 2 [October 1944]: 35). See MS IA,  Description. 
	f) Both descriptions (Goodspeed, Cat., item 83.F, and Works, 2:534) identify a partial copy (lines 1-185 only) of  The Exile of St. Helena  (no. 256) in an unidentified hand-- in the hand of a secretary,  the Library Edition adds, in its list of  Exile  manuscripts, of which Yale’s is  b  (Works, 2:45 n. 2). The hand, I believe, is Margaret Ruskin’s.
	The manuscript is untitled, except for the epigraph drawn from II Samuel (the second epigraph of the printed version, from Aeschylus, is not present; see Works, 2:45). The manuscript consists of three 18 × 23-cm sheets, written on both sides, plus one shorter 18 × 15-cm sheet, written on one side, and torn just below line 185; hence, the torn page represents the state of the manuscript since it was first described as totaling 185 lines, and nothing was lost to fire damage except for the right edges, which are severely charred. The leaves are encased in plastic and enclosed in a folder in the box  Miscellaneous Manuscripts.  
	g) Both descriptions (Goodspeed, Cat., item 83.G, and Works, 2:534) include the  Peace Song,  and the  Zodiac Song,  the Library Edition explaining that these poems, like a above, were added to MS X when first bound and were not enclosed in the  cover  described by Collingwood.
	The charred manuscripts of the two poems are encased in rice paper and kept in separate folders in the box  Miscellaneous Manuscripts.  Works (2:245 n.) describes a  loose sheet  for each, and Goodspeed, Cat.  2 pp., 4to  for both. Specifically,  The Peace Song  is 20 × 25 cm and watermarked 1863, and  The Zodiac Song  is  18 × 25 cm (no watermark). Perhaps the two manuscripts were intended as a pair, since the one is entitled and numbered  1. The Peace Song,  and the other  2. The Zodiac Song. 
	The first printing of  The Zodiac Song  (Works 2:247) follows this manuscript exactly and is evidently taken from it, while the printing of  The Peace Song  in the Library Edition (there entitled  Awake, Awake ) is taken from another source and lists this manuscript as a variant. See also Van Akin Burd, ed., The Winnington Letters (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1969), 251, 253 n. 4.