Winifreda

It may perhaps interest Lord Braybrooke and J. H. M. to know, that I have in my possession the copy of Dodsley's *Minor Poems*, which belonged to John Gilbert Cooper, and which was bought at the sale of his grandson, the late Colonel John Gilbert-Cooper-Gardiner. The song of "Winifreda" is at page 282. of the 4th volume; and a manuscript note, in the handwriting of the son of the author of *Letters concerning Taste*, states it to have been written "by John Gilbert Cooper." The *praise* bestowed by Cooper on the poem, and which J. H. M. conceives to militate against his claim to the composition…