The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

SONNET 73
General Notes
Eliz. would be forty in ’73 = 40 winters besiege [quotation from sonnet] #2
’73-75—Walter Devereux in Ireland, dies ’75
b. J[ohn] Donne 1573(?)
Renewal of marriage consid.
1573 Hatton ill—Queen sends her physician to care for him
Could this be Mary Q. Sc.—’87—dies 1591[.] In my end is my beginning? [Motto embroidered by Mary shortly before her death.]
Line 10
The ashes of his youth: Aschen—was E’s tutor in youth!

SONNET 74
Bast.[?] son of Leic. born
Check on year Cecil becomes Burleigh Ess (about now? early 70’s)
’74-b. of Joseph Hall, satirist
’74-’75—Persec. Of Cath. + Anabaptists in Eng.
Almost as if written by S. for someone to give to E.—like Leicester, Oxford, Burleigh, maybe Essex]]>

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