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

SONNET 145
Perhaps impr. 1601–E saved him
Temporary end of “eclipse” (Bacon letter) as E “agrees” to send Essex to Ireland?
Facing: hatred + mortality
Code of rebellion
Reconciliation possible (but rebellion hidden)

SONNET 146
1599–pious Es. ill–funeral bells
Globe theatre opened ’99
Religious melancholia for Essex (recurrent but strong at end)
Remuneration of flash[?]
Death faced (avoid in 1st part)
Body is servant to soul here–pine in Tempest (Ariel’s prison)
Line 9: mourners feed his spirit[.] Perhaps this is of Essex
Lines 13-14: Donne poem [Likely referencing the sonnet “Death, be not proud” by John Donne.]]]>

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