In honor of St. Patrick's Day, this week's manuscript is by Stopford Brooke, an Irish writer whose humorous poem, "The Bottle," is now part of the Mary Lago Collection. While on a picnic with George and Rosalind Howard, Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Brooke threw a wine bottle into a pond at Hampton Court Palace. The Howards became obsessed with sinking the bottle, but failed to do so.
