Sir Richard Paul Jodrell was the author of a privately printed selection of Eton Greek and Latin verse entitled Carmina Selecta (London, 1810). There are notes in these manuscripts indicating which poems were included (with textual differences). His own first Latin verse is annotated 'No. 1, Sent up for good at Eton School for these verses, 15th of October, 1795, in the Remove'. Jodrell appears to have added to these volumes throughout his life, indicating when any of the verses by his Eton contemporaries achieved publication. An Index lists authors and their 'themata'.
His father, Richard Paul Jodrell Snr., cultivated the friendship of Dr. Johnson and was a member of the Essex Head Club. The M.P. for Seaford, he wrote several works of classical scholarship and a number of plays. Some of his verses are in Musae Etonenses and his Poetical Works were published in 1814.