Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).
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First line: When gentle Thames rolls back her Silver Streams
Manuscript. Wilde identifies the poem as "a manuscript of forty-eight lines, with this heading in Swift's handwriting, 'A Satire upon People of Note in 1727. … it bears all the evidence of Swift's pen.'"
First line: Att a sessions of late …
Manuscript. Described in William Robert Wilde The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life (1849) as referring "to the period between the viceroyalty of the Earl of Wharton in 1711, and the death of Queen Anne in 1714, when the Duke of Ormonde was Lord Lieutenant" (page 154).
