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A Satire on People on Note in 1724
- Description
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.'"
- Date
- 1724
- Call number
- 143198-143259
- Provenance
- 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).
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
