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The philosophers banquet. : Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many seuerall dishes, that in the former seruice were neglected. Where now not onely meates and drinks of all natures and kindes are serued in, but the natures and kindes of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration, and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effectes and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. The second edition, newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of 8 manuscript poems and sonnets by Eliza Fall and 45 letters (one is incomplete) from Fall to William Henry Harrison (1795?-1878) concerning her efforts to have a volume of poetry published. Fall's letters discuss her poetry, her nom de plume "Mary Maynard" and her reasons for keeping her identity secret, and John Ruskin (1819-1900) and his work.
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