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Soneto : ¿Quién sino tú, dulcísima María

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Description: Broadside, illustrated with woodcut of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Contains a sonnet offering thanks to Mexico's patroness the Virgin of Guadalupe for Mexico's recently-won independence from Spain. The broadside is undated, but the references to the liberation of Mexico from Spain along with paper and typographical evidence point to an 1820s publication.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [approximately 1821]
Call number: 653430
Provenance: Purchased from Elena Gallego Rare Books, April 2021.
Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm
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A María Santísima de Guadalupe : soneto

Rare Books

Item is a broadside in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe; text and woodcut within decorative printed border. Text is a sonnet to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

653434

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Anne C. Lynch Botta poems

Manuscripts

This collection contains the following: "A modern hero" [a sonnet] inscribed to Cyrus Field; "Ab astris" [poem in 13 lines]; "Accordance" [a sonnet]; "American Civilization" [a paper read before the "Wednesday Afternoon Club" of New York]; "Endurance" [a sonnet]; and "Prometheus" [a sonnet]. Notes of authentication by Julia M. Lynch.

mssHM 14492-14497

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Official record

Manuscripts

This manuscript is an account of the ceremony which commemorated the laying of the cornerstone of the church dedicated to St. Joseph and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Also included are the signatures of José Viader and Macario Castro. In Spanish.

mssHM 19565

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William Cullen Bryant letter to Theophilus Parsons

Manuscripts

Includes: (p. 1-3): 1. Sonnet ["Mutation"]; 2. Sonnet ["November"]; 3. Song of the Grecian Amazon: [poem in 4 stanzas of 8 lines each]. Note, "To the Printer," by Parsons, p. 1.

mssHM 2554

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Essays -- Anonymous

Manuscripts

Anonymous history on Mexican Revolution, persecution of Mexican Roman Catholic Church, and Cristero movement. José Aurioles Díaz essay on the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mexican identity. Poem on religious persecution by Mexican government

mssVillaseñor

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Rosalinda. Musical drama, 1 pt. John Lockman

Manuscripts

Application 18 Decr. 1739 This piece is to be represented at my House. Jas. Hugford. Prod. Hickman's Room, Jan. 4, 1740. MS: some corrections, in hand of author(?); included are: Imitations. Argument, to ye. following Sonnet; an account of the circumstances attendant upon the composition of a sonnet by Henault, who speaks to ye Embrio in ye Person of Madlle de Guerchi; and the sonnet, in French. Comp. 1740 (K-D 46): virtually identical.

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Soneto : ¿Quién sino tú, dulcísima María

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