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Six English plays by David Garrick and others

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Description: Bound volume containing handwritten late 18th century copies of six English plays in various hands, collated by John Philip Kemble in 1800. The titles consist of Fortune's Taske, or The Fickle Fair One by John Horne (HM 11); The Meeting of the Company; or Baye's Art of Acting by David Garrick (HM 12); The Jubilee by Garrick (HM 13); The Nice Wanton (HM 14); A Warning for Faire Women (HM 15); and The Marriage of Witte and Science (HM 16). Laid in are two clipped engravings: one of men and a woman standing in a room with a dog in the foreground by J. Clark and "The Wonder" by Burney, printed for J. Bell, 1792. The title page of each play has the handwritten note of John Philip Kemble: "Collated & Perfect, J.P.K. 1800."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1559-1800
Call number: mssHM 11-16
Provenance: Purchased from the Duke of Devonshire through George D. Smith and Sotheby's, January 1914.

The Jubilee. Interlude, 2 pts. David Garrick

Manuscripts

No application. Prod. D.L., Oct. 14, 1769. MS: endorsed, by J.P.K., Collated & Perfect. J:P:K. 1800; prologue. (This MS [HM 13] is bound in the Kemble-Devonshire collection of plays, Vol. 332. It was not a part of the Larpent Collection, and is not listed in B.C. The prologue, bound separately, was not in Kemble's possession.) Printed in Three Plays by David Garrick, ed. Elizabeth P. Stein (1926).

LA 298

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Harlequin's Invasion. Pantomime. David Garrick

Manuscripts

No application. Prod. D.L., Dec. 31, 1759. MS: incomplete, containing only one scene. Printed in full in Three Plays by David Garrick, ed. Elizabeth P. Stein (1926), from a MS in the Boston Public Library.

LA 166

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Fanny Kemble Papers

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The collection consists of manuscript poems, documents, and correspondence by and related to English actor and author Fanny Kemble. Correspondents include: Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Charles John Kean, John Mitchell Kemble, John Poole, Adelaide Kemble Sartoris, and Charles Mayne Young. Manuscript include: Kemble, Frances Anne - poems: Autumn - written after a ride by the Schuylkill (HM 45058) "Silence - instead of thy sweet song my Bird" (HM 45059) Lines Written by the Sea Side (HM 45060) Morning by the Sea (HM 45060) To Shakespeare (HM 45060) Written at Trenton (last ten lines only, HM 45061) Documents include: Kemble, Frances Anne: Ticket of admission for Readings from Shakespeare for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [1849] (HM 45062) Correspondence (notable persons and those represented by 3 or more pieces): Coutts, Angela Georgina (Baroness Burdett-Coutts): 3 pieces, 1858-1872, to Mary Harness; 1 piece, 1867, Mar. 26, to William Harness Kean, Charles John: 3 pieces, 1842-1857, to William Harness Kean, Ellen (Tree): 1 piece, 1866, June 5, to William Harness Kean, Mary (Chambers): 1 piece, 1840, Dec. 9, to Mary Harness Kemble, Frances Anne 6 pieces, 1858-before 1893, to [Unidentified] 1 piece, 1858, Dec. 25, to Bellows 2 pieces, 1869-1877, to Ellen M. Camac 1 piece, 1884, Mar. 3, to Frances Power Cobbe 1 piece, 1853, July 28, to Anna (Shaw) Curtis 3 pieces, 1857-1858, to George William Curtis 15 pieces, 1877-1889, to Blanche Donne 2 pieces, 1877, to Valentia Donne 2 pieces, 1858-1862, to William Bodham Donne 1 piece, 1853, Dec. 25, to Mrs. Filsbee 1 piece, 1844, Apr. 27, to James H. Hackett 5 pieces, 1841-1879, to Mary Harness 25 pieces, 1863-1892, to Polly Hogge 1 piece, 1876, June 20, to William Dean Howells 1 piece, 1865, to Miss Mitchell 1 piece, 1869, to T. B. Pugh 4 pieces, 1862, to Dora Sedgwick 1 piece, 1849, Feb. 8, to George H. Whitney Kemble, Harry: 1 piece, 1859, Jan. 31, to Mary Harness Kemble, John Mitchell: 1 piece, 1840, to William Harness Poole, John: 1 piece, 1856, Apr. 18, to William Harness Sartoris, Adelaide (Kemble): 3 pieces, 1873->1879, to Mary Harness Sartoris, Edward John: 2 pieces, 1873->1879, to Mary Harness Young, Charles Mayne: 1 piece, 1824, Dec. 23, to Charles Kemble

mssHM 45049-45144

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Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript ; correspondence, manuscripts, poems and printed material

Manuscripts

This material includes a commonplace book and a miscellaneous group of letters, manuscripts, poems and printed material; some of the miscellaneous material may have been bound together at one time. The miscellaneous material includes: Francis Atterbury letter to Alexander Pope (HM 83576) ; List of book titles by John Bradshaw (HM 83577) ; note by Alexander Chalmers (HM 83578) ; verses by Charles Caleb Colton (HM 83579) ; poem by Alexander D'Arblay (HM 83580) ; printed poem by William James Linton (HM 83581) ; note and letter by Alexander Pope (HM 83582-83583) ; verses by Robert Vansittart ; poem by Edward Waller (HM 83585) ; and a poetical commonplace book with marbled paper covers (HM 83586).

mssHM 83576-83586

The Psalmes of David done into English verse by the most noble & vertuous gent. Sr. Phillipp Sidney Knt. : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-164; f. 164v blank. [Psalms]. Incipit: Hee Blessed is that neither loosely treades/ The straying steps as wicked councell leades. Explicit: Conclude by all that ayre or life enfold/ Let high Jehovah highly be extolde. Finis. The Seaven Penitentiall Psalmes of David. Psal. 6o, 32o, 51o, 102o, 130o, 143o. Rubric: The Psalmes of David done into English Verse by the Most Noble & Vertuous gent. Sr Phillipp Sidney Knt. Psalm 1. English. Other creator(s): Philip Sidney, translator; Mary Sidney Herbert, translator. J. C. A. Rathmell, ed., The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke (New York 1963) for the complete text of the 150 psalms, printed from the Penshurst manuscript belonging to the Viscount De L'Isle. W. A. Ringler, Jr., ed. The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford 1962) 270-337, for the first 43 psalms, those translated by Sir Philip Sidney, omitting the Countess of Pembroke's revisions and additions. This manuscript collated by Ringler as L.

mssHM 100

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Letters between Henry David Thoreau and Isaac Hecker

Manuscripts

Four letters between Henry David Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker consisting of: a letter to Thoreau from Hecker, New York, 1844 July 31, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20110); a letter to Thoreau from Hecker, New York, 1844 August 15, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20108); a letter to Hecker from Thoreau, 1844 August 14, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20109); and a letter to Hecker from Thoreau, [1844], A.L.S. 2 pp., with a note by Hecker on the verso (HM 20107).

mssHM 20107-20110

Six English plays by David Garrick and others

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