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Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
Includes an item from 1761. Attributed to Thomas Sheridan as a response to Jonathan Swift's "Irish Eloquences in Sir Walter Scott. Works of Jonathan Swift (1824), vol. VII, p. 154. George Mayhew identifies it as being in the hand of Deane Swift, ca. 1761 (Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, page 180).
HM 14371.
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Rare Books
Imprint: [Dublin, 1724] First line: Fair ones! To you who Hearts Command, View the Huntington Online Catalog record. Printed. Signed: Punch cum sociis; sometimes attributed, erroneously, to Swift and to Sheridan. Handwritten annotation below title, "written upon Secretary Hopkins refusing to let Stretch act without a large Sum of money."
143201
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Manuscripts
Poem in 7 stanzas of 4 lines each. Followed by Swift in 4 stanzas of 4 lines each, "The Beau's reply to the five Ladyes Answer" (A.Ms. 1 p.). Endorsed twice by Swift: "Sher[id]an. 5 Ladyes answer to the Beau" and "Sheridans answer to the Beau, and the Beau's reply."
HM 14335.
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Letter written in verse in 13 lines, with a P.S. in 3 lines. Followed by a reply in 34 lines of verse by Swift to Sheridan, dated December 15th (A.Ms. 1 p.) Endorsed thrice by Swift: "Verses Sher[ida]n"; "Some times Sher[ida]n & I"; and "Sherid[a]n & I."
HM 14336.
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Manuscripts
Poem in 68 lines. Endorsed: "A new Year's Gift for the Dean of St. Patrick's given him at Quilcah, 1723/4."
HM 14369.
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Manuscripts
Poem in 120 lines. Endorsed: "By Mr. Booker."
HM 14352.