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  William Cullen Bryant letter to Theophilus Parsons

  Manuscripts

  Includes: (p. 2-3). 1. Rizpah: [poem in 74 lines] + 2. The Prodigal's return: [poem in 3 stanzas of 5 lines each]. Notes "To the Printer" by Parsons, p. 3.

  mssHM 24379

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  William Cullen Bryant letter to Theophilus Parsons

  Manuscripts

  Includes: (p. 1-3). 1. To a cloud: [poem in 40 lines]; 2. The murdered traveller: [poem in 9 stanzas of 4 lines each]

  mssHM 24378

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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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  [Burns, Robert]. "'Twas where the birch and sounding thong are ply'd …"

  Manuscripts

  A poem titled "A Tale," with corrections in the author's hand and annotations in pencil in an unknown hand at the end.

  HM 13059.

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  To the Mountains : poem

  Manuscripts

  Manuscript (holograph) of a poem "To the Mountains" in 3 stanzas, 22 lines.

  mssHM 13183

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  Paradise Lost

  Manuscripts

  Two bound volumes containing a manuscript copy of Paradise Lost in the handwriting of Sarah Siddons. Volume 1 is prefaced by a handwritten 22-line eulogistic poem beginning, "Penned by a hand of Elegance and grace ..." by her son Henry Siddons. Volume 1 (199 pages) contains book 1 through book 5, line 720, and volume 2 (242 pages) continues to the end of book 12. The last page of volume 2 contains the note "Many of the learned [?] similes & parts meerly [sic] descriptive and narrative are omitted in this copy, in order to facilitate the reading of the poem aloud."

  mssHM 2865