Manuscripts

Two Songs and Prince Choo Kang

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Description: Volume also includes a letter to Jonathan Goading (mssHM 24161).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1832.
Call number: mssHM 2107-2109
Creator: Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from George D. Smith, Clawson-Wilson sale, lot 111, January 1917.
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The Lay of St. Medard. Golden Legends No. VII. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq

Manuscripts

An autograph manuscript by Richard Harris Barham. The volume also contains other manuscripts, engravings, and letters; with the bookplate of Frederick Locker. The volume also contains a letter from Barham to My dear Madam (mssHM 14391); a motto in the handwriting of Barham (mssHM 14392); The Lay of St. Medard, with a copy of a letter from George Bentley (mssHM 14393); George Cruikshank's rough pencil sketch for the Legend of St. Mendard (mssHM 14394); an autograph letter by George Cruikshank to Frederick Locker (mssHM 14395); and two printed engravings of Barham by Richard Bentley.

mssHM 14391-14395

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Paddy's Plot or the Old Fool Couzen'd at Last: in two acts

Manuscripts

At the end of the volume is a two page autograph letter by William Cobbett, unsigned and undated, which inspired the play (mssHM 34560).

mssHM 34559-34560

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The Death of Balder. A Heroic Play with Songs; in three acts

Manuscripts

Also bound in the volume: Balder's Dreams. From the Ancient Norse: a poem (mssHM 14491); a printed copy of the limited issue of the play The Death of Balder.

mssHM 14398

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Armadale: a novel with title page, dedication, and introduction

Manuscripts

Volume II also includes letters (mssHM 33787-33789) and a printed copy and autograph version of Armadale: a drama in three acts (mssHM 33790),

mssHM 33786

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Eugene Field Original Poems and Letter

Manuscripts

Volume includes: Love's Request: poem and music (mssHM 19441); Crumpets and Tea: poem (mssHM 19442); Willie: poem with color drawing (mssHM 19443); Little Boy Blue: poem (mssHM 19444); "This is Posie's great big sister:" poem with color drawing (mssHM 19445); "It is very aggravating to be bothered with the prating...:" poem (mssHM 19446); Eugene Field letter to "Dear sister Lynch," February 18, 1892 (mssHM 19447); and printed material.

mssHM 19441-19447

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Edmund Clarence Stedman: a poem

Manuscripts

Bound in volume with the poem: photograph of Henry Cuyler Bunner inscribed to Stedman, October 22, 1886; letter to Stedman, December 10, 1884 (mssHM 10038); letter to Stedman, December 12, 1884 (mssHM 10040).

mssHM 10057

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