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Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital sermon... : manuscript

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Description: Handwriten manuscript by William Godwin. Bound with a copy of the sale catalogue of Mr. Sotheby and Son, of Godwin's Library in 1836 and clipping of Lot 305A from the Forman sale in 1920.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1801.
Call number: mssHM 43327
Creator: Godwin, William (1756-1836)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased in the Harry Buxton Forman Library sale, Lot 305A, March-April 1920.
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Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital sermon, preached at Christ Church, April 15, 1800 : being a reply to the attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr. Mackintosh, the author of an Essay on population [i.e. Mathus] and others

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61919

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William Godwin promissory note to Charles Parr Burney

Manuscripts

An autograph document signed by William Godwin, London, England. The promissory note is made out to Rev. C. P. Burney for the amount of thirty-seven pounds, the note is to come due in three months; Burney signed the verso of the note.

mssHM 84135

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Edwin Booth to Dr. Hennessey note

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Autograph note on an Executor's Sale Notice; notice was for the sale of the effects of Mr. E. Leutze, held in New York, March 4-5, 1869.

mssHM 63333

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Camille Desmoulins manuscript fragment about the freedom of the press

Manuscripts

A fragment from a longer manuscript, possibly from Le Vieux Cordelier, number seven; the two-page autograph manuscript concerns the freedom of the press. In the upper left corner is the number 13 and directly below is an autograph note in another hand dated 1865; the two pages are heavily corrected and lined through, though the text remains legible on both pages. The accompanying material, all in French, includes a catalogue description, a partial transcription, and further information about the sale of the manuscript.

mssHM 84413

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Welsh Protestant's sermons preached in Northern Ireland: manuscript volume

Manuscripts

These sermons appear to have been copied from the manuscripts of Thomas Jones in 1690 by a clergyman preaching in Coleraine in Northern Ireland. The final leaf bears dates for "preaching at Coleraine" by both the copyist and "Mr Boyd of Loghgells" [i.e.Loughguile], perhaps William Boyd (d. 1772), rector of Ramoan.

mssHM 80566

Discorso della virtù femminile : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-6v. [Torquato Tasso]. Discorso della virtù femminile. Incipit: Alla Serenissima Madama Mia Signora, Sogliono le belle donne con vaghezza rimirare o statua o pittura ove alcuna somiglianza loro si veda espressa, e le giovani particolarmente di vagheggiarsi ne lo specchio e di vedersi ritratte et effigiate hanno vaghezza. Explicit: con queste possono esser accompagnate, ne possono infami o dishonorate in alcun modo esser giudicate, perche l'in//. Italian. The text ends abruptly, on p. 212, line 12 of the Guasti edition. On f. 7r-v, the missing portion of the text is supplied from the 1738 Venice edition. C. Guasti, ed., Le Prose Diverse di Torquato Tasso (Florence 1875) 2:201-14, this manuscript cited on pp. 169-70 with some of its variant readings quoted from the plate in the Libri sale catalogue (see below), as Guasti did not know the location of the manuscript. Dennis Dutschke, "Il discorso tassiano 'De la virtù feminile e donnesca'," Studi tassiani, 32 (1984) pp. 5-28.

mssHM 884

Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital sermon... : manuscript

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Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital sermon, preached at Christ Church, April 15, 1800 : being a reply to the attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr. Mackintosh, the author of an Essay on population [i.e. Mathus] and others

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Discorso della virtù femminile : [manuscript]