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Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... : To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano
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Commonplace book. English poetry and songs : manuscript ; hymns, poetry, correspondence and printed material
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The material includes: HM 82903 (1) - a commonplace book of English poetry, songs and hymns (1865-1902); 92 pages with additional blank pages, entries written in several hands of various ages. There is an autograph note on the inside front cover: "This book was given to me by Lady Abercomby, Lady Dysarts oldest friend at Adelaide House, St Leonards."
mssHM 82903 (1-6)
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L'histoire notable de la Floride sitvee es Indes Occidentales : contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par certains capitaines & pilotes françois
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"A comprehensive account, or rather compilation, of the four several French expeditions-- 1562, 1564, 1565, 1567-- covering the letters of Laudonnière for the first three, and an anonymous account, perhaps by the editor Basanier, of the fourth." --Winsor. Narr. and crit. hist., v. 2, p. 293.
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Comoedyes and pastoralls : with their songs, as also one booke of epigrammes by W.P. Esquier ... exscriptum anno salutis 1647. : manuscript, 1647
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William Percy (1575-1648), third son to the Eighth Earl of Northumberland, was an amateur dramatist and poet. Work is a transcription by Percy in 1647 of six of his plays (The Cuck-Queanes and Cuckolds errants, Arabia siticus, the Faery pastorall or Forest of Elves, A country tragaedye in Vacuniam, the Aphodysia and Necromantes), songs and epigrams.
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We three: Henry, Eddie, and me
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Self-published family memoir and history compiled by Harriet Williams Myers in 1945. Focuses on biographies of Myers and her brothers Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams, including anecdotes about their childhoods and a compilation of their later accomplishments. Includes the text of an articles on birds by Henry Williams, the text of various songs and poems meaningful to the family, and the text of obituaries for Henry and Edward Williams. Also includes several printed illustrations, some original photographs of members of the Williams family, and a letter from the author explaining her reasons for writing the book, dated January 1945.
mssHM 75361