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Songs from the poets: illuminated book of poems
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Poems for The Earthly Paradise
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The volume includes: "Come forth o love today, although the earth," "The year is gone and now another year," "Look out of doors today and see the streets," "Lo last night winter died although today," two columns listing abbreviated titles and word counts for each section of The earthly paradise, "My squire in many lands I have," "St Agnes Convent by the merry sea" and introductory lines to the "Story of the Flower."
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Caroline Severance letter to Mrs. J. E. Smith
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Caroline Severance wrote this letter to Mrs. J. E. Smith in May 1906. In it, Severance is asking her former employee to return to her former position. Along with the letter is a signed copy of Severance's book The mother of clubs. There is also an inscription (partial - page torn): "...my good friend + generous keeper Mrs. J E Smith, with love + best wishes from C. M. Severance. May 1906 'El Nido' Los Angeles."
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English Church Monuments, 1510-1840 (published 1946)
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Consists of a published bound copy of the book, English Church Monuments 1510-1840 by Katharine Esdaile [annotated] (New York: Oxford University Press), annotated by Edmund Esdaile (with inscription: "Edmund Esdaile, 1961- annotated for the Huntington Library ... the annotations are copies of those in my own copy of this book of which some are in KAE's writings but others represent my own work ...").
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English song book
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An anonymous compilation of about sixty songs, without musical notation, including love songs, sea songs, drinking songs, parodies (on Chevy Chase, and on Hamlet's soliloquy beginning "To dance or not to dance," written in an Oxford ballroom), and others. A Table of Contents is given at the front of the volume. There are many blank pages.
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Crypto-Catholic Shrewsbury prayer book : manuscript
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1. f. 1r-v. Morning prayer. Lighten myne eyes o Lorde, least at any tyme I oversleepe in sinne, and least myne enemy doe say I have prevailed against him ... 2. ff. 1v-2r. Evening prayer. Allmighty and everlasting God, I render thee most heart thanckes, for that thou has vouchsafed of thy great mercy and goodnes, to preserve mee this day from all evill ... 3. ff. 2r-3v. A prayer to stirre up the minde to devotion in prayer. Allmighty and most mercifull Father, unto thee all the heavenly company of the Celestiall cytie, all the blessed orders of saved spirits do wth due reverence sing continuall glorie and everlasting praise ... 4. ff. 3v-10r. A confession of my sinnes & weaknesses wth petitions for the pardoning of the one, & strengthening of ye other. Have mercie vpon mee and spare mee good Lorde, and suffer mee not to perish in my sinne ... 5. ff. 10r-18r. Another confession wth such like petitions. Graunt me most mercifull God, fervently to desire such thinges, as may bee acceptable and pleasing unto thee, wth wisedome to serch after those, not to bee deceived in the knowledge of those, and unfainedly to accomplish the doing of those ... 6. f. 18r. A prayer desiering God to order & direct mee. Lorde God thou knowest what thing is to mee most profitable to doe, this or that, after thy will: ... 7. ff. 18v-19r. A thankesgiving for my beeing. O God thou mightest have kept mee from being at all, and (being) thou maist make mee, as if I never had been, but seeing of they wonderfull goodnes, also doost suffer mee still to bee: ... 8. ff. 19r-20r. Before the receiving of the holy Sacrament. O Benigne Jesu that wouldest suffer so many grevous paynes, yea death itself for love of mankinde, great and marveilous is they charity, give mee grace to receive, thy precious body in forme of bread this day, with purity of heart and cleanes of soule, with love, dread, and stedfast beleef. ... 9. ff. 20v-21r. After receiving the holy Sacrament. Thankes bee unto thee o holy Father God Almyghty, that thou didst vouchsaufe of thy great pity, to send thy only sonne from thy high throne into this vale of woe & miserye, ... 10. ff. 21r-22v. A prayer or thanckesgiving unto ye Holy Trinity. O Blessed Lorde God, Father, Sonne and Holy Ghost, three personnes and one God, my Lorde, my God, my maker, my redeemer, my norisher, my defender, my sweetnes, my mercy, my refuge, my strength, my victory, my joy, and my glory eternall; I laud thee, I glorifie thee, I honor thee. ... 11. ff. 22v-24v. Prayers in Sicknesse. O Sweete Jesu, I desire nor life, nor death, but they most holy will. Thee O Lorde I looke for, bee it unto mee according to thy pleasure. If thou wilt sweete Jesus that I dye, receive my soule ... 12. ff. 24v-25r. A prayer for a sick body ready to die. Have mercy and spare him o Lorde; deliver him from thine anger, from an evill death, from the danger of death; from the paines of hell, from all evill, from the power of the Devill. ... 13. ff. 25r-26r. Christ deliver thee from all torment, who was crucified for thee. Christ deliver thee from death, who hath vouchsafed to dye for thee; Christ the sonne of the living god, place thee in the garden of his paradise, which alwaies is pleasant and flourishing ...
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Charles L. Green journal
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Journal that Charles L. Green kept between May 23, 1865 and October 31, 1869, including his service on the Miantonomoh and the Nipsic. The manuscript opens with a brief autobiographical narrative that Green composed "having lost my previous journals a short time since, by the destruction of the vessel to which I was attached." This portion of the manuscript includes a detailed account of the fire that destroyed the steamer Arizona.
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