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An ode from Lord Bath to ambition
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Horace ode the 2nd Lib. 4th to the Earl of Chesterfield upon his encouraging me to initiate an ode of Horace's imploring the return of Augustus: poem
Manuscripts
This is a fair copy of Pope's poem "An Ode to the Earl of Chesterfield: in allusion to Horace." This copy was previously bound in a volume. In unknown hand.
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Charles Villiers Stanford note to unknown recipient
Manuscripts
This is a signed, handwritten note by Stanford to an unknown recipient. In the note he apologizes for not having a copy of his Elegaic Ode (his 1884 musical composition to Walt Whitman's 1865 elegy for Abraham Lincoln, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd).
mssHM 81268
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Leaf of music from a liturgical work
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Italian, text is in Latin; with decorated initials. A previous owner had it trimmed for framing; there are autograph notes (in pencil) at the bottom of the leaf with directions for the framer.
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Letter from Milton to Olive
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A letter written by a child named Milton in Lowell, Massachusetts, to someone named Olive, possibly a playmate or relative. The first page of the letter contains twenty small hieroglyphic drawings combined with individual letters to create words or phrases, also known as rebus puzzles. The author talks about his penmanship, a previous letter that was damaged, and material his parents are making for a fair.
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Confessions of a raving, unconfined nut : misadventures in the counter-culture
Rare Books
This is no ordinary memoir. Paul Krassner started out as a child-prodigy violinist, the youngest concert artist ever to perform at Carnegie Hall, but he lost his real virginity - literally and figuratively - at Mad magazine. However, Mad's humor was aimed at teenagers; America had no satirical magazine for adults, so in 1958 Krassner launched The Realist. Irreverence was his only sacred cow. When People magazine called him "father of the underground press," he immediately demanded a paternity test. Nevertheless, The Realist was indeed a forerunner of the alternative media, serving as both an influence on and a chronicler of the burgeoning counter-culture. His life story is enhanced by encounters with such folk heroes as Norman Mailer, Dick Gregory, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Jerry Garcia.
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Indenture from Hinckley in Leicestershire
Manuscripts
The indenture is a "Surrender and Regrant." Thomas Rawlat of Hinckley (about 14 miles SW of Leicester) was granted property by Thomas Sainsome, Thomas Smith, Ralph Robinson, and Thomas Wrightman. This indenture cancels their previous agreement and re-grants a cottage in Hinckley to Rawlat by charter. Sir Edward Howard, Sir John Trevor, Thomas Trevor, William Jackson and Robert Bragg all the Lords of the Manor of Hinckley, as was Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham. (All are identified in the indenture). The indenture was granted on March 24, 1604/5. It was witnessed by William Bacon, Richard Baber, Thomas Cowy, and Thomas Godfrye (the signatures are on the verso).
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