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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

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    Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript

    Manuscripts

    The volume contains poems copied out in several unidentified hands, including poems by Lord Byron and Mary (Botham) Howitt; there is also a watercolor illustration and a pencil drawing. Please note: the volume is in very fragile condition with only a partial spine, loose covers and pages.

    mssHM 82900

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    Album of poetry and drawings

    Manuscripts

    A commonplace book, possibly kept by an individual or individuals in or near Manchester, England, in the late 1820s to 1830s, containing handwritten transcriptions of published poems and some prose, some original poems, and 26 watercolor and pencil illustrations by multiple artists depicting flowers, landscapes, ships, women, caricatures, etc. Primarily transcriptions of works (chiefly single poems) by poets including Laman Blanchard; Lord Byron; Thomas Campbell; S. T. Coleridge; W. B. Colleyer; Thomas Dale; Mrs. Charles Gore; John Hall; Mrs. Hemans; Thomas Hood; Letitia E. Landon; Elizabeth W. Mills; Milton; James Montgomery; Rev. John Moultrie; Mrs. Norton; Robert Pollock, Pope; Charles Swain; Rev. C. Hare Townsend; F. Tyrell; and a poem "pretended to be" from Shakespeare about "Anne Hathaway"; as well as extracts from an essay "Genius and Talent"; "Marriage" from Roger's Human Life; and Symmons's Life of Shakespeare. The artwork includes various signatures and initials including "John Houghton, 2 January 1830"; "R. J. 1836"; I. L. Williamson Aug 13, 1828"; "J. L. Williamson, 1830"; "Lizzy"; "F. Priestley, 16 Oct. 1830"; "P.N."; "H.B."; "L.W."; and "C.B.M." One poem, which appears to be an original, entitled "A Request," is signed "I. Baker."

    mssHM 25901

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    Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript ; correspondence, manuscripts, poems and printed material

    Manuscripts

    This material includes a commonplace book and a miscellaneous group of letters, manuscripts, poems and printed material; some of the miscellaneous material may have been bound together at one time. The miscellaneous material includes: Francis Atterbury letter to Alexander Pope (HM 83576) ; List of book titles by John Bradshaw (HM 83577) ; note by Alexander Chalmers (HM 83578) ; verses by Charles Caleb Colton (HM 83579) ; poem by Alexander D'Arblay (HM 83580) ; printed poem by William James Linton (HM 83581) ; note and letter by Alexander Pope (HM 83582-83583) ; verses by Robert Vansittart ; poem by Edward Waller (HM 83585) ; and a poetical commonplace book with marbled paper covers (HM 83586).

    mssHM 83576-83586

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    Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans papers

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of manuscripts by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans and also letters both to and from her. The materials in the collection mostly concern literary subjects, though several offer observations on the political situation in Ireland and the tensions between the Catholics and Protestants. A substantial amount of material in the collection is written both by and to Robert Perceval Graves and other Graves family members.

    mssHM 42508-42558

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    Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans papers

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of manuscripts by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans and also letters both to and from her. The materials in the collection mostly concern literary subjects, though several offer observations on the political situation in Ireland and the tensions between the Catholics and Protestants. A substantial amount of material in the collection is written both by and to Robert Perceval Graves and other Graves family members.

    mssHM 42508-42558

  • Commonplace book--poetry : manuscript, 1595-1675

    Commonplace book--poetry : manuscript, 1595-1675

    Manuscripts

    Part 1 is a verse miscellany of 206 pages which includes 52 poems by John Donne, 11 poems by Thomas Carew, 10 poems by Richard Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Robert Herrick; the poems dating up to ca. 1637. Part 2 is a verse miscellany which includes 59 poems by Donne; dates to ca. 1620-1633.

    mssHM 198