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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

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Description: Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1836-1840.
Call number: mssHM 82902
Creator: Gillham, Mary(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased through Alan G. Thomas from Sotheby's, June 5, Lot 412, July 24, 1973.

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

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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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Poetical manuscript commonplace book

Manuscripts

A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.

mssHM 84418

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Commonplace book--poetry

Manuscripts

A volume containing about thirty poems, copied out in two hands, possibly compiled by an English Catholic in exile. Both covers are detached, spine is missing and pages are loose.

mssHM 84419

Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

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