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Conway, Henry Seymour. To Mrs. Montagu, with two Garden swords to be us'd as Scythes: [a poem of 8 lines]

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Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.
Type
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Date
[c. 1785?]
Call number
MO 719
Creator
Montagu (1718-1800)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1925. The collection was formed by Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron of Rokeby, nephew of Elizabeth Montagu and executor of her estate. In 1899, the papers passed into the hands of his granddaughter Emily J. Climenson, and upon her death in 1921 to Mr. Reginald Blunt.
Associated people
Alison, Dorothea Gregory. (1715-1785.)
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, (1719-1805.)
Boscawen, Frances Evelyn, (1762-1831.)
Donnellan, Anne. (1692-1775.)
Montagu, Elizabeth Charton. (1684-1764.)
Montagu, Matthew, (1713-1800.)
Montagu, Edward, (1720-1795.)
Bath, William Pulteney, (1715?-1791.)
Rokeby, Matthew Robinson-Morris, (1703-1756.)
Scott, Sarah, (1759-1833.)
Vesey, Elizabeth Vesey,
West, Gilbert,
Wilberforce, William,
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