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Hellas, a lyrical drama: manuscript, 1821, November 1

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    Memorabilia regarding Percy Bysshe Shelley's memorial

    Manuscripts

    There are 8 card photographs in this small group of manuscripts relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley's memorial in Viareggio, Italy. In addition, there is a speech made by Colonel Shelley Leigh Hunt at a public banquet given at Viareggio, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Shelley memorial, September 30, 1894. A list of 10 names is also part of this group, these individuals appear to be part of the inauguration. These items are contained in an incomplete volume with pages 795-800 about the Shelley family.

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    Comoedyes and pastoralls : with their songs, as also one booke of epigrammes by W.P. Esquier ... exscriptum anno salutis 1647. : manuscript, 1647

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    William Percy (1575-1648), third son to the Eighth Earl of Northumberland, was an amateur dramatist and poet. Work is a transcription by Percy in 1647 of six of his plays (The Cuck-Queanes and Cuckolds errants, Arabia siticus, the Faery pastorall or Forest of Elves, A country tragaedye in Vacuniam, the Aphodysia and Necromantes), songs and epigrams.

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

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    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).

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    Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. 1 letter to James Irvine, A.L.S. (1889, June 12), Trieste (Austria)

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    Note: very fragile -- handle carefully. In the hand of Isabel Burton; draft letter, with autograph additions and corrections by Richard Burton.

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