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Description: Seller's note reads "Volume containing a Selection of Poems in Lady Bury's handwriting, including Lines written Impromptu by Mr. Hook at the Dinner Table at Belle Vue, Lord Lorne having just before, made him a present of a plaid ; Lines written on a Skeleton found in Dalkeith Park during the time of the American War, by Lady Frances Scot ; Living without God in the World, by Charles Lamb ; Lines addressed to the Thames near Eaton School, occasioned by the death of the Friend under whom the Author was weducated, Supposed Pastoral by Dryden not published with his Works ; the Orphan's Prayer by Mrs. St. George, etc., clearly written manuscript, 210 pages, 8vo, morocco, gilt."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: c. 1820
Call number: mssHM 29165
Creator: Bury, Charlotte Campbell (1775-1861)

Poetical and prosaic commonplace book

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Includes poems ascribed to: Sir Walter Scott, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and John Wolcot.

mssHM 33691

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Lady Charlotte Bury's diary, 1805-1810 : transcripts

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The material includes: HM 82895 (1) Mary Isabel Fry's research notebook, notes, genealogical information, and maps (16 pieces) ; HM 82895 (2) Lady Charlotte Bury's diary, typewritten transcription (142 p.) ; HM 82895 (3) diary, typewritten transcription with annotations, corrections and footnotes (180 p.).

mssHM 82895 (1-3)

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Poetical manuscript commonplace book

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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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Translations from the French: poetical commonplace book

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Spine is broken, front cover is loose, handle carefully.

mssHM 34803

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Commonplace book. Poetical and legal: manuscript

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Contains poems by Ben Jonson, John Done, Richard Corbett, and others with (in a different hand) a treatise on Justices of the Peace and criminal law arranged in alphabetical order by topic.

mssHM 46323

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Commonplace book. Religious: manuscript

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Contains copy of Abp. Tillotson's letter to a friend, Abp. Ussher's "Last Prediction," a sermon on the death of Lady Elizabeth Hastings, etc. Owned by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.

mssHM 30302

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