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Jacobite manuscript
c.1714-1715
Satirical Jacobite verse attack on George I, titled "Nero the 2nd", ca.1715, in a bifolium also containing two Jacobite prose manifestos of "James III", the first dated 29 August 1714, the second date...
Manuscript obituary notice of the poet and dramatist George Jeffreys
c. 1755
Comprises an account of George Jeffreys' life and achievements, his writings, and his character, partly as illustrated by a letter written to him on 11 September 1711 by his uncle, Lord Chandos
Collection of contemporary manuscript copies of fifteen miscellaneous letters and documents.
1599-c.1616
Comprises 1 document, 2 poems, and 13 letters to or from Elizabeth I and James I and various noblemen and women concerning contemporary events, all copies of originals.
Poems on several occasions, by Thomas Fitzgerald, with inserted manuscript material relating to the poem "Bedlam".
Fitzgerald, Thomas
c.1733
Comprises a copy of Fitzgerald's printed "Poems on several occasions" (London, 1733), the inserted material and annotations apparently representing a revision of the poem "Bedlam" in the author's own ...
Autograph manuscript book containing religious meditations and effusions in prose and verse, compiled by Castilian Morris
Morris, Castilian
1692-1697
The text includes some 85 prose meditations, prayers and paraphrases of scripture, 64 acrostic poems and a verse paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer (f.136r). The prayers on f.112v have emblematic illustr...
Ten manuscript poems by Edmund Waller written into a copy of the 1686 edition of his 'Poems, etc.'
Waller, Edmund
c.1690
Also known as:Poems, etc. written upon several occasions, and to several persons Comprises the fifth edition of Waller's poetry with 10 English poems by him added at the beginning and end.
Autograph manuscript poem beginning "Why doth you shade" with preceding letter of presentation to Ann Hoyle.
Robins, William
8 February 1723
A prose letter headed "Dear Madam", and including such lines as "...I shall be in hopes to woo you for drops of pleasant joys...", "And now Madam the confession of my crime...", and "then have I some ...
Manuscript verse by various hands and a masque by Thomas Cooke, inserted in a copy of 'Poems on several occasions', by Charles Cotton.
c.1720-1750
The pages of manuscript contain: (1) A short verse miscellany, including 'A satyr against woman' (16 pp), 'The batchelors lettany' (3 pp), Alexander Pope's 'How much egregious Moore/ Are we deceive'd ...
'Epistle to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland', by Samuel Daniel [Hatton Manuscript], with letter from Margaret Clifford to Lord North
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
c.1600
Folio manuscript, originally folded in two, presumed to be in the hand of Samuel Daniel, with occasional revisions. Daniel had been tutor to Margaret Clifford's daughter Anne. Written in a single hand...
Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses : this Milton-Ovid script was written circa 1623, discovered 1921, first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3, and is now revised and reprinted in one volume
Milton, John (1608-1674); Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert (1859-1935)
1924
On spine and cover: Some new stanzas by Milton.
Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith (1702-1781)
1645?-1665
Lady Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82. Bound in reversed calf,...