Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 3 of 3 records

Total number of records: 3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry3
commonplace-books2
christian poetry, english1
letters1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bridger, John1
Bunce, Mr1
Marriott, Eliza1

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17992
Up to 18991
BC MS Lt q 26, f. 1v: William (or John) Bunce's poem
Archive Item

Letter from John Bridger, Brookland, to his wife in Canterbury, 3 April 1728

Bridger, John

1728

The second page of the letter includes a transcription of a poem by "Mr Bunce's son" titled "To Mr Higmore a painter", in praise of the painter Joseph Highmore, celebrating his skill and claiming him ...

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
Archive Item

Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Marriott, Eliza

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 15, p. 6: The opening of
Archive Item

Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems

c.1720-1748

Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...

More details and larger image