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latin poetry, medieval and modern5
english poetry3
commonplace-books1
elegiac poetry, latin (medieval and modern)1
family archives1
french poetry1
letters1
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songs, french1
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Bathurst, Charles1
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BC MS Lt 96, f. 119v:
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Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.

c.1710-1750

Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.

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BC MS Lt q 48, f.2v: An extract from
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Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.

Crofts family

1670-1833

Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...

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Elegia Popi in memoriam virginis infelicis in latinum versum reddita

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1731

Also known as:Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady Comprises a translation into Latin hexameters of Pope's 'Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady', dated 1731; the original poem was publis...

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Latin marriage poem by Charles Bathurst for his friend Mr Nichols, Assistant Master of Westminster School.

Bathurst, Charles

c. 1750

Comprises an autograph manuscript Latin marriage poem by C. Bathurst for his friend Nichols, Assistant Master of Westminster School.

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Correspondence and papers of the Luttrell family, including some relating to Narcissus Luttrell.

Luttrell family

c.1676-1770

Comprises: (1) Much fragmentary eighteenth-century poetry in English, Latin, and French; (2) Miscellaneous commonplace notes, extracts, and speeches; (3) Various documents in French, including an eigh...

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