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Title: To the Book
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: A short address to the book, extolling the virtues of reading privately.
Commonplace book
c.1719-1742
Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum ment...
Commonplace book
c.1716-c.1736
Diary of important public and private events, 1 August 1714 to May 1728; single satirical verse item, "The British ambassadress's speech to the French king"; notes of account and payment, 3 January 17...
Title: On the Book of Esther
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Version of the Book of Esther, 1-8; religious. Preceded by two woodcuts.
Poetical commonplace book
c.1710-c.1820
Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...
Title: Presenting the book to a lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Presenting the poetry he wrote as a youth, a pursuit he has now abandoned in favour of more profitable labour
Title: What is a good book
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Arguing that he will be satisfied if there are as many good epigrams as bad in his book; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", VII.81
Poetical commonplace book
c.1715
Poems transcribed on ff.2r-39v include five by Prior, three each by Waller and Isaac Watts, two each by Swift, Pope (1 unattributed), Motteux and Marvell, and one each by Ambrose Philips, Laurence Eus...
Title: A poem to his book
Author: Walsh, William
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Preface to a book of love poems, complaining of the pain and suffering that
commonly accompany love
Title: Written in a lady's pocket-book
Author: Hoadly, John
Attribution: The same [i.e. Mr Jh. Hoadly]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Witty complimentary verses written in a young woman's pocket- book,
predicting numerous admirers for her and requesting that she write her
approval of him alongside. Cf BCMSV 2085.