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Brotherton Collection2
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english poetry3
commonplace-books1
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letters1
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Beetham, John1
Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville1
Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas1
Peat, Alexander - the Briton.1
Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642)1

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Miscellaneous literary and historical manuscripts apparently from the collection of the first or second Lord Melville.

Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville

c.1789-1805

Comprises: (1) Alexander Peat, A.M.: The Briton, addressed principally to the people of Scotland, 74 pp.; with an autograph letter from the author, dated 28 September 1793; (2) Miscellaneous notes on ...

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BC MS Lt 31, f. 40r: Francis Quarles's poem
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Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham

Beetham, John

c.1670-1690

As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...

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The works of Sir John Suckling : containing all his poems, love-verses, songs, letters, and his tragedies and comedies

Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642)

1696

"Never before printed in one volume." Contents: 1. [Poems] -- 2. Letters... -- 3. An account of religion by reason ... -- 4. Aglaura, presented at the private house in Black-Fryars ... -- 5. Aglaura...

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