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Leaving home

Oliver, Henry

[18--]

Poem, extracted from an unidentified publication.

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Early buds and autumn leaves

M. A. R; Roberts, M A

1862

A MS. note by W.T. Freemantle suggests attribution to M.A. Roberts.

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Tea-leaves, dust and ashes

Dewar, Hugo

[1947]

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Stray leaves from my diary

Ward, William George (1812-1882)

1868

Leaf following title-page has a blank space for the author/compiler to fill in the name of the recipient, signed "W.G.W." [William George Ward?].

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BC MS Lt 88, f. 1r: John Ellis's poem
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Translations by Thomas Tooly and John Ellis of some of the Basia or Kisses of Joannes Secundus, inserted on additional leaves into a printed edition of 1731.

Tooly, Thomas

c. 1731

Comprises a copy of "Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or the kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague, in Latin and English verse", London, 1731, with ten English love poems by Thomas ...

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Bodleian Library : MS Fairfax 16

Norton-Smith, John; Bodleian Library; Bodleian Library

1979

Leaves printed on both sides. Facsimile reprint.

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Arundines cami, sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori

Drury, Henry (1812-1863)

1860

There are 2 leaves numbered xiii-xiv and [13]-14 respectively.

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BC MS Lt q 10, f.1r: The opening of James Thomson's poem
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Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

c.1725

Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...

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BC MS Lt 122, last page of 1st insertion: An extract from
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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 ...

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BC MS Lt 34, f. 15r: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace book

1680s

Consists entirely of English verse, especially songs

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Seamus Heaney, typescript of an interview by John Haffenden, and an annotated copy of 'Station Island'.

Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013)

1979-1990

Comprises: (1) An incomplete typescript of Heaney's interview with John Haffenden in January 1979 concerning Heaney's life and poetry with the latter's autograph manuscript revisions; (2) A copy of...

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