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Title: To Dean Swift on his birthday
Author: Pilkington, Laetitia
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Birthday tribute praising Jonathan Swift as equal to or greater than the
poets and philosophers of classical times
Title: Lady Acheson weary of Dean Sw--t
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Date(s): 1728 ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Lighthearted satire by Swift against himself, put into the mouth of Lady
Acheson, making out she is tired of his visit to her house, Market Hill
Title: To Dean Swift with a paper book finely bound
Author: Boyle, John; Earl of Orrery
Date(s): 1732
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Sent with a birthday present of a blank paper book, praising Jonathan
Swift's ability to fill it with inspirational writing of reason and eloquence.
Cf. BCMSV 794
Title: An epitaph on Dr Sherlock Dean of St Pauls
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1707 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satire on Dr William Sherlock, one-time non-juror, and his wife, on
the occasion of his death
Title: A poem of Dean Swift's copied from a lady's transcript
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 1730 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Witty self-deprecatory apology to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, for failing to fulfil a dinner engagement, telling how she in turn
found his lifesyle difficult to bear on visiting him
Title: On Dr Blackburn Archbishop of York when Dean of Exeter
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Satirical epigram asserting secret sexual misbehaviour (adultery) earlier in
the career of Dr Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York
Title: The address of the Oxford man of war by Dean Berkley Chaplain 1727
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Dean Berkley
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Loyal address to George II on his accession, ostensibly by sailors on his
ship the Orford (here rendered as Oxford and attributed to Berkeley)
Title: A receipt to make a soup sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1726 ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: Humorous recipe for soup, partly riddling (some solutions given), addressed to Jonathan Swift
Title: Mr Pope's receipt to make soup for the use of Dean Swift
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1726 ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Humorous recipe for soup, partly riddling (some solutions given), addressed
to Jonathan Swift. Lacks two lines of the usual version.
Title: Epitaph on the Revd Dean Drelincourt inscribed on his tomb in the cathedral
church of Armagh
Author: Jeffreys, George ?
Attribution: G. Jefferys Esq.
Date(s): 1722 ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Tombstone inscription or epitaph on the Reverend Peter Drelincourt, Dean of
Armagh, praising his life and charitable benefactions, praising also his
father, Charles, author of a treatise on a Christian approach to death
Title: Said to be wrote by Dean Berkley upon his intimate acquaintance about 1780
Author: Berkeley, George (?)
Attribution: Dean Berkley (title)
Date(s): 1780 (title)
Manuscript: Lt. 100
Contents: Praising Berkeley's acquaintances, through whom he believes it possible to prevent himself stupefying in middle age. The second half takes the form of a list of these friends (including Garrick, Burke, Johnson and Gibbon) each of whose best
characteristic
Title: Sent with a quill to Dean Swift hearing he receivd a present of ink and paper
from a lady
Author: Pilkington, Laetitia
Date(s): 1732
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Praising Jonathan Swift's poetry and urging him to use the quill as his
pen; also pointing out its usefulness to music and painting. Cf BCMSV 793.