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Brotherton Collection35
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poetry36
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Poetry

1 May 1868

Verse titled 'Mr. Linkie' copied by Porzia Gigliucci on blue paper.

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Verse titled 'Mr. Linkie' copied by Porzia Gigliucci

1 May 1868

Verse titled 'Mr. Linkie' copied by Porzia Gigliucci on blue paper. Signed ‘For the dear old mère! Copied by Pop 1 May, 1868’.

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Verse titled 'Mr. Linkie'

1868

Verse titled 'Mr. Linkie' copied from memory in 1868. Written on blue paper. Also transcribed by Clara Anastasia Novello's daughter Porzia Gigliucci in the same year.

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Transcribed poems

c. 1940

Poems transcribed in Maurice de Sausmarez's hand, including 'Fading Summer' by Thomas Nashe and an untitled verse by John Mundy. The draft poem written in pencil beginning 'On top of the piano...' is ...

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Poetry

1840-1868

Two verses by (or transcribed by) Clara Anastasia Novello, 1 in English dated 1868 and one in French, undated.

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Transcript of Hunt's 'The False Lion and the Real Puppy'

c. 1830

Two transcripts of Leigh Hunt's 'The False Lion and the Real Puppy' by Mary Cowden Clarke. At the end of the first she has noted: 'The rough copy - begged for at the time by M.C.C.' and the back page ...

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Transcript of poems by Thomas Hood

c. 1870

Transcripts of poems by Thomas Hood: 'Her Accident', 'Her Fancy-Ball' and 'Miss Kilmansegg!' in an unknown hand, possibly Mary Cowden Clarke or Charles Cowden Clarke. The size of the handwriting sugge...

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Transcript of 'Low Thomas' by Mary Cowden Clarke

5 Oct 1889

Transcript of the ballad 'Low Thomas' by Mary Cowden Clarke, dated 5 October 1889.

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Sonnet by Frederick Tennyson

21 Mar 1896

Handwritten transcript of a sonnet by Frederick Tennyson in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, beginning 'Tis not for golden eloquence I pray'. Frederick was the brother of Alfred and Charles Tennyson and tha...

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At Parting by Algernon Charles Swinburne

c. 1870

Undated handwritten transcript in an unidentified hand of a poem titled 'At Parting' by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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Commendatory poems on Milton

c. 1850

Undated handwritten transcript of verses by Dryden and others in praise of Milton in Charles Cowden Clarke's hand, written in a green booklet.

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Poetry notebook from Enfield

1814

Notebook principally containing poems by Charles Cowden Clarke and passages from various authors in shorthand. The notebook is bound in brown embossed leather with blue marbled endpapers.

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