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Title: A letter

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 1714 (at end)

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Epistolary address to friends, in familiar lighthearted style, promising to see them after examinations; dated January 18, 1714

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Title: A letter

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1680 ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Satire in the form of a letter requesting news of the activities of various

unnamed society men and ladies. Begins with the salutation "Worthy Sir".

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Title: The Letter

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 99

Contents: On the joys of domesticity and their suitability for a man unfit for loftier spheres

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Title: A letter to a freind

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 1714 (margin)

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Lighthearted epistolary address to a friend, envious of his plentiful female company and lamenting his own lack of society

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Title: The love letters

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: F.B.

Date(s): 185- ?

Manuscript: Lt 93

Contents: On love letters kept, some worn with frequent reading, others marked by tears, but all precious for the memories they evoke

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Title: Letter to a single lady

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 93

Contents: Commending a lady's decision to remain unmarried, detailing the difficulties of marriage and reassuring her about the consequences of remaining single

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Title: Letter to C----- W-----

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1686

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Satire on several named minor poets and named society men and ladies,

addressed to the scandalmonger Captain Warcup

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Title: Letter 2nd

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1777 ?

Manuscript: Lt 99

Contents: Gossiping, conservational poem in the form of a letter or epistle from one cousin to another, concerning an Oxford ball. There are annotations which allude to the identity of the people mentioned. See BCMSV 6301, 6303, 6304 and 6306 for similar

letters. S

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Title: Letter 4th

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1778 (at end)

Manuscript: Lt 99

Contents: Gossiping, conversational poem in the form of a letter or epistle from one cousin to another, concerning an Oxford wedding. There are annotations which allude to the identity of the people mentioned. Followed by "Jan 1st 1778". See BCMSV 6301,

6302, 6304

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Title: A letter to the Lady Osborn 1688

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1688 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Satire on fashionable members of the court, addressed to Penelope, Lady

Osborne, wife of Sir John Osborne

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Title: The D. of Monmouth's letter to the K.

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1680 ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Supposed complaint by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, about his banishment in

1679, addressed to Charles II. Followed by "The King's answer", BCMSV 341.

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Title: A letter from J.P. to Colonel Heveningham occasion'd by the Colonels two late

letters

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: J.P.

Date(s): 1698

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted poem supposedly criticising Henry Heveningham for writing the

two previous poems (BCMSV 159 and BCMSV 160) while satirising the wits

(including the Knights of the Toast) whom he was meant to have attacked

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