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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
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".
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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