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Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature
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Robert H. Taylor graduated from Princeton University in 1930 with a major in architecture. He continued his studies in architecture, first at Yale University then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but never practiced as an architect. He was a lifelong collector of books and manuscripts of English and American literature, ranging from early English manuscripts to works by authors contemporary to him. In 1961, he moved to Princeton from Yonkers, New York into a house with a specially built library room. In 1971, he deposited his collection at Princeton University Library into refurbished rooms on the first floor of Firestone Library, thus providing both better security as well as improved scholarly access to his collection. He published and spoke regularly on bibliographical and book collecting topics. In 1980, he published Certain Small Works, a compendium of his writings on collecting, the writer's craft, and one of his favorite authors, Anthony Trollope. His collection, together with an endowment, came to the Library as a bequest upon his death in May 1985.
The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, and documents of numerous and varied authors and artists that span nearly five centuries of English and American literature. There is a variety of related material, such as artwork, illustrated albums, letterbooks, and photographs.
Authors most extensively represented include the so-called "Taylor authors": Max Beerbohm (with numerous caricatures and drawings, correspondence and manuscripts), Alexander Pope, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gordon Byron, and Anthony Trollope.
Other writers significantly represented in the collection, with regard to manuscripts and correspondence are: the Brontë family (Anne, Charlotte, and Patrick), Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, the Trollope family (Frances Milton, Henry Merivale, T. Adolphus, and Frances Eleanor), Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. The major artists include William Blake, Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), George Cruikshank, Edward Lear, John Everett Millais, William Makepeace Thackeray, and J. M. W. Turner.
The collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1, Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, 1600-1958
- Series 2, Artwork, 1600-1948
- Series 3: Modern Manuscripts (Unbound) and Correspondence, 1545-1969
- Series 4, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, 1280-1599
See the double issue of The Princeton University Library Chronicle devoted in its entirety to a survey of the Taylor Collection: Robert J. Wickenheiser, "The Robert H. Taylor Collection" (Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2 and 3; Winter-Spring, 1976-77), contains 13 articles by such scholars as G. E. Bentley, James Thorpe, Mary Hyde, Charles Ryskamp, E.D.H. Johnson ("Romantic, Victorian, and Edwardian: Part Two-Manuscripts, Letters, and Drawings," pp. 212-224), H. W. Liebert, Richard M. Ludwig, John V. Fleming, Earl Miner, and Thomas P. Roche. Also, the entire Winter, 1986 issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle focuses on the Robert H. Taylor Collection. See also: Robert H. Taylor, "Contemporary Collectors III: The Robert H. Taylor Library" in the Book Collector Vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter, 1954); "Association Copies from the Collection of Robert H. Taylor" in the Gazette of the Grolier Club [New series], (June, 1969), no. 10; and A.D. Wainwright, "Robert H. Taylor" in the Gazette of the Grolier Club [New series], (1986), no. 38.
Robert H. Taylor, Princeton Class of 1930, placed his library collection on deposit in the Princeton University Library in 1972, and bequeathed it to the Library upon his death in 1985. The Library has accepted gifts and made acquisitions of related material since that time.
"Mysteria Revelata" of John Collins was purchased with funds from the Richard M. Ludwig Endowment established by Michael Spence, Class of 1966.
Florence Emily Hardy (1881-1937) letters to Constance Innes Pocock were purchased in 2014 (AM 2014-88).
Max Beerbohm letters to Florence Kahn were purchased in 2000 (RT 2000-01).
William Shenstone epitaph by Richard Graves was purchased in 2015 (AM 2016-8).
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This collection was processed by Sylvia Yu and Teresa Basler in 2002-2003. Finding aid written by Sylvia Yu and Teresa Basler in 2002-2003.
Finding aid updated periodically with new accessions by Kelly Bolding, Faith Charlton, and Chloe Pfendler, 2013-2017.
No materials were separated during 2003 processing.
People
- Beerbohm, Max, Sir (1872-1956)
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron (1788-1824)
- Pope, Alexander. (1688-1744)
- Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
- Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
- Trollope, Anthony
- Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
- Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
Subject
- American literature
- English fiction
- English literature
- English literature -- Women authors -- Sources
- Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Manuscripts
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Manuscripts
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Sylvia Yu; Teresa Basler; Kelly Bolding; Faith Charlton; Chloe Pfendler
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
Consists primarily of bound, autograph manuscripts (many of them oversized), together with additional letters, documents and drawings. A few oversize, unbound manuscripts and/or letters have been retained in their original cases.
To avoid confusion, manuscript numbers 1-30 are reserved for the Robert Taylor Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Currently there are 21 assigned numbers in this series. For brief overviews of the Robert Taylor Collection see: The Robert H. Taylor Collection. Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 38, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1977). William G. Bowen, "The Robert H. Taylor Collection," Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 47, no. 2 (Winter 1986). pp. 119-120.
Shelved alphabetically by author, or in some cases by title.
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Commonplace book written in an early 18th-century hand, containing poems by several English poets, with two engraved poems by Addison pasted down on inside wrappers.
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Recipe on 1 folio sheet for alchemist's philosophical mercury, or salt of mercury, believed to dissolve and then revivify gold to make it grow and multiply.
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List of 17 fish and where to find them, what season to fish them during, and the best time of day, depth, bait to use, etc.
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Volume of extracts from numerous authors, compiled and transcribed by Bagshawe and illustrated with pasted in pictures for the amusement of Max and Florence Beerbohm (miscellaneous foliation).
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English commonplace book filled with epigrams, notes on religious counsel, conduct, rhetoric, and copies of letters received. The compiler of this manuscript appears to be translator and hymnologist William Barton, vicar of St. Martin's, Leicester, from 1656 to 1678.
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Concerns a poem written by Beddoes.
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Signed autograph manuscript essay with corrections and interlineations. Bound together with the printed version published in the Feb. 1896 Chap-Book.
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Scrapbook of pen-and-ink and pencil sketches by a young Beerbohm.
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Autograph manuscript essay first published in "Mainly on the Air," (London : Heinemann, 1946). Together with manuscript notes (5 leaves) for an essay on watching the Parisian street scene at the Gare du Nord from a window in the hotel above the station (1928). These notes, much condensed, were used for a passage in the essay "Fenestralia."
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Autograph manuscript, signed Max Beerbohm.
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Incomplete autograph drafts and notes, with pencil sketches in the margins. Together with ALS entitled "A Very Brief and Arbitrary Account of a Book I am Writing, entitled 'The Mirror of the Past' for the Editor of The Century."
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Autograph manuscript with corrections in the hands of Max Beerbohm and Edmund Gosse. Even numbered lines in the hand of Edmund Gosse, odd numbered lines in the hand of Max Beerbohm. Together with ANS to Evan signed "Max, from Villino Chiaro, Rapallo."
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Incomplete autograph manuscript draft in pencil, with pencil and pen sketches by Beerbohm. This being a rough copy of chapters 9-13 and 15-24.
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Complete autograph manuscript written in ink.
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Manuscript copy, written in an unidentified hand, of the complete play. Does not include cast list and prologue.
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Original manuscript of an unpublished short romance.
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Album of autograph letters from 18th-and 19th-century literary figures, tipped in, compiler unidentified. Correspondence with Robert Burns, William Cowper, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hughes, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray. etc.
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Signed autograph manuscript verse.
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Autograph manuscript of portions of chapter 1 and 2.
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Incomplete autograph manuscript.
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Signed autograph manuscript.
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Signed autograph manuscript.
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Eleven autograph manuscript poems.
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4 leaves of manuscript, tipped in between p. 20 and 2
Autograph manuscript tipped in the 1924 printed edition of And the Weary are at Rest.
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Unidentified.
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Concerns Charles Dickens, George Sand, and Victor Hugo, circa 600 words.
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Transcript of the commonplace book found in the pocket of the Duke of Buckingham at the time of his death, written in an unidentified hand.
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Autograph manuscript of an early draft.
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Volume of manuscript poems by Burton and his friends, with index. Most of the poetry appears to be original; much of it love poetry of a traditional kind (swans, nymphs, Chloe, etc.). Nearly all the poems are assigned to a particular author by initials, apparently by Burton as a record after the event, and the majority appear to be by Burton himself.
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Album containing autograph letters, portraits, and prints of Lord Byron, his friends, and members of his family. The collection includes autograph letters (16) by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Admiral Byron, the Earl of Carlisle, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Moore, Lady Caroline Lamb, and others. The engravings, some color, include portraits, views, and a colored cartoon. Collected by Harry B. Smith. between 1783-1829.
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Autograph manuscript draft of a poem. Bound with a specially printed title page and text.
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Autograph manuscript draft of a poem. Bound with a specially printed title page and text.
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Autograph manuscript printer's copy with Byron's autograph corrections. Together with ALS from Seymour De Ricci to Sydney Cockerell, Paris, Aug. 7, 1939 and ALS from Byron to Mr. Cawthorn (his publisher), Newstead Abbey North, Aug. 20, 1811.
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Bound collection of letters from Lord Byron, Lady Byron, and Countess Guiccioli. Together with engraved portraits and clippings.
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A volume of manuscript and printed material, comprising a large collection of apparently unpublished verse and prose, mostly in English but including sections in Latin and Greek (Oxford and Bristol, from 1716 to about 1740). The first half of the book consists almost entirely of translations written in 1716-1717, but did not cease when Catcott moved to Bristol. It is clear that most of the latter half is also from his hand: this is plainly not a commonplace book, even though towards the end the compositions are mostly formal academic work in Latin and Greek, some of it by his pupils. A count of the volume's contents has identified just over 3750 lines of English poetry (and a substantial body of Latin verse too), of which the vast majority has remained unpublished. Although some of the school exercises are by his pupils, there is no reason to doubt that nearly all of the remainder of the volume is by Catcott himself, and that it contributes a substantial body of newly-identified poetry by a published early-18th century poet. 8vo (binding 200 x 125mm), pp. [viii], 129, [1] blank; [2], 130-175, 174-233. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in modern times with dark brown morocco, with label; edges of the leaves uncut. Spine label reads "Translations / by / A. S. Catcott / Bristol /1717 / -1738." Bound in (after p. 129): Catcott's "The Court of Love, A Vision from Chaucer." Oxford: printed at the Theater for Anthony Peisley bookseller . . ., 1717. Loose/tipped in: 4 autograph letters signed from William George of Bristol, to F. W. Cosens, 19 June to 2 August 1884, about the volume, which he borrowed for his projected "Catcott bibliography"; with one letter from Cosens to George, dated 4 August 1884. Tipped in at end: two-page section of William George's Catcott bibliography.
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Manuscript, written in an unidentified contemporary hand. Bound with several other transcribed documents.
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Manuscript collection of restoration poetry, written in two late 17th-century hands. Formerly: Restoration poetry MS 1.
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Late seventeenth century manuscript of the "Mysteria Revelata" [pages 23-145] of John Collins, being "A true, plaine, and impartiall Narrative, and Relation of severall matters and transactions concerning his Majesties late happie restauration, with some other circumstantiall matters, and passages precedent or consequent thereupon." This is prefaced by a verse summary [pages 1-17] headed "Certaine Memorialls and Annotations on the late Duke of Albemarle . . ." (opening "Now that the Duke's defunct and evrie Poett . . ."). Contains authorial interpolation [page 105]. Roughly 145 pp., bound in cloth-covered boards with calf spine and corners, with the original titled upper vellum wrapper bound in. From Sir Thomas Phillipps's library, no. 4897. Includes binder's ticket (Bretherton, 1848) and bookplate of Devonshire historian T. N. Brushfield.
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Manuscript collection of restoration poetry, written in two late 17th-century hands. Formerly: Restoration poetry MS 2.
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Contains bawdy and sentimental English verse, transcriptions of epitaphs, and what appears to be original and ephemeral work.
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Contains restoration poetry, written in an unidentified hand. Formerly: Restoration poetry MS 3.
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Manuscript miscellany in verse and prose, principally on affairs of state and from a highly Protestant perspective, including 9 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items. Written in an unidentified early 18th century hand, possibly by an Anglican cleric from Cambridge. Contains various university poems, such as (p. 200-201) "On a Whore that was whipt thro" "Cambridge, at the Cart Arse," by T.P.T. C[orpus] C[hristi] C[ollege]. Formerly: Restoration poetry MS 5.
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Extra illustrated copy, made up as follows: Divisional title pages (hand lettered and decorated in color) with some titles as "Shakespeare and Ireland," Shakespeare and Fraser," "Witty Conumdrum," etc. Pages within divisions consist of large blank leaves on which are mounted columns of letter press text, prints, manuscripts, 18th- and 19th-century etchings, watercolor drawings, copper plate illustrations of Holland, pencil and pen-and-ink sketches (portraits, English and Irish buildings and landscapes, coats-of-arms, etc.) done by Samuel Ireland and others. Inserted between pages are 18th- and 19th-century signed autograph letters from members of the Ireland family, William Linley, and others, mounted on stubs. Includes an autograph manuscript poem "On Shakespeare," written by Ireland's mother and autograph manuscripts of Ireland's Shakespeare forgeries. Also includes autograph manuscript music "Edmundas Song in Vortigern," dated "Ap. 12, 1796" by William Linley and inscribed "from the composer W. Linley to his friend S. Ireland," together with ALS from Linley to W. Ireland dated "26th 96" and printed music "Cliefden's Spring," the words and music by S. Ireland. All pages have been numbered in pencil. At end, there is a printed index with page references in pencil.
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Autograph manuscript.
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Manuscript receipt book of recipes for medical and culinary concoctions, written in numerous hands over many years. A mixture of specific cures and dish recipes, the volume includes formulas for treating scurvy, worms, whooping cough, and the King's Evil, and recipes for making "Westphalia Bakon of a Legg of Porke," "Methridate Brandy," a "white soop," "syrrop of organges," and a "currant Jelly Mrs Fortry's way." With index.
Physical Description1 itemBound in contemporary green vellum, with paneled gilt covers and marbled endpapers21x16 cm
The manuscript is a full and detailed account of Coole's life and labours in the service of God. The text is filled with transcripts of letters to and from fellow Quakers, copies of his own tracts, records of meetings and, inevitably, complex disputes on points of doctrine. There are also records of contemporary events, such as the Great Storm of November 1703 (pp. 123-5), a visit by Queen Anne to Bristol (p. 120), and a petition to Parliament by the Quakers in 1711 (pp. 215ff.). One loose letter included within the pages has been housed in a separate enclosure.
Physical Description1 itemManuscript in ink, page 285-end (but not counting endpaper) are added, on different paper and after the book was bound; in contemporary dark blue or black morocco panelled in gilt, spine in seven compartments, gilt edges; with dutch endpapers in light blue-green with gilt floral pattern.36.5 x 25.5 cm
Autograph manuscript of 2 sermons (17 leaves) with notes by George Crabbe II and "Answers to Prayers and Spiritual Communications..." (11 leaves). Together with a printed prospectus of "The Life and Works of the Rev. Geo. Crabbe, by His Son."
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Pencil and watercolor drawings (8) for the Comic Almanac. There are four drawings per leaf.
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Contemporary fair copy or transcript, written in an unidentified hand. A few spelling errors are corrected, and spelling differs from the printed version but text appears to be identical.
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Autograph letter from De Quincey addressed to J.A. Hessey, London.
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Four signed autograph letters from Dickens to Lewes, dated Feb. 28 to Sept. 11, 1848. Concerns the acting and rehearsal of a play from which Dickens says he is severing his connection.
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Signed autograph manuscript (1 leaf, 48 lines) written in the autograph album of Ellen Beard and signed "Boz."
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Signed autograph manuscript with numerous deletions, corrections, and interlineations by the author. Written in pen on blue paper.
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Album of correspondence containing 13 ALsS to Edmund Yates (30 July 1854-1855, June 1879) and 3 other ALsS viz. an early ALS (Dec. 1837) to Edmund's father Frederick Yates; ALS (15 May 1858) to Edmund's mother Mrs. Elizabeth Yates, the former actress, and ALS (5 June 1870) to the American publishers Fields, Osgood, & Co., introducing "my particular friend Mrs. Edmund Yates" and recommending the new serial novel Yates is writing (this letter was enclosed in Dicken's letter to Yates of the same day); the album also contains a copy, in Yate's hand, of another letter to him from Dickens (March 1867). Also includes a printed playbill for the performances at Tavistock House ("The Smallest Theatre in the World!") on 18 June 1855 of "The Lighthouse" by Wilkie Collins and "Mr. Nightingale's Diary" by Mr. Cummles [Dickens] and Mark Lemon.
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Autograph manuscript of the chapter "Titbull's Alms-House" (17 leaves) with p. 6 of "A Little Dinner in an Hour."
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Fair copy, written in an unidentified hand.
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An anonymous, English, seventeenth-century commonplace book, written in a number of hands, containing both literary and scientific entries. The volume demonstrates the wide intellectual interests of the age and of the milieu in which the Royal Society existed in the last two decades of the seventeenth century and beyond. ‡b Topics range from religion, literature, and science to carpentry, fishing and the English statute law governing it. The volume would seem to date initially from the period 1660-1670, but there are additions: works published in the 1680s are referred to. While the bulk of the entries are in English, there are some in Latin (not many), a substantial number both in Spanish and translated from the Spanish, some in Italian, and some translations from the French, with one text on fortification in that language (ff.111r-113v). The most heavily cited Spanish source is Pedro Mexia, Silva de varia leccion (1540). Often the sources are identified, sometimes by date of edition, sometimes by page. Folio (310 x 200mm): ff. [i], 171 (inclusive of blanks), foliated [2], 1-65, 73-84, 87, 92-128, 130-180, [3], with clear evidence of stubs of cancelled (cut out) leaves, plus 4ff. containing indexes loosely inserted, written in ink in various hands on paper watermarked with a fools cap, the index leaves on a different paper (fleur-de-lys crowned). Conserved and rebound in the Preservation Office, 2013. Housed in a drop-spine box with the former binding, a contemporary binding of parchment over pasteboard, hand-lettered on spine in ink "COMMON/ PLACE/ BOOK." The boards are badly warped and lack their ties. The North Library bookplate is on the inside front pastedown.
The scientific material falls into two classes, the general and miscellaneous, and the more precise transcription of quite lengthy passages. There are notes on a number of practical subjects such as gunnery, fortification, terms in navigation, and much else. Another lengthy transcription is that of Henry Sheere's (source not identified) Discourse touching the current in the streight of Gibraltar, a work not published until 1703, but one which circulated in manuscript from 1673, the date of composition. The 47 numbered paragraphs entitled "Observations and Maximes" (ff. 62r-66v), formerly misattributed to Edmond Halley, is comprised of extracts from many sources and is unrelated to Halley. There are also passages transcribed from Boyle's Experiments and considerations touching colours of 1664 (f.1??). On ff.116v=117r (127v-128r) there is a copy of Sir Jonas Moore's An excellent Table for the finding of the periferies . . . of all elleipses or ovals . . ., which was printed as a single sheet in [1674?] and again with imprint dated 1676. However, as with the literary materials, these are all jottings and no overiding aim or interest may be discerned.
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Containing approximately 300 detailed receipts for cooking, medicinal cures, and magic charms and formulas, in various hands. The medicinal receipts include "To kill wild fire," "The great plague water," "A gentle purge to be taken at any time without dainger. Good to free the liver from obstructions and stoping of the cause of most diseases in women..." The culinary receipts include "conserve of Cowslips," "Currant Wyne," "To make flesh jelly," etc. Charms include "A writ for a madd dogg" (9 words to be "written upon anything the dog will eat"). Each receipt is numbered and usually gives a source attribution such as "My Lady de la fountaine," "My Lady Waterman," etc. On fol. 27v there is the inscription "Hear begins my Lady Sandys her receipts." Internal evidence indicates that this could possibly be the wife of Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629), the Jacobean statesman, member of the Council for Virginia 1607, and Treasurer of the Virginia Company 1619-20; perhaps this is his 4th wife Catherine (b. 1563) whom he married circa 1604 and who bore him 12 children. There are references in this section to "My cousen Sam Sandys" [his 2nd cousin Samuel (d. 1651)?] (fol. 96r), to "Aunt Frances" [his father, Edwin (1519-1585) Archbishop of York's sister?] (fol. 95r, 100v), "Mary Spencer" [his daughter Mary who married Richard Spencer?], etc. All the receipts are fully indexed at the end (fols. 180v-183r).
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Scrapbook covered in brown linen cloth, with handwritten inscriptions on preliminary leaves ("Illustrations by L. G. Fawkes of The Way We Live Now by Trollope"). The scrapbook contains 25 drawings (of the published 40), with one extra unpublished drawing: 1) "The Duchess followed with the male victim," Chapter V, pen-and-ink, 108 x 167 mm. 2) "You should remember that I am his mother," Chapter XV, pen-and-ink,170 x 110 mm. 3) "She marched majestically out of the room," Chapter XXI, pen-and-ink, 172 x 104 mm. 4) "I have come again across the Atlantic to see you," Chapter XXVI, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 5) "Get to your room," Chapter XXIX, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 6) "Sir Damask solving the difficulty," Chapter XXXII, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 7) "I loiks to see her loik o' that," Chapter XXXIII, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 8) "The Board Room," Chapter XXXVII, pen-and-ink, 110 x 170 mm. 9) "Lady Carbury allowed herself to be kissed," Chapter XXXIX, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 10) "It's no good scolding," Chapter XLI, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 11) "I don't care about any man's coat," Chapter XLIII, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 12) "The sands at Lowestoffe," Chapter XLVI, pen-and-ink, 110 x 170 mm. 13) "You, I think, are Miss Melmotte," Chapter L, pen, ink and wash, 170 x 110 mm. 14) "The door was opened for him by Ruby," Chapter LI, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 15) "Should she marry one man when she loved another?" Chapter LII, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 16) "Father Barham," Chapter LVI, pen-and-ink, 170 x 110 mm. 17) "Mr Squercum in his office," Chapter LVIII, pencil on card, 174 x 107 mm. 18) "What's up, Ju?" Chapter LXI, here captioned in ink "'Have you heard what's up, Ju?'/ p. 65," pen-and-ink, 200 x 128 mm. 19) "Melmotte speculates," Chapter LXII, here captioned in ink "Melmotte after the party./ p. 77", pen-and-ink, 200 x 128 mm. 20) "Not a bottle of champagne in the house," Chapter LXIX, here captioned in pencil "Not a bottle of champagne in the club / Vol. 117. Vol. 2," pen-and-ink on card, loose, overall 208 x 130 mm. 21) "Melmotte in Parliament," Chapter LXIX, here captioned in pencil "Melmotte in Parliament – p. 1200. Vol 2," pen-and-ink on card, loose, overall 208 x 130 mm. 22) "Get up, you wiper!" Chapter LXXI, here captioned in pencil "Get up, you wiper'/ p. 133 Vol ii," pen-and-ink on card, 190 x 140 mm. 23) "I might as well see whether there is any sign of violence having been used," Chapter LXXV, here captioned in pencil "I might as well see whether there is any sign of violence having been used. / p. 158 Vol ii", pen-and-ink on card, 190 x 140 mm. 24) "You had better go back to Mrs Hurtle," Chapter LXXVI, here captioned in pencil "You had better go back to Mrs Hurtle./ p. 165 Vol ii," pen-and-ink on card, 190 x 130 mm. 25) "Ah, ma'am-moiselle," said Croll, "you should oblige your father," Chapter LXXVII, here captioned in pencil "Ah, ma'am-moiselle you should oblige your father / p. 158 Vol ii," pen-and-ink on card, 190 x 130 mm. 26) "There goes the last of my anger," Chapter C, captioned in pencil at the head "Keep this drawing" and below "There goes the last of my anger / p. 218 Vol ii", pen-and-ink on card, 190 x 130 mm.
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Unidentified woman, pen-and-ink on paper, 90 x 100 mm. "An Evening at Home, March 26th 1869," pen-and-ink on card, 132 x 145 mm. "The Fortune-Teller," pen-and-ink on paper, 125 x 140 mm. Woman riding on horse, with dog [no title], pencil on paper, 78 x 85 mm. "Mr Wright" and "Gray," pen-and-ink on paper, 40 x 85 mm. Unidentified French military officer(?), pen-and-ink on paper, 155 x 80 mm. "SYD" [man playing piano], pen-and-ink and wash on card, 110 x 150 mm. Unidentied old man, pen-and-ink on paper, 103 x 50 mm. Unidentified man, pen-and-ink on paper, 50 x 33 mm. Unidentified scene, pen-and-ink on paper, 125 x 180 mm. Landscape with castle, watercolor on paper, 75 x 108 mm. Landscape with church(?), watercolor on paper, 80 x 111 mm. Landscape with church, pencil on paper, 184 x 102 mm. Landscape, pencil on paper, 217 x 170 mm. "Fat German tourist on the boat with us," pen-and-ink on paper, 100 x 60 mm. Unidentified man, pencil on card, 158 x 67 mm.
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1) "Sketch from Memory of the Emperor William at on the last occasion on which he showed himself at the window in the Palace Berlin, March 3rd, 1888. L. G. Fawkes." Black-and-white print on card, 202 x 137 mm. 2) "Easter Monday Sham Fight. 1891. Capture of Fort Cumberland. Col. Crease turning the Defences." Pen-and-ink on paper, mounted on card, 155 x 187 mm. 3) Unidentified old man, watercolor on card, 82 x 68 mm. 4) Unidentified man holding book, watercolor on card, 115 x 64 mm. 5) "Sir Thomas Kite(?), Bart." [bearded man in wheelchair], pencil on paper, 210 x 150 mm. 6) Two men reading while reclining (on ship?), with drawing of a man reclining on verso [no titles], pencil on paper, 148 x 78 mm. 7) Unidentified man, photograph of a drawing, with inscription "To Alfy from his very affectionate Lionel," 170 x 115 mm. 8) Unidentified man, photograph (cabinet card), by Symonds & Co., Portsmouth, England, 114 x 63 mm. 9) Unidentified man in uniform, photograph, 235 x 120 mm. 10) Sailboat, photograph, 204 x 150 mm.
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Chiefly English landscapes, undated, by Lionel Grimston Fawkes: 1) "Farm House at Wooten Bennett, Wiltshire," watercolor on card, 200 x 290 mm. 2) "Surrey Rest(?)," watercolor on card, 157 x 240 mm. 3) "View from Hottam, Isle of Wight," watercolor on card, 157 x 253 mm. 4) "Burnham-on-Sea, 18-7-19" [Somerset, England], watercolor on card, 154 x 268 mm. 5) Port scene with several ships [no title], watercolor on card, 154 x 245 mm. 6) Landscape with grazing sheep and cattle, near a river where three men are fishing(?), watercolor on card, 225 x 344 mm. 7) Possibly a copy of an original watercolor by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1850) of the Valley of the River Washburn, Yorkshire, England. Bodies of fallen French and British soldiers near La Haye Sainte, at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. Copy of J.M.W. Turner, "The Field of Waterloo," 1817. Watercolor on card, mounted on board, 290 x 398 mm. Fawkes copied Turner's original, then at Farnley Hall, around 1905. The original is now at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. There is a 6-line inscription by Fawkes on the verso.
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Contains 3 ALsS (1 to A. N. L. Munby and 2 to J.C.T. Oates). Together with an annotated typescript and proof sheet, relating to Forster's review in The Library, 1958 of the catalogue of the Grolier Club's exhibition of literary manuscripts entitled "Authors at Work."
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Autograph manuscript of his rejected Epilogue for She Stoops to Conquer (3 pp.). Includes a copy of "Epilogue intended for Mrs. Buckley" written in the hand of Bishop Percy (3 pp.). The Epilogue which Goldsmith write for this play has been copied on a sheet of blue paper and laid in (2 pp.).
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Autograph manuscript broadside poem signed by Gray and dated Dec. 10, 1727. Written on pre-printed and engraved sheet.
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Autograph manuscript instructions to Mr. Beattie, an editor for the Glasgow Edition (1768) of Gray's poems.
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Manuscript copy written in a contemporary hand. Includes corrections in the hand of Greville. Undated but probably written around the time of publication in 1609.
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Typescript prompt copy probably used by a member of the Hardy Players. Contains annotations in pencil and pen, in Hardy's hand.
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Manuscript orchestral parts (flute, clarinet, cornet, drums, voice, 1st violin, 2nd violin, cello, bass, piano) for the performance of Hardy's work produced and acted by the Hardy Players of Dorchester, 28th-30th of November, 1923. Also includes two photographs of an unidentified female cast member.
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Manuscript copy of a court report, annotated by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, of the examination in 1786-1788 of Nathaniel Middleton, the Resident at Lucknow (India). before the Committee of the Whole House and the Committee of Managers.
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Autograph manuscript of chapter 5 of Our Old Home: a Series of English Sketches Pages numbered 59-68. Portrait of the author (original albumen print) mounted as frontispiece.
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Incomplete autograph manuscript of one of the Table Talk essays.
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Autograph manuscript of his novel, written in pencil and sighed in ink on flyleaf.
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Autograph manuscript of the poem on Edward II (581 numbered stanzas). Together with another poems (5 leaves). written in a different hand, entitled "Vpon Ye Death of a Pigeon Slaine by a Fowler on a Plowed Land in Aprill Morninge," dated 1615.
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Autograph draft of a play in five acts, with title page, dramatis personae, and extensive revisions throughout.
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Unpublished autograph draft of a play, in five acts, with dramatis personae listing names of professional actors and a loosely inserted "Prologue to the Spoken by Mr. Wilks" (2 pages). A drama set in the time of Genghis Khan, here called Zingis, King of the Mongols, concerning the love of Zingis for Princess Taxila, daughter of Undkan, King of Eastern Tartary, who suffers the enmity of her stepmother, Zamar, and the unwanted advances of Zamar's son, Prince Timur. The story appears to have been adopted from Zingis: Histoire Tartare by Anne de la Roche-Guilhem (1691). The actors' names include Mr. Mills, Sr. and Jr., presumably John (d. 1736) and William (fl. 1701-50) Mills, and Mr. and Mrs. Booth, possibly Barton (1679?-1733) and Hester (ca.1690-1773) Booth. These actors all worked at Drury Lane.
Physical Description1 itemManuscript folio in marbled paper wrappers, at least two cancelled passages overlaid with sealing wax31 x 20 cm
Incomplete autograph manuscript of The Old Woman of Newbury, with early proofs of illustrations on India paper for The Ingoldsby Legends.
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An extra-illustrated volume of approx. 98 leaves, containing mounted printed pages of Samuel Ireland's Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare . . . (London, 1796), interleaved with mounted holograph versions in the hand of the original forger, Samuel's son, W. H. Ireland. This is prefaced with a signed two-page autograph statement by the son in which he claims (erroneously) to have burned the complete edition of the printed work, reserving the present copy (ca. 1813) as "unique." Apparently, however, this is one of four copies that W. H. Ireland made. Included are a complete King Lear, a small fragment of Hamlet, and a letter and verses to Anne Hathaway. Spine reads "Shakespeare Papers / Ireland." Bound in 19th-century full orange morocco, gilt.
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Autograph manuscript of Elizabeth Isham, daughter of Sir John Isham and once fiancée to John Dryden. Depicts life in a Stuart country house. A transcription is available in Isaac Stephen's work on Isham.
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Signed autograph manuscript.
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Signed autograph manuscript.
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Manuscript copy of a novel by Señora Llanos.
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Autograph manuscript (1 leaf) of the first draft of Conrad's speech. Together with a transcript of the manuscript and a comparison with the printed text, written in an unidentified calligraphic hand.
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The extracts are organized by fascicle number (= subject), and their contents are accessed via the index in the first folder.
Consists of a collection of extracts drawn from classical writers on miscellaneous subjects, probably compiled by Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent.
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Album of pen-and-ink drawings and photographs compiled by J.L. Kipling for a young Rudyard Kipling and his sister. Contains 86 drawings and photographs of the Kiplings, places they lived, people they knew, and a group of fairy and folk tale illustrations by "Papa."
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Typescript of Kipling's poem with manuscript corrections in pen, written in an unidentified hand. Together with a ALS, written in pencil from W. E. H. [William Ernest Henley] to Mrs. Dunn concerning this poem, dated Sunday 11 Howard Place, Edinburgh.
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Autograph manuscript of an essay with Lamb's revisions and deletions. Sent through the post to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey for publication in The London Magazine, 1821 The verso of the second leaf has the address and postmark, and the remains of the seal.
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Autograph manuscript of a poem sent through the post to T. Hood and postmarked 1827 Bound together with two engraved portraits, one of the author and the other of Thomas Hood.
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Autograph manuscript poem (3 stanzas, 33 lines), signed with initials. Title from first line.
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Notebook containing extracts from the works of Charles Lamb, written in pen in the hand of Mary Shelley. Titles include Theatralia, On the Genius & Character of Hogarth, etc. Together with notes and passages from Greek tragedy translated into English, written in pen in the hand of Thomas Love Peacock.
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Commonplace book with revisions and deletions. Contains Landor's thoughts and opinions on various aspects of life and literature. There are comments on old age, on Napoleon, and on a host of writers and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Pope, Byron, Wordsworth, Gibbon, Sterne, Coleridge, Otway, and Voltaire. There are also passages on Elizabethan poets, and on the progress of poetry in general, with a tribute to Sir Walter Scott.
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Includes an AMS of his poem "To the Worm" (3 pp.) dated Apr. 22 [no year] and followed by a typed transcription. Also includes ALS from Landor to Lady Blessington, undated (2 pp.) and AMS, signed with initials, of a poem with the first line "A Most Puissant Picture-Scouring Prince."
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Signed autograph manuscript of an alphabet written and illustrated by Lear for a little boy, Walter G. Clay. Written on 26 oblong slips and mounted in an album preceded by a signed autograph poem presenting the alphabet.
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Typescript copy.
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Notebook kept by Luttrell and others pertaining to the Luttrell estates. Contains rent and tenant records in Middlesex County and vicinity. And includes transcriptions of manorial rent records circa 1550-1650 for the manors of Rialton, Hadley, Polsue, and Golowras. Also contains methods of land surveys in Cornwall, etc., and definitions of legal terms pertaining to land tenure. There is a brief history of early printing (1 leaf, 14 x 7 cm.) laid in.
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This scribal copy is of key satires of the 1660s, now usually attributed to poet Andrew Marvell. The Second and Third Advice poems, written in imitation of Edmund Waller's "Instructions to a Painter" (1664), take as their subject the conduct of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, especially that of the Royal Navy with the Duke of York as Lord High Admiral. Both poems circulated initially in manuscript: some fifty manuscript copies of the Second Advice are known, and thirty-three copies of the Third. Many manuscript copies attributed the poems to Sir John Denham, which hid their true author behind a wry joke.
Also included are two texts, "On Doctor Poore[...]" and "On Doctor Lee."
Physical Description1 itemin contemporary marbled-paper wrapper22.3 x 17.6 cm
Consists of a typescript, with pencil annotations, of an adaptation of Masefield's early book on Shakespeare that was first published in 1911 and revised in 1954. This version was clearly designed for the stage and was made (or possibly only for) Alec Clunes, one of the leading English actors of the post-war years. The title page states that it is his property (c/o the Arts Theatre Club in London). Loosely inserted are several copies of a program for performances at the Hague and Amsterdam ("Alec Clunes presents William Shakespeare from a Study by John Masefield"). The typed leaves have been pasted into a bound volume (half morocco) on country homes, with spine labeled "Country Homes". A number of printed drawings of country homes remain in the volume.
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Autograph manuscript with detailed pen-and-ink diagrams of the renovation projects for the Drury Lane Theatre. The theatre was managed by R. B. Sheridan and closed for renovations from 1791-1794
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Contains notes on calculations for joiners, bricklayers, plasterers' work, etc. Possibly used during the renovation of the Drury Lane Theatre. Bound together with a printed text Tables of Arithmetic.
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Collection of medical receipts and commonplaces including dance steps and poetry.
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India paper proofs of the drawings for Orley Farm by J. E. Millais, engraved on wood by George Dalziel and the Dalziel Brothers.
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Autograph manuscript of a translation by E. Magnusson and Morris of a Norse story, written in the hand of Magnusson with many corrections and alterations in the hand of Morris. Together with 20 autograph manuscript poems by Morris.
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Manuscript, written in an unidentified contemporary hand, with autograph corrections by the author. Also includes a letter from Edward Scott, British Museum, 1896 June 2 concerning the manuscript.
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Manuscript copy, written in an unidentified contemporary hand, with the author's autograph corrections.
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Manuscript copy, without title or indication of authorship. It preserves the two lines spoken by Tudor in the beginning of Act III, which do not occur, in the early printed versions. Contains at least one stage direction. Later printed in 1668 (London : H. Herringman).
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The compiler, Anthony Page, interleaved pages from published law books relating to Roman law (e.g. Justinian's INSTITUTES and a summary of Justinian's DIGESTS) and English Common Law (e.g. Register of Writs, GOLDBOLT'S REPORTS) with handwritten transcriptions from contemporary printed books (chiefly on law and government), and notes on literature, epitaphs, weights and measures, and other subjects. The contents is in Latin, English, and Anglo-Norman (i.e., Law French).
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Commonplace book of English poetry, compiled by Joshua Peart. Contains transcriptions of 17th-century poetry, satyrs, fables, etc.
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Concerns a dinner party with Lord Carlisle.
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Manuscript poem, written in an unidentified hand.
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A summary history of the medieval kings of England, from William the Conqueror until Henry VII compiled by a woman named Susan Pigott. She worked by paraphrasing scattered bits of the multi-volume history Raphael Holinshead (1525-80?), Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Pigott corrected her writing in her own hand added Holinshead page references in the margins. The paper has the watermark of the "Strasbourg Lily" (the arms of Strasbourg with fleur-de-lis; surmounted by a crown; monogram WR at the bottom
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A collection of poetry and prose by the published English poet, including substantial amounts of verse that is apparently unrecorded. Written in brown ink almost all in a single, sloping hand, possibly that of the author.
Microfilm copy #1743
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Scrapbook of letters (91 leaves, c. 250 items) primarily from Reade's friends and acquaintances in literary and drama circles, heavily annotated by Reade. Together with typed transcripts (2 volumes) of the album's contents. Includes correspondence with Dion Boucicault (Agnes Robertson), Miss Braddon, John Blackwood, Wilkie Collins, Ada Cavendish, Charles Dickens, Edward Dicey, Sutherland Edwards, John Forster, Victor Hugo, Henry James, James Lambert, Mark Lemon, Bulwer Lytton, W.C. Macready, Millais, George Augustus Sala, Robert Southey, Mrs. Laura Seymour, Kate Terry, Ellen Terry, Anthony Trollope, Martin Tupper, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), Emile Zola (written in French), the Law Office of Chase & Nelson, etc. Also contains several documents and manuscripts including: AMs draft (2 p.) of Richmond's speech from King's Rival, inserted by Reade in co-author Taylor's act, undated; ADS (1 p.) a contract by Reade and Mark Lemon (as representative for Herbert Ingram) for Reade's White Lies, dated 1857 DS (2 p.) a contract with Tauchnitz (1 p., fol. 70v) written in German relating to Peg Woffington, a Terrible Temptation, and Christie Johnstone, dated 1872 ADS (1 p.) an agreement with Henry Pettitt regarding Reade's Love and Money, dated 1882 DS (1 p., fol. 73v) a nomination of Reade as a Steward of the anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund, undated; DS (1 p., fol. 75v) a money order, dated 1871 Document (1 p., fol. 71r) an analysis in tabular form of the account of Reade and Bentley delivered previous to the injunction for Peg Woffington, and Christie Johnstone, undated (printed on satin); DS (1 p., fol.36r) a dinner invitation in the form of a passport, dated 1855 DS (1 p.) a photograph of Reade, dated 1866 Galley proof (1 p., fol. 47r) of "A Suppressed Letter," published in the Pall Mall Gazette, circa 1845-1984
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Contains before-and-after watercolor views of his suggested improvements to the estate of Beaudesert in Staffordshire prepared for Lord Uxbridge (Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, 1768-1854). Contains 14 drawings and 12 leaves of text. For more information see: David R. Coffin, "Repton's 'Red Book' for Beaudesert," in Coffin, Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens (Princeton: Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. 200-217.
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Of French origin, this volume contains 17 poems and epigrams, in English, Latin, and French likely kept during the 1670s. Contents include the following: (1) Katherine Philips (1632-1664), "On the numerous access of the English to waite upon his Ma[jes]ti in Flanders' ("Hasten greate Prince unto the Brittish Isles..."); (2) Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), Epigram on Thomas Blood's attempted theft of the Crown Jewels in Latin ("Bloodius, ut fundi damnum repararet aviti...") and English "Whilest valiant Blood, his Rents to have regaine'd..."); (3) "An Epitaph on Moliere," in French (with an English translation ("Here lyes the fam'd Moliere, who was at strife..."); (4) Other poems and epigrams. Paper, 25.3 x 20.4 cm; 34 folios; text is written by at least 3 hands on fols. 3r-8v, and the remaining folios are blank; bound in limp-parchment wrapper.
Written in English, French, and Latin.
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Illustrated alchemical manuscript in English and Latin depicting the process of creating the Philosopher's Stone, or the alchemical process of converting base metals into gold. The composition has been attributed to George Ripley (d. c. 1490), author of The Compound of Alchemy.
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Autograph manuscript of the first draft, with annotations by William Michael Rossetti (2 leaves, 4 pp.). Together with the advertisement for Dante and His Circle (1 leaf, 1 p.) and notes on the proportions of the head in relation to various parts of the body.
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Concerns the scheme for the vision of Don Roderick and gives his first version of the first five stanzas for which Scott begs "James's opinion and that speedily..."
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Signed document. Also concerns publication of these works by Archibald Constable and Company.
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Signed autograph manuscript of the poem, with notes.
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Autograph manuscript with corrections and additions. Consists of a preface, dated 1811 June 14 (complete); Introduction of 12 stanzas (complete); text, stanzas I-XVII and LV-LXIII; conclusion (complete); and notes from the poem, written in an unidentified hand.
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Shaw's copy of the 1st edition of this work, with annotations and revisions in Shaw's hand for the "New Edition, Revised," published in 1889. This copy was used by the printers of the 1889 edition and contains penciled markings made in the printing house.
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Signed autograph manuscript concerning the suppression of Israel Zangwill's play The Next Religion. Together with a proof copy with autograph corrections.
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Typescript of the "Preface for Politicians" from John Bull's Other Island. Together with a signed autograph manuscript of the "Conclusion for the Preface for Politicians."
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Autograph manuscript in Gregg shorthand, with an autograph note. Together with 2 photographs of Shaw and a corrected typescript.
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The printer's (setting) copy, extensively revised throughout in Shaw's hand. This is Shaw's copy of the original magazine publication of his second novel, extensively revised and augmented by Shaw for the first book edition, published in 1887 by Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowry, & Co. The revisions and additions include the autograph manuscript insertion of 2 pages pasted together to make one page at p. 113 and 6 pages of autograph manuscript inserted at p. 219. Lacks 10 leaves between p. 144 and 155.
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Autograph Letter Signed to T.C. Medwin. Concerns marriage settlements with Harriet Westbrook.
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Manuscript copy by John Gisborne from "Shelley's manuscript No. 5."
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Contains transcripts of verses by her husband (R. B. Sheridan) herself, her relatives, and friends. Written entirely in the hand of E. A. Sheridan. Most pieces signed with initials of the authors.
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Contains manuscript verse, epitaphs, etc. Also includes watercolor, pen-and-ink, and pencil drawings of people, fairies, animals, flowers, etc.
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Consists of autograph manuscript verse, 14 drafts of verses, scenarios, and fragments of manuscripts; manuscript verses (27 leaves) in handwriting of Sheridan and copies of others written by him, including "Triumph of the Whale"; manuscript copies of imperial patents (2) dated 1804 and 1805 copied from the Imperial Patent Office, probably intended for theatrical pieces; a notebook (39 leaves) of a collection of verses in contemporary hand, written by members of Sheridan's circle, including "The Grotto"; a manuscript, written in an unidentified hand, of a drama "Rural Amours, a musical drama," by Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan, dated circa 1785 a manuscript fragment titled "On Mrs. B.," by Ch. Fox [Charles James Fox], undated; and ALS to Thomas Moore from J.H. concerning his research on the life of Sheridan, undated
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Early scribal manuscript of Sheridan's THE DUENNA. Pre-dates the authorized published edition of 1794.
Physical Description1 itemBound in contemporary red morocco, with gilt borders, spine, and edges, and marbled endpapers. Bears contemporary bookplate of "Martha Saunders 1777."
Manuscript of a drama, written in an unidentified hand, said to be written by Thomas Sheridan. The work is commonly attributed to R. B. Sheridan.
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Contemporary manuscript copy of an indenture, by which Sheridan and Thomas Linley vested control of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in the hands of three trustees, Albany Wallis, Richard Ford, and Thomas Hammersley.
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Contemporary manuscript promptbook with autograph corrections by Sheridan.
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Contemporary manuscript copy of Sir Peter Teazle's part, with some corrections in text, written in several different hands.
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Autograph manuscript of an early draft of the play, which later developed into The School for Scandal. The first notebook contains the play to the end of the discovery scene and a paragraph of suggested dialogue for the 5th act. The second notebook begins with Act IV, scene I. This version of the scene introduced "Sir Oliver" disguised as a poor relation, differing in respect from the version of the first notebook.
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Scribal copy with theatrical markings added in a second hand.
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Scribal copy, with some corrections in a second hand.
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Scribal manuscript with Monogram "MW" on cover. Text very similar to the Dublin unauthorized 1780 printed edition.
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Scribal manuscript.
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Consists of a very early bound contemporary scribal manuscript, written by an unknown hand. The manuscript predates any authorized publications of the play, and the list of actors it contains reflects that of the earliest performances. While there is no title page, the manuscript also includes the prefatory poem "A Portrait," a poetical address to Frances Anne Crewe (1748-1818), which is subtitled "Address'd to Mrs Crewe with the Comedy of the School for Scandal by R.B. Sheridan Esqr," as well as the full text of both David Garrick's prologue and George Colman's epilogue.
Physical Description1 itemLate 18th century red straight-grained morocco, the covers with wide gilt roll-tooled borders, spine gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers bound in the style of Richard Wier22.8 x 18 cm
Contains the cast of the original production and the authentic text, which was not published until 1799
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Manuscript prompt copy with prompter's name [Hallot] and date 1813 on p. 48. Copy contains detailed descriptions of the settings put forth at the beginning of each act.
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Autograph manuscript sketch (18 leaves) interleaved with the printed text from the edition of Sheridan's works by his biographer, Thomas Moore 1821 Together with another autograph manuscript sketch (108 leaves) interleaved with the text from an edition of Sheridan's works by Thomas Moore.
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Autograph manuscript of Act I, written by John Dent and revised by Sheridan (authorship has been attributed to both). Contains annotations, additions, and revisions in Sheridan's hand.
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Manuscript song book, written in an unidentified 18th century hand, Incomplete, begins with number 742 and ends with number 1735
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Contains notes on Southey's extensive literary and historical readings. Topics include the Navy from the time of King Henry II to Rodney. There are numerous transcripts of letters written by admirals of the fleet during the Dutch war and later, some extracts from Charnock, and notes on pirates and their exploits. Many notes relate to Naval affairs of the 17th century. There are also literary notes on Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Kyd, Ben Johnson, and Shakespeare. Dated from endpapers watermark date.
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A volume of literary and autobiographical papers of the Jacobite author John Stevens, including his Irish journals and eye-witness account of the Battle of the Boyne and three literary translations, including the first two books of the novel, Argenis. The volume comprises (in order of binding): part of an account of travels through Wales [when Collector of Taxes for Welshpool] in November [1688] after hearing of James II's flight (3 pages, starting at page 2 which has been scored through); "A Journall Of all my Travells since I left London to follow our most mercifull most pious and most gracious Sovereign James ye 2d . . . with an acc.t of all our marches and other memorable passages wherein I bore a parte since first I had the honor of a Comission in his Maj.ties army in Ireland," 1688-1690 (192 pp., incomplete at the end); journals of voyages to Lisbon and back, in 1679 and 1682 (14 pp.); notes on his army service during Monmouth's Rebellion (3 pp.); a journal of his journey to Dublin when accompanying Henry Earl of Clarendon as Lieutenant General of Ireland in 1685 (14 pp., incomplete at the end); "An Account of my Voyage & Journey from Dublin to London" in 1686 (5 pp.); further Irish journals kept when serving Clarendon (22 pp., opening with the conclusion of another travel journal); "The Publick Catholick zeale of Spaine" dedicated to Pope Alexander VII "with the posthumous pen of Francisco de Quevedo Villegas . . . the most renowned witt of his age & famous for his writings" (12 pp.); "A Voyage to the Holy Land through Egypt & Arabia made by the Rd. F. Boucher of the holy order of S. Francis" (32 pp.); "Barclay's Argenis," books I and II (190 pp., with rodent damage to the first 48 pp., but mostly in the margins and with loss of text confined to the first dozen leaves, evidently made prior to binding). 18th-century vellum, spine inscribed as MS 39 and bearing traces of a printed label [from the Warburton sale?] and the printed Thomas Phillipps number 6471, inner cover inscribed "MSS 49", facing leaf inscribed with summary of contents and marked below in pencil by Phillipps "This MSS was examined in 1865 by Professor Von Ranke for his Memoirs of Wm 3rd/ Thos Phillipps", annotated in pencil by Phillipps's grandson Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick ("T.F.F.") as having been lot 327 in the John Warburton sale of 19 November 1759.
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Bound collection of letters and documents relating to the Joseph and James Stopford. Includes ALS from Jonathan Swift to James Stopford "Jim" (2 p.) dated Dublin, 1725 June 19 ALS from Swift to James Stopford (2 p.) dated Dublin, 1725 November 26 ALS (2) from Swift to James Stopford in Paris (3 p.) dated London, 1726 July 20 and dated London, 1726 August 6 (2 p.); ALS from Swift to James Stopford in London (3 p.) dated Dublin, 1726 October 15 ALS from Swift to [James Stopford?] (2 p.) dated 1739 March 17-30 St. Patrick's Day; ALS from Swift to James Stopford (2 p.) dated 1734 March 8 ADS (3) from Swift to James Stopford concerning payments (2 p.) dated 1734 October 26 1734 February 8 and 1735 May 19 ALS from Swift to James Stopford (1 p.) dated 1737 June 9 ALS from Swift to James Stopford (3 p.) undated "I received your kind letter this day"; ALS from Swift to James Stopford (1 p.) undated (Friday, past one) "I blundered this morning..."; Ms. "Extract from the Will of Dean Swift, Esq.," dated 1713 May 16 written in the hand of Jonathan Swift (3 p.); ALS (3) from Alexander Pope to James Stopford dated 1736 February 17 (2 p.), 1728 November 20 (2 p.), and London, December 16 no year ALS from James Stopford to Jonathan Swift (2 p.), December, undated ALS from Mr. Monde (4 p.) "Hearing how ill a state of health...," undated ALS from Swift to James Stopford in Dublin (1 p.) dated Market-hill, 1729 August 30 ALS from J. Highford to James Stopford (3 p.) dated 1712 April 22 ALS from James Stopford (3 p.) "Sir, as I have always found...," undated ALS from James Stopford (4 p.) "I am afraid of my long silence...," undated ALS from James Stopford (3 p.) "... upon my childhood in...," dated 1713 April 14 ALS from James Stopford (3 p.) "It was with the greatest joy...," dated 1712 February 26-13 ALS from Thomas Henyworth to James Stopford in Dublin (2 p.) dated 1756 March 5 ALS from Thomas Hamsley (3 p.) "Mr Hunt and Mr Stopford on hearing that Major Lombard was killed...," dated 1790 October 4 ADS on vellum granting the freedom of Coleraine to Joseph Stopford, dated 1703 ADS dated 1754 July 4 stating that James, Lord Bishop of Cloyne was...of the city of Corke admitted and enrolled a Freeman (1 p., with seal); and a hand painted copy of the arms of Nicholas Stopford, Baron of Stockport laid in at front.
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Autograph manuscript notes, affidavits, and extracts (mostly from the British Museum) used in writing his thesis on Warren Hastings for Trinity College, Cambridge. Strachey attended Trinity College from 1899 to 1905
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Autograph manuscript thesis (Fellowship dissertation) written by Strachey for Trinity College, Cambridge. Manuscript consists of two parts; seven chapters, with notes in each. Written in ink, with some corrections and deletions in Strachey's hand. Together with the original typescript of "Warren Hastings..." (approx. 370 leaves) typed by Strachey's sister Philippa. Strachey attended Trinity College from 1899 to 1905
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Autograph manuscript poem with author's annotations and deletions.
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Autograph manuscript poem with some revisions and deletions, written in pen on blue paper. Together with calligraphic manuscript copy.
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Autograph manuscript poem, written in pen on blue paper.
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14 manuscript pages in Swinburne's holograph (in ink and pencil), with typed transcriptions interleaved. Consists of short prose passages, dramatic extracts, and lists recounting the floggings of various schoolboys, documenting the poet's obsessive secret life. One list is illustrated with a drawing of a birch rod.
Physical Description1 itemBound in 20th-century navy blue morocco, with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers.35.5 x 25.5 cm
Autograph manuscript poem with annotations, written in pen on blue paper.
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Autograph manuscript poem with annotations, written in pen on blue paper.
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Autograph manuscript poem.
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Autograph manuscript, with extensive deletions, additions, and revisions. Includes four sonnets on Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton. Later published in Tristram of Lyonesse 1882 Written on blue paper.
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Autograph manuscript, written in pen on blue paper.
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Autograph manuscript poem, written on blue paper. Also includes an autograph note concerning this manuscript, written by Edmund Gosse on the front flyleaf.
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Autograph manuscript of a critical appreciation of Charlotte Brontë extensively revised throughout, with a signed autograph dedication to Theodore Watts ("an inadequate acknowledgment of much personal obligation, & an imperfect expression of fellow-feeling on the subject here imperfectly & inadequately handled"). Originally intended for the Athenaeum, it soon grew beyond the confines of a periodical publication and was published as a short monograph by Chatto and Windus in 1877.
Physical Description1 itemin green morocco gilt by Riviere and Sons, inside dentelles, gilt lettering on upper cover, spine in six compartments, lacking the final leaf of text; Britannia watermark with countermarks dated 1874 and 187633.5 x 21 cm
Volume consists of 3 manuscripts: 1) "Christopher Marlowe", circa 1881, a 13-page (text on rectos only) critical monograph, working autograph manuscript with extensive revisions, signed at the end, Britannia watermark with countermark dated 1879), the final page docketed, probably by editorial staff at Encyclopaedia Britannica ("Marlowe | Swinburne | June 6/81") and with additional ink stamp ("Jun 1982"); 2) "Dedication", circa 1908, a 1-page sonnet for The Age of Shakespeare (published as "To the Memory of Charles Lamb"); and 3) "Prologue to the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus", in verse, 48 lines, 2 pages, dated 1896.
Physical Description1 itemeach leaf individually mounted on a guard, bound together in crushed dark green morocco gilt by Riviere and Sons, inside dentelles, gilt lettering on upper cover, spine in six compartments33.5 x 21 cm
Album of 170 limericks, each with a pen-and-ink drawing, written by or attributed to Follet Synge, Lord Tenterden, Horatio Lucas, W. Owen, Sir Villiers Leslie, W. M. Thackeray, and Thackeray's two daughters, Mrs. Stephens and Lady Ritchie, probably members of the Langham Sketching Club (London).
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Bound collection of signed autograph letters from Jeremy Taylor to Edward Conway.
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Manuscript of the unexpurgated version of Tennyson's poem. Transcribed in the hand of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Together with a printed version of the poem.
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Autograph manuscript of unpublished poems.
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Albums of original sketches, drawings, letters, and manuscript fragments by Thackeray, compiled from family papers by his granddaughter, Hester Ritchie. Volume 1 includes several pen-and-ink and pencil sketches (43 p.) including ALS from Thackeray to his mother, dated Dec. 16, 1831, illustrated with a watercolor drawing. Volumes 1 and 2 also include original manuscript fragments from Vanity Fair, The Virginians, Pendennis, The Newcomes, Henry Esmond, George the IV, Notes for Lectures, Notes for a Literary Fund Speech, and The Bandit's Tower.
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Album given to Thackeray's cousin Mary Augusta Thackeray, containing prose "The Awful History of Blue Beard," dated 1833 with pen-and-ink drawings by Thackeray. Also illustrated with engraved plates cut out and pasted in the album. Together with poetic inscriptions and notes in a different hand, dated 1841-1842 This album is housed together in a slipcase with an original watercolor drawing by Thackeray "A Portrait of Mary Augusta aged 10 months," undated and another miniature album (7 x 6 cm.) signed "Mary Augusta Thackeray, The Reward of Good Conduct, 1836 March 6" containing various inscriptions with engraved plates cut out and pasted in the album.
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Autograph manuscript.
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Album of original pencil and pen-and-ink drawings by Thackeray and others. Contains 15 drawings by W.M. Thackeray, 2 by C.H. Bennett, 4 by John Leech, 4 by Lady Wood, 1 by Henry Liversedge, 1 by E.T. Parris, 1 by Thomas Webster, 2 by Thomas Faed, 2 by Robert Polick, 3 by Richard Doyle, 1 by Daniel Maclise, and 9 unidentified.
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Extra-illustrated with five original pencil sketches by Thackeray, one heightened in brown wash, for the frontispiece, title, first, third, and last plates, titled: "The Rosolio" (variant of printed version); "The title page" (variant of printed version); "Behind the Hayricks" (variant of printed version); "A Coronet by Jingo"; "Over Head and Ears in Love."
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Original manuscript, with seven pencil drawings and three watercolor drawings bound in and several other loose drawings. Also includes a manuscript introduction written by Thackeray's daughter, Lady Ritchie and a typescript of a passage from Monstrelet's Chronicle also in her hand. The novel was never finished beyond the chapters as written here. Written while Thackeray was living and working in Paris.
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A series of five original drawings in pen-and-ink and sepia by Thackeray, being unpublished finished sketches for "Mrs. Perkin's Ball," each one has the title in Thackeray's autograph and signed with his mark (a pair of spectacles) the last one is also signed "W.M.T." Titles include: "Captain Smith's Surprize at Seeing Mr. Brown's Intimacy with Miss Jones"; "My Lord What Frightful Times in France Your Lordship! The Great Fault Tomkins has been Abolition of Death for Political Offences"; "Major Cox. It's Very Hawt To-night Miss Melton? Miss Melton. Oh You Sad Satirical Rogue You!"; "Mrs. Crowder Entering a Room"; "A Little Gardener."
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Album of original drawings by Thackeray, apparently given to James Spedding by Thackeray. Contains ALS (2) from Thackeray to Spedding, 3 early sketches of Thackeray by Spedding, and 84 drawings by Thackeray (22 colored, 2 pencil, and 60 pen-and-ink sketches).
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Album of original drawings, some are together with the printed version from Vanity Fair.
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Album of original pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolor drawings.
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Autograph manuscript.
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Photograph of Thackeray, signed and inscribed "with the best regards of the lovely original," in a Victorian leather traveling case.
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Contains a series of eight humorous pen-and-ink drawings with descriptive captions, illustrating the history of Buller, an undergraduate of Oriel College, Oxford, who declines into debauchery and penury through his addiction to tea.
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Original sketchbook used by Thackeray while in Paris in 1835. Contains pen-and-ink and pencil sketches, and finished drawings. Many of these pages contain several separate sketches of heads, busts, ornaments, animals, etc. Several are considered to be finished drawings including: Sketches from pictures at the Louvre; a picture of a youth and a girl before Louis XVI; a State Officer before a lady of regal appearance; a horse's head, etc. There are also eight pages of architectural sketches. ALS from Eyre Crowe, dated 1903, laid in.
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Manuscript poem, written in pencil, with annotations and notes written in pen in Thomson's hand.
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Autograph manuscript bound with the following: " 1675 The Bohemian Glass-House Adventure," AMs (27 p.); " 1662 The Hidden Treasure Adventure," AMs (p. 53-63); " 1668 The Adventure of the Haunted Gallery," AMs (1 p., 9 lines).
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Autograph manuscript prose, "The Norman Hunter's Charter: A Legend of the Rochford Forest," AMs, (9 p.) bound with the following: "1656: The Guardian Angel: A Legend of Badinghall Street," AMs (14 p.); " 1720 The Hand of Glory: A Legend of the Stock Market," AMs (23 p.); " 1740 The Piper of Mucklebrowst," AMs (19 p.); " 1747 The Reliquary: A Legend of Drury Lane," AMs (7 p.) with unnumbered inserts; " 1771 & 1780 A Secret Adventure in High-Life: A Tradition of Carlisle House," AMs (17, [1] p.); "A Secret Adventure in High-Life: A Tradition of Carlisle House," AMs (copy, 19 p.); " 1777 The Haunted Hogshead, or A Yankee's Tale of a Tub," AMs (9 p.); " 1783 Temptation Creek: The Legend of a Yankee Nigger," AMs (21 p.); "Temptation Creek. Extracted from the Papers of a Romantic Traveller in America," AMs (2 p.) unfinished; " 1815 & 1659 The Spectre-Sentinel: A Legend of the Old Horse-Guards," AMs (39 p.); "Raymond the Romantic, and his Five Wishes. No. V. The Apparition," AMs (22 p.); " 1807 Cousin Splitz: An Adventure in the Tyrol," AMs (16 p.); and "Raymond the Romantic, and His Five Wishes," corrected page proofs of the first four "wishes" (30 p.) [135-141, 242-248, 326-332, 417-425].
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Manuscript prompt copy of a play written by Tickell and revised by Sheridan (authorship often ascribed to both). Consists of the greater part of Act I with annotations and the names of contemporary actors written in Sheridan's hand.
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A bound manuscript in ink (157 pp., 30 pp.) in a single neat hand, with an errata slip pasted on front endpaper, dated 1700 Apparently, an unpublished recusant work, possibly written by a Lancashire Catholic priest, Chritsopher Tootel (or Tootell). This is an ingenious defense of the Catholic Church in England, attempting to show that nothing in the profession of faith by Pope Pius IV would be incompatible with the conscience of a protestant.
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Complete autograph manuscript.
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Autograph manuscript (pages 33-34 of chapter 35 wanting). This novel first appeared in the Cornhill Magazine from 1866 February-1867 May It was published in book form by Smith, Elder, and Company, 1867
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Autograph manuscript. dated "For the Fortnightly... 1871 July" Includes a large envelope addressed "To Miss Tilley 78 St. George Square S.W." with parcels post from Harting (under Petersfield).
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Proof copy with autograph annotations. Together with galley proofs for a short story "Catherine Carmichael: Three Years Running."
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Autograph manuscript dated "Published in the Fortnightly 1873 & 1874"
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Autograph manuscript of his unfinished novel.
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Autograph manuscript, pages 157-162, 193-194 wanting.
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Autograph manuscript, portions of the manuscript are written in the hand of his niece, Florence Bland.
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Autograph manuscript. Contains 768 leaves in parts of 48 (p. 19 in Part XI is missing through misnumbering). This is one of the seven later novels written largely in the hand of his niece, Florence Bland. There are substantial but intermittent portions of the manuscript written in Trollope's hand.
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Autograph manuscript.
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Autograph manuscript with 103 leaves in the hand of Trollope and 226 leaves in the hand of Florence Bland. Clipping "The Text of Trollope," by R. W. Chapman from the "Times Literary Supplement" and a printed table of contents (4 p.) from Blackwood's Printing Office, Edinburgh, dated 1884 January 31 laid in.
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Autograph manuscript written in Trollope's hand (n. 3, p. 38-40; no. 17, p. 1-9; no. 18, p. 1-4, 9-20, 43-46, written in unknown hand). Names of the various compositors appear in pencil along with a few other printer's notations, undated
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Autograph manuscript essay, which was to be read at a meeting of the Historical & Antiquarian Club, of Hartford [Conn.], and offered for the Thirty-Dollar prize.
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Manuscript of English poetry and political satires concerning Charles II, the Earl of Danby, the Duke of York, the Duchess of Portsmouth, etc. Together with poems on the sun, moon, stars, and the four seasons, text inverted at back. Formerly: Restoration poetry MS. 4.
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An intimate and detailed autobiography of a wealthy Puritan gentry woman, Mary Whitelocke, the daughter of London merchant Bigley Carleton, in the mid-seventeenth century. Addressed to her eldest son, Whitelocke's memoir encompasses her life from the time of her first marriage at the age of 16 to Rowland Wilson (d. 1650), MP, also from a London mercantile family. Whitelocke's second marriage in 1650 was to the prominent lawyer and politician Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-1675), with whom she had seven children. Written in a homiletic style with copious Biblical references in the margins, the memoir is characterised by distinctively feminine imagery: "...god deals with his people as a tender harted mother dus with her child at her breast, she puts some bitter thing upon the nipple not to hurt the child but to make the child care the less for the breast: so the lord dealt with me he put some bitter dispensation upon all my creature injoyments..." and primarily focuses on Whitelocke's family and domestic affairs, much of it given over to her children and their loving and pious behavior; she gives a poignant account of a miscarriage that occurred during her first marriage. Though, discussion of public affairs and events are also included, particularly Whitelocke's vigorous defence of her second husband's public life.
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Author's typewritten copy with autograph annotations.
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Bound collection of autograph letters from Wilde to his publisher Leonard Smithers.
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Autograph manuscript of a portion of Act I, scene I of the unpublished play "The Cardinal of Avignon."
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Autograph manuscript of an unfinished play with revisions, undated Signed with initials on fol. 38v, with approximately. 40 leaves in Wilde's hand. Appears to present the beginning of Act II as outlined in Wilde's scenario for his unpublished play "The Cardinal of Avignon."
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Early proofs of a two-volume edition of George Wither's poetical works (not issued until 1839-1847), edited by John Matthew Gutch, interleaved and heavily annotated by Lamb, J.M. Gutch, and Dr. John Nott. Also includes manuscript insertions including an ALS by Algernon Charles Swinburne, tipped in front of vol. 1; ALS to Mr. Spoor from Thomas J. Wise, dated 1910, laid in vol. 1; an engraving (proof) of Lamb by James Pulham with the inscription in pen "Jas Pulman Esq. from Charles Lamb."
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Typescript of the child's part in the drama, with manuscript revisions by the author and others.
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Signed autograph manuscript.
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Consists of a variety of items (many oversized, matted and/or framed) by William Blake, Max Beerbohm, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, Edward Lear, John Everett Millais, William Makepeace Thackeray, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. M. W. Turner, members of the Brontë family, and others. Robert Taylor collected works by or relating to British authors, artists, and illustrators represented elsewhere in the Taylor Collection, both in manuscripts and printed books. Most of the artwork is individually matted and labeled in a series of 17 clamshell boxes, organized alphabetically by artist and size. An oil portrait of Alexander Pope, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo (1684-1745), is separately housed.
Additional artwork can be found in RTC01's bound manuscripts series, including an album of sketches and drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray; Lionel Grimston Fawkes's 1874-1875 scrapbook of illustrations for Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now; India paper proofs of drawings for "Orley Farm" by John Everett Millais, circa 1860; an 1868 album of pen-and-ink drawings and photographs compiled by John Lockwood Kipling for a young Rudyard Kipling and his sister; and additional drawings by Max Beerbohm. Artwork can also be found in archival boxes containing literary manuscripts and correspondence, including letters with drawings by Edward Lear, William Makepeace Thackeray, and William Butler Yeats.
Arranged alphabetically by artist, or title when artist is unknown.
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Consists of files for individual authors that contain correspondence, documents, and unbound manuscripts (including some smaller sized items of art) that were previously housed in file cabinet drawers in the Taylor Room Library. The folders in each box are filed alphabetically by author name.
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(see: Wood, Anthony)
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Consists of 350 letters from Beerbohm to actress Florence Kahn, whom he married May 4, 1910; a couple of letters from Florence Kahn to Beerbohm's secretary, literary executor, and second wife, Elisabeth Jungmann; and 31 letters from Jungmann to the Beerbohms. There are also typed transcripts of 163 letters; a caricature entitled "Hopping in a Hat and a Apron;" and a couple of photographs (originals and copies), including one of Beerbohm at Villa Chiara in Rapallo, Italy (circa 1950).
Letters arranged chronologically by sender.
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28 ALsS by the Lancashire politician John Ireland Blackburne to his father, John Blackburne (1783-1874), dated from 15 July 1814 to 11 August 1815, recording a European tour in 1814 and 1815, while he was traveling with his wife and young child, and visiting Paris, Secheron, Rome, Florence, Naples, and Palermo; together with a letter in French by a lady in waiting to the Queen of Sicily concerning an audience for Anne Blackburne, dated Naples, 25 February 1815. Was housed in a contemporary gilt-tooled green leather folder (see folder 2). AM 2015-1.
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Includes two letters by J. Ratcliffe and J. Joplin, family members of Martha Brown (1828-1880), to journalist William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923) and one letter from William Robertson Nicoll. Letters contain information about personal mementos of the Brontë family in response to Nicoll's inquiries asking Ratcliffe and Joplin for items owned by members of the Brontë family in order to compile a work called The Victorian Era in English Literature.
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1 to "Mrs. Stewart" (includes letter by Robert Browning); 1 to "Mrs. Holdieh"(?); 1 to "My dear Sir"; 1 to "The Editors of Arcturus", 1842 July 20 Photostat copy of letter to W. Carlyle, 1844 newspaper clipping about E. Browning.
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1 to Mr. [Lawrence] Barrett; 1 to Isa [Blagden], 1 to H. F. Chorley; 1 to Mr. Enoch, 2 to R. H. Horne; 1 to Mr. [John] Kenyon; 1 to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Story (with letter by Harriet Hosmer, copied by Browning); 1 to Thomas Powell; 2 to George Barnett Smith; 1 to Bayard Taylor; 1 to Alfred Tennyson
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: 1 (note) to Alfred Domett, 2 to "Mrs. Jameson," 1 to "Lady Lyell," 1 to "Mr. MacColl," 1 to J. Fitz Gerald Molloy, 1 to "Mr. Payne" (with photograph of Browning), 1 to "Mr. Pfeiffer," 1 to Walter Rowland, 1 to "Reuben," 1 to "Louisa & Sarah"
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1 to unidentified person; 1 (draft) to Abraham Lincoln, on back of which is an unrelated autograph poem beginning "Oh Bird of joyous summer"; 1 letter to Mrs. Sigaioney and photostat of the same,1864; letter to Robert Osbourne from Harold Godwin, a grandson of Bryant,1928; 1 letter, to the Century Club seconding application for membership of Prof. Elvin Waller, March 27,1877; 1 letter to the "Office of the Evening Post", March 18, 1870.
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Autograph letter (1 page, 22 lines of text) from Whitelocke Bulstrode (1650-1724), an alchemist, religious writer, Whig lawyer and administrator, and anti-Jacobite author under the pseudonym "Philalethes," in London, to his son in Littleton, Middlesex.
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Four-page letter regarding family matters.
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[see: Tickell, Richard, 1551-1793 folder for the related poem by Tickell]
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Notes on meeting George Eliot and her husband at their home on Wednesday, 17 February 1869: autograph manuscript, 5 leaves (5 pages of text), signed by J. B. Payne
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Signed autograph letter (7 pages), partly in verse, from Bristol clergyman, poet, and hymnist Thomas Grinfield at Clifton (near Bristol) to his former Winkfield classmate Thomas De Quincey praising the publication of De Quincey's article on Landor in Tait's Magazine.
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Letters are arranged in chronological order.
These very personal letters from Florence to her close friend span a lengthy period and document pivotal events in Hardy's life, specifically those relating to her relationship with Thomas Hardy. These include the death of Thomas Hardy's first wife, Emma; Florence's marriage to Thomas in 1914; and Thomas' death in 1928.
Many of the letters concern Florence and her husband's personal lives as well as Thomas Hardy's writings and professional endeavors. Some also include discussion of current events, specifically World War I, due to the death of Thomas' cousin whom he had selected as his heir. A few photo postcards are also included, such as one that depicts Florence, Thomas, the Pococks, and other friends enjoying a picnic (May 7, 1918).
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Also includes signed check for ^200 to Martha Hutchins; 3 letters to Mitford's father circa 1917-1920 fragment of a pen-and-ink sketch for Haydon's oil painting, "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem"; 1 undated letter from Haydon to Mary Mitford; 1 letter (fragment, postmarked 1823) to Haydon by Mary Russell Mitford (with added sketch by Haydon?)
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A group of eight autograph letters signed (to various correspondents); two autograph manuscripts ("The Water-Nymph" and "Literary Reminiscences, No.1"); a fragment of an autograph letter signed; five engraved portraits; and an ephemeral item. Nearly all inlaid in folio sheets and bound with typed transcripts in limp brown calf, gilt-lettered, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (top of spine worn); bookplates of the New York collector Alexander M. Hudnut (whose library was sold at auction in 1926) and William G. Hay. The letters are signed "T. Hood" or "Thos. Hood," except for one just signed with initials.
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(see: Hawkins, Anthony Hope, Sir, 1863-1933)
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Consists of a collection of 46 loose manuscript verses collected by members of the Hyde and Villiers families (Earls of Clarendon), including copies of poems by Jonathan Swift (answer poem, "The nymph who wrote this in a humourous fit", together with original "Rebus"), R. B. Sheridan ("Verses to the memory of Garrick"), Voltaire (verse epistle to Frederick the Great, 1747), William Congreve (epistle to Lord Cobham "Sincerest critic of my Prose or Rhime"), James Thompson ("Come gentle god of soft desire"), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Colley Cibber, and Earl Nugent ("Ode to William Pultney"), theatrical prologues and epilogues, two poems addressed to William Whitehead on his being made Poet Laureate, one poem addressed to Lord Cornbury, and various political satires (on Robert Walpole and other subjects), two poems addressed to Lady Charlotte Hyde of Rochester (1703-1746), "On seeing Mount Vesuvius burn" and "Written at Rome in the Year 1730" by the Honorable Lady Lechmere, writings titled "A Song on the Secret Expedition" and "The Qualifications necessary to make a Good Girl," as well as various odes and verses written in honor of birthdays, weddings, and other occasions. Most are handwritten in English, with others in French and neo-Latin.
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(The original letter is located in the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Mudd Library)
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Correspondents: JOHN BLACKWOOD (1869), ARTHUR GORDON (1883), ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (n.d.), ALEXANDER MACMILLAN (1874), JOHN MORLEY (1881), SIR HENRY FREDERICK PONSONBY (1881), BARON VON TAUCHNITZ (1884).
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Four-page letter sent from Henley on Thames regarding the reissue of Swinburne's first book, The Queen Mother and Rosamond, the writing and publication of Bothwell, the appearance of two "Dirae Sonnets," and other issues related to the publication of his writings.
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fragment of "Tiresias," Part II, seventh verse, beginning "Grief and glad pride and passion and sharp shame...," 2 pp. (folio), with holograph corrections
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autograph revised manuscript of "A Match", 52 lines, with holograph revisions and deletions, 2 pp.; autograph revised manuscript of the second sonnet of the pair for his "After Looking into Carlyle's 'Reminiscences'", 2 pp.
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13 letters, 1832-1870: 1 to "J. Ain?" 1869, 1 to "Lady Augusta" 1865 2 to "My dear Sir" [Henry Hallam, undated], 3 to Edward Moxon ( undated, 1832), 1 to "Mr. Nightwick" undated 1 to "My dear Kingsley" ( 1860), 1 to "My dear Weld" ( 1855 with typed transcription), 3 to unidentified persons ( undated, 1868, 1870), 1 envelope
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7 letters, 1832-1855: 1 to J. J. Allen, 1 to "Miss Bradshaw," 1 to "Mrs. Bradshaw," 1 to Edward Fitzgerald, 1 to Edward Moxon, 1 to "Sir" mentioning Edward Moxon 1854, 1 to unidentified person
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10 letters, 1875-1892: 1 to Edward Butler (date and envelope are in Mrs. Tennyson's hand), 3 to Craik, 1 to "Mr. Pigott," 1 to Lord Chambrlain; 3 to unidentified persons; 1 ALS by Emily Tennyson to Arthur Wright
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9 letters, 1912: 1 to "Stephen," 1 to "Mrs. Bradshaw" by Edmund Peel about Tennyson's marriage, 1 to "T.C.," 1 to Albert Fytche Freshwater, 1 to Miss Martin, 1 to Moxon, 1 by Tully, 1 to Lord Chamberlain, 1 to "My dear Sir"; 1 card to Harold Butler f(rom Tennyson's son?)
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1 letter to Basil Champneys, 1 letter to Franklin Wright, 1 letter to "My dear Cousin," 1 letter to "My dear Cousin Harriet" (with ANS by Emily Tennyson)
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ALS, dated September 14 to 17, 1839, by young Queen Victora (signed "VR"), in German, to her cousin "Victo" (Victoire von Saxe-Coburg-Kohary, 1822-1857), telling her about the social life of Windsor Castle, 3 pp.
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Consists of a disparate collection of manuscript copies of poems and short prose writings from the 18th and early 19th centuries, including poems by William Mason, David Mallet (1705-1765), Jonathan Shipley (1713-88), George, Lord Lyttelton (1709-73), Thomas Gray, and other unidentified poets and writers. Many of the poems are about public figures and society events.
The collector of these materials is unknown, and some items may have come from different sources. The manuscripts are written in various hands, though some in the collection are in the same hand.
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Attributed to William Mason. First line: "Avaunt! go, vile disloyal Throng." Published in Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 1 (1785) p. 516, and The new foundling hospital for wit (vol III, 1786). 71 lines.
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Two poems copied on the same sheet, one beginning "Who would not think it perfect bliss..." (4 stanzas of 6 lines each), and one beginning "Arise fair Naiad from thy Well" (54 lines).
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Attributed to David Mallet, who died in 1765. First line: "When all was rapt in dark mid night..." (16 stanzas of four lines each).
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Two poems copied on the same sheet, one "To the Memory of Frances Maria, wife of William Tatton of Withershaw Esqr, and Daughter of John Fountayne DD Dean of York by Frances Maria eldest Daughter of Thomas Whichcott of Harpswell in the county of Lincoln Esqr." with the first line, "If e'er on Earth true Happiness were found.." (12 lines), and one beginning "Oh! here if ever, holy Patience bend..." (16 lines). Thomas Fountayne (d. 1780) was the son of John Fountayne, Dean of York.
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First line: "When the loveliest expression to feature is joined..." (38 lines).
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First line: "In Memory of a Favourites end..." (8 stanzas of four lines each). Endorsement: "Verses made by Miss Yonge on a Stone Pedestal at Waltham Garden."
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First line: "Ah wherefore, on thy natal Day..." Signed "Busby" at the end. (31 lines).
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First line: "Indulgent Nature, on each kind bestows..." Published in The Flowers of Parnassus, 1735 (pp. 133-4) as being on the Bursar of St John's College, Oxford. Jack Robinson (1727-1802), politician, was given the reversion of the post of Surveyorship of Woods and Forests in 1780. (6 lines).
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First line: "Come, jolly mortals, join the crowd..." The theatrical performances at Wargrave, Berkshire, were organized by Richard Barry (1769-93), Earl of Barrymore, amateur actor, who also paid for the building of a theatre, which had to be dismantled and sold in 1792 to pay his debts. The Rich family were Lords of the Manor of Sonning; this Miss Rich would probably have been the daughter of Sir Thomas Rich (d. 1803), 5th bt.
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First line: "Oblivion wraps not in her silent shade..." Published in Pietas Academiae Oxoniensis in obitum … Carolinae (Oxford, 1738). (74 lines).
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First line: "Envy (that loves not merit) ne'er will spare..." On Lady Tyrconnell: probably Lady Frances Manners (b. 1753), first wife of the 5th Earl of Tyrconnell, daughter of the Marquess of Granby. (28 lines).
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First line: "Captive Brother break thy chain..." Addressed to Miss Susan Warburton. (38 lines).
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First line: "Since thine's the only power on Earth we know..." Addressed to Pius VI (r. 1775-99). (12 lines).
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First line: "This goodly frame what virtue so approves..." At end: "By Dr. Markam, From his Father to Mr. Onslow." Presumably on Arthur Onslow (1791-1868), Speaker of the House of Commons. (81 lines).
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First line: "Take, holy Earth, all that my Soul holds dear..." Contains note on verso about Mrs. Mason having said to William Mason a few days before her death: "Mr Mason; It is a very Awful thing to Dye." (16 lines).
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First line: "Here lies poor Johnson. Reader have a care..." Present in various copies and published by Jenyns himself.
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First line: "Here lies fast asleep, (awake me who can)..."
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At end: "Anti Twitcher. London Even. Post. Febry: 25th 1777." This poem, known as "The Candidate," is on the contest for High Steward of Cambridge and was written in 1764, but not published until 1777. This is likely a late copy from the newspaper version published in 1777.
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Excerpts from the poem by Mallet titled "Fragment." With excerpts from J. Shipley on Queen Caroline and from Lowther's Genealogy of Christ.
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First line: "Through town I range, and view the change..." Watermark: J. Whatman, 1834.
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At end: "A Cowley Moral Dialogue." Appears to be an extract from Richard Hurd's Moral and Political Dialogues (2 pages).
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(2 pages). Pelham Warren, son of Richard Warren, physician to George III, died in 1835.
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(1 page). Lunardi's balloon flight from London, in September 1784, landed first at Welham Green in Hertfordshire, and then at Standon Green End.
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Contains 22 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, circa 1280-1593.
Arranged numerically by Taylor manuscript number. Note: number 8 was vacated.
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Contains the following: (a) William of Waddington, Manuel des péchéz; (b) Roman des romans; (c) Plainte de la vièrge; (d) Pater noster in Latin, followed by a French exposition; and (e) Robert Grosseteste circa 1175-1253 Chateau d'amour. The exempla in the Manuel des péchéz are illustrated with 26 painted miniatures or pen-and-ink drawings. Two initials depict the manuscript's patron Joan Tateshal (d. 1310) of Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, in heraldic garments. Another initial depicts Grosseteste. Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps 1792-1872 no. 2223.
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Middle English translation of the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait (d. 1418) of a Latin work: Giovanni Boccaccio 1313-1375 De casibus virorum illustrium. Formerly in the library of the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.
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Translated into Middle English verse by Hugh de Caumpeden. The text is closer to longer version (IMEV 772, no. 3) of Sidrac and Boctus than the shorter version (IMEV 2147). Bound with the Middle English prose version of the Brut Chronicle (IPMEP 374). Formerly in the libraries of William Cecil, Lord Burghley circa 1520-1585 and the Grey family of Wrest Park, Northamptonshire (formerly Bedfordshire).
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Statement of fees paid to Exchequer officers; judges and court officials; customs officers, auditors and receivers in the duchy of Lancaster; surveyors of royal lands; musicians, physicians, apothecaries, astronomers, cooks, stationers, printers, shipwrights, and other employees of the Great Wardrobe; military officers in fortifications; and keepers of royal palaces.
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The main scribe of this Middle English text is "Doyle and Parkes scribe D." Formerly in the libraries of Richard Heber (1773-1833) and Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 8192.
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Written by the "hooked g scribe," who was active in London during the third quarter of the fifteenth century, Taylor MS. 6 is one of 14 known manuscripts of the Middle English translation of Higden's chronicle by John Trevisa d. 1402
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Includes 14 full-page miniatures, 18 small miniatures, and 24 small calendar miniatures. Formerly in the library of Beverley Chew (1850-1924) of Cliveden, Philadelphia.
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Contains the following: (a) The Anturs of Arthur at the Tarnewathelan (IMEV 1566, no. 4); (b) Sir Amadace (IMEV 3518, no. 2); (c) The Avowing of Arthur (IMEV 1161, no. 1); and (d) records and memoranda of the Manor of Hale, southwest Lancashire, 1413-1465 Owned by the Ireland-Blackburn family of Lancashire.
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Incomplete manuscript of the Middle English text (IMEV 233); two other parts of the original manuscript, before it was broken up, are in the Folger Library and University of London Library. Formerly in the libraries of the recusant Giffard family of Chillington Park, Staffordshire; and Boies Penrose 1902-1976
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Contains the following: (a) William of Nassyngton, Speculum Vitae (IMEV 245, no. 39); (b) A tretis of cristes passioun (unidentified prose work); and (c) The Siege of Jerusalem (IMEV 1583, no. 8). Formerly in the library of the Augustinian Priory at Bolton, Yorkshire, or the chapel at Castle Bolton.
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Contains the following: (a) Anglo-Norman French verse translation of three letters, generally found in Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, pertaining to the rights of King Edward I in Scotland; (b) The Seven Things that God Hates; (c) La house partie; (d) Les trois savoirs; (e) Doctrinal sauvage; (f) Blauncheflour et de Florence; (g) Nichole Bozon (fl. 1300-1320), Lettre de l'Emperour Orgueil. Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 25970.
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Popular Middle English poem of circa 1350, attributed to Richard Rolle of Hampole (1290?-1349) among other possible authors.
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Contains the following Latin texts: (a) Galfridus Anglicus [Geoffrey of Vinsauf] (fl. 1200), Poetria nova; (b) Nativitas Marie virginis; (c) Gualterius de Castellione [Guillaume de Conches] circa 1080-1150 Moralium dogma philosophorum; (d) Henricus Septimellensis, De diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione; (e) Gualterius de Castellione [Guillaume de Conches], De curia romana; (f) anonymous notes concerning philosophy, science, language, and other subjects; and (g) Pseudo-Chrysostom, Sermo de collatione Johannis Baptistae.
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Latin text similar to the editio princeps (Cologne, 1473).
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Contains the following Middle English texts by John Wycliffe (d. 1384) or followers: (a) Vae octuplex [Exposition on Matthew 23]; (b) Commentary on the Pater noster; (c) Set 5, Sermons on Sunday Epistles, and Set 1, Sermons on Sunday Gospel Pericopes, Sermons 1-54; (d) Set 2, Sermons for Common of Saints, Sermons 55-85; (e) Set 3, Sermons for Common of Saints, Sermons 55-85; (f) Set 3, Sermons for Sanctorale, Sermons 86-122; (g) Set 4, Sermons on Ferial Gospels, Sermons 123-239; (h) Of mynystris in pe chirche. Formerly in the libraries of Francis Russell, 2nd earl of Bedford (circa 1527-1585); William Cecil, Lord Burghley (circa 1520-1585), and the Grey family of Wrest Park, Northamptonshire (formerly Bedfordshire).
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Illustrated Middle English devotional text in codex format. Formerly in the library of John Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1899).
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Contains six bills or orders for a total of more than 260 items to be used by the king and his household. Five of the bills are signed by William Phelyp [Phillip], the king's chamberlain.
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A boxed set of twelve painted wooden platters, housed in the original turned case, which is decorated with the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth and the motto Dieuet mon droit. One side of the roundels was decorated with fruit and flowers, with English verses.
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The author proposed that Queen Elizabeth I should wed Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester circa 1532-1588 Probably copied for Sir Henry Lee 1530-1610 Formerly in the library of Viscount Dillon.
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Includes "Woyfully Arayd" and other verses by John Skelton (1460?-1529); and Phrygius Dares [John of Exeter], De bello troiano. Bound with a printed edition of Boethius, De disciplina scholarium cum notabili comento (Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 1496).
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Contains 29 different texts and 2 illustrations. Contents include two mystical works by Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis (in John Fishlake's Latin translation), 12 folios of Middle English religious poetry, an unpublished Middle English translation of a work by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, an unpublished Latin work by the early English humanist John Shirwood, and a selection of monastic and mystical texts in Latin.
Physical Description1 itemEnglish bound, illustrated manuscript, parchment25.1 x 18.4 cm; 201 folios
Includes a calendar, collection of prayers, and various notes. The volume commences with a calendar following the Use of Sarum with dates of Easter from 1584 to 1607, and each month concluding with a quatrain of medical advice. Also included are marginal notes on English monarchs. The remainder of the manuscript is comprised of prayers.
1r-12v: Calendar, Use of Sarum. Marginal notes on English rulers from William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087) to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Each month concludes with a quatrain of medical advice in red or green ink. For example, December has the following verses: "To end with December of force wee must / Whole counsell is warme meates to use. / Too flye much wyne and banish lust / And never the gifts of God to abuse." For January 23, there is a note "terme begins" in red ink, referring to the Hilary term in the English legal court calendar. On fol. 13r, at the end of the calendar, is a table listing dates for Easter, Shrove Tuesday, and Leap Year, 1584-1607.
14r-129r: Prayers in English. Some mention particular people or uphold Queen Elizabeth and the Church of England against all foe: (fol. 100v) "A praier to the Father, to the Sonne, and to the holy Ghjost, compiled & made by the Skelton," referring to the poet John Skelton (ca. 1463-1529); (fols. 113r-v) "A praier against the aduersaries of the Church"; (fol. 113v-114r) "A praier against the dissensions which do arise in the Churche"; (fol. 114r) "A prayer for the preservation of the Queen from Traiterus practises compiled by Mr Thomas Barwick," an English Catholic who in 1581 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, opposed "dissimulation" by Catholic Recusants and declared himself openly to be a "Papist. There are notes on religious subjects (fols. 103v-110v), such as "The tenne Commaundementes with a brefe and shorte exposition of them." Several prayers are for Queen Elizabeth: (fol. 39r-v) "Queen Elizabeth encrease in her my all heart, true faith, godlie zeal, loue of the same, And graunt her victory ouer all her enemies; a longe, prosperous, and honorable life one earth, a blessed end, and life euerlasting. Moreover, O Lord, graunt unto her Majesties most honorable Councellors and eueri other member of this thy Churche of England, that they and wee our seuerell colleages may tryly and godlye serve thee." (fol. 98r) "That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee, in righteousnes and holiness of lyfe, your seruant Elizabeth our most gracious Queene and gouernour."
Physical Description1 itemText written in Cursiva humanistica (Italic) and a calligraphic English Secretary bookhand, mostly in black ink with red, green, and brown inks used throughout, and margins ruled in red. The paper has a watermark similar to Briquet 8079, with a letter "B" in a shield, surmounted by a crown and a flower, with the name of the French paper maker Nicolas Lebe of Troyes in the banderole below. This type of paper was widely used in England and on the Continent in the last third of the 16th century. Binding is a contemporary stiffened parchment with yapp edges and the remains of two pale green silk ties at the fore edge.16.0 x 10.9 cm; 8vo