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Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	2

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Subject	Count
english literature	2
english poetry	2
latin poetry	1
latin literature, medieval and modern	1
greek poetry	1
commonplace-books	1

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People and organisations	Count
St John, Henry 1st Viscount Bolingbroke	1
Barnes, Joshua	1

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 97

Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.

1708

Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 99

Commonplace book containing transcribed verse and prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1770-1790

Contains 79 old songs and other poems; also prose pieces, mostly in English, but with some in Latin, with various dates in the eighteenth century appended to them. On f.1v there is a contents page to ...