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Title: Life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 182- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 48
Contents: Religious poem on the progress of human life from birth to death,
protected and directed by an immanent God
Title: The bachelors complaint
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: F.B.
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Lament for the loneliness of a bachelor or unmarried man, ending with a resolution to marry. Cf. BCMSV 3593.
Title: The love letters
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: F.B.
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: On love letters kept, some worn with frequent reading, others marked by tears, but all precious for the memories they evoke
Title: Sonnet
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Anonymous; F.B.
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: On the transformation occasioned in a home or household by the death of a wife, newly married
Title: What I live for
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Listing things which make life worth living, including loved ones, religious faith, desire to imitate the great men of history, reason, nature, and desire to do good
Title: Answer to 'Not an advertisement'
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Lucy E
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Answer to the mock marriage advertisement of BCMSV 3599, suggesting a possible wife (OPQ) for the man concerned (XYZ), and describing her character. Cf. also BCMSV 3601.
Title: An elegy on Mrs Jordan
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1816 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Elegiac lament on the death of Mrs Jordan, mistress of the Duke of Clarence, expressing grief
Title: On a glazier's window in Shoreditch on the Illumination for Peace, Oct 1801
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1801 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Celebration of peace between Britain and France at cessation of the revolutionary wars, presumably prompted by the Treaty of Amiens. Seemingly written in a window. Mentions Charles Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury.
Title: Epigram
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1801
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Satirical epigram criticising Charles James Fox's speech at the Shakespeare Tavern praising the peace of Amiens and its terms favourable to France, suggesting that Fox's stance amounts to treason. Preceded by a note on and extracts from the
speech.
Title: The following verses were written in 1772 on the new Church of Genevieve patroness of Paris. This church was not finished in 1793 but was converted from its original purpose into a Pantheon for the worthies of France. They are highly prophetic of
the stat
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Evening Mail Dec. 24 1802; [Latin]
Date(s): 1802 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Literal translation of verses apparently prophesying the ungodly state of France after the French Revolution, but in fact occasioned by the construction of the Church of Genevieve, Paris, in 1772
Title: New games at St Stephens
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1807 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: Tory satire on the self-interest of various named Whig opponents of William Pitt the Younger, following his death.
Title: To the King
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Shedinagig [following other words blotted out]
Date(s): 1821 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: Mildly ironic declaration of the loyalty and affection of Ireland to the visiting King, despite poverty and Roman Catholicism, probably addressed to George IV in 1821. Begins: "Sir".