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Arnold Family Archive
Arnold Family
1810-1894
Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...
Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
1818-1848
(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...
Robert Southey, correspondence, literary manuscripts and printed works
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)
c.1797-1839
Comprises: (1) A collection of autograph letters written by Robert Southey to John May and others, together with manuscript poems and notes by Robert Southey, and autograph letters to John May from T...
William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
c.1835-1860
Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...
Quotation or commonplace book, by George Ashby
Ashby, George
c.1770-1800
Contains: (1) [p.iii] Entries for table of contents; (2) [p.1] Quotations from and lengthy resumés of the books listed on p.iii
Scrap-book of varieties
1859
Contains miscellaneous verse and prose quotations, with engravings, photographs, and other illustrations pasted in
Three holograph poems by John Booth
Booth, John
185-?
1. "The folly of judging the Scriptures"; begins "Stop infidel awhile, lay down thy sneer". n.d. 100 lines. Signed by author. 4 ff. 2. "On the birthday of Mrs. Ann Ellis"; begins "Not with the gorgeou...
Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith
c.1645-1665
A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter...
Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.
Barnes, Joshua
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...
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 ...