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Title: A hymn to sleep by Mrs Barber in a fitt of the toothach
Author: Barber, Mary
Attribution: Mrs Barber
Date(s): 1734 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Complaint to sleep that he will not come and relieve the pain of toothache
Title: Written in a leaf of a Bible left the author by his godmother
Author: Barber, Mary
Date(s): 1734 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Religious poem, invoking the Bible's aid and thanking the donor of it;
apparently written for the author's son as if spoken by him. Longer than the
published version.
Title: To the Honourable Miss Carteret
Author: Barber, Mary
Date(s): 1734 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Appeal for financial assistance to Miss Carteret, daughter of the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, on behalf of a poverty-stricken widow and her children
Title: The prodigy, or the silent woman, in a letter from a lady in town to a freind
in the country
Author: Barber, Mary
Attribution: A lady in town
Date(s): 1734 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Comic, lightly satirical account of an occasion when toothache deprived the
author of speech, to the alarm of her neighbours and the population at large,
who take a silent woman to be a dreadful portent