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Total number of records: 4

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Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4

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Barber, Mary4
Mrs Barber1
A Lady In Town1

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

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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.

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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

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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

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