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Title: To Dean Swift on his birthday
Author: Pilkington, Laetitia
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Birthday tribute praising Jonathan Swift as equal to or greater than the
poets and philosophers of classical times
Title: A poem on Delville
Author: Pilkington, Laetitia
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Eulogistic description of a country house, Delville, near Dublin, and praise
of its owner, the Rev. Dr Delany
Title: Miss Pilkington desird by her brother a schoolboy to make his exercise writes
this to the paper
Author: Pilkington, Laetitia
Attribution: Miss Pilkington
Date(s): 1732 ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Address to the paper on which the poem is written, its purity spoiled by the
act of writing
Title: Sent with a quill to Dean Swift hearing he receivd a present of ink and paper
from a lady
Author: Pilkington, Laetitia
Date(s): 1732
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Praising Jonathan Swift's poetry and urging him to use the quill as his
pen; also pointing out its usefulness to music and painting. Cf BCMSV 793.