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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: [unknown]
Author: Barham, Richard Harris
Date(s): 1840 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Reminiscence of receiving either presents or punishment when a child in the nursery, according to either good or naughty behaviour
Title: The contented maidens soliloquy
Author: Hall or Hale, Spinster ?
Attribution: Spinster Hale (Hall?)
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: In praise of the freedom and pleasures of the life of a spinster or unmarried woman. Cf. BCMSV 3594.
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: A sea-side reverie
Author: Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
Attribution: N.T.H.B.; Fanny
Date(s): 1820 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Meditation on the progress of the soul after death, asserting the necessity of heaven and a desire to join the dead rather than recall them. An abridged text
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: Not an advertisement
Author: James, Luke
Attribution: Luke J
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Detailing the marriageable qualities of a man (XYZ) of average needs and characteristics, in the form of an mock advertisement to attract a wife. Cf. BCMSV 3600, 3601.
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: From 'XYZ' to 'OPQ'
Author: James, Luke
Attribution: Luke James, Liverpool
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Response to BCMSV 3600 in which XYZ accepts OPQ as a possible wife, subject to her answers to some questions, and expressing concern that she may be a bluestocking. See the mock marriage advertisement in BCMSV 3599.
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