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BC MS Lt 108
BC MS Lt 108
c.1710-1720
Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.
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BC MS Lt 109
BC MS Lt 109
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
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BC MS Lt 11
BC MS Lt 11
c.1710-c.1820
Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...
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BC MS Lt q 11
BC MS Lt q 11
c.1600-c.1710
Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...
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BC MS Lt 110
BC MS Lt 110
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
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BC MS Lt 111
BC MS Lt 111
c.1735
Comprises a contemporary English poem in praise of the virtues of Queen Caroline.
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BC MS Lt 112
BC MS Lt 112
c.1725-1775
Comprises a copy of 'An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life...', published according to Foxon's 'English verse, 1701-1750', E437, in 1729.
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BC MS Lt 114
BC MS Lt 114
c.1670-1744
Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical a...
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BC MS Lt 115
BC MS Lt 115
c.1750
Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.
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BC MS Lt 116
BC MS Lt 116
c.1726
Contains 2 eighteenth-century English poems on the alleged birth in 1726 of 17 rabbits to Mary Toft of Godalming.
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BC MS Lt 118
BC MS Lt 118
c.1733
Comprises a copy of Fitzgerald's printed "Poems on several occasions" (London, 1733), the inserted material and annotations apparently representing a revision of the poem "Bedlam" in the author's own ...
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BC MS Lt 119
BC MS Lt 119
c.1740-1751
Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end. The contents include items by Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu,...