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Title: To the author of the Essays upon Man
Author: Somervile, William
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: In praise of the combination of wisdom, ethics and poetry in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, and for its teaching mankind the nature of God's works
Title: To the author of the Satyr Against Wit
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Apparently a reply to John Donne's 'Satire II', addressed to a doctor. Asserts that Donne's satire is fit only to be food for rats, but that it will kill the rats that eat it.
Title: To a lady, the author of the Tunbridge Prodigy
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1704 ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: In praise of the lady's poem, claiming that its writer exceeds men in the excellence of her poetry. Includes references to Buckworth and to George Granville. Published in 1716.
Sender: Authors' World Peace Appeal
Date(s): 1951 - 1952
Location: BC. Authors' World Peace Appeal. In envelope "Minutes and agenda of meetings...etc"
Note: Various papers relating to the administration of the organization including minutes and agenda of meetings, agenda for the first conference and news bulletins.
Title: To the author of a late lampoon
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Attack upon a poet by whom he has been lampooned or satirised, censuring his presumption, birth, breeding and wit
Title: To the author of the Advice to a Female Politician ... 1734:
Author: Tayleure, William ? [see Venn]
Attribution: Mr Tayleure
Date(s): 1734 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: In answer to The female politician (BCMSV 2146), castigating its author for
criticising a young woman for involvement in political discussion, and arguing
that, in the case of love, men and poets should always take a woman's side
Title: To Mr Moor author of the worm powder
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 40
Contents: Witty satire on the idea of men as worms and other kinds of
insects, taking John Moore's worm powder as starting-point
Title: The author's reflections on the fate of poor Chatterton
Author: Hayley, William
Attribution: Mr Hayley (f.93v)
Date(s): 178-?
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Lament for the poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) describing how, due to the malignancy of critics, he commits suicide by swallowing poison. Extract from Hayley's "Essay on Epic Poetry", Epistle 4. Cf BCMSV 6187, 6189, 6191
Sender: Ouseley, Sir Frederick Author Gore
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Egerton Leigh: Literature, Science, Art & Music Autographs, p.93
Note: Incomplete; signature only.
Title: To a gentleman that advis'd the author to live in hope
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Address to a friend, arguing from experience against his advice to live in
hope, as false delusion, preferring the reality of despair. With a note on the
tree in Judea "which bears the apple of Sodom, fair without but fill of bitter
dust within".
Sender: Hughes, Katherine (Canadian author)
Recipient: Dawson, Thomas
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Dec 1913
Location: BC Dawson
Category: 20c1 female
Sender: Buchanan, George W
Recipient: The Competent Military Authority
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Sep 1917
Location: BC Ransome Box 16 [Personal]
Note: Certifying that Ransome was engaged on important work for the Embassy. Stamped 17 Oct 1917