Huntington Library
San Marino, California, USA.
Huntington MS 106
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Period | 1731-1760 |
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Robert Beere, ca. 1740s.
Very good example to look at organizing systems because he uses thematic, length, alphabetical, etc. to varying degrees throughout the book.
338 items.
Many items are short aphorisms or epigrams; much in nature of advice literature; various pieces on the nature of man (the human state).
Huntington MS 29165
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Period | 1791-1820 |
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Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury, ca. 1815.
Many materials acquired through manuscript transmission; full of evaluative commentary.
90 poems.
Very Scottish in contents, reflecting Lady Charlotte's life in Edinburgh before 1810.
Huntington MS 82623
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
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Anonymous, 1724–1729, with additional items copied in the 1690s and early 1730s.
A book bound subsequent to copying.
115 poems.
Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. Interest in literary celebrities like Pope and Swift.
Huntington Stowe Vol. III
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Period | 1791-1820 |
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Anna Eliza Grenville, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, 1811–1832.
A mix of copied poetry and clippings.
33 poems.
Mostly poems about political events and nature.