Houghton Library
Harvard University; Cambridge, MA, USA.
Houghton MS Am 1013
| Title | Revolutionary lyrics manuscript |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Joshua Francis Fisher, ca. 1779.
3 poems.
Poems satirizing the organizers of the American Revolution.
Houghton MS Am 1369
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Benjamin Church, 1750–1752.
16 poems.
Mainly satirical poems by group of Harvard students.
Houghton MS Am 1894
| Title | A poetical jumble, vivified from the rubbish [...] |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Samuel Church, 1786.
2 volumes, 33 poems.
Rather crude homemade bindings showing stab-stitching and stitching along spine.
Mainly poems about death and/or religion. Vol. 2 expands to include more social topics.
Houghton MS Am 1894.1(1)
| Title | A poetical flame blown up by the breath of a [...] |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Samuel Church, 1786.
66 poems.
Religious poetry, many items about sin; seemingly all original compositions.
Intended as a gift for a recipient he calls "Reveren'd Religioso."
Houghton MS Am 1919
| Title | Miscellany poems, Anno 1731 |
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| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous, 1731.
35 poems.
Sentimental poetry, many epistles and plenty about love.
Houghton MS Am 910
| Title | Miss Rebecca Story's Book |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Rebecca Story Porter, 1796–ca. 1803.
17 poems.
Seemingly a schoolgirl's book, including a list of students at Mr. Woodbridge Academy, with the addition of a personal poem about her brother's death at the end.
Houghton MS Eng 1280
| Title | Poems on several occasions with introductory [...] |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, 1810–1814.
Five volumes for her adopted nephew, but only the first three are primarily poetry, and therefore considered manuscript verse miscellanies.
Largely original occasional poems accompanied by prose biographical material and information about the circumstances of each item's composition.
Houghton MS Eng 569.63
| Title | Epigrams |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous Norfolk Clergyman, ca. 1814–1822.
Only included up to p. 82 (/119) because the rest of the book is game charts and other miscellaneous contents.
53 poems.
Primarily local interest, political, and religious poetry.
Houghton MS Eng 584
| Title | Miscellany poems by severall hands. Collecte [...] |
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| Period | 1701-1730 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
B. Cumberlege, 1703.
Contains title pages for many individual poems.
34 poems on the Table of Contents, but some grouped together under headings, so really closer to 50 items.
Occasional and religious poems, many about friendship, and a high proportion by the compiler. Position appears to be Jacobite and Roman Catholic.
Region of creation possibly London, based on later Cumberlege family records.
Houghton MS Eng 606
| Title | Poems, tracts & memoirs / collected by J. Rolfe |
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| Period | 1701-1730 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
J. Rolfe, 1700.
67 poems.
Primarily religious material.
Houghton MS Eng 611
| Title | I: "A collection of poems and various fragme [...] |
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| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Rev. Thomas Austen, 1760.
Three volumes, only the first two of which are manuscript verse miscellanies, and therefore included in this entry.
768 poems.
A real variety of contents. The first volume revolves around poems about various natural elements and experiences of country life. The second volume contains fragments of essay and pieces of poetry, 'Calculated for an Occasional Supply to the Monthly Magazine Writers'.
Houghton MS Eng 614
| Title | A collection of religious poetry from variou [...] |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Rev. Thomas Austen, 1770–1783.
212 poems.
Religious poems and hymns.
Houghton MS Eng 680
| Title | Poems on Various Occasion's and By Several H [...] |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous, 1780.
55 poems.
Mainly devotional or conduct related poems, some describing Bristol and Quaker life.
Houghton MS Eng 687
| Title | Eliza Woolley's book |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Eliza Woolley, 1806.
7 poems.
Mostly love poetry.
Houghton MS Eng 692
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Thomas Ingoldsby (also known as Richard Harris Barham), 1808.
Poems, paraphrases, epigrams, and conundrums in English, French, Greek, and Latin.
Houghton MS Eng 768
| Title | A Collection of various kinds of Poetry |
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| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Melesinda Munbee (seemingly transcribed by Elizabeth Munbee), 1749–1750.
A manuscript verse miscellany assembled in childhood, based on a father's library.
Two volumes, 44 poems.
Many items by Swift; other bawdy contents.
Houghton MS Eng 926
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Charlotte Burney Francis Broome, 1771–ca. 1806.
82 poems.
Mostly original poetry by members of the Burney family with themes of family, courtship/marriage, and death.
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (4)
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1810.
50 poems.
Entirely or almost entirely original poetry, many occasional.
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (5)
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1818.
183 poems.
Mostly other authors, some original work, often addressed to her daughters.