Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 47 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Bodleian Library
Call Number	Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 47
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous female member of John Graham Clarke household, ca. 1752–1766. 66 items. Interest in women's conduct and morality.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	20.7cm x 16.3cm
Filled Page Count	142 pages
Item Count	79
Poem Count	66
Periods	1731-1760 1761-1790
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	No
Region	Yorkshire
Additional Genres	Prose - miscellaneous, Prose letters
Print Sources
Major Themes	Conduct, morality Courtship, marriage Devotional writing, religio... Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Death, afterlife Domestic life Friendship Illness Nature Passions, Sentiments Solitude, loneliness, retir... Women Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu
Bibliography
Citation	“Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 47.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/147. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-20 2:14:14 PM

Contributor	Role
[Anonymous Female Member of J.G. Clarke household]	Primary compiler Possibly also a Major author.
John Graham Clarke	Owner

First Line	Context	Print Source
Dear Cloe, while the busy croud	pp. 63–66. Local title: The FireSide. Attributed author: Mr. Cotton Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Dear Peggy, since the single state	pp. 38–43. Local title: Advice to a Young Lady lately Married. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
In what soft Language shall my Thoughts get free	pp. 85–86. Local title: On the Death of Mr Rowe. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Indulgent God, whose bounteous Care	pp. 26-27 Local title: An Evening Hymn Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Soon as the morn salutes your eyes	p. 46 Local title: Pious rules for daily practice. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Source attribution: "London Mag: 1743."	London Magazine
When Snows descend, and robe the Fields	pp. 95–96 Local title: From Hervey's Meditations. Attributed author: Hervey. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Rare.
Binding	Pre-bound paperbook. Entire book is filled, pages are cut out at the end, and writing is cramped by the gutter and the edge of the page. Calf.
Hands	Single.
Indications of use	This whole book seems to be a woman’s book, even if source is a man’s library because of subject matter and also laundry list at end, in same hand.
Item formatting	Very simple format, just freestyle horizontal line at end of each item.
Original poetry	Yes, some is probably the work of the copyist and her friends.
Ownership mark	Written into front cover: "Old Mr Robinson, bookseller, at Berick’s Head, Pilgrim St., told me that this book came from the library of John Graham Clarke, grandfather to Mrs Elizabeth Barret Browning. It is the usual poetry book of young people who, at a time when books were dear, copied the poems &c. that pleased them most. It contains two poems which may be called local. One is on 'Sir Walter Blackett’s Birthday' and the other an 'Inscription by Akenside,' first published in 1758." Signed: "R. W."
Page layout	Paginated (pagination skips from p. 50 to p. 60).