Folger MS M.a.142 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Folger Shakespeare Library
Call Number	Folger MS M.a.142
Complete	Yes
Description	Horatia Nelson (16 years old), 1817. 100 poems. Quite a banal book but a good indication of what poetry was popular, including some poems on the Napoleonic wars, and Irish/Scottish materials.
Format	Unknown [wove paper, no chainlines, no watermarks]
Book Size	23cm x 19cm
Filled Page Count	148 pages
Item Count	102
Poem Count	100
Periods	1791-1820
First Line Index	No
Digitized	No
Region	Buckinghamshire Burnham, Buckinghamshire
Additional Genres	Prose
Print Sources
Major Themes	Courtship, marriage Death, afterlife Humour, wordplay Nature Public affairs Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Animals, pets Devotional writing, religio... Shakespeare Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	hamnet.folger.edu
Bibliography
Citation	“Folger MS M.a.142.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/332. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Created	2019-11-04 8:04:46 AM
Updated	2023-07-20 4:09:09 PM

Contributor	Role
George Gordon Byron	Major author
Thomas Moore	Major author
Walter Scott	Major author
Horatia Nelson Ward	Primary compiler

First Line	Context	Print Source
Whoe'er like me, with trembling anguish brings	p. 63–64. Local title: [Two titles—p. 63:] On the death of Mrs Mason—extracts from Mason's poem on death of wife. [p. 64:] On a Lady who died of a Consumption at the Hot Wells Bristol by her husband. Attributed author: Mason [and] her husband. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a	Unknown

First Line

Context

Print Source

Whoe'er like me, with trembling anguish brings

p. 63–64.

Local title: [Two titles—p. 63:] On the death of Mrs Mason—extracts from Mason's poem on death of wife. [p. 64:] On a Lady who died of a Consumption at the Hot Wells Bristol by her husband.

Attributed author: Mason [and] her husband.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Frequent or occasional, but not well-organised.
Binding	Pre-bound paperbook. Writing goes right into the gutter. Half red roan, marbled paper boards.
Hands	Single loose hand.
Indications of use	Cross outs. Sense of ad hoc filling-in rather than advance planning. Stubs of excised leaves follow leaves 6, 26, 63, 64, 75.
Item formatting	Heavy double lines under titles and at ends of items, sometimes between stanzas or individual extracts from the same work, occasionally varied with other sorts of dividers. Sometimes difficult to determine where one source ends and another begins.
Organization	A fairly messy book, with cross-outs. Two pages at the end in another hand and inside back cover are written in reverse orientation.
Ownership mark	Written inside front cover: "Horatia N. Nelson. 1817. Burnham."
Page layout	Paginated up to 162 with some errors (148 filled pages).