Huntington MS 29165
Title | Untitled |
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Archive | Huntington Library |
Call Number | Huntington MS 29165 |
Complete | Yes |
Description | 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. |
Format | Wove paper, as wide as typical octavo but higher |
Book Size | 22.7cm x 13.6cm |
Filled Page Count | 220 pages |
Item Count | 90 |
Poem Count | 90 |
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First Line Index | Yes |
Digitized | No |
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Major Themes |
Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order. |
Minor Themes |
Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order. |
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Citation |
“Huntington MS 29165.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/357. Accessed . |
Created | 2020-04-18 4:50:10 PM |
Updated | 2023-07-25 11:27:57 AM |
Contributor | Role |
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Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury | |
John Leyden |
First Line | Context |
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Gentle breath of melting sorrow |
p. 60. Local title: Address to a Sigh. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
Lock'd in the arms of balmy sleep |
pp. 33–36. Local title: On a Thunder Storm. Attributed Author: ArchBishop Lowth. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
The poplars are fell'd, and adieu to the shade |
pp. 55–56 Local title: n/a Attributed author: Cowper. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
When Bath, grown temperate, his bottle leaves |
pp. 37–38 Local title: A Prophecy. Attributed author: Lord {Horts.} Adaptation: n/a Other variants: When Bath grows temperate his Bottle leaves... Other: n/a |
Feature | Note |
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Author attributions | Regular. |
Binding | Post-bound. Writing is tight into the gutter – words usually fit, but are often written on a slant at the ends of lines whether on the outside of the recto or the gutter side of the verso – perhaps using rules margins in the original. Green morocco with gilt decorations; spine labelled: "M.S.S." |
Hands | Single, throughrout the majority of book the book. A second hand takes over in the middle of a very, very long poem (51 pages, pp. 166-216) in rhyming couplets – The Vale of Teviot, by Mr. Leyden – this is the second last item, followed by The Indian Man’s Creed in the same (second) hand. |
Indications of use | Annotations throughout, in the hand of the principal compiler – explanatory commentary, but also evaluative commentary like “nonsense,” or (for Indian Man’s Creed) “I do not approve of the forgoing[sic] Creed but the wildness of the Verses pleased me.” |
Item formatting | Very plain book in sense of presentation of titles etc. |
Original poetry | Yes; items identified as by her father, by Mr. Hook extempore at the table, and by friends – many of the contents seems to have been acquired through manuscript circulation. |