Folger MS M.a.163
Title | Untitled |
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Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Call Number | Folger MS M.a.163 |
Complete | Yes |
Description | Anonymous, 1786–1798. 120 poems. A very feminocentric collection with many female-authored work. Tighe family coterie; Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.
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Format | Wove paper, no watermarks. |
Book Size | 25cm x 19 cm |
Filled Page Count | 335 pages |
Item Count | 121 |
Poem Count | 120 |
Periods | |
First Line Index | No |
Digitized | No |
Region | |
Additional Genres | Prose letters |
Print Sources | |
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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Bibliography | |
Citation |
“Folger MS M.a.163.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/4. Accessed . |
Created | 2019-08-27 10:39:26 AM |
Updated | 2023-07-25 10:59:04 AM |
Contributor | Role |
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[Anonymous] | |
Frances Macartney Greville | |
Matthew Lewis | |
Helen Cranstoun D'Arcy Stewart | |
Mary Blachford Tighe |
First Line | Context |
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Dear Mem'ry, guardian of each past delight |
Page: n/a; item #80 Local title: Sonnet. By Mrs St. George (written at Llangollen 23rd July 1793. Attributed author: Mrs St George. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Copied here before it's first publication. |
Gentle breath of melting sorrow |
Page: n/a; item #42. Local title: Untitled. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
Painful source of many a sorrow! |
Page: n/a; item #115. Local title: On the word last. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
Sweet instrument of him for whom I mourn |
Page: n/a; item #15. Local title: Mrs Sheridans address to her Brothers Violin. Attributed author: Mrs Sheridan. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school |
Page: n/a; item #18. Local title: A Portrait Address'd to a Lady with the Comedy of the School for Scandal. Attributed author: R.B. Sheridan Esqr. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
The rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a shower |
Page: n/a; item #35. Local title: An Accident. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day |
Page: n/a; item #38 Local title: The dying Indian. Attributed author: Ann Home Hunter. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: First line: "The sun sinks to night, and the stars shun the day..." Other: n/a |
Time was, when many a cheerful thought |
p. 22 Local title: n/a Attributed author: By Mrs. ****** Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a |
When Horace wak'd his lyric strains |
Page: n/a; item #85. Local title: To the Ladies of Llangollen Vale with the translation of Horace’s Odes. Attributed author: From the translator W. Boscawen Esqr. [also attributed at the end:] W.B. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Original to this manuscript; dated Sept 18th 1795. |
Feature | Note |
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Author attributions | Rare. |
Binding | Original half calf, marbled paper board covers are detached. Presently in fragile condition. |
Catchwords | Often. |
Hands | Single very fine, decorative hand, especially on front and final pages. |
Indications of use | Social sphere represented suggests the compiler was not just getting this material from public/print sources. Very feminocentric collection. |
Item formatting | Dividing lines between poems, but of varying forms (single line, double line, single line with spiral). |
Organization | Title page that reads: “"The following Collection commenced October An. MDCCLXXXVI." Second last leaf on verso reads: "The Foregoing Collection was completed December 4th MDCCXCVIII." |
Original poetry | Yes; many seem to be original within compiler’s circle – aristocratic friends, travellers in area of Llangollen, final poem accompanying a cow, etc. |
Page layout | Unpaginated (except for pencil pagination pp. 1–20). Lots of white space. |
Title page | Yes. |