Folger MS M.a.163

Title Untitled
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.

 

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.

Links
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
First Line Context
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
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.