Beinecke Osborn c163 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number	Beinecke Osborn c163
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous, ca. 1770s. 19 items. Unbound booklet with some copy errors suggesting this may have been a first copying of materials for a later collection. Thematic focus on contentment, lack of ambition, choice of retirement and friendship over wealth and power.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	21cm x 17cm
Filled Page Count	28 pages
Item Count	19
Poem Count	19
Periods	1761-1790
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	Yes
Region	[Unknown]
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes	Conduct, morality Friendship Passions, Sentiments Solitude, loneliness, retir... Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Classical themes Literature Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu collections.library.yale.edu
Bibliography
Citation	“Beinecke Osborn c163.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/44. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-19 4:26:12 PM

Contributor	Role
[Anonymous]	Primary compiler

First Line	Context
As those we love decay, we die in part	p. 22. Local title: Verses occasioned by the death of a particular friend of the author. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Blest be the Man! his Memory at least	p. 4 Local title: Upon Writing. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Oft I've implor'd the gods in vain	pp. 15–17 Title: On Indifference Attributed author: Mrs. Greville Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: "to Lady Carlisle"; accompanied by Carlisle's Answer.
Without preamble, to my friend	p. 18 Local title: Lady Carlisle's answer to Mrs. Greville. Attributed author: Lady Carlisle. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Preceded by Greville's "On Indifference" (pp. 15–17).

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Occasional.
Binding	Post-Bound (stitched). Only one stitched gathering (a quire), likely stitched together after transcription. No cover, no binding.
Hands	Single.
Indications of use	Some errors of words or lines that would occur in copying. Could be a first copying of materials for a collection.
Item formatting	Not much delineation between items – some endings marked by a series of horizontal dashes.
Page layout	Not much white space.