Thomas Binns, 1789–1799.

"Collection of Poems" numbered Vols. II and III, and "Miscellaneous Manuscripts" numbered Vols. 3 and 4.

117 + 74 + 112 + 116 = 419 items, numerous very long poems.

Quaker writings; political themes (anti-war, anti-slavery, pro-revolutionary); sentimental poetry and poetry about nature.

Anonymous, 1796.

7 items, including "To the Reader" poem.

Mix of religious and moral themes, political satire.

Anonymous, ca. 1775–1794.

45 items.

General tone is sentimental and polite, includes pseudonymous attributions and apparently fictional epistolary exchanges.

Anonymous, ca. 1798.

Miniature book with elaborate illustrations, perhaps for children.

17 items.

Includes a song in Cumberland dialect and material from Poor Robin's Almanac.

Stephen Barrett, 1770-1794.

Gift from Cuthbert Wilson with a presentation poem.

45 items.

Original poems in Latin and English, mostly by Barrett, including school exercises; translations by Barrett of early modern and eighteenth-century English poems into Latin.

Anne Blandford, 1791 and later.

114 poems, mostly occasional.

Mostly verses by Hannah More and her circle. 

Anne Milbanke, ca. 1795.

33 items.

Mostly original poetry with multiple pseudonyms, some seemingly later published in Gentleman's Magazine. Interest in historical and contemporary tragic figures e.g. Marie Antoinette.

Anonymous, late eighteenth-century.

29 poems on the First Line Index.

Collection of poems by various authors, riddles, parodies, etc.

Anonymous, 1783–1792. 

Lyrical, narrative and occasional verse.

Anne Taylor, around or after the 1790s. 

23 poems.

Verse extracts and original poems, many about death. One Jacobite poem, a couple poems about children, and some social satire. 

Anonymous member of the Porter family, late eighteenth-century.

4 volumes, 2039 poems. 

Contemporary poetry, many items commonly included in manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Anonymous, early nineteenth-century.

19 poems.

Primarily sentimental poems, many written by Edward Venn and C.A. Venn on such subjects as passions, nature, friendship, and solitude.

Thomas Crofton Croker, ca. 1814–1818.

40 poems.

Sentimental and light poems, almost all addressed to female acquaintances. 

E.H., early nineteenth century.

23 poems.

Primarily sentimental subjects such as death, religion, and family, with a few more satirical entries.

Anonymous, ca. 1816.

Over 200 poems.

Serious, sentimental, and occasional poems, many addressed to individual women.

Anonymous, with illustration by Mary Rogers, 1808.

37 poems. 

Two of the three sections are poems by "Bree," "Nadine," and "Rio" composed for "Employment" during winter 1808. 

Pastoral poems; conduct, morality poems; poems about domestic life and nature.

Anonymous, 1805 or later. 

71 items.

Primarily sentimental entries, poems on such subjects as sorrow, love, and exile, and copies of letters and verses relating to Major John André and Anna Seward.

Anonymous, ca. 1810–1820.

50 poems. 

Many poems with naval themes, accompanied by illustrations and watercolours of ships and harbours; also includes comic epitaphs, and songs with manuscript music voice settings.

Charles Parr Burney, ca. 1803. 

354 pages.

Primarily elegies, love poems, and occasional verse, with some patriotic and religious verse, and short comic verses. 

A large section copied from a Crewe Hall album composed during the 1780s, reflecting the work of the Crewe coterie. 

John Waite, ca. 1800.

In a single hand up to f. 139 when two other hands take over for the last twenty folios. This entry considers only the first hand's section of the manuscript. 

139 folios.

Lyrics, fables, and occasional verse. Multiple poems about violets. 

Miss Hooper, ca. 1810–1820. 

Approximately 80 poems.

Poems, epigrams, and a number of occasional verses attributed to members of Charles James Fox's social circle, several of which are concerning his death. 

Mary Allcard, ca. 1805–ca. 1810. 

2 volumes, 12 poems.

Probably kept during Allcard's education at Ackworth School, a Quaker establishment. Most of the poetry is on moral or religious themes. Also includes several prose entries concerning Quakers in Pennsylvania. 

Anonymous, with poems by Maria Banks Riddell and poems about Mary Tighe, 1814–1816.

46 poems, all original to the manuscript.

Primarily narrative poems on mythical creatures or historical subjects, and poems about nature; also includes many fables, love poems, and poetic renditions of the Psalms. 

Anne Butler, begun in 1806.

186 pages.

Elegies, epitaphs, and poems on death, friendship, moderation, hope and female virtue.

Hester Bradley, 1807–1810, with two poems added in 1831. 

49 poems.

Occasional poems and poems about friends and family, all with a Quaker bent. 

Mary Harris Cornwallis, ca. 1790–1820.

Approximately 108 poems.

Many occasional poems by the compiler and her family; this manuscript is also packed with print insertions, many of which are (prose) news items about the deaths of royals.

James Forbes, 1766–1800. 

This entry concerns only the first volume, as the second is entirely prose. 

151 poems.

Poems on various subjects, including many on death and women, but also conduct, retirement, nature, and slavery. 

P. Simpson, 1790–1793.

90 poems.

Mostly eighteenth-century poetry, namely conduct poems, pastoral poems, poems about the poor, epitaphs, and epigrams.

Joseph Taylor, 1799.

About 360 pieces of verse and prose. 

Satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Also contains numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs.

* As of yet, this manuscript has not been examined due to 2021-2022 pandemic access restrictions. This description is a temporary placeholder based on catalogue entries and Union First Line Index records.

Anonymous, 1780–1794.

66 pages.

Many English poems, including works by Pope, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Courtney Melmoth, and some anonymous work.

* As of yet, this manuscript has not been examined due to 2021-2022 pandemic access restrictions. This description is a temporary placeholder based on catalogue entries and Union First Line Index records.

Anonymous, 1811–1818.

Over 100 poems.

Largely poems on nationalistic subjects, others focused on serious and sentimental subjects like nature, death, friendship, and religion. 

Anonymous Oxonian, 1790s.

Some items possibly marked for copying.

214 poems.

Lots of Latin poetry, and English poetry with Greek titles.

Daughter or granddaughter of Elizabeth Amherst Thomas, 1798.

46 poems.

Entirely original Elizabeth Amherst Thomas poems compiled retrospectively, often whimsical, witty, resisting stereotypes about women.

Reginald Heber, ca. 1788–1789.

Very plain book. 

18 poems.

Commemoration of people and events in the Brent River area. 

Unknown author, ca. early 1800s. 

9 poems.

A stitched booklet, seemingly about the travels of a group of young friends. Rough spelling.

Mary Marshall, 1805.

75 items.

Mostly popular songs.

Note from Harriet Binny endorsing Polly's taste in compiling her book suggests the manuscript circulated among friends.

Eliza Chapman, 1788-89.

87 poems.

Contributions by Scriblerus, Eliza Chapman's suitor. 

Augusta Byron Leigh, 1805–1813.

101 poems.

Lots of poems on celebrities, poems by Byron. 

Tickell family, 1787–ca. 1828.

35 poems.

Poems about love, friendship, and artistic pursuits, as well as commemorative poems about deaths in the family.

Lady Elizabeth Loftus, ca. 1800. 

24 poems.

Lighthearted poems by members of the Loftus and Townshend families. 

Anonymous, 1735–1812.

Written tête-bêche.

137 poems.

Primarily devotional poetry and Methodist hymns.

Mrs. Stapleton for Miss Mary Arnold, ca. 1780s–1790s. 

212 poems.

A gift for formal or informal educational use. A lot of riddles and poems about flowers; emphasis on items written by young ladies. Most items about or intended for women.

Mary Woodyeare Tibbits, ca. 1800.

A later owner, Mary Isabella Hood, used the volume to press flowers and leaves.

113 poems.

A book structured upon the narrative of her life, almost entirely original poems.

John Sanderson, 1787–ca. 1816, with one entry from 1832.

Four volumes, but this entry concerns only the first three (the poetry miscellanies).

121 poems.

Translations of Latin poetry, humorous poetry, apparently all original.

Rae family, ca. 1800.

151 pages.

Collection of epitaphs from gravestones and published sources.

Catherine Tuthill Massy, ca. 1795.

46 poems.

A young Irish lady's book, themes of anti-slavery, interest in captives in India, sufferings of Ireland.

Anonymous Irish officer, ca. 1810–1830.

28 poems.

Many local interest pieces and political satire.

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.

Anonymous, ca. 1799-1803.

Ambigraph volume with poetry beginning at one end and prose anecdotes, mainly biographical, at the other. This listing pertains only to the poetry end of the manuscript. 

288 poems.

Miscellaneous and short poems, mostly extracts, epitaphs, and epigrams.

Anonymous, 1786–1798.

120 poems.

A very feminocentric collection with many female-authored work.

Tighe family coterie; Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.

Emma Puleston, ca. 1819–1822.

Decorated with watercolours.

147 items, 100 poems.

Many very short sayings, and items related to Waterloo and the Irish rebellion representing a patriotic British stance. 

Anne Blandford, ca. 1795–1805.

113 poems.

Emphasis on apparently original writings/occasional writings by Hannah More, and More's sisters and friends in youth that might not be found elsewhere.

Hannah More circle.

Elizabeth Gilchrist, ca. 1800–1815.

One main hand plus one organising hand, maybe that of a daughter.

89 items, 74 poems.

Mixed book with themes of women, death, friendship, love, etc.

Anonymous, 1818–1823.

Solutions given for riddles and anagrams, suggesting the book's use for social reading and games.

355 items, 200 poems.

Swings from sentimental/tragic to lightly comic, but no really cynical poetry – mostly sentimental or clichéd humour.

A.T.W, 1793–ca. 1800.

A lot of retrospective editing including comments and cross-outs. 

153 poems.

Many poems by or about important figures of literature and the stage; also epitaphs, inscriptions and letters; many poems by women.

Caroline Kilderbee, 1812–1863.

245 poems.

Mostly satirical items; great interest in celebrities.

John Dixon, ca. 1780–1817.

Six volumes.

Popular eighteenth-century poetry.

Anonymous, ca. 1773-1806.

Crowded, no margins, looks more like a commonplace book than a usual poetry miscellany.

361 poems.

Enormous amount of material compiled over many years roughly chronologically.

Mary Gay, 1801–1809.

324 items.

Preference for humorous pieces; some riddles. 

Anonymous, ca. 1805–1817.

340 poems.

Themes of love, support for the oppressed (slaves, Irish peasants, workhorses, foundlings, animals in general, etc.), consumption.

Maybe part of local network as some pieces attributed to single initials. 

Anonymous, ca. 1800.

42 items, 25 poems.

Contains four page "Follies and Vices" set, and five poems by members of the Della Cruscans.

Rebecca Story Porter, 1796–ca. 1803.

17 poems.

Seemingly a schoolgirl's book, including a list of students at Mr. Woodbridge Academy, with the addition of a personal poem about her brother's death at the end. 

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, 1810–1814.

Five volumes for her adopted nephew, but only the first three are primarily poetry, and therefore considered manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Largely original occasional poems accompanied by prose biographical material and information about the circumstances of each item's composition. 

Anonymous Norfolk Clergyman, ca. 1814–1822.

Only included up to p. 82 (/119) because the rest of the book is game charts and other miscellaneous contents. 

53 poems.

Primarily local interest, political, and religious poetry. 

Eliza Woolley, 1806.

7 poems.

Mostly love poetry.

Thomas Ingoldsby (also known as Richard Harris Barham), 1808.

Poems, paraphrases, epigrams, and conundrums in English, French, Greek, and Latin.

Charlotte Burney Francis Broome, 1771–ca. 1806.

82 poems.

Mostly original poetry by members of the Burney family with themes of family, courtship/marriage, and death.

Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1810.

50 poems.

Entirely or almost entirely original poetry, many occasional. 

Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1818.

183 poems.

Mostly other authors, some original work, often addressed to her daughters.

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.

Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury's circle.

Anna Eliza Grenville, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, 1811–1832.

A mix of copied poetry and clippings.

33 poems.

Mostly poems about political events and nature.

Anonymous, ca. 1775–1810.

130 items.

Pieces from Garrick's memoir and other prose with a record of Wyvill-G—ll coterie's poetic exchanges in the middle.

Eliza Marriott, ca. 1763–1803.

29 items.

Generally serious poems with an interest in local Yorkshire elites.

Eliza Pettigrew, 1778 - ca. 1796.

108 items.

Themes of friendship; Quakerism; anti-slavery; many friendship poems addressed to Eliza by A. Strangman.

Revd. William Heath Marsh, ca. 1810.

~100 + ~85 = ~185 poems.

Volume 1 consists primarily of copied poetry, especially pastoral and morality poems or poems with classical themes; volume 2 contains much more original poetry, poems related to public affairs, and references to a Norfolk social network centred around Marsh and Thomas and Mary Blofeld.

William Tighe, ca. 1815.

25 poems.

Mainly light-hearted original poems on such subjects as love, theatre, and furniture.

John Liptrott, ca. 1786. 

215 items, 151 poems, many of which are introduced with lengthy prose anecdotes or critical prefaces. 

Contents include satires of social issues and political corruption, historical anecdotes supporting Church of England, nature poetry, recollections of favourite dogs.

Elizabeth Church, 1766–ca. 1791.

68 poems.

Copied by multiple hands but primarily by Elizabeth Church.

Popular manuscript verse miscellany poems and epitaphs.