Cambridgeshire
Beinecke Osborn c147
Title | Poems on Severall Occasions |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Soame Jenyns, 1730.
19 items.
Perhaps a retained copy of poems written for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, his daughter Margaret Cavendish Harley, and her circle of friends (presentation copy is British Library Add. MS 70494).
Flattery, panegyric.
Beinecke Osborn c169
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous graduate of King's School, Canterbury and student at Cambridge University, ca. 1760s.
7 items.
Most items related to King's School and Cambridge, seemingly all original.
British Library Add. MS 70494
Title | Poems on Several Occasions |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | British Library |
Soame Jenyns, 1729.
Presentation copy of Beinecke Osborn c147, only slightly different contents. Poems written for Margaret Cavendish Harley, her father, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and her circle of friends.
18 items.
Flattery, panegyric.
Clark MS 1984.004
Title | A common place book. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Thomas Trigg, 1785.
Attributes print sources of most poems.
54 poems.
Quite a few extracts of blank verse from Shakespeare plays, Latin poetry. The compiler seems to rely on a lot of anthologies of extracts .
Clark MS 2000.005
Title | I, II: "Poetical compositions on various Sub [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
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.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
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.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Richard Porson, ca. 1780.
Includes a second section of bound-in separates with its own Table of Contents.
75 poems in the first section + 52 in the second.
Jacobite- and Cambridge-related material.