Theme: Theatre, drama
Discussions of theatrical performances, actors in particular roles; prologues and epilogues of plays (see also Shakespeare).
Beinecke Osborn c130
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Heigham, 1781–ca. 1785.
38 items.
Includes multiple female authors, son's tribute to mother at the end of the book, and epilogues presumably spoken at local productions.
Polite poetry.
Beinecke Osborn c662
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1780–1790.
Around 100 pages.
Mainly occasional, comic, and sentimental poems by late eighteenth-century authors. Also includes a number of items related to Samuel Johnson and his circle.
Beinecke Osborn d49
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Folger MS M.a.103
Title | Poems on Various Subjects, FROM Various Authors |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
William Mitchell Sale, ca. 1756.
106 poems.
Early eighteenth-century satire, later comic poetry, love poetry, several lengthy Pope poems.
Folger MS M.a.104
Title | A Collection of Poems by Several Hands |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Charles Plumptre ca. 1730.
79 poems.
Includes school exercises; some poems possibly from friendship circle that includes John Hoadly and Isaac Hawkins Brown; could be connected with Newcombe’s school in Hackney; satires on women; poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Folger MS M.a.182
Title | A miscellaneous collection in prose and vers [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
Folger MS M.a.186
Title | A Collection of Poems |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Mr. Stocker of Portsmouth, ca. 1753–1780.
Lots of orginial material.
260 poems.
Much local content; clearly a supporter of the Opposition in the 1730s and 40s.
Folger MS M.a.53–58
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Verses collected by John Dixon ca. 1780–1817, then copied posthumously by his daughter, Judith Dixon Beecroft.
Six volumes.
Popular eighteenth-century poetry.
Folger MS N.b.3
Title | Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ca. 1685–1701 or 1702.
109 poems.
Poems and plays.
Folger MS W.a.86
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anne Milles, ca. 1715.
21 poems.
Opens with a drinking song; not too serious a book in general.
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (4)
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1810.
50 poems.
Entirely or almost entirely original poetry, many occasional.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 100
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
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.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1769–1790.
152 poems.
Bound-with The New Bath Guide (1766).
Celebrity-centred manuscript verse miscellany, with a particular focus on Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale Piozzi, David Garrick, Peter Pindar, and Horace Walpole.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
William Tighe, ca. 1815.
25 poems.
Mainly light-hearted original poems on such subjects as love, theatre, and furniture.
Beinecke Osborn c176
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1728.
79 items.
Primarily witty poetry, both high and low; some serious political and moral poems.
Beinecke Osborn c360 (1/3)
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1744–45.
252 poems.
Mostly sociable verse, especially arising out of interactions with women, and public affairs.
Beinecke Osborn c382
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, late eighteenth-century.
29 poems on the First Line Index.
Collection of poems by various authors, riddles, parodies, etc.
Beinecke Osborn fc51
Title | The Parson's Barn A Collection of Poems of v [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Frances Glanville Boscawen and Julia Evelyn, begun in 1746.
120 poems.
Popular and original poetry on various themes. Large section of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 111
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Reginald Heber, ca. 1788–1789.
Very plain book.
18 poems.
Commemoration of people and events in the Brent River area.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28
Title | A Collection of Poems by various Hands, but [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Eleanor Peart, 1768.
Organized chronologically and thematically.
182 poems.
A high proportion of original poetry; strong emphasis on the pastoral including the use of pastoral pseudonyms.
Bodleian MS Mont. e. 13
Title | "A Book of Select Songs. Volume the first."; [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Mary Tadwell, 1744–1761. Taken over by John Watson Tadwell in a clear effort to continue/complete Mary Tadwell's work.
Three volumes composed roughly chronologically.
167 poems.
Contents heavy on riddles, acrostics, songs; frequent country-city theme, but with no sense of a specific country locality.
British Library Add. MS 37684
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | British Library |
William Taylor of South Weald, ca. 1730.
61 poems.
Miscellaneous poetry collection including many Latin and Jacobite-related poems, in addition to original poetry. Irregular folio numbering suggests a post-bound compilation.
British Library Add. MS 59656
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | British Library |
Tickell family, 1787–ca. 1828.
35 poems.
Poems about love, friendship, and artistic pursuits, as well as commemorative poems about deaths in the family.
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.
Folger MS M.a.110
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
H. Watkins, ca. 1730s–1775.
245 items.
Broad range of subject matter, but generally serious poetry.
Folger MS M.a.160
Title | A Collection of Poems from Various Authours. JB |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
John Brewster, ca. 1770–ca. 1810.
130 poems.
Frequent epitaphs, poems on death.
Folger MS M.a.162
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
Folger MS M.a.163
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1786–1798.
120 poems.
A very feminocentric collection with many female-authored work.
Tighe family coterie; Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.
Folger MS M.a.164
Title | Miscellany of Henry Jodrell, ca. 1780. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Henry Jodrell, ca. 1780.
Ambigraph book with Shakespeare plays at one end, poetry at the other. Given the limited number of entries, the poetry end was perhaps abandoned.
12 poems.
Folger MS M.a.165-166
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, seemingly ca. 1755.
Second volume seems to be organized thematically, with blank leaves left to be filled in later on the same theme (a good example of an organizational system in progress).
82 items.
Initially focused on high-profile writers of the turn of the century, though the second volume contains mid-century work.
Folger MS M.a.170
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
Folger MS M.a.174
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1724–1728.
109 poems.
Almost entirely early eighteenth-century poetry. Many contemporary satirical pieces, and items from Mist's Weekly Journal.
Folger MS M.a.179
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
Folger MS M.a.183
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Caroline Kilderbee, 1812–1863.
245 poems.
Mostly satirical items; great interest in celebrities.
Folger MS M.a.185
Title | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Vol: 1 |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Folger MS M.a.231
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1750.
36 items.
Chiefly epigrams and satirical verse.
Folger MS W.a.118
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1765.
29 items.
Coz. Widow Davis gives compiler a Shenstone manuscript ca. 1752.
Lighthearted poems (many about public affairs) with some social satire.
Houghton MS Eng 1280
Title | Poems on several occasions with introductory [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
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.
Houghton MS Eng 611
Title | I: "A collection of poems and various fragme [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Rev. Thomas Austen, 1760.
Three volumes, only the first two of which are manuscript verse miscellanies, and therefore included in this entry.
768 poems.
A real variety of contents. The first volume revolves around poems about various natural elements and experiences of country life. The second volume
Houghton MS Eng 680
Title | Poems on Various Occasion's and By Several H [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous, 1780.
55 poems.
Mainly devotional or conduct related poems, some describing Bristol and Quaker life.
Houghton MS Eng 768
Title | A Collection of various kinds of Poetry |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Melesinda Munbee (seemingly transcribed by Elizabeth Munbee), 1749–1750.
A manuscript verse miscellany assembled in childhood, based on a father's library.
Two volumes, 44 poems.
Many items by Swift; other bawdy contents.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 119
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Mary Capell, ca. 1740–1751.
Verso pages are filled with explanatory notes identifying people and places from the poems.
87 items.
Political satire, love poems; poems about poetry (writing, collection, gifts of poetry), the arts, and prologues and epilogues.
The final section of poems seems to be associated with the Yorke-Grey coterie.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 12
Title | Miscellany Poems 1728 |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
George Scott, 1728–1779.
Consecutive hands (George Scott is the second hand) seemingly linked by a Miss Verney who becomes Mrs. Bowes, then a Miss Bowes in part two.
99 items.
The first section contains quite a few poems by women; the second half sees a shift to copying newspaper items, many of which are attributed.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 125
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1740s.
73 poems.
Seemingly a woman’s book with themes of nature, courtship, public affairs.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 15
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, 1723, with a few later additions in 1740s.
153 poems.
Mostly seventeenth-century poetry, typically very short poems with thematic titles. Lots of verses on classical Greek figures.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, 1715–1717.
318 poems.
Diverse collection of poems, with a significant number of poems satirising women and marriage; also interested in the classics, public affairs, literature, Oxford, theatre, and religious satire.