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.

Anonymous, ca. 1705.

195 items.

Songs, political satire, poems on death, and bawdy poetry.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Mr. Davis, ca. 1750–1765.

146 items.

Pastorals, love poems, and poems on aging with one about inability to perform sexually.

Kidlington circle with key to coterie pseudonyms on final page.

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.

Peart-Bate coterie.

Anonymous, ca. 1783. 

102 poems.

Moralizing book with some lighter poems; many items sourced from "L—'s Miscellany," and many items from the 1760s. 

Anonymous female member of John Graham Clarke household, ca. 1752–1766.

66 items.

Interest in women's conduct and morality.

Tickell family, 1787–ca. 1828.

35 poems.

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

At least partially compiled by Frances, Viscountess Montague, begun ca. 1745.

93 poems.

Mildly moral and cynical about public affairs, social behaviours.

Ann Bromfield, ca. 1740–1748.

42 poems.

Sentimental poetry, epistolary fiction.

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.

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.

Azarias Williams, 1785–1790. 

The compiler blurs his own voice with that of his sources by signing his name to much of what he copies.

78 poems.

Choices seem significant autobiographically—themes of emigration, social behaviour, British patriotism, New York, death, children, sentimental courtship, male unfaithfulness/libertinism, religious/devotional expressions, and topographical poetry.

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 works.

Manuscript appears connected to the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network; the Tighe family; the Ladies of Llangollen

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.

Anonymous (probably from Scotland), 1737–ca. 1740.

415 poems

Many religious/devotional poems.

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. 

J. Rolfe, 1700.

67 poems.

Primarily religious material.

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

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.

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.

Anonymous compilation of poems by Peter Pinnell, ca. 1749–1790.

59 items.

Example of a one-author collection followed by a short section of poems by different authors.

Smyth family of Heath, ca. 1710–1806.

This entry concerns only pp. 1-239 which consists of two hands, the second replacing the first but adopting the first hand's format. The second hand is also responsible for the index. All in all, however, the book is a sequence of at least six single-hand compilations.

173 items.

Political satire (Tory perspective), Oxford affairs, Wakefield-area affairs.

Anonymous, 1726.

Two separate thematic clusters on recto and verso sides.

47 items.

Lots of poems "To a Lady," "about a Lady," etc. about courtship, marriage, women, and beauty on the verso pages.

Benjamin Coles, 1740–1741.

This manuscript is entirely devoted to poetry, whereas Lt 24, by the same compiler, is a more mixed book. This book was intended as a gift to his brother.

40 items. 

Largely religious and/or Latin poetry.

Joshua Peart, 1726.

256 poems.

A large eclectic book with a special concentration of pastoral poems and songs, political satire and other poems about politicians, and humorous poems; also contains multiple poems about alcohol and tobacco.

Anonymous, 1730.

19 poems.

Primarily religious and sentimental poems with six pastorals by Ambrose Philips.

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.

Anonymous author, ca. 1758-1776. 

122 items, 77 poems.

Gentle satires of love, manners, morals, and thoughtlessness about life's brevity; also humorous and sentimental poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1740.

488 items.

Religious poetry including some poems on religious turncoats.

William Tighe, ca. 1815.

25 poems.

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