Theme: Public affairs
Includes political events, the Court/monarchy, party politics (Whigs, Tories), battles, public events, the slave trade, etc. (see also Celebrities, Satire – political, religious).
Beinecke Osborn c111
Title | Anecdota 1700. |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1700.
Tie binding.
66 items.
Largely political satire.
Beinecke Osborn c139–142
Title | I, II: "A Collection of Poems. Thomas Binns [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Beinecke Osborn c154
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1737–1755.
17 items.
Political satire; one serious epitaph on Bolingbroke; anti-Hanover and anti-Walpole.
Beinecke Osborn c157
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous; perhaps Thomas Siw---, ca. 1750–1781.
Two sections: a poetry compilation and a commonplace miscellany (ca. 1813–1835)—this entry pertains only to the first section.
96 items.
Interest in women’s self-assertion, poems by Cambridge men, and Latin and Greek. Sources often identified as manuscripts or magazines.
Beinecke Osborn c170
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1712.
15 items.
Comic and satirical poems, often political; items directly related to political issues of late reign of Queen Anne.
Original productions of the Oxford-Winchester school circle.
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 c189
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1705.
195 items.
Songs, political satire, poems on death, and bawdy poetry.
Beinecke Osborn c343
Title | Poetry |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
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 c481
Title | Select and Miscellaneous Poems, Scraps, Mottos &c. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
John Freeman Milward Dovaston, 1773 and later.
Separate title page at the end for Odes by Thomas Gray.
75 poems, many original.
A mix of English and Latin poems and mottos with a particular interest in classical figures and religious belief.
Beinecke Osborn c570
Title | Poems |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous Jacobite, ca. 1714–1745.
4 volumes, 291 items.
Manuscript collection of Jacobite political satires and poems on public affairs.
Beinecke Osborn d512
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Beinecke Osborn fc124
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Beinecke Osborn fc130
Title | Orders from Aug. 6 1771. Benjamin Finn. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Benjamin Finn, ca. 1790.
26 poems.
Occasional poetry, many copied from newspapers and dated. Mainly satirical, lighthearted verse, often political; several epigrams and poems about death and/or illness.
Beinecke Osborn fc135
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
George Montagu, ca. 1769–1790.
77 poems.
Verses attributed to George and Frederick Montagu, and copies of poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and others.
* 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.
Beinecke Osborn fc58
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Member of Pigott family, ca. 1750.
117 poems in two consecutive hands.
Jacobite poetry.
Beinecke Osborn fd32
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1811–1818.
Over 100 poems.
Largely poems on nationalistic subjects, others focused on serious and sentimental subjects like nature, death, friendship, and religion.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9
Title | Miscellanies |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Thomas Phillibrown, 1740–1757.
Divided into sections according to odd and even numbered pages.
152 poems.
Very London oriented (Public affairs, local interest, celebrities).
Reflects a mid-century coterie centering around John Hawkins and Moses Browne.
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. 17
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Unknown author, ca. 1750.
9 poems.
A stitched booklet, largely about the travels of a group of young friends and their local community of Blandford. Phonetic spelling and unpolished verse suggest a relatively uneducated compiler.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1783.
102 poems.
Moralizing book with some lighter poems; many items sourced from "L—'s Miscellany," and many items from the 1760s.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1750.
246 poems.
Good example of miscellany as autobiography; also includes lots of epitaphs.
Bodleian MS Harding b. 41
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
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.
British Library Add. MS 28102
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | British Library |
Ashley Cowper, ca. 1757–1780.
Indications of retrospective copying into this collection, and perhaps even later annotation.
19 poems.
All occasional original poetry, often involving women or public affairs.
British Library Add. MS 29981
Title | A Collection of Loyal Poems. Made in the Yea [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | British Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1717.
130 poems.
Jacobite poems on the political events of the years 1714–1716.
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 58802
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | British Library |
Augusta Byron Leigh, 1805–1813.
101 poems.
Lots of poems on celebrities, poems by Byron.
British Library Add. MS 75569
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | British Library |
At least partially compiled by Frances, Viscountess Montague, begun ca. 1745.
93 poems.
Mildly moral and cynical about public affairs, social behaviours.
Clark MS 1950.025
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Ann Countess of Strafford, ca. 1715–1730.
172 pages.
Primarily political satire, some acrostics of Ann's name; Jacobite-related material.
Clark MS 1976.014
Title | Poems on Several Occasions. /By Different Hands. |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1748–1750.
Two consecutive hands within a short compilation period.
67 poems.
Many popular poets, themes of women and local interest.
Clark MS 1982.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
E.L.T. Bale, ca. 1730–1740 (possibly begun as early as 1710s though).
This entry concerns the poetry end of the manuscript only.
48 poems.
Poems from popular periodicals, a few Latin poems, and a series of Horatian odes versified in English.
Clark MS 1982.002
Title | Miscellany Poems : containing various kinds [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Elizabeth Munbee, 1745.
16 poems.
Miscellaneous collection of poems by popular poets like Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Nicholas Rowe.
Clark MS 1983.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
J. Andrew, ca. 1778–1789.
691 items, 576 poems.
All epigrams.
Clark MS 1986.003
Title | Negotiolum bellae. |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Catherine Springett (with contributions by her daughter and granddaughter, Mary Boys and Mary Sankey), ca. 1742–1749.
149 poems.
Quite a few enigmas, riddles, but mostly poems, almost all contemporary. Seemingly indicative of a coterie with original poetry by "T.T." and other friends.
Clark MS 1993.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Francis Hawes, 1720–1760.
An ambigraph volume with poetry on both ends. This entry is concerned with the two ends of the volume only, not the middle (recipe) section which is in another hand.
165 poems.
Political satire poems in the style of early eighteenth-century; satire of court manners and prominent women. Many poems that mention Bath.
Clark MS 2019.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
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.
Clark MS 2019.032
Title | Miscellaneous Articles, in Poetry and Prose |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous Irish officer, ca. 1810–1830.
28 poems.
Many local interest pieces and political satire.
Folger MS M.a.142
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
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.169
Title | Collectanea quadam Nugalia |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
J. Wright, ca. 1700–ca. 1715.
Apparently owned and used by William Bromley immediately after the composition of the book by J. Wright.
100 items, 65 poems.
Very mixed book, containing extracts, poems, epitaphs, anagrams, antiquarian notes, satiric poetry etc.; Lots of recorded info re: languages, mathematics, etc.; Jacobite-related material.
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.185
Title | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Vol: 1 |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.b.23
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
Folger MS W.a.103
Title | Ballads &c Vol. I |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1735.
15 poems.
Lots of ballads.
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.
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 Am 1013
Title | Revolutionary lyrics manuscript |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Joshua Francis Fisher, ca. 1779.
3 poems.
Poems satirizing the organizers of the American Revolution.
Houghton MS Eng 569.63
Title | Epigrams |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
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.
Houghton MS Eng 606
Title | Poems, tracts & memoirs / collected by J. Rolfe |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
J. Rolfe, 1700.
67 poems.
Primarily religious material.
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 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.
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.
Huntington MS 106
Title | Verses |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
Robert Beere, ca. 1740s.
Very good example to look at organizing systems because he uses thematic, length, alphabetical, etc. to varying degrees throughout the book.
338 items.
Many items are short aphorisms or epigrams; much in nature of advice literature; various pieces on the nature of man (the human state).
Huntington MS 82623
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
Anonymous, 1724–1729, with additional items copied in the 1690s and early 1730s.
A book bound subsequent to copying.
115 poems.
Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. Interest in literary celebrities like Pope and Swift.
Huntington Stowe Vol. III
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
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.
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.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 103
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Eliza Marriott, ca. 1763–1803.
29 items.
Generally serious poems with an interest in local Yorkshire elites.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 106
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1745–1780.
An example of a collection that includes print paste-ins, perhaps added at a a later date onto the blank pages.
90 items, 48 poems.
Post-1745 Jacobite-related material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 11
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
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.
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 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 35
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1713–1740.
91 items.
Mostly anti-Whig, anti-Hanoverian political satire; Jacobite-related material.
Princeton Taylor no. 87
Title | Poems and Songs upon Several Occasions. |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Princeton University Library Special Collections |
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.
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. 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.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 556
Title | A Miscellaneous Collection of Papers in Pros [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous Scottish anti-Unionist, 1708.
116 items, 100 poems.
Contents focused on issues around the ascension of Queen Anne and the Act of Union, as well as religious disputes between Episcopal and Presbyterian positions.
The position of this manuscript is Jacobite, Episcopalian, and anti-Unionist.
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. 69
Title | Poetry miscellany |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
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.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 739
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1750-1760. Last item dated 1757.
8 poems, seemingly all original to the compiler's circle; several are unfinished.
Humourous parodies on politics, local social events, journeys.
Beinecke Osborn c83
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous member of the Porter family, late eighteenth-century.
4 volumes, 2039 poems.
Contemporary poetry, many items commonly included in manuscript verse miscellanies.
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.
Beinecke Osborn d93
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Beinecke Osborn fc132
Title | Poems on Several Occasions; Collected from D [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
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. d. 189
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous Oxonian, 1790s.
Some items possibly marked for copying.
214 poems.
Lots of Latin poetry, and English poetry with Greek titles.
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.
Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14
Title | Poetry Selected and Orginal, 1788 & 1789 |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Eliza Chapman, 1788-89.
87 poems.
Contributions by Scriblerus, Eliza Chapman's suitor.
Clark MS 1948.003
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1709–1712.
57 items.
Very author oriented, with source attributions.
Clark MS 1968.002
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Ann Bromfield, ca. 1740–1748.
42 poems.
Sentimental poetry, epistolary fiction.
Clark MS 1994.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
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.
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.116
Title | A Selection of Modern Poems |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
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.181
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.
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.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.187
Title | A Collection of Poetry |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous (probably from Scotland), 1737–ca. 1740.
415 poems
Many religious/devotional poems.
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 M.b.21
Title | Miscellany of prose and poetry of Mary Gay, [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Mary Gay, 1801–1809.
324 items.
Preference for humorous pieces; some riddles.
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.
Houghton MS Am 1369
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Benjamin Church, 1750–1752.
16 poems.
Mainly satirical poems by group of Harvard students.
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 1323
Title | Loisir |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Sambrooke Freeman, 1737.
Resembles a scrapbook; includes hand-coloured print illustrations.
95 poems.
Copies of verses, riddles, short stories, and newspaper clippings.
Houghton MS Eng 926
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
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.
Huntington MS 29165
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
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.
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 123
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1700.
This entry concerns the first 150 pages only (before the first change in hand).
100 items.
Thematic groupings involving passage of time, ephemerality of life, solitude, religion, kings, etc.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 24
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Benjamin Coles, ca. 1729–1741.
A more mixed book compared to Lt 53 which is by the same compiler, and entirely devoted to poetry.
108 items, 66 poems.
Many songs, religious poems.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 45
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1743–1767.
280 items.
Subject matter mainly religious, contemplations of death; some are not squarely religious, praising virtue, friendship, science, etc.; some Jacobite-related material.