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Manuscript by John Donne on Poems and Problems [commonplace book]
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Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803
EL 6893 (34/B/35)
Commonplace book--poetry : manuscript, 1595-1675
Manuscripts
Part 1 is a verse miscellany of 206 pages which includes 52 poems by John Donne, 11 poems by Thomas Carew, 10 poems by Richard Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Robert Herrick; the poems dating up to ca. 1637. Part 2 is a verse miscellany which includes 59 poems by Donne; dates to ca. 1620-1633.
mssHM 198
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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript
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Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.
mssHM 41952
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John Chamberlain correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton, 1608/09, January 3 to 1613, November 25 : autograph transcripts by Edmond Malone
Manuscripts
This volume of approximately 600 pages is a selection of letters transcribed by Edmond Malone from the mid-18th century Birch MS 4173 (British Library) volume; the letters are descriptive of the life and times of James I, his court and the political intrigues of the day. There are references to, among others: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Walter Raleigh, the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, the divorce of the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, and the Gunpowder Plot; Malone also adds many explanatory notes to the original manuscript. The volume has a brown calf binding with "MS. Malone Papers, 1608-1613" on the spine, which is slightly damaged.
mssHM 2904
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A peace ode : [a poem with note of introduction]
Manuscripts
Originally enclosed in: Letter from Robert Seymour Bridges to Sir Henry John Newbolt, May 1903 (HM 36063). Author's notes found on the versos. Annotations in pencil on introductory leaf in the hand of Sir Henry John Newbolt. Corrections are pasted over original.
mssHM 36062
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Southern poetry review v. V no. 2
Rare Books
Publisher: Southern Poetry Review (Raleigh, N.C.) Related Content: "the drowning" ; "18 cars full of men thinking of what could have been" (p. 6, poems) Note: "C263, C264" written in ms. in upper right corner of cover p. [1], p. 5 signed by Fred Chappell, p. 27 signed by Robert Morgan. Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski
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