Holograph journal kept by an unnamed traveler journeying from Ramsgate to Brussels with a friend, Henry Hargrave. The author describes the journey in detail, including his impressions of the scenery, the voyage, meals and table manners among the Belgians, and extensive comments on church architecture and Roman Catholic ceremonies he observed in the cities. and On approaching the field of Waterloo, he questions British and Prussian soldiers and Belgians for information on the battle and their parts in it, but notes that the Belgians were "unaccustomed to freedom of sentiment" and did not seem to confide their real opinions of "their old friend Napoleon." the journal ends shortly after the travelers' arrival in Brussels.
Description:
Binding: original mottled notebook boards; spine repaired with tape., Concluding text of the journal is crosswritten on the opening pages in contrasting ink., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Pencil sketches and annotations on endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium--Description and travel, Belgium--History--1814-1830, Belgium--Social life and customs, English Channel--Description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 15 verses primarily addressing religious, philosophical, and moral subjects. Poem titles include Humility; Prayer; Against Censure; Praeludia Mortis; Of Atheisme; and The Carrector of A Drunkard. The volume also includes a political and satirical poem against Cromwell titled A Protector Discribed which declares, "He is A Thing which wee Protector Call, From whome the king of kings Protect us all."
Description:
Binding: stitched., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Note at end of last poem in manuscript: "I had this out of my Alamanac: 83 and doe thinke I had it formerly of Mrs. Astely which made enter it here supposing it composd by the same Author.", Note on back of manuscript: "Verses by old Mr. Hobartt & some others.", Signed on inside of first leaf: "this for my well beloved friend J.C. When sturdy to his Lo. friend. My very good friend Mr. R. Thixton.", and The signature "Ro. Doughty" appears on the front page.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Doughty, Robert, 1616 or 1617-1670, and Hobart, John
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Religious poetry, English, and Satirical verse, English
Manuscript on paper containing "The constant desperado"; "The force of custome"; "The generous lovers"; "The maids revenge"; and "The Disloyal Wife". With "An address to the Reader" and a dedicatory letter to Dorothy Osborne.
Description:
Disbound but in original gatherings. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Topic):
English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700 and Love stories, English
This manuscript, a contemporary scribal copy of the work, is not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works. Textually, it stands between D2 (Cambridge University Library) and F (Folger Shakespeare Library), and most probably was the manuscript from which F was copied.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Henry St. George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms, and was acquired with the St. George Manuscripts in 1852 by Sir Thomas Phillipps. and Dibound copy in hands of six scribes, all with similar cursive scripts.
Manuscript concludes with a table of contents, "A poem in fashion after my late lord's decease" that begins, "As I walkd by my self, Thus I saide to my self....;" and a letter to the young Earl Fitzwilliam signed, "John Catlin, Living in Stepney, Northamptonshire.", Manuscript presentation copy of a work addressed to the young Earl Fitzwilliam, offering "my opinion on Gods workes, with some proper rules... [for] health, long life, ritches, virtue, wisdom, viygor and victory." The text opens with a generalized cosmology, including discussion of the nature of light and of the Zodiac, and mentioning the meteor fireball of March 1719. Most of the text offers detailed information on the four humours; on "the rules of Health", "Physicke and ointment;" the "Limmits of Pleasure;" and rules "To govern Servants.", Prefatory material: Five varying and highly decorated dedication pages to Lord Fitzwilliam, including a dedicatory poem "Not that I think my Lord will want to learn....;" several English and Latin maxims, and a dedicatory letter addressed to "My Lord.", and With: foldout diagram on parchment of signs of the Zodiac (numbered as p. 22).
Description:
Binding: contemporary full panelled calf., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Paginated as rectos only. Most versos blank, not digitized, excepting p. 21-22..
Subject (Name):
Fitzwilliam, William Fitzwilliam,--Earl,--1719-1756
Subject (Topic):
Astrology and health, Authors and patrons--Great Britain, Conduct of life, Cosmology, English poetry--18th century, Health, Moral education, Youth--Conduct of life, and Youth--Health and hygiene
Marlborough House 2 p.; 18 x 14 cm. Sends a portrait drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) of her husband, George Spencer, 4th duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), and asks that Humphrey complete, and correct, the painted portrait from the drawing (presumably due to Gainsborough's death). d 194/35
Autograph letter to his son detailing his approval of and pleasure in Fanny Burney's novel Camilla. Burney judges it to contain "better writing & deeper thinking than in either of her former novels" and praises it as "the best & most impressive system of female education I have ever seen." Also discusses a variety of Classical topics and sends family news.
Description:
Accompanied by: typed description on the stationery of James F. Drake, Inc. and Binding: 20th century full yellow morocco, gilt-stamped; watered yellow silk endpapers; cloth slipcase.
Subject (Name):
Burney family., Burney, Charles,--1757-1817., and Burney, Fanny,--1752-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Women authors, English--18th century. and Women--Intellectual life.