Collection of poems and other items such as neatly drawn vignettes, and two neatly inserted engravings; author is probably Robert Cholmeley, of St. John's College.
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Anonymous manuscript. and Binding: red morocco, without title.
Manuscript on paper of 24 occasional verses, including "To Mr. Fenton," "To Mr. Fenton on his Herod and Mariamne," "Upon Mr. Gould’s Design to Print his Poems More Correct," and "For Mrs. Wait...Presenting to her Mr. Collier’s Essays."
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a large collection of poems. The first volume contains primarily occasional poems and satirical verse; titles include "To a Fellow, who after the Author had done Him Some Service, endeavour'd to ridicule Him in a stupid Print" and "Writ under the Print of a Chimney Sweeper, Squeezing a Cat." The first volume also contains a dedication to the Princess of Wales," requesting Her Royal Highness graciously to patronize a Subscription, for printing Poems on Several Occasions," and is followed by a dedicatory poem to her, which mentions a fable "presented to His late Royal Highness at Leicester House, in 1751, which was most graciously receiv'd, & the Author had the honour to kiss the Princess' Hand." The other three volumes contain more occasional poems, political verse, "imitations and translations," and songs. Titles in these volumes include "Verses on the Demise of the late King: & the Accession of His present Majesty," "The Willow and the Peach-Tree, from a Chinese Poem," "The Victory at Cullden: gain'd by His Royal Highness...set by Mr. Handel, & Sung by Mr. Lows, in Vauxhall Gardens," and "Anniversary Song; for the Cyder Counties on the repeal of the Cyder Act (The Tune, Bumper Squire Jones)." The third volume also contains numerous dramatic pieces, including a "Prologue to the Conscious Lovers, acted in Covent Garden Theatre," "Yarico: an American pastoral Drama, set to music by Mr. John Christopher Smith: & writ for Buckingham House," "Elfrida: an Opera set to Music by Mr. John Christopher Smith," and "Moses: an Oratorio."
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Binding: quarter contemporary leather., On flyleaf of vol. 1: copy of a poem titled "To my worthy Friend M. John Lockman: on His Poems on various Occasions," by Michael Clancy, dated 1762., and Pasted into Vols. 1, 2, and 4: printed copies of Lockman's poems inside front cover and throughout the manuscripts.
Subject (Name):
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820, Handel, George Frideric,--1685-1759, Lockman, John,--1698-1771, and Smith, John Christopher,--1712-1795
Subject (Topic):
English drama--18th century, English literature--18th century, English poetry--18th century, Music--England--18th century, Occasional verse, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
This manuscript cookery book, with leaves from a sixteenth-century Bible as endpapers, offers a collection of mid-eighteenth century recipes ranging from plague water to chocolate puffs. It contains 502 recipes arranged in 14 sections, with such titles as Wet Sweet Meats; Dry Sweet Meats; Creams and Cheeses; Possetts and Sillibubs; Puddings and Pyes; Soups and Made Dishes; To Pickell; and The Side Dishes. These sections contain recipes for preserves; syrups; biscuits; dried fruit; jellies; creams; wines; and cakes; as well as savory dishes such as calves’ foot pudding; hedgehog pudding; roast eel and lobsters; mutton; veal; shrimp; and chicken. These recipes are followed by a section titled Bills of Fare, which contains lists of exemplary first and second course dishes, accompanied by two bills of fare in illustrated form.
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Printed endpapers from 16th century bible.
Subject (Topic):
Canning and preserving, Cooking (Puddings), Cooking, English, Menus, Recipes --Great Britain, and Wine and wine making --Great Britain
Holograph sermon notes kept by Lady Abney, the widow of Sir Thomas Abney, patron of Isaac Watts, between November 1722 and September 1723. Forty-six sermons are summarized, seventeen delivered by Watts himself and the remainder by his friend Benjamin Grosvenor. Several sermons annotated in a second hand, possibly that of Isaac Watts.
Subject (Name):
Abney, Mary, Lady, d.1750, Abney, Thomas, Sir, 1640-1722, Grosvenor, B. (Benjamin), 1676-1758, and Watts, Issac, 1674-1748
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a detailed plan for a public music school in England, to be established at the Foundling Hospital in London. Burney, with his friend violinist Felice Giardini, gives reasons why the plan would be financially beneficial to the hospital and economically effective for the country, how the school would "contribute greatly to the maintenance & instruction of a considerable number of the children of the Hospital," how the school would help remedy "the neglect of music as a profession" in Great Britain, and how to find students among "numerous charity schools, work houses, etc." He also includes a proposed schedule and salary for its instructors.
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Binding: marbled-paper wrapper., For a very similar version of this manuscript, see MS Osborn c32., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 and Giardini, Felice, 1716-1796
Subject (Topic):
Charity-schools--England--London, Music--England--18th century, Music--England--London--18th century, Music--Instruction and study, and Orphanages--England--London
Manuscript play, heavily corrected, of Act I only of a comedy concerning "libertine" student life at Cambridge. The author's preface notes that "the university characters in this play are of those despicable wretches only, who dishonor a college....For I should take no pleasure in drawing those descriptions which scandalize the place of my education, were it not to inform the Libertine that a college is sacred in a double sense: to Learning, &, what is beyond it, to Religion."
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Binding: blue Middle Hill boards., Dealer description pasted on rear pastedown attributes play to Kemble [Charles, 1775-1854?]: 150 Cambridge. The Humours of the University, or the Merry Wives of Cambridge, a Play, original MS, probably by Kemble, unpublished 4to. Phillipps sale, June 6-11 1898., Inscription on front pastedown: Bt. of Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, for 155., and Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: E.H.W. Meyerstein, May 1940.
Subject (Name):
Meyerstein, Edward Harry William,--1889-1952,--ownership inscription. and University of Cambridge--Students--Conduct of life.
Subject (Topic):
Comedy--England--18th century., English drama--18th century., Student life--Great Britain--18th century., Students--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800., and Temperance--Drama.
Autograph MS. and Travel diary containing numerous accounts of hospitals visited; included is a printed column entitled: "Description of the Venus de Medicis, In the Florentine Gallery."
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For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator. and Modern pagination in pencil, rectos. Pages 168-179 blank, not digitized.
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of about 36 essays and verse translations on various subjects. The collection begins with an essay titled "Character & Design of the Author," which compares his collection of works to the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. In addition to subsequent essays which address such topics as "A Vision on human Life," "Against ignorant Pretenders to Politicks," and a letter "on the present state of the Theatre from Will. Drama," the manuscript also contains verse translations of classical works such as those of Silius Italicus and Theocritus.
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Binding: half calf., In English., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke,--Earl of,--1720-1790, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, and Theocritus
Subject (Topic):
English periodicals, English poetry--18th century, Philosophy, and Theater--England