Manuscript on paper containing twenty-seven poems, mostly Court satires, including works by Andrew Marvell; John Wilmot, earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; and Sir Carr Scroope. With other unattributed texts including ""Peytons Fate; ""Th
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fol. 23 recto-23 verso
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Great Britain --History --Restoration, 1660-1688 --Poetry
Anonymous manuscript, consisting of poems, riddles, proverbs, copies of political documents and correspondence, personal notes from varied sources, satires and a travel journal. All in an unknown hand.
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Includes: Confession of fayth by Sir Francis Bacon; A declaration how the King ...; Choicest English proverbs collected out of Howell's ...; Then tell me why?
Collection of poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams and riddles, partly original and partly by friends and other writers; some of the verses carry dates of composition as early as 1713, and many were written during visits to Tunbridge Wells, England. and Includes titles: XVII Accrostick on Miss Frances Jeffreys - Bath 1736, XVIII wrote when Queen Caroline was appointed regent, See Gulliver's Travels, CCXXIII a true account of a monster call'd a yahoo, CCXXIV answer, CCXXXII to Dean Swift, occasion'd by the following lines in his satire on Doctor D.
Waybill of distances encampments and all important points and streams from the Missouri River at Old Fort Kearney across the Plains to California or the new El Dorado of the far West
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Page numbers have been added in pencil and are not continued from journal section.