- None1
You Searched For
« Previous
| 1 - 10 of 43 |
Next »
Search Results
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Lavington, Ralph Payne, baron, 1738-1807
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 138
- Container / Volume:
- Box 10, folder 247
- Image Count:
- 3
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ralph Payne, Baron Lavington family papers (OSB MSS 138) > Series V: Other Business Papers > Appraisals > "A schedule & appraisement of the Negroes, stock, buildings, caines etc."
- Creator:
- Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1264
- Collection Title:
- John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
- Description:
- Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Epitaph" Manuscript verses in Latin and English
- Creator:
- Lascelles, Robert
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1264
- Collection Title:
- John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
- Description:
- Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Upon a Yorkshire Lady" in Latin + English
5.
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c546
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Bishop Hall speaking of the dress of ladies in his time ..., Epigram on Dick, Epitaph, Epitaph on a grave stone ..., On the window of an inn in Guilford, and Return of spring
- Subject (Name):
- Lyttelton, William Henry, 1724-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A love song
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c570
- Collection Title:
- Poems, [ca. 1714-1745]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Found in ye King's bench walk in ye temple iust after ye eclipse
- Subject (Name):
- Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph on ye late Bishop of Addlebury
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb142
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Epigramma, Epitaph on a miser, Love after marriage, The happy life of a country parson, and Verses wrote on a lady's ivory table book
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)
- Creator:
- Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn d20
- Image Count:
- 121
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
- Description:
- Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
- Subject (Name):
- Robin Hood Society (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches
- Call Number:
- Z55 7
- Collection Title:
- Campo di fior, or else, The flovrie field of fovre langvages ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Campo di fiore di quatro lingue
- Collection Created:
- London, 1583
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Campo di fiore di qvatro lingve
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 168
- Description:
- Imperfect: some pages removed; other pages mutilated with some loss of text., In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately., and Volume contains a mixture of foliation, pagination and unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons