Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of about 59 satirical poems and songs by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, John Oldham, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, and others. Poems include Rochester's Satyr Against Man, Upon Nothing, and Tunbridge Wells; Dryden's MacFlecknoe; Shadwell's Upon A Late Fallen Poet; and George Etherege's Ephelia to Bajazet. The volume also contains a number of satirical songs, such as A New Ballad To the Tune of Chivey Chace and A New Ballad to an Old Tune Call'd Sage Leafe.
Description:
Binding: full sheep., Film: MS vault microfilms 53., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Inscribed on title page: "Hansen.", and Pages 35-44, 63-66, 77-86, 115-132, 153-158, 161-184 and 195-212 have been cut out.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
2-jō: 46-chō : 23.5 x 17.0 cm. In wooden box., 2帖: 46丁: 23.5 x 17.0 cm. In wooden box., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: none.
Publisher:
n.p
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
2-jō: 46-chō : 23.5 x 17.0 cm. In wooden box., 2帖: 46丁: 23.5 x 17.0 cm. In wooden box., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: none.
Publisher:
n.p
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Bound holograph draft, revised, of a fictional or semi-fictional autobiography of a former slave. It details her experiences as a maid in several households in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina, and her subsequent escape to the North, where she settled in New Jersey. and The narrator also tells the stories of other slaves she knows or comes into contact with, and to some extent the histories of the families she works for, identified as the De Vincents, the Henrys, and the Wheelers. A large portion of the narrative concerns the pursuit of Mrs. De Vincent by a slave trader who discovers that she is of mixed race. Another substantial section describes the Wheeler's political fortunes in Washington.
Description:
"C. A. Alma [I?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of last l and Probable date range from Nickel, Joe, "Authentication Report: The Bondwoman's Narrative." In The Bondwoman's Narrative / Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 2002.
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina--Fiction, Virginia--Fiction, and Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
Subject (Name):
Crafts, Hannah
Subject (Topic):
African American women--Fiction, Fugitive slaves--Fiction, Passing (Identity)--Fiction, Plantation, Racially mixed people--Fiction, Slavery--Southern States--Fiction, and Women slaves--Fiction