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2.
- Creator:
- Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 129
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 72
- Abstract:
- 20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Let...
- Description:
- Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hu...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
- Subject (Name):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850
3.
- Creator:
- Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818
- Call Number:
- Osborn c631
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Comonplace book in a single hand kept by the Rev. Francis Negus and containing mostly English literary excerpts in verse and prose. Poets quoted include Milton, Shakespeare, Cowley, Dryden, Rowe, Prior, Akenside and Arne; prose authors include Gibbon,...
- Description:
- Francis Colman Negus (1744-1818) was the son of the attorney Daniel Negus and Elizabeth Colman of Suffolk. Educated at Bury St. Edmunds grammar school and Cambridge University, he was rector of Brome and Oakley in Suffolk for many years.
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818., and Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, and Occasional verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1770-1818
4.
- Published / Created:
- [18--]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 168
- Image Count:
- 3
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript essay in an unidentified hand, written during the late nineteenth century. Written on the blank leaves of the "Protocol Book of Alexander Wood, Writer to the Signet, Notary public and Son of Alexr. Wood Surgeon ... " (inscription ...
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gleanings from our older literature
5.
- Creator:
- Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 573
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 36
- Abstract:
- The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, drawings, printed materials, and family and personal papers relating to nineteenth-century English author Henry William Herbert. Correspondence in the collection features autograph letters...
- Description:
- Henry William Herbert (1807-1858), English sportsman, author, historian, and translator also know by the pseudonym Frank Forester. The son of the Reverend William Herbert (1778-1847), he was educated at Eton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridg...
- Subject (Name):
- Durand, A. B. 1796-1886. (Asher Brown),, Griswold, Rufus W. 1815-1857. (Rufus Wilmot),, Hart, Abraham, 1810-1885., Herbert, A. 1792-1855. (Algernon),, Herbert, Emily Elizabeth Falkines, 1843-1911, Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891., Mundy, Percy Charles Dryden, 1879-, Pond, Fred. E. 1856-1925. (Frederick Eugene),, Ross, George Gates, 1814-1856., Smith, Harry Worcester, 1865-1945., Caldrees Manor (Ickleton, England), Carey & Hart., and Lea & Blanchard.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature and Authors, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Henry William Herbert collection, 1833-1960
6.
- Creator:
- Sparke, Edward, -1692
- Call Number:
- Osborn b137
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, the text of which is that of the second edition of Sparke's "Scintillula Altaris"(1660). The verses address the feasts of various saints and holy days, and are followed by George Herber...
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590., Gerard, John, 1564-1637., Herbert, George, 1593-1633., Sparke, Edward, d. 1692., and Church of England
- Subject (Topic):
- Customs and practices, English literature, English poetry, Fasts and feasts, Church of England, Meditations, Religious poetry, English, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Learned and pious poems uppon the holy feasts & fasts of the church by Dr. Sparke, [late 17th century].
7.
- Call Number:
- Osborn c578
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript collection of poems probably compiled by a member of the Tytler family. The poems include many rhyming riddles; epigrams; fables; prologues and epilogues from plays performed in London in the early 1750s; an "Ode on the Eclipse of the Sun J...
- Description:
- Index in the hand of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, English, Prologues and epilogues, Riddles, and Solar eclipses
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellan. poems, [1750s].
8.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 149
- Image Count:
- 20
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a brief autobiography from the date of his birth to his activities in 1779. He begins with information about his childhood, including his godparents, the date of his innoculation against smallpox, and his education; ...
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Hume, David, 1711-1776., Voltaire, 1694-1778., Walpole family., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Great Britain. Parliament., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Autobiographies (literary genre), English literature, English poetry, Nobility, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Short notes of the life of Horatio Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and of Catherine Shorter, his first wife, 1746-1779
9.
- Creator:
- Hubert, Francis, Sir, d. 1629
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb7
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of the 1628 version of the poem "The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second" (Hubert denounced this edition and published his authorized fuller text in 1629), incomplete at end, lacking last 4 s...
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327 and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Subject (Topic):
- In literature, English literature, English poetry, Historical poetry, English, Lute music, Political poetry, English, and Songs, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The appearance of the ghost of Kinge Edward the Second, Kinge of England, [ca. 1625].
10.
- Creator:
- Newell, Elizabeth
- Call Number:
- Osborn b49
- Image Count:
- 19
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a collection of 8 religious poems by Sir Matthew Hale, Samuel Clarke, and Francis Quarles. The collection includes a series of dated "Poems upon Christmas day," "A Paraphrase on Simeon's Song," "Paraphr...
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Newell, Elizabeth.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Women authors, Devotional literature, English, Religious poetry, English, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [A Collection of devotional verse], [ca. 1655-1668].