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2.
Account book

Creator:
Chitty, Abraham, 1683-1759
Published / Created:
1735-1754
Call Number:
Osborn fc154
Image Count:
133
Abstract:
Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book

3.
An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)

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 (?)

4.
Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.

Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Published / Created:
1794-1812
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 527
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Hughes in volumes 1-7., Binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt. Spines gilt with red morocco gilt title labels., Formerly owned by Prince Albert. Ex libris Thomas Hughes. Formerly owned by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Formerly owned by Paula Peyraud. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2009., Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), author and diarist, published one of the first biographies of Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786); her Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book, was not published until 1942., and Piozzi's annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays; variations in women's fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, Spectator (London, England : 1711), and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.

5.
Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty

Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn c150
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --18th century, English wit and humor, and Verse satire, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty

6.
[Collection of poems]

Published / Created:
[circa 1760]
Call Number:
Osborn c188
Image Count:
48
Abstract:
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 35 poems, bound in together. The verses are primarily lighthearted and address the subjects of love and women, occasionally in the form of occasional verse. Titles include A tale of Fidelia’s quarrell with her looking-glass; On a robin redbreast that in a stormy day flew in at a window and settled on a lady’s breast; The dangler; A prologue spoken at the opening of Punches Theatre at Bath; To Mrs Catherine Flemming at the Lord Digby’s at Coleshill; and The comical dreamer. Two comic poems address the marriages of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess Strathmore. The collection also includes Colley Cibber’s Ode for the new year as well as poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757, Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800, and Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --18th century, Humorous poetry, English, Occasional verse, English, Women authors, and Women --Conduct of life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of poems]

7.
[Diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he

Published / Created:
1744 May 16 - 1746 November 14
Call Number:
Osborn c291
Image Count:
73
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was Bishop of Oxford. The diary mentions the activities of the nobility, including the movements of Secker’s family and the return of the Pacific expedition led by George Anson; reports of casualties from the War of Austrian Succession; local events, such as a description of "the street all in confusion upon a report of a young woman being killed in a house on Airs Street: they cant find her dead nor alive: the mob which is glad of any oportunity to commit violance have done much damage to the house;" and her visits, dinners, and conversations with friends and other servants. The author also records her private thoughts, writing in 1744, "Have lost my dear family. My Lord & Ladies set out this morn for Cuddesden...had several & various employments & sitting up which they knew not about. All over now: am always grieveing when they go." Elsewhere, she writes, "Went this morning to the wedding. Was Bride maid. No other company beside the father who says its our turn next. This fills my head full of whimseys but shall soon get the better of it."
Description:
Accompanied by a description [8 l.] of the manuscript and its contents by "M. Talbot.", Blanks not scanned., Bookplate of Sir George Talbot and Marianne Talbot (1778-1808)., and Many pages have been written around the address "To Miss Talbot" or "To the L. Bishop of Oxford."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Foreign relations --1727-1760, Great Britain --Politics and government --1727-1760, and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 and Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Domestics--Diaries--Early works to 1800., Women authors, and Women --Conduct of life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was Bishop of Oxford]

8.
[Selection of Hester Lynch Piozzi's annotations in the Spectator]

Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Published / Created:
1794-1812
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 527
Collection Title:
Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Piozzi’s annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays; variations in women’s fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 and Spectator (London, England : 1711)
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selection of Hester Lynch Piozzi's annotations in the Spectator]

9.
[Selection of Hester Lynch Piozzi's annotations in the Spectator]

Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Published / Created:
1794-1812
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 527
Collection Title:
Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Piozzi’s annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays; variations in women’s fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 and Spectator (London, England : 1711)
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selection of Hester Lynch Piozzi's annotations in the Spectator]