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1.
A collection of enigmas, charades, conundrums, &c, 1792 and later

Creator:
Peach, Miss
Call Number:
Osborn c389
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of about 100 word puzzles and riddles, many in verse. The word "fortune," for example, is represented by the following rhyme: "My first is a Preposition/My second a Composition/And the whole an Acquisition." ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Peach, Miss.
Subject (Topic):
Charades, English literature, English poetry, Puzzles, Riddles, Women authors, and Word games
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of enigmas, charades, conundrums, &c, 1792 and later

5.
Commonplace book containing poetry, 1780-1794

Call Number:
Osborn fc205
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript commonplace book in an unidentified hand containing copies of many English poems, including works by Pope, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Courtney Melmoth. Other works include the anonymous Roselin Castle and Verses on Ben Lomond
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, English literature, English poetry, and Romanticism
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book containing poetry, 1780-1794

6.
Commonplace book, 1770-1818

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

7.
John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts, 1762-1844

Creator:
Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1264
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
96
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 m...
Description:
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 m...
Subject (Name):
Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785., Lascelles, Robert., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778., Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768., Sterne, Laurence., Tollot, Jean Baptiste., Turner, Charles, 1726-1783., and Wharton, John, 1765-1843.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English, English literature, English poetry, and Verse satire, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts, 1762-1844

8.
Letters between B. Strutt and J. Pattison, 1778-1782

Call Number:
Osborn fc156
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Album containing the correspondence of Benjamin Strutt of Colchester and John Pattison Jr. of Witham. The letters are highly literary in nature, and contain many references to, playful imitations of, and comments on MacPherson's <title>Ossian</title>,...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796, Pattison, John Jr., 1758-1782., Strutt, Benjamin, 1754-1827., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Classical studies, English literature, English poetry, Friendship, Sentimentalism in literature, Students, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters between B. Strutt and J. Pattison, 1778-1782

9.
Miscellan. poems, [1750s].

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].

10.
Papers relating to Catherine Talbot, 1694-1804

Creator:
Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770
Call Number:
OSB MSS 53
Container / Volume:
Box 2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
9
Abstract:
Papers relating to Catherine Talbot and her circle, including letters, essays and meditations by Talbot; letters to Talbot from Thomas Rundle, Thomas Secker, Agnes Talbot, and William Talbot; and third-party correspondence and writings by Sarah, Duche...
Description:
Catherine Talbot was the only child of the Rev. Edward Talbot, who died before she was born. She was educated in the household of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, where she was taught not only the Scriptures, but languages and astronomy. Talbo...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Berkeley, Anne., Cowper, Gilbert., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806., Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774., Howard, Francis., Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744., Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Rundle, Thomas, 1688?-1743., Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768., Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, Duke of, 1660-1718., Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770., Talbot, William, 1658 or 1659-1730., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Warburton, William, 1698-1779.
Subject (Topic):
Women authors, English literature, and Women authors, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Papers relating to Catherine Talbot, 1694-1804