Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 39 primarily sentimental and occasional poems on such subjects as friendship, death, solitude, nature, and women's beauty, by various authors, including Edward Jerningham, David Garrick, Hannah More, Wi...
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Anne Heigham 1781.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Hayley, William,--1745-1821, Heigham, Anne, Jerningham, Edward,--1737-1812, More, Hannah,--1745-1833, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Occasional poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Theater--Great Britain--18th century, and Women authors
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collec...
Description:
Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed th...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 100 short English verses concerning such subjects as friendship, nature, and deaths of family members. Titles and authors include The Child’s First Grief by Baxter, Walking Out into the Fields by...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --19th century
Subject (Name):
Barker, Selina, Baxter, Mary, Herbert, George, 1593-1633, Porter, Anna Maria, Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, and Thomas, Eliza
Subject (Topic):
English literature --19th century, English poetry --19th century, Farewells in literature, Friendship --Poetry, Riddles, Sentimentalism in literature, Watercolor painting --19th century --England, and Women authors
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 73 entries, including prayers, poems on primarily romantic subjects, and culinary and medicinal recipes for such items as "orange water the Countess of Desmonds way"; black pudding; "to m...
Description:
Binding: covers and spine embroidered in flower pattern with metal and fabric threads.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Feilding (Fielding) family
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Elegiac poetry, English, Embroidery, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, and Women authors
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 43 primarily sentimental, melancholy, and religious poems on such subjects as death and divine and human love. Titles of poems include Seraphick love; To melancholy; On death; On the day of judgment; O...
Description:
Autograph on front cover: Anne Woolfe. Other pen trials also appear on front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic):
Death--Poetry, English poetry--18th century, Love poetry, English, Religious poetry, English, and Sentimentalism in literature
Holograph journal of the author’s naval service from 1845 to 1861, with some verses dated 1867. The volume begins with a summary of his service on the HMS Seaflower, sailing between Jersey and northern France, as well as on the steam ship Sidon. He th...
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel and Great Britain --Social life and customs --19th century
Subject (Name):
Baines, Matthew Talbot, 1799-1860, Bosquet, Pierre, 1810-1870, Great Britain. Royal Navy --Diaries, Great Britain. Royal Navy --Sea life, Jones-Parry, John Parry, 1829-1920, Samwell, William, b. 1832, and Windham, Charles Ash, Sir, 1810-1870
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, Pen drawing, Poetry, English --19th century, Sailors --Great Britain --Diaries, Sentimentalism in literature, Slave trade --Africa, East, and Women authors
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 12 sentimental acrostic poems on the writer's marriage and family members, and 1 incomplete verse on maternal love. The acrostic on the phrase "to Colonel James John Forbes Leith, of Whitehaught. By W...
Description:
Binding: machine grain, with blind-stamped decoration. On spine in gilt: Poems.
Subject (Name):
Forbes Leith family., Forbes Leith, James John., Forbes Leith, Williamina Helen (Stewart)., Nightingale family., Nightingale, Augustus--Autograph., and Nightingale, Henry--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics, Children's drawings., English poetry--19th century, Sentimentalism in literature, Shorthand, and Women authors
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
