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Date
[ca. 1781-1792]
Location
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
78 leaves
Language
English
Size
29 x 23 cm
Genre
Reference
Literary
Literary
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 223913
Folger call number: M.b.14
Folger holdings ID: 254240
Accession Number: cs1851
Folger call number: M.b.14
Folger holdings ID: 254240
Accession Number: cs1851
Summary
Contains 29 poems, all by obscure persons, probably friends of the compiler. The few dates written are in order, from 1781 to 1784. The last piece (undated) is on the Duke of Portland as Chancellor of Oxford, an office which he received in 1792
Notes
General notes
The whole is written in a fine calligraphic hand. On an endleaf is inscribed (in a different hand): "Thomas Stanley--The gift of J Yates 1797. --Select MSS. Poems." Red straight-grain morocco, richly gilt, ca. 1795, labelled "Manuscript Poems."
Also known as
Extended title: Select manuscript poems [ca. 1781-1792]
Related names
former owner: Stanley, Thomas
former owner: Yates, J.
former owner: Yates, J.