Juvenilia, [early 19th century].

1 v. (ca. 90 p.) ; 24 x 19 cm.

English

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Sir Henry Allen Johnson studied at Christ Church, Oxford and served as aide-de-camp to the Prince of Orange in the Peninsular War. He married Charlotte Philipse of Philipsbourg, New York in 1818 and inherited his baronetcy from his father in 1835.

Manuscript volume containing apparently original poems by the young Sir Henry Allen Johnson. Contents include odes, songs, and sonnets addressed to various women or describing beauties of nature such as the nightingale or the lakes; several "soldier's songs" and patriotic and sentimental verses; a few comic poems, such as "Ode to the Gout;" and a few identified by Johnson as "rather too warm for the eye of a Lady" in the index. The poems are preceded by a table of contents.

August 08, 2005

Sir Henry Allen Johnson, Poetical Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Sir Henry Allen Johnson, Poetical Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Commonplace books.