[Notebook], [ca. 1786].

1 v. (ca. 160 p.) ; 21 x 15 cm.

English

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of notes on the writer's research on holdings in the British Museum while seeking material for annotations to his edition of the Tatler. The notes cover a wide variety of subjects, including purported health cures, obituaries, copies of advertisements, activities of booksellers, and biographies of notable persons. Calder copies, for example, letters from Richard Steele to to "Mr. Pope," a letter from the Royal Society concerning a new method for "grinding glasses" and the invention of "a large double microscope for viewing the circulation of the blood in fishes," and an advertisement for a "Water Theatre," "where is shewn the greatest curiosities in waterworks, the like never was performed before." He also notes that the pen name of Mrs. Crakenthorpe, editor of "Female Tatler," was taken from a book entitled "Fractatus Logici" by "Richardo Crakanthorpe." The notes are organized by the names of the manuscripts Calder consulted.

August 08, 2005

John Calder, Notebook. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

John Calder, Notebook. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.