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Commonplace book
Title
[Commonplace book], 1829.
Physical Description
1 v. (130 p.) ; 21 x 17 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Index at end of volume.
Inscription on flyleaf: To Mrs. Mary Williams As a memorial of their late mother by her affectionate friends J H Merivale [John Herman Merivale (1779-1844)] and Frances Mallet Aug. 6. 1829.
Marbled endpapers.
Binding: full red morocco; gilt decoration on spine. In gilt on spine: MSS Poems.
In English.
Provenance
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Summary
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 60 poems, primarily sentimental or elegiac, on such subjects as nature, music, despair, mortality, and death. In addition to poems by William Shakespeare, George Byron, and Letitia Barbauld, the volume also contains poems by John Graves Simcoe, Richard Hole, Hugh Downman, and John Bampfylde, as well as a large number of poems by A. W., including many sonnets, dated between 1772 and 1784, many dedicated to acquaintances whose names have been masked, as well as numerous epitaphs. The collection also contains several poems regarding Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Also included in the volume is an extract from a letter from Mrs. Hutchings to Mrs. Merivale, dated 1822.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2005
References
Commonplace Book, 1829. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Commonplace Book, 1829. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Commonplace books.
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