English-language manuscript verse in the Houghton Library: First-line index ca. 1000-ca. 1820.

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English-language manuscript verse in the Houghton Library: First-line index ca. 1000-ca. 1820.

First-line index to English-language verse in manuscripts held in the Houghton Library that date from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century.

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Keats, John, 1795-1821

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John Keats was an English poet and literary critic. John Keats, English poet, was born in London, England, on 29 or 31 Oct. 1795. He died of tuberculosis in Italy on 23 Feb. 1821. In 1810, Keats was articled to a surgeon, T. Hammond, in Edmonton for five years. The contract was broken in 1814 or 1815. He then continued his study of surgery in London, entering Guy's Hospital on 2 Oct. 1815. In 1816, Keats became a dresser at Guy's and on 25 July 1816 passed his licentiate at Apothecaries' H...

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724

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Elkanah Settle (1 February 1648 – 12 February 1724) was an English poet and playwright. He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His first tragedy, Cambyses, King of Persia, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667. The success of this play led the Earl of Rochester to encourage the new writer as a rival to John Dryden. Through his influence, Settle's The Empress of Morocco (1673) was twice performed at Whitehall, and proved a ...

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888

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James Freeman Clarke (April 4, 1810 – June 8, 1888) was an American theologian and author. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on April 4, 1810, James Freeman Clarke was the son of Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull, though he was raised by his grandfather James Freeman, minister at King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School, and later graduated from Harvard College in 1829, and Harvard Divinity School in 1833. Ordained into the Unitarian church he first became...

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

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William Cullen Bryant (b. November 3, 1794, Cummington, Massachusetts-d. June 12, 1878, New York, New York), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, 1694-1773

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Born into the English aristocracy, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield had the family connections and wealth to live, in the words of the Dictionary of National Biography, as "politician, wit, and letter-writer." Upon the death of Queen Anne in 1714, his family connections enabled him to leave his life of travel and leisure to take up at the age of 20 what was the beginning of a fluctuating political career. Chesterfield was influential in government circles but the role of o...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845

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Richard Harris Barham, English writer and Church of England clergyman, better known by the nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby. From the description of Richard Harris Barham manuscript material : 1 item, 1839 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 436943712 English comic poet. From the description of The jackdaw of Rheims : autograph manuscript, undated [ca. 1836-1837]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 414567334 From the description of Autograph letter s...

Clare, John

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Epithet: of Stowe Ch 272 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00004c John Clare (1793-1864), poet, was born at Helpstone on 13 July 1793, the son of a Northamptonshire labourer. He was employed in a number of jobs, and was a member of the militia of Oundle, 1812-1813. Clare published his first work, Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery, in 1820. This was followed by The village ministrel (1821), The ...

Sumner, Charles

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Epithet: US statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x000103 ...

Robert Bloomfield

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Easther Inglis

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Merritt, Percival, 1860-1932

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Horatio Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford (1717-1797), was an English writer, politician, connoisseur, and collector. He was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister and leading Whig politician, and Catherine Shorter Walpole. He attended first Eton, and then King's College, Cambridge, and became good friends with the poet Thomas Gray. Between 1739 and 1741 Gray and Walpole embarked on a grand tour of Europe. Walpole was elected to Parliament in 1741 and served until 176...

Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849

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Son of S.T. Coleridge. From the description of "Solomon," "The Birth of Seth," and two untitled autograph sonnets (4), [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904471 English author. From the description of The Ambleside rushbearing : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], 1841 July. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875158 English author; son of S.T. Coleridge. From the description of On reading the memoirs of Lady Grizzle Baillie : autograp...

Shirley, James, 1596-1666

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Epithet: of Add MS 28233 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x000022 Epithet: of Stowe MS 200 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x000025 ...

Edward Tyrrell Channing

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Charles Brinsley Sheridan

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Bliss, P. P. (Philip Paul), 1838-1876

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 3671 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x000238 Rev. Philip Bliss (1742-1803) was Rector of Dodington and Frampton Cotterell in Gloucestershire. From the guide to the Papers of Rev. Philip Bliss, 18th-19th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) From the guide to the Commonplace book of Philip Bliss, [ca. 1720-1825], (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libr...

Freeman, Samuel

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Epithet: of Add MS 38730 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x000016 Epithet: engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x000015 ...

Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842

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English businessman, author & friend of Keats. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to John Taylor, [1820] Mar. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270903800 English author and friend of John Keats. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to John Taylor, [1821] Aug. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 655917735 English businessman, author and friend of Keats. From the description of Autograph lett...

Keats, Tom

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Jameson, Anna Brownell

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Horne, R. H. (Richard H.).

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James Perry

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John Black

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Elizabeth, Lady Hartopp

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Appleton, Nathaniel Walker, 1755-1795

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Edward Moxon

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Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683

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Epithet: writer, author of 'The Compleat Angler' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003e1 Epithet: of Seal CVIII British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003e4 ...

Williams, Daniel

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Epithet: Police-Magistrate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000088 ...

John Wolcot

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Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672

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Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet and the first female author published in America. She gave birth to eight children, including Simon and Sarah Bradstreet. From the description of Meditations divine and morall : manuscript, [not before 1672] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612827039 ...

Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788

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English preacher; brother of John Wesley. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Marybone, to Robert Windsor, 1785 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587853 Charles Wesley, an English clergyman, poet, and hymn writer, was born at Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, on December 18, 1707. He was the youngest son of Samuel and Susanna Wesley and the brother of John Wesley. In 1726 he entered Christ Church College, Oxford. During his time ...

Southey, Robert

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Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x000122 Epithet: of Add MS 37425 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x000125 Robert Southey (1774-1843), poet, was born at Bristol on 12 August 1774. He attended schools in Corston and Bristol before entering Westminster School in 1788, from which he was expe...

Kean, Edmund

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Epithet: of Add MS 27925 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x000164 Epithet: actor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0003bc Epithet: Actor; of Add MS 35027 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x000...

St. John, Sir Anthony

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George Villiers

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Stottart, Thomas.

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William Wilberforce

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Norton [family]

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Epithet: of Add MS 12099 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002fc Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000300 Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), dramatist and politician, was born in Dublin on 30 October 1751, and educated at Harrow, 1762-1768. A production of his comedy The rivals was a...

Spencer, Edmund.

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Humphreys, David, 1752-1818

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Army officer, diplomat, and author. From the description of Papers of David Humphreys, 1776-1810. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71065032 Army officer, diplomat, and poet, of Connecticut; b. in Derby; d. in New Haven. From the description of David Humphreys papers, 1687-1819. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 430490748 Connecticut Revolutionary War Officer, statesman, and poet. From the description of Poems, [...

Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith

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Skene, James, 1775-1864

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Epithet: of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0001be Scottish landowner; linguist; patron of the arts. From the description of Papers, 1796-1833. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32878767 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0001bd ...

Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : King's Bench Prison [London], to Dr. Charles Burney, 1770 Apr. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872260 From the description of Papers, 1748-1751. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29854026 ...

Trelawny, Edward John

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Epithet: of Add MS 37538 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0000b0 Epithet: author and adventurer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x000211 Epithet: of Add MS 38523 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0000b1 ...

Fabyan, Robert, -1513

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Epithet: Citizen and Clothier, of London; Chronicler British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x0000a1 ...

Bryant, William Cullen

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William Cullen Bryant, from Woodburn, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) from 1902 to 1905. Bryant studied mechanical engineering, but did not complete a degree. He lived in Cauthorn Hall, the first residence hall for men at OAC constructed in 1892. Bryant was an educator and lawyer and served as superintendent of schools in Sherman County, Oregon, for 3 years. He was born in Nebraska in 1875 and died in Moro, Oregon, in 1931. From the description of William C. Bryant...

George and Georgiana Keats

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Burns, Randy

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Epithet: of Add MS 12115 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001f3 Epithet: Reverend; of Paisley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001f5 ...

Clarke, John, 1755-1798

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Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000196 Epithet: afterwards Dean of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00018e Epithet: of Add MS 36055 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00019e Epithet: of Dav...

Harpsfield, Nicholas, 1519?-1575

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Epithet: Fellow of New College, Oxford, Professor of Greek British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x00034f Epithet: Archdeacon of Canterbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x00034e ...

Charles I

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Alexander Pope

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Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

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American poet. From the description of Morrice Lake : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, [1872]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270630812 Channing was a transcendentalist poet and the first biographer of Thoreau. From the description of Notebooks and journals, 1852-ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371953 Concord poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Concord, to James Munroe & Co., 1850 May 6. ...

Leigh Hunt

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Charles Wesley

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Jaques, Francis, active 1642

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B. R. Haydon.

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James Rice, Jr.

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Wigglesworth

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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

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Dr. John Allen (1771-1843) was a political and historical writer. In 1791 he graduated with an MD from the University of Edinburgh. In 1801, in his capacity as a doctor, he accompanied Lord Holland to Spain, and on his return to England became a regular inmate of Holland House. Although he served in 1806 as under-secretary to the commissioners for treating with America, Allen is best known for his social life at Holland House, especially as documented in his diary. He also helped Lord Holland to...

Canning, George, 1770-1827

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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and letters signed (2) : [London] to Robert Southey and various correspondents, 1811 June 17-1827 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858738 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Christ Church [Oxford], to Mr. Legge, 1793 Mar. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133346 British statesman and politician; Prime Minister, 10 April 1827 - 8 August 1827. From the descri...

Anstey, Christopher

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Epithet: DD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001029.0x000266 Epithet: of Add MS 29960 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001029.0x000269 Epithet: of Add MS 35335 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001029.0x00026b ...

Melcombe-Regis, Dorset.

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Sherburn, George, 1884-1962

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Sherburn (1884-1962) taught English at Harvard and was known primarily for his scholarship on Alexander Pope. From the description of George Wiley Sherburn collection of English ballads, songs and poems, ca. 1700-1850. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390347 From the description of George Wiley Sherburn collection of letters and documents, 1655-1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390026 From the guide to the George Wiley Sherburn collection ...

WHITE, THOMAS

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Epithet: Captain; RN; of Add MS 38264 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000a5 Epithet: surgeon, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000c0 Epithet: of Kingston, county Somerset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000b7 ...

John Keats

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Alsop, Anthony, 1671 or 1672-1726

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Robert Southey

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Keyser, Jan de.

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Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770

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Chatterton was an English poet. From the description of Bristol forgeries, 1768-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79284374 From the guide to the Bristol forgeries, 1768-1915., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Thomas Chatterton, British poet. From the description of Thomas Chatterton collection, 1768-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148168 ...

Colderidge, Samuel Taylor

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Peck, Francis, 1692-1743

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Broome, Charlotte Burney Francis.

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Waller, Edmund

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Epithet: of Add MS 33940 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x00018d Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x00028d Epithet: at Montaubon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000237 ...

Pope, Alexander, 1849-1924

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Epithet: of Stowe MS 180 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x000157 Epithet: of Add MS 40804 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x000152 Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), poet, was the son of a Roman Catholic linen-draper from London. As a boy, Pope suffered from ill health, which affected his growth and norm...

W. P. Woodhouse

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Jefferys, James

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Andrews, Abby Fisher.

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Hayley, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 34887 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x0002fc William Hayley (1745-1820), poet, was born at Chichester, West Sussex, on 29 October 1745. He joined Eton in 1757, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1763, and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1766. He published volumes of verse and biographies of John Milton (1794), William Cowper (1803) and George Romney (1809). Hayley died at Felpham, ...

Miss Ferrier

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Jeigh Hunt

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Brown, William Horace.

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John, Jeffrey

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C. A. Brown

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...

Butler, Edward Dundas

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Epithet: of Add MS 40715 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x000092 Epithet: Major British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x000090 Epithet: of Add MS 38851 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x000091 ...

Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866

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Thomas Love Peacock was an English author, perhaps best remembered for his satiric novels. He was working as a clerk when he published his first collection of poems, and his verse and essays earned him popularity with the public and his fellow writers. Over the course of his career, he published seven novels, each a unique combination of satire and observation; they are valuable for their commentary on contemporary English society, yet timeless in their themes and humour. Peacock had many litera...

Rolf, J

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Bradstreet, Anne

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George Canning

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Church, Benjamin, 1639-1718

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Soldier. Born in Plymouth, Mass., Benjamin Church was a veteran of King Philip's War. From 1689 through 1704, during King George's and Queen Anne's wars, he commanded five Massachusetts expeditions to the east against the French and Indians. From the description of Proclamation : Boston, [Mass.], 1696 July 14. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 36524841 ...

Grew family.

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British Library

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Dibdin, Charles

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Epithet: composer and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00025e ...

Fairfax, Brian, 1633-1711

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Epithet: the elder British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x0002fd Epithet: politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x00014a ...

Peck, Louis F.

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Louis F. Peck (1904-1966) was a literary scholar and professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. From the guide to the Louis F. Peck papers, 1789-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Peck (1904-1966) was an English literary scholar. From the guide to the Louis F. Peck correspondence, 1955-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Alcott family.

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Miss Parker.

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Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, 1610?-1643

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John Hill Burton

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Coordinator for the 1st and 13th Districts of COPE, UAW Citizenship Department. While with Kaiser-Frazer and Local 142, Mr. Burton played an important role in securing equal employment opportunities for Afro-Americans. From the description of John Burton papers, 1949-1959. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320863 Epithet: of Add MS 28509 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/8...

Williams College

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Haydon, Benjamin Robert, historical painter

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Epithet: historical painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x00035b ...

Cushing, J.

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Garrard, George, 1760-1826

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The British artist George Garrard served an apprenticeship with Sawrey Gilpin, later his father-in-law. He first exhibited sporting pictures, then city views and landscapes. Guided by his patron, Samuel Whitbread MP, he expanded his artistic range as a sculptor of both animal and human forms. Besides portrait busts, he created series of scale models of cows and oxen in clay, then mass-produced in plaster. From the description of Letters, 1795-1811. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCa...

Buchan, Peter

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Scott, Walter, Sir

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Moore, Thomas

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Epithet: contributor to the magazine 'Bentley's Miscellany' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000323 Epithet: theological writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000337 Epithet: of Add MS 32695 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x0...

John Taylor

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Cumberlege, B.

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Gay, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 42922 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000446.0x0002e6 John Gay is considered to be an expert on the subect of the Westernization of traditional societies. A priest, professor and scholar, Gay often writes about the civil war conflicts in Liberia and the clash between Westernization and traditional culture in his novels, articles and non-fiction works, His works include: ...

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Madden, Sir Frederick.

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Crosse, John

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Epithet: merchant, of Teneriffe British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x00001e Epithet: senior, of Teneriffe British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x000023 Epithet: writer on music British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Digmore, John.

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Garth, Samuel

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Willard Phillips

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Wheatley, Phillis, c. 1753-1784

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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), first Black woman poet in America, was brought as an African slave in about 1761 to Boston, Mass., where she was purchased by John Wheatley. Educated in the Wheatley household, first by Wheatley's wife Susannah and later by his daughter Mary, Phillis Wheatley began writing poems in her early teens. It was through her published poetry that she became a member of Boston's literati and travelled briefly to England, returning in 1773 during Mrs. Wheatley's final illn...

Aders, Elizabeth.

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Webb, John

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Epithet: of Batsford, county Gloucestershire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x00033c Epithet: Parliamentary Surveyor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x000343 Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x000331 Epit...

Eliphalet Pearson

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Earl of Rochester

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Mainwaring, Matthew

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Cornwallis, William, Sir, 1744-1819

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British naval officer. From the description of Papers, 1776-1782. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58662656 Epithet: of Stowe MS 268 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000170 Admiral. Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. From the description of Papers, 1788-1793. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122524261 British admiral. ...

Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841

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English humourist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cleveland Row, to an unidentified correspondent, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269523603 Theodore Edward Hook, English writer and hoaxer. From the description of Theodore Edward Hook manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1831? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 428896037 From the guide to the Theodore Edward Hook manuscript material : 7 items, ca. 1830-184...

Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

B. Montagu

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Charles, Blake

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Hicks, William

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Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x00018e ...

Epitaph on a gardener.

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Twiss, Horace, 1787?-1849

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Husband of Frances Kemble Twiss, the actress. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr.---?, 1838 Dec. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573676 Epithet: QC; politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x0002f2 Epithet: KC; politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x0002f1 T...

Richard H. Barham.

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00025c ...

Pilkington, G.

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Le Courayer, Pierre-François, 1681-1776

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Epithet: French theologian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x000350 Epithet: Canon of St Geneviève British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x00034d Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x00034...

James 4th.

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Richard Bentley

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Thomas Betterton

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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851

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Epithet: of Add MS 35118 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000677.0x0000cd Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Norton (1786-1853) graduated from Harvard College in 1804, taught sacred literature as a professor, and authored numerous works on religious topics. From the description of Letters to Andrews Norton, 1827-1850. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84429823 From the guide ...

Jonson, Ben

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Saffin, John

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Peebles

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Whitehead, William

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Wordsworth, William

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Epithet: Principal of Elphinstone College, Bombay; CIE 1887 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x0002b4 ...

Morris, Charles

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Andrews [family]

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Madden, F.

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Woodhouse, Richard

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Selkirk

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Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811

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Thomas Percy was the editor of the Reliques of ancient English poetry and of The Regulations and establishment of the household of Henry Algernon Percy (London, 1770). From the description of Thomas Percy letter, Northumberland House [London], to Dear Sir, [1767] Saturday, May 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38929735 Epithet: Bishop of Norwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/...

Barlow, Joel

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Epithet: US Agent? British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x00034c ...

Sir J. H. Blair.

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Carus, Titus Lucretius

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Jordan, Thomas

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Epithet: of Ash British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000978.0x0003a0 ...

Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819

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Peter Pindar is the pseudonym of John Wolcot, an English satirist. From the guide to the Peter Pindar letter to John Walker, 1805-1812, (Ohio University) John Wolcot studied medicine in London, took his M.D. at Aberdeen, and became physician-general of Jamaica. After returning to England, he met the painter John Opie and in 1780 the two moved from Truro to London, where Wolcot devoted himself to the writing of verse satires, mostly published under the name "Peter Pindar." ...

Waterhouse, J.

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From the guide to the J. Waterhouse Papers, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Clarendon, ...

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Dana, Samuel, 1767-1835

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Smith, James

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Epithet: Captain Bombay Artillery British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002e5 Epithet: of Stowe MS 746 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000301 Epithet: Rector of the High school Banff British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000307 ...

Horace Walpole

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Sir Thomas Moore

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Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678

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English poet & satirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westminster, to the Mayer and Aldermen of Kingston upon Hull, 1673/4 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607885 ...

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne

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Allston, Washington

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Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

[Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.]

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English non conformist theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother (Enoch?), 1731 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661040 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Daniel Gerdes, 1745/6 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661048 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother Enoch, 1731 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661031 Minister and hymn writer. ...

Macmath, William

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Epithet: FSA, Scotland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x000270 The Gordons of Craichlaw were founded by William Gordon, second son of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar. In the early 16th century he was given various grants of land by his father, including land in the barony of Craichlaw, in Wigtownshire. The house and estate became known as Craichlaw. From the guide to the Notes on the family of ...

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

Gray, Thomas

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Thomas Gray (1716-1771), poet, was born in Cornwall on 26 December 1716. He attended Eton, before entering Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1734. He left the university without a degree in 1738, but after a tour on the continent, he returned to Peterhouse in 1742, and proceeded LL.B. in 1743. Gray remained in Cambridge for the rest of his life. In 1768 he became professor of history and modern languages at the university. He died on 30 July 1771. From the guide to the Thomas Gray: Catalogue...

Chaucer, G.

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W. H. Black

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Sneyd, John

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Duke of Marlborough

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Lamb, Charles

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Epithet: Sheriff's messenger British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x00024a Epithet: essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000363 Epithet: of Add MS 39672 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000249 ...

Saunders, Cheryl

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Peacock, Thomas

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Epithet: Master of the 'Charles' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001389.0x000090 Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001da ...

Donne, John

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Epithet: Mayor of Lyme Regis British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x00012e Epithet: senior, of Teynham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x00012f John Donne (1572-1631), poet and divine, was educated privately and at Hart Hall, Oxford, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1592. He was ordained priest and deacon in 1615,...

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

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Henry Phillpotts

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Blake, William

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Epithet: tanner British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x00018a Epithet: E India Co.'s Chief in Bengal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x000186 William Blake (1757-1827), poet and painter, was born at Broad Street, London, on 28 November 1757. He served an apprenticeship under the engraver James Basire, 1771-1778, befor...

Hogg, James Weir, Sir, 1790-1876

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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x0003bc James Hogg (c.1770-1835) earnt his living as a shepherd or sheep-farmer for most of his life but also wrote prolifically, producing poems, novels, articles and compiling collections of Scottish folk songs. He was known as the Ettrick shepherd as he was born and raised in the Ettrick valley in Selkirkshire. From the guide to the Verses...

Scott, Sir Walter

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T. Sprat

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Cowper, William

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Title: 1st Earl Cowper British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0003cf Epithet: FRS, Surgeon and Anatomist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x0001d2 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0001f3 Epithet: M D of Chester ...

Thornton Hunt

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Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Mr. Long, 1650 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526766 From the description of Autograph endorsement and signature : [n.p.], 1660 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270512553 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00028d ...

Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805

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Wedderburn was the first Earl of Rosslyn and a judge in Great Britain. Dundas was the first Viscount Melville and a Scottish politician. From the description of Letters to Viscount Henry Dundas Melville, 1788-1810. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78201714 From the guide to the Letters to Viscount Henry Dundas Melville, 1788-1810., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) English Lord Chancellor. From the description of Au...

Francis Thynne.

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Crabbe, George

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George Crabbe (1754-1832), poet, was born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on 24 December 1754, and was mostly self-taught. He was employed in a warehouse on the quay at Slaughden until 1768, before working as a servant for country doctors, 1768-1775. He published verses between 1772 and 1775, and studied botany and surgery, practising the latter at Aldeburgh. He was ordained deacon in 1781, and became Curate of Aldeburgh in that year. He was Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir, 1782-1785, and was ...

Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1303 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000567.0x000201 ...

Lord Sandwich

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

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William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted [edited by F. S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper] in 1896. From the guide to the Proofs and drawings for, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted, 1892-1896., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now ne...

Wentworth, Thomas, 1568?-1628

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Epithet: General; of Add MS 23825 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0002e3 Epithet: afterwards Earl of Strafford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000318 Epithet: Lieutenant-General; at Newcastle -upon-Tym British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000...

Savage, Arthur

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Jack Donald Foner (1910-1999) was an American historian best known for writing histories of the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights. Philip S. Foner (1910–1994) was a Marxist labor historian and teacher, best remembered for his 10-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Max Yergan (1892-1975) was an African American activist, once a Communist and leader of the National Negro Congress, the International Committee on African Affairs in 1937, later the Council on Afr...

Peel, Sir Robert 2d bart.

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Laing, Alexander

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Richard Woodhouse

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Smith, Robert Archibald, 1780-1829

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R.A. Smith served in Company D of the 3rd Alabama Cavalry. From the description of Civil War letter, 1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122587213 On September 22, 1845, John White committed suicide. John White (1802-1845) was elected and served in the Kentucky General Assembly in 1832, U.S. House of Reps in 1835 and served as Speaker of the House from 1843 until 1845. Voted out of office in 1845. John White may have received the letter the day of his suicide. ...

John Murray.

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Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877

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Scholar and author. From the description of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke correspondence, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453461 Charles Cowden Clarke, English writer and public lecturer. In his twenties he worked as a teacher at his father's school in Enfield, Middlesex. During this time Clarke befriended a young John Keats, and introduced him to the works of the great poets. He later moved to London, where he made many friends among the literary set, ...

Hunt, Leigh

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000289 Epithet: of Add MS 31978 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x0003cb ...

Mason, William

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Epithet: of Egerton Ch 8122 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x0001e4 Epithet: Reverend poet and musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000008 Epithet: junior, of Necton Hall British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/8105...

Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864

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British poet. From the description of Kisses in former times : autograph mansucript copy of the poem signed : [Siena], 1860 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598966 Epithet: of Add MS 36513 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x000290 Walter Savage Landor was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and translator. From the description of Walter Savage Landor collection...

Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849

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Quaker poet. From the description of Letter : Woodbridge, to Robert Baldwin, London, 1820 Apr. 18. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28303417 Bernard Barton was born in Carlisle in 1784 and attended a Quaker school in Ipswich, before being apprenticed to a shopkeeper at Halstead in Essex in 1798. In 1806 he moved to Woodbridge in Suffolk and went into business with his brother. Apart from a short time spent in Liverpool following the death of his wife, Barton remained...

Ramsay, Allan, 1953-....

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Allan Ramsay was a native of Leadhills, Lanarkshire. He came to Edinburgh in 1700 to start an apprenticeship with a wigmaker. He became absorbed in literature however and became a bookseller with businesses in Niddry's Wynd and in the High Street of Edinburgh. In 1725 he established a circulating library, probably one of the earliest in Britain. In 1736 he opened a theatre in Carruber's Close but this was closed by the city's authorities. Ramsay published his first poems in 1721 and a second col...

Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850

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Bowles was an English clergyman and author. From the description of Autograph, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77877875 Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 36527 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x000023 Bowles was an English clergyman and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1829 Feb. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122444972 Epithet: Reverend; ...

Tom Keats

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Samuel Wardwell Kinney

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Mrs. Sarah Leveret.

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Rolle, Rich.

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H. Reynolds

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Roxburgh, Angus

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Viscount Henry Dundas Melville

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Mrs. Dunlop.

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Rowlands, S.

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Moxon, Mrs. Emma (Isola).

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Harvard

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Benjamin Bailey

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (b. 30 August 1797, Somers Town, London-d. 1 February 1851, London, England) was an English novelist, best known as the author of Frankenstein. She also wrote short-stories, poetry, biographies, journal articles, reviews, and edited the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley....

Adamowski, T.

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Conte, Giuseppe, 1964-

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Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852

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American actor and playwright. From the description of Scrapbook, 1813-1852 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811929 From the description of Letter : Washington, to Elizabeth Payne, 1850 April 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22772908 From the description of Home, sweet home, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 237626353 Appointed by President Tyler, the actor and playwright served as U.S. Consul in Tunis from 1842-1845, a...

Peter Hill

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Sir William Fraser

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Ingoldsby, Thomas

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Catcott, G.

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Ashmolean Museum.

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Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1871

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Bridges, Nathaniel.

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Brainard, John G. C. (John Gardiner Calkins), 1796-1828

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American poet. From the description of So science whisper'd : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135814 ...

Ellwood, Thomas

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Maryette Charlton

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Borgman, Albert Stephens

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John Gay.

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Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874

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Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall), English minor poet and lawyer. He was a close friend of several more prominent Romantics, including William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt. Shelley once said of his poetry, "the man whose critical gall is not stirred up by such ottava rimas ... may be safely conjectured to have no gall at all.". From the guide to the Barry Cornwall manuscript material : 13 items, 1816-1862, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collecti...

Taylor, John

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Epithet: of Liverpool; of Add MS 42582 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0002ad Epithet: Merchant of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x00027d Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0002af Epithet: of ...

Batman, Stephen, -1584

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Harris, Amelia, 1815-1891

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Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897

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Landscape architect. Educated at Harvard College (A.B. 1882). Eliot was instrumental in the development of the Boston Metropolitan Park system. Later, his ideas set the pattern for most American metropolitan parks. In 1892, Eliot was hired as landscape architect by the new Metropolitan Park Commission, which he had been instrumental in creating. In following years, the state legislature established a permanent commission, and implemented Eliot's recommendations for the development of a regional ...

Whitney, Geffrey

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Cantlivre, Susannah.

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Cholmey, Sir Henry

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Pestell, Thomas

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Epithet: senior, of Leicester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000149.0x0003d7 ...

Persius

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Gray, John Chipman, 1839-1915

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Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of law at the Harvard Law School. His wife was Anna Lyman Mason. From the description of Correspondence, 1800-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81162043 Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) ) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of...

H. Carey

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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892

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The recipient was Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, with whom Tennyson had an extensive correspondence. From the description of Alfred Tennyson letter to Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1867 Oct. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865322 British poet. From the description of Papers, 1831-1909. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188602 Tennyson was Poet Laureate of England during much of the latter part of...

Brooke, Fulke Greville, Baron, 1643?-1710

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R. Dodsley

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Killigrew, Thomas

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Epithet: Dramatist, English Ambassador to Venice, Savoy and Florence British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000576.0x000390 Epithet: Dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000576.0x00038f Epithet: of Add MS 33596 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Descri...

Dawes, Sir William.

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Curson family.

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Kinloch, George Ritchie

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Francis Child

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Williams, Elizabeth, 1923-

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Epithet: widow of Robert, of Winterborne Herringstone British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000311 Elizabeth Williams lived at Garnedd Goch, in the parish of Penmynydd, Anglesey. No further biographical information was available at time of compilation of description. From the guide to the Elizabeth Williams House Day-Book, 1838-1842, (Bangor University) ...

Sharpe, Charles K.

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Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895

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British poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rowfant, Crawley, to Jeannette L. Gilder, 1884 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644685614 From the description of Doctor Oliver W. Holmes : autograph poem signed : [London?], 1884 Aug. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644709797 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591...

Munbee, Melesinda.

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Harrington, Sir J.

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Rogers, Samuel

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Epithet: of Add MS 12116 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0000f9 ...

Tompson, Joseph

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Rossetti, Domenico, 1650-1736

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Epithet: of Add MS 13710 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x000055 ...

Dr. T. Sprat

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HARDYNG, JOHN

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Epithet: Master of St. Thomas of Acon, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x000117 Epithet: of Egerton MS 1992 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x0002f6 Epithet: chronicler, d circa 1465 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description...

Lydgate, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 34360 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0x000381 Epithet: of Stowe MS 69 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0x000389 Epithet: of Sloane MS 1212 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0...

Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781?-1851

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English antiquary and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified recipient, 1838 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662531 ...

Milton

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Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852

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19th century British poet. From the description of Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds, 1816-1821. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122510279 English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to A. Cunningham, 1828 Feb. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270852036 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newport, I.O.W., to Planché [James Robinson], 1850 July 4. (Unknown). Wo...

Gell family.

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Fanny Keats

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Cochrane, E.

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Sir John Denham

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Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1657-1710

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Dennie, Joseph, 1768-1812

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An American essayist and editor, Joseph Dennie graduated from Harvard College in 1790 and was admitted to the bar in 1794. When his law practice failed to flourish, he turned to writing. Dennie wrote for weekly papers in Walpole, New Hampshire, Boston, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia. He was closely associated with the Farmer's Weekly Museum of Walpole, for which he wrote " Lay Preacher " and which under his editorship ( 1796-1798 ) became a strong Federalist organ read throughout...

Keats, John, recipient.

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George Keats

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Bloomfield, Robert, 1912-

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Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?

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Bowles, William L.

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Boaden, James, 1762-1839

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Epithet: Army agent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000217.0x00010c Journalist, biography. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to John Taylor, 1825 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270528077 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to John Taylor, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270528073 Epithet: author British Library Archives and M...

Jamieson

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Bishop, Elizabeth

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Epithet: widow of John Bishop British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x000321 Epithet: widow of Richard Bishop British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x000322 Epithet: English Roman Catholic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x000320 ...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Georgiana A. W. Keats

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Black, W. H.

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779

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David Garrick was raised in Lichfield, England, and became a leading actor, playwright and theatrical producer in London. From 1747 to 1776, he was a partner in the Drury Lane Theatre. From the description of Papers, 1749-1778. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 85213417 David Garrick, English actor and playwright. Garrick frequently invested in land, and in 1756 he bought a large estate in Hendon, northwest of London. There is no evidence that Garrick ever lived at H...

Campbell, Hugh Hume,

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Doran, Dr. (John), 1807-1878

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Dr. John Doran (b. Mar. 11, 1807, London, England–d. Jan. 25 1878, Notting Hill, London) was an English writer and editor. After school, he was a tutor to George Murray, eldest son of James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon and then to Lord Rivers, and to the sons of Lord Harewood and of Lord Portman. He traveled the continent with his students and after giving up his last tutorship, Doran received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Marburg in Prussia. He returned to London and began wr...

White family.

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Sheridan family.

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Austen, Thomas

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Epithet: Colonel; MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001294.0x0000e4 ...

Dryden, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 23904 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x00035a Epithet: of Add MS 38671 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000360 Epithet: of Add MS 12112 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000358 Epithet: of Add MS 3986...

Alexandre Vattemare.

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