Gay search : manuscript, [ca. 1905]

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Gay search : manuscript, [ca. 1905]

List of manuscripts and printed books in the British Library containing references to John Gay, with some excerpts.

1 v. (51 leaves) ; 34 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7797473

Houghton Library

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Gay, John, 1685-1732

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Epithet: poet, playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002c5 ...

British Library

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Gay, Ernest Lewis

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Ernest Lewis Gay (1874-1916) was a librarian and book collector of Boston, Mass. who collected materials especially concerning the English poet and playwright, John Gay (1685-1732). John Gay used the Mohock theme in his one-act play, The Mohocks. A tragi-comical farce, (1712). The Mohocks and Hawkubites were street gangs in London during the reign of Queen Anne. It was their delight to molest and ill-treat the women, children, and feeble old men who might be in the streets after sunset. The Moho...