[Commonplace book], [mid 18th century].

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Brett, Mrs. Bayly. [Commonplace book], [mid 18th century].

[Commonplace book], [mid 18th century].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175229

Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 22 poems, epitaphs, and prose extracts, primarily consisting of religious and moral meditations, pasted into an album. The collection contains numerous religious poems, including a hymn and a meditation written upon returning home after preaching, "by a clergyman now in Virginia." Other entries are concerned with religious and moral conduct, including a poem titled An epistle from the country to my son Thomas Gibbon and several prose extracts on proper religious and moral living. Also copied in are several epitaphs and a letter from Baron Robert Clive to his mother, dated 1757. Laid in is a piece of paper containing two satirical poems.

1 v. (26 p.) ; 24 x 18 cm.

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