[Commonplace book], 1779-1781.

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[Commonplace book], 1779-1781.

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 150 entries of verse, hymns, sermons, and religious anecdotes. Many of the hymns are by Stevens; others are by Isaac Watts and Phillis Wheatley. The manuscript also contains a funeral sermon on the interment of Miss Ann Williams; parting words from a parent to his dying daughter; an anecdote concerning James Hervey's admonition to a lady who loved the stage; another by Jonathan Edwards on his own wickedness; and other religious anecdotes by Timothy Rogers, Thomas Bradbury, George Whitefield, Abraham Booth, Philip Doddridge, Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon, John Milton, and James Thomson.

1 v. (176 p.) ; 29 x 18 cm.

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Bradbury, Thomas, 1677-1759

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[Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.]

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Milton, John, 1608-1674

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Thomson, James, 1700-1748

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Thomson was a Scottish poet and dramatist. From the guide to the Copyright documents, 1729-1750/1., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Myers and Co. From the description of Autograph letters signed (12) : to Miss Elizabeth Young, 1743 Mar. 10-1745 Nov. 4 [one undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572239 English poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Cranstou...

Hervey, James, 1714-1758

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Doddridge, Philip, 1702-1751

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English non-conformist divine. From the description of Academical lectures : manuscript notebook, 1740 Sept. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270994247 English non-conformist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Wilson, 1742 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529597 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Northampton, to his wife, 1742 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526222 Philip Doddridge, Engli...

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...

Booth, Abraham, 1734-1806

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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758

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Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728

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