Select, and miscellaneous poems, scraps, mottos &c, 1773 and later.

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Select, and miscellaneous poems, scraps, mottos &c, 1773 and later.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702176368

Commonplace book of verse by Dovaston and others; index includes "Panegyric on Salt Water", "On Quakory", "Thoughts of Dr. Young", and "In Praise of Country Life", etc.

1 v. (309 p.) ; 19 x 12 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Dovaston, John Freeman Milward, 1782-1854

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The amateur astronomer and scientific instrument maker John Dovaston was born into a long-established Shropshire family on April 25, 1740, the son of John Dovaston and Margaret (Rogers). While still in his twenties, Dovaston used the proceeds from his sugar plantations in Jamaica to build "The Nursery," an estate near West Felton, near Shrewsbury, where he lived until his death on April 4, 1808. He left a son John Freeman Millward Dovaston. His wife Ann (Hoper) had died in the previ...