British Literary Manuscripts, Volumes 1-2

Front Cover
Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981

Contents

translation of Exodus XIth century
2
Confessio Amantis XVth century
3
Troilus and Criseyde XVth century
4
The Canterbury Tales XVth century
5
The Siege of Thebes XVth century
6
Generides XVth century
7
translation of New Testament XVth
8
The Reule of Crysten Religioun ca 1445
9
ca 1764
110
letter to Catherine Bunbury 1773
111
letter to David Garrick 1762
113
letter to Paul Benfield 1781
115
letter 1800
116
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson LLD 1785
118
letter to Dr James Currie 1802
120
Sly Dick and A Hymn for Christmas Day ca 17634
121

London thow arte the flowre of cytes all XVIth century
10
The Cronikillis of Scotland ca 1531
11
signature on a lease 1523
15
signature and notes in book
16
letter to Abraham Ortelius 1577
20
letter to Christopher Plantin ca 1586
21
letter to Governors of Free School of St Mary Overey 1597
22
letter to Sir Nicholas Bacon 1604
24
Respons ca 16112
26
presentation inscription ca 1616
30
ownership signature in a book
31
Cupids Banishment A Maske 1617
33
The Muses Oblation on Hymens
34
Altar 1647
34
letter to Katherine Packerre 1638
36
presentation inscription 1678
38
letter to William Boothe 1652
39
letter to William Cavendish ca 1657
40
Paradise Lost Book I ca 1665
42
Pa pers of the Army
43
letter to Sir Robert Long 1649
45
letter to John Evelyn 1659
47
letter to Sir Robert Long 1650
50
Will 1674
51
warrant for his second arrest 16745
53
letter to William Walsh 1693
58
shorthand notes of interview 1695
60
letter to Samuel Elisha 1704
64
Apollo to the Dean ca 1720
68
Bill for ye Stage 1716
71
commonplace book after 1698
73
letter to Charles Ford 1724
74
letter to Charles Ford 1714
76
letter to William Fortescue 1713
79
An Essay on Man Book I
80
Of Taste An Epistle to the Earl of Burlington ca 17301
81
letter to William Fortescue 1738
83
History of Mrs Beaumont ca 17545
84
born to be slaves and Venus to ye courts above ca 1734
85
letter to his son Philip 1739
86
Come dear Eliza quit the Town ca 1743
87
letter to the Earl of Bute 1762
90
prayer 1784
91
letter to the Présidente de Meinières 1766
94
Penancies 1750
95
A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais ca 1759
96
letter to Lady Henrietta Lux borough 1751
97
On the Death of a favourite Cat
98
ca 1757
99
letter to Hannah Pritchard 1768
101
letter to David Garrick 1768
104
letter to Dr Charles Burney 1770
105
The Rise of Fashion 1747
108
advertisement for first edition of Cecilia 1782
122
letter to his son George 1828
124
letter to John Flaxman 1800
126
letter to Frances Dunlop 1788
129
Description of a Beggar
7
The Lady of the Lake 180910
10
letter to Sir George
13
The Life of Cowper 1835
18
Lochiels Warning 1802
23
The Palfrey 1842
26
The Jackdaw
32
Sonnets from the Portuguese ca 1846
51
letter to Thomas Carlyle 1837
53
letter to Anna Biddell 1875
56
letter to Charles Dickens 1850
57
letter to William Henry Brookfield 1832
58
Vanity Fair 1847
59
letter to Mrs William Henry Brookfield 1850
60
Mari Magno ca 18523
64
The Stones of Venice 18512
75
letter to Thomas Arnold 1857
77
The Woman in White 185960
79
letter to Ed ward Marston 1899
80
The Blessed Damsel dated 1847
81
Diana of the Crossways ca 18834
82
The Main Regret 1901
84
Double Acrostic
85
The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century ca 18756
86
The City of Dreadful Night 18703
87
letter to Thomas James Cobden Sanderson 1885
88
Peter Ibbetson ca 188990
90
The Pirates of Penzance 1879
91
At Eleusis ca 18645
92
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1883
94
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 18823
95
The Abbey Mason 1911
97
letter to Edward Wil liam Urquhart 1867
98
letter to Alfred Miles 1891
100
Weir of Hermiston 18923
101
Robert Elsmere 1887
102
Memories of My Dead Life ca 19056
103
letter to Sir Arthur Sullivan 1889
104
105
105
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
106
postal card to Arthur Henry Bullen 1897
107
Ballads and Songs ca 1894
112
The Admirable Crichton 1902
113
Captains Courageous 1896
115
Non sum qualis
117
The Pagan ca 1901
120
Open Letter
125
Chamber Music ca 19034
129
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