British literary manuscripts: series I from 800 to 1800 / Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon and Charles Ryskamp

1. Bede: Historia Ecclesiastica, Vlllth century
2. Aelfric: translation of Exodus, Xlth century
3. John Gower: Confessio Amantis, XVth century
4. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, XVth
century
5. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, XVth
century
6. John Lydgate: The Siege of Thebes, XVth century
7. Generides, XVth century
8. John Wyclif: translation of New Testament, XVth
century
9. Reginald Pecock: The Reule of Crysten Religioun,
ca. 144 j
10. [William Dunbar:] "London thow arte the flowre
of cytes all," XVIth century
11. John Bellenden: The Cronikillis of Scotland, ca.
1531
12. Sir Thomas More: signature on a lease, 1523
13. Thomas Cranmer : letter to Thomas Cromwell, 1539
14. Roger Ascham: inscription in book, 1564
15. Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset: docu
ment, 1605
16. Gabriel Harvey: signature and notes in book,
1584
17. William Camden: letter to Abraham Ortelius, 1577
18. Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Ralegh:
"The passionate Sheepheard," XVIIth century
19. Sir Walter Ralegh: letter to Sir Walter Cope, 1610
20. Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence of the Earl of
Leicester, ca. 1584
21. Sir Philip Sidney: letter to Christopher Plantin, ca.
1586
22. Sir Edward Dyer: letter to Governors of Free
School of St. Mary Overey, 1597

Francis Bacon: letter to Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1604
Josuah Sylvester: "To the worthilie Honored Sr
Edward Lewis, Knight," ca. 1615
J OHN Da VIES OF Hereford : "Respons," ca. 1611—2
Sir Henry Wotton: letter, 1604
Ben Jonson: presentation inscription, ca. 1616
Joseph Hall: letter to James Calthrop, 1649
John Donne: letter to Sir Thomas Egerton, 1610
Edward Herbert (of Cherbury): letter to Charles
I, 1626
William Drummond : ownership signature in a book
Robert White: Cupids Banishment. A Maske, 1617
Holgate Commonplace Book, 1603-45 [variant
of Shakespeare's Sonnet 106]
Francis Lenton: The Muses Oblation on Hymens
Altar, 1647
John Chalkhill: letter to Katherine Packerre, 1638
Robert Herrick: letter to Sir William Hearick, ca.
1615-6
IzAAK Walton: presentation inscription, 1678
Sir Thomas Browne: letter to William Dugdale,
1658
Sir William Dugd xle: letter to William Boothe,
1652
Edmund Waller: h tter to William Cavendish, ca.
1657
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I, ca. 1665
Sir John Sucklin' : letter to Viscount Conway,
1640
Edward Hyde, fir
pers of the Army'
Thomas Killigrev
Richard Crashav
and "An Apologi
r Earl of Clarendon: "Pa-
letter to Sir Robert Long, 1649
BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
Jeremy Taylor: letter to John Evelyn, 1659
Richard Baxter: A Preface... about the Churches
Successive or Continued Visibility, 1664
Abraham Cowley: letter to Sir Robert Long, 1650
John Evelyn: letter to Thomas Tension, 1680

Andrew Marvell: letter to the Commissioners of
the Militia for Kingston upon Hull, 1660
George Villagers, second Duke of Bucking
ham: will, 1674
John Bunyan: warrant for his second arrest, 1674/5
83,
Sir William Temple: letter to Sir Robert South well,
1669
John Dryden: letter to William Walsh, 1693
John Dryden: letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1699
John Dryden: letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1700
Anthony a Wood: letter to William Lloyd, 1687
John Locke: An Essay concerning Humane Un
understanding, Books I and II, 1685
Samuel Pepys: shorthand notes of interview, 1695
Sir Isaac Newton: notebook, 1659
Daniel Defoe: letter to Samuel Elisha, 1704
Richard Bentley: receipt to Jacob Tonson, 1732
Matthew Prior: letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1708
Sir John Vanbrugh: memorandum on actors'
salaries, ca. 1708
Jonathan Swift: "Apollo to the Dean," ca. 1720
Jonathan Swift: letter to Benjamin Motte, 1726
Jonathan Swift: letter to John Boyle, 1735
William Congreve: letters to Joseph Keally, 1702
and 1710
CoLLEY Gibber: "Bill for y^^ Stage," 1716
Joseph Addison: letter to Ambrose Philips, 1713
Sir Richard Steele: letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer,
1714
Isaac Watts: commonplace book, after 1698
Henry St. John, first Viscount Bolingbroke:
letter to Charles Ford, 1724
Thomas Parnell: letter to Charles Ford, 1714
Edward Young: letter to Samuel Richardson, 1750
Allen Bathurst, first Earl Bathurst: "On the
Death of M"^ Southern," 1746
John Gay: letter to William Fortescue, 1713
George Berkeley: letter to Thomas Sherlock, 1728
Allan Ramsay: "Henry to Emma"
Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man, Book I, ca.
1731
Alexander Pope: Of Taste: An Epistle to the Earl
of Burlington, ca. 1730-1
Alexander Pope: letter to William Fortescue, 1738
Samuel Richardson: letter to Frances Grainger,
1749/50
Samuel Richardson: History of Mrs Beaumont,
ca. 1754-5
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: "born to be
slaves" and "Venus to y" courts above," ca. 1734
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of
Chesterfield: letter to his son Philip, 1739
James Thomson: "Come, dear Eliza, quit the
Town," ca. 1743
David Mallet: letter to the Earl of Bute, 1762
Henry Fielding: receipt to Andrew Millar, 1748
Henry Fielding: "Of Outlawry in Criminal
Causes," ca. 1745
Samuel Johnson: "The Life of Pope," 1780
Samuel Johnson: letter to Hester Lynch Thrale,
1782
Samuel Johnson: prayer, 1784
David Hume: letter to the Presidente de Meinieres,
1766
Laurence Sterne: "Penancies," 1750
Laurence Sterne: "A Fragment in the Manner of
Rabelais," ca. 1759
William Shenstone: letter to Lady Henrietta Lux-
borough, 1751
Thomas Gray: "On the Death of a favourite Cat,"
ca. 1757
Thomas Gray: "The Fatal Sisters," ca. 1761
David Garri,ck: letter to Hannah Pritchard, 1768
Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford:
Reminiscences, 1789
Samuel Foote: letter to David Garrick, 1768
Gilbert White: letter to his brother John, 1775
Tobias George Smollett: letter to William Strahan,
1759
Christopher Smart: letter to Dr. Charles Burney,
1770
William Mason: The Rise of Fashion, 1747
Edmund Burke: letter to Fanny Burney, 1782
Oliver Goldsmith: The Captivity: An Oratorio,
ca. 1764
Oliver Goldsmith: letter to Catherine Bunbury,
1773
Charles Churchill: letter to David Garrick, 1762
William Cowper: letter to Maria Cowper, 1767
William Cowper: letter to 1 ady Hesketh, 1786
George Colman, the eli i.r: letter to Thomas
Cadell, 1787
James Macpherson: letter ii> Paul Benfield, 1781
Edward Gibbon: expanded lotes for The Decline
and Fall of the Roman Emp re, 1783
John Wolcot ("Peter Pin )Ar"): letter, 1800
James Boswell: letter to Wi iiam Temple, 1791
118. Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: Anecdotes of the
late Samuel Johnson LLDy 1785
119. Henry Mackenzie: letter to Dr. J ames Currie, 1802
120. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: letter to Robert
Crispin, 1776
121. Thomas Chatterton: "Sly Dick" and "A Hymn
for Christmas Day," ca. 1763-4
122. Fanny Burney (Madame Arblay): advertisement
for first edition of Cecilia, 1782
123. George Crabbe: letter to his son George, 1828
124. William Godwin: letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
1800
125. William Blake: letter to John Flaxman, 1800
126. William Blake: The Pickering or Ballads Manu
script, ca. 1807
127. Robert Burns: letter to Frances Dunlop, 1788
128. Robert Burns: letter to George Thomson, 1793
129. Matthew Gregory Lewis: "On the failure of her
Royal Highness's efforts to reclaim a worthless
Object of her bounty," 1803