British literary manuscripts: series I from 800 to 1800 /
Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon and Charles Ryskamp
- New York : The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981.
- xi, 129 p. ill. ;
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