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1.
Anecdotes of the rebellion : a collection of humorous, pathetic and thrilling narratives of actual

Published / Created:
September 18, 1886.
Call Number:
1978 +S3 1
Image Count:
16
Description:
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 17 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library.
Publisher:
F.M. Lupton, publisher, 3 Park Place, New York
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Subject (Topic):
History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of the rebellion : a collection of humorous, pathetic and thrilling narratives of actual experiences during the war, embracing the reminiscences of bivouac and battlefield, march and picket, thrilling adventures of scouts and spies, stories of prison life, stories of the great generals, stories of Mr. Lincoln, etc

2.
Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
49 2615
Image Count:
73
Abstract:
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figu...
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

3.
Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
49 2615
Image Count:
92
Abstract:
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figu...
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

4.
Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
49 2615
Image Count:
275
Abstract:
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figu...
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

5.
Commonplace book, 1770-1818

Creator:
Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818
Call Number:
Osborn c631
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Comonplace book in a single hand kept by the Rev. Francis Negus and containing mostly English literary excerpts in verse and prose. Poets quoted include Milton, Shakespeare, Cowley, Dryden, Rowe, Prior, Akenside and Arne; prose authors include Gibbon,...
Description:
Francis Colman Negus (1744-1818) was the son of the attorney Daniel Negus and Elizabeth Colman of Suffolk. Educated at Bury St. Edmunds grammar school and Cambridge University, he was rector of Brome and Oakley in Suffolk for many years.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818., and Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Occasional verse, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1770-1818

6.
Contes de Fraimbois. 1. Le juge de paix de Haroué

Published / Created:
[1900?]
Call Number:
IN PROCESS FOR DIGITAL PROJECTS
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The text is an anecdote. A cow has been educated well enough to function as justice of the peace in Haroué
Alternative Title:
Juge de paix de Haroué and Legally themed postcard depicting an educated cow serving as a justice of the peace in Haroué
Description:
Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1440245
Publisher:
E. Bastien, libr.-édit
Subject (Geographic):
France, Haroué, and Haroué (France)
Subject (Topic):
Law, Justices of the peace, and French wit and humor
Found in:
Lillian Goldman Law Library > Contes de Fraimbois. 1. Le juge de paix de Haroué

7.
Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies: or, Man of pleasure's kalender, for the year, 1787

Creator:
Harris, Jack, -1793 or 1794, author, compiler
Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
646 787 H24
Image Count:
77
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Man of pleasure's kalender, for the year, 1787 and Man of pleasure's calender, for the year, 1787
Description:
With a half-title, "Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, for the year 1787." and price in square brackets: Price 2s. 6d. Endorsed with a stamp of Harris's signature.
Publisher:
Printed for H. Ranger, (formerly at No. 23, Fleet-Street), at No. 9, Little Bridges-Street, near Drury-Lane Play-House where may be had, the separate Lists of many preceding years
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Prostitution, Sex, Sex (Biology), Sex Work, history, Sexual Behavior, Humour anglais, Sexualité (Biologie), and sex (biological characteristic)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies: or, Man of pleasure's kalender, for the year, 1787. : Containing the histories and some curious anecdotes of the most celebrated ladies now on the town, or in keeping, and also of many of their keepers

8.
M.S. on Peter the Great. Czar of Russia. Born 1672. Died 1725, 1724

Creator:
Dean, John, 1679-1761
Call Number:
Osborn fc148
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
John Dean (1679-1761) born in Nottingham, survived the wreck of the "Nottingham Galley", served in the Russian Navy from 1712 to 1722, and was later appointed British Consul in the ports of Flanders and at Ostend. He died in Wilford, near Nottingham, ...
Description:
Label tag on front cover, with bookplate of Loraine of Kirkharle.
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Name):
Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725. and Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725
Subject (Topic):
Navies, Officers, Armed Forces, History, Civilization, and Foreign relations
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > M.S. on Peter the Great. Czar of Russia. Born 1672. Died 1725, 1724

9.
Observations, anecdotes, & characters of books and men. Collected from conversation, [1749-1751].

Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768
Call Number:
Osborn fc113
Image Count:
214
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph MS with corrections and additions
Description:
James Osborn classifies this MS as "F" of the Spence MSS - see p. xlii of Joseph Spence. Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. and Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English and Literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Observations, anecdotes, & characters of books and men. Collected from conversation, [1749-1751].

10.
Sweet William of Plymouth

Published / Created:
[between 1790 and 1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-lane, West-Smithfield, London
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Deception in literature, and Love
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sweet William of Plymouth