Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
MS notes in pencil on long sheet of newsprint.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
Corrected and annotated in pencil. and Typescript, corrected.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
A selection of extracts from John Wilson's English Martyrologe (1608) concludes with "Certayne Additions in the late Englishe Martyrs, which came to the Authors knowledge after the printing of the former catalogue.", Manuscript on paper in good secretary hand containing saints' lives and related material, including a saints' days calendar and several prayers and hymns in Welsh. Opening with a selection of Welsh lives headed "Buchedh y Seintiau", the volume includes "Vita St. Dewi, archiepiscopi, authore Ricemarcho" (Rhygyfarch); "Vita St. Albani ex lingua Anglica in Latinam translata, per Gulielmum Albanensem Monachum, qui claruit Anno 1170"; and several other lives in Latin and English., and The most extensive text in the volume is a lengthy English translation of Robert of Shrewsbury's life of St. Winifred, attributed to "Mr. Edward Morgan of Bechfield, a supposed catholique Prieste", who may well have been the Rev. Edward Morgan executed at Tyburn in 1642.
Description:
"P: Legh" written on blank verso preceding the "Table.", "Vita St. Dewi" colophon identifies the scribe as "Gulielmus Farrarus pbr.", Binding: Contemporary decorated calf, spine full-gilt, remains of label on spine., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Texts in English, Latin and Welsh.
Subject (Name):
David,--Saint,--6th cent, Farrar, William, Leigh, Philip, Morgan, Edward,--d. 1642, Rhygyfarch,--956-1099, Robert of Shrewsbury,--d. 1167, and Winifred,--Saint
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Catholics--Wales, and Christian saints--Biography
