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Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches

Creator:
Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn d20
Image Count:
121
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches

3.
Collection of letters, printed items, cuttings, etc., related to his chairmanship of the committee

Creator:
Eardley-Wilmot, John, 1750-1815
Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn c42
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 17
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript and printed items, tipped into album in approximate chronological order. Includes letters to Eardley-Wilmot from Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart. (1735-1807), George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813), John Moore, abp. of Canterbury (1730-1805), the Bishop of Leon, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, lady Crewe (d.1818), Mark Noble (1754-1827), Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st bart. (1748-1825), Hannah More (1745-1833), John Milner (1752-1826), John Wills (1741-1806), John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), William Eden, 1st baron Auckland (1744-1814); other manuscript items include financial records, records of council proceedings, and a copy of a letter from Pope Pius VI to the Bishop of Leon.The printed items include newspaper clippings, lists of subscribers, minutes and resolutions from committee meetings, a printed document in Latin issued by Pope Pius VI praising "even non-catholic princes and people" who give asylum to French clergy, and an unrecorded separate printing of the "Case of the Suffering Clergy of France" by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), which first appeared in the Evening Mail, 1792 Sep 19 (see Todd, Bibl. Edmund Burke, No. 60). Some letters praise Eardley-Wilmot for his charitable pursuit, and others criticize him as a papal sympathizer. Table of contents outlines dates and names of correspondents in page order.
Alternative Title:
[To the editor of the True Briton ... [by] a true Royalist]
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Refugees--Sources, and Great Britain--Foreign relations--France--1789-1815
Subject (Name):
Eardley-Wilmot, John,--1750-1815
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism--Great Britain, Anticlericalism--France, and Clergy--France--Political activity--History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of letters, printed items, cuttings, etc., related to his chairmanship of the committee of subscribers for the relief of the suffering clergy of France, Refugees in the British Dominions, 1792-1814, 1792-1814.

5.
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].

Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
Collection Title:
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 1-10
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
Verses to the memory of my dearest sister Lady Barbara May
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].

7.
[Pamphlets by and about Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, including newspaper clippings, articles in

Creator:
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965
Published / Created:
1917 August
Call Number:
Za Se66 +1
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder By Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
Image Count:
7
Alternative Title:
The Dardanelles by Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux, translated by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
Subject (Name):
Giraudoux, Jean, 1882-1944 and Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley,--1881-1965
Subject (Topic):
Women writers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Pamphlets by and about Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, including newspaper clippings, articles in periodicals and other ephemera].

8.
[Scrapbook].

Call Number:
Za B327 S2
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Contains newspaper clippings, programs, etc., mainly about Baum's plays or theatrical ventures.
Description:
Blank pages not digitized. and Brittle: all pages detached.
Subject (Name):
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Scrapbook].