Manuscript, in several hands, containing two letters written by Elizabeth Montagu. The first letter, signed by Montagu and addressed "To Doctor Monsey," admonishes the recipient's attachment to "Miss B," warning him, "Do not sadden your retirement & embitter your life by hopeless love." She describes the recent marriage of her elderly brewer to "a jolly lass of 25," urges him to visit, and asks him in a postcript to get her a "bottle of eye water." The second letter, written in another hand and addressed to "The Revd. Dr. Percy," apologizes for Mrs. Montagu's illness and subsequent absence "when he did her the favour to call," and requests him to call again and "bring certain manuscripts in his pocket." The volume also includes an engraving of Elizabeth Montagu.
Description:
Binding: cloth covered boards; blue morocco spine. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Montagu,--Mrs.--(Elizabeth),--1720-1800. and Percy, Thomas,--1729-1811.
At back of volume, in a different hand: Mrs. Dillope�s dyeing instructions to her daughter taken from her own mouth. and Ladies Vavasor and Ingram are the writer�s sisters (p.1, 11.2-3); thus the author may have been Miles Stapylton (or Stapleton, 1660-1731).
Subject (Topic):
Death --Religious aspects --Christianity --Prayer-books and devotions --English, Devotional literature, English --18th century, and Women authors
Manuscript, in primarily one hand, of a collection of several hundred documents related to the office of the Master of the Revels, including printed matter, engravings, and handwritten notes. The volume contains historical information pertaining to the office, including engravings of the armorial insignia of the office of master of revels; a printed history of the word "revel"; and salaries of the Master, his assistants, and numerous musicians. The manuscript also contains numerous notes, biographies, and other documents related to individual Masters, including an original letter the Lord High Chancellor and Lord Chamberlain of H. M. Household, 1662 by Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels to Charles I and Charles II; a list of names in his hand; a genealogy of the family of George Buck, Master of the Revels to James I; newspaper clippings about Thomas Killigrew; an engraved bookplate which is signed "Charles Killigrew his Book"; and a colored engraving of Sir Henry Guildford, Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VIII. Pasted into the front of the manuscript is the printed auction catalogue from Sotheby's, containing an entry for this volume
Description:
Partial finding aid available., In English., Title from p. 7., Binding: half morocco over marbled boards. On spine: Historical collections relative to the office of the Master of Revels. J. H. Burn., and Marbled endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and England
Subject (Name):
Buck, George, Sir, 1560-1622., Burn, Jacob Henry, -1869., Herbert, Henry, Sir, 1595-1673., Killigrew, Charles, 1655-1724 or 1725., and Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683.
Subject (Topic):
English drama, History, Royal households, Theater, Women authors, and Officials and employees
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 8 primarily melancholy poems copied from various authors, on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness. The collection contains Alexander Pope's Eloise to Abelard; Mrs. Madan's Abelard to Eloisa; Aaron Hill's Alone in an inn at Southampton Court; and William Congreve's To a candle. Other titles include The late Lord Harvey to Mr. Fox; The castle top, wrote by a lad at Winchester School; and A hermit's meditation.
Description:
Binding: full parchment. and Imperfect: p. 34-35 wanting.
Subject (Name):
Héloïse,--1101-1164--Poetry, Hill, Aaron,--1685-1750, Madan, Judith,--1702-1781, and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Solitude--Poetry, and Women authors
44 autograph letters written to Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover concerning her edition of the autobiography of Mary (Granville) Pendarves Delany (1700-1788).
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Name):
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 and Llanover, Augusta Hall, Baroness, 1802-1896
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century and Women authors
Holograph diaries of a year in Clifton, and journeys to Hanover and Germany. The first volume, a diary dated at Clifton in 1807-1808, details the child author's daily social and educational activities. She studies French verbs and reads Roman history as well as practices her dance steps each day; elsewhere, she arranges her doll's clothes and buys accessories for it; goes out on walks with other young ladies; plays cards; and describes and often criticizes her meals. She also mentions the social activities of her mother, the names of visitors to the house, and the daily visits from a cake-seller. Inside the front cover is written, "Susan North. Clifton. Given me by my dearest grandpapa who beged me always to keep a journal.", The third volume is a travel diary dated 1821, in which the writer records her journey from England to Hanover with her son John. She describes the landscapes, the quality of the horses, the price of travel, and the state of the inns in which she stays, as well as her opinions of the attractiveness of the towns and inhabitants she sees. She says of Liege that it "is the oldest, ugliest, dirtiest, & poorest town I ever saw, & filled with beggars. The women less handsome than in any place I ever saw," while she praises Dusseldorf for its cleanliness, good houses, and large shops well-supplied with goods, and The second volume is an undated travel diary from Hanover to Gottingen, Cassell, and Marburg. Written in pencil, with a few corrections in ink, the writer primarily discusses landscapes and buildings; she says of the town of Munden that its situation was the most beautiful thing she ever saw and calls Leibenberg Castle "very curious--old painters, old furniture." The volume contains about 24 sketches in pen and pencil, primarily of landscapes and buildings, but also including profiles of several women. At the beginning of the volume are several pages of travel expenses
Description:
In English. and Binding: decorated paper covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Germany
Subject (Topic):
Children's writings, English, Education, Travelers' writings, English, Women authors, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920
Call Number:
Osborn d315
Image Count:
65
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph diary kept intermittently by Harriet Sarah Loyd from her sixteenth birthday in 1853 until May of 1858. Topics include family life, friends and social events such as dances and country house visits, travel in England and on the Continent, and personal reflections
Subject (Name):
Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; On the death of a mother; Written in consequence of the execution of a young man for forgery, by Mrs. Taylor; Hymn by Miss Scott; To a lady who sung in too low a voice; On kissing; On female neatness after marriage; Advice to a young lady lately married; Unbeliever's creed; Sir Isaac Newton's creed; and numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs. Several anonymous poems are labeled "Forton Prison" and dated 1795; the collection also includes poems by Tobias Smollett, Samuel Bishop, Samuel Rogers, Samuel Butler, and William Cowper
Description:
In English., 16-page index at beginning of manuscript., Title from title page. Also on title page: Vol 1., Laid in: newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph dated April 16, 1974., and Binding: half calf over paper-covered board; back cover missing. In gilt on spine: Gleanings.
Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Religious life and customs
