Manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of about 100 word puzzles and riddles, many in verse. The word "fortune," for example, is represented by the following rhyme: "My first is a Preposition/My second a Composition/And the whole an Acquisition." ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Peach, Miss.
Subject (Topic):
Charades, English literature, English poetry, Puzzles, Riddles, Women authors, and Word games
Manuscript on paper of John Rolfe (1585-1622), A true relation of the state of Virginia, autograph manuscript
Description:
The author, best known for his part in the colonization of Virginia under the governorship of Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619) and his marriage to the Indian princess Pocahontas (d. 1617), wrote this account after his return to England in 1616 to show the su...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Virginia
Subject (Name):
Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
Manuscript on parchment and paper of a multitude of texts. The principal author or collector of the present manuscript is Thomas Butler from Harlow in Essex, born in 1528. He gives the horoscopes of himself and several members of his family. Other con...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Digges, Leonard, d. ca. 1559., Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568., and Stoeffler, Johann, 1452-1531.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Science, and Science, Medieval
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Brist...
Description:
Biggs and Cottle, printers in Bristol, England.
Subject (Name):
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855., Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850., and Biggs and Cottle.
