Miscellaneous Nineteenth Century English Manuscripts. Mostly...

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Miscellaneous Nineteenth Century English Manuscripts. Mostly vers de société and further poetry, with an occasional letter, Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), Maude Clare, & Robert Browning (1812-1889), Abt Vogler, 8pp on contemporary Victorian writing-paper, though not in either author’s hand, watermarked 1863, Idyl of the North Wind, a working manuscript proof of a poem, annotated with notes for printers, Lady Emmeline Manners, daughter of the 5th Duke of Rutland (1806-1855), A Chinese Song, 3pp, paper watermarked 1826, Charlotte Elizabeth, To Lord Mount Sandford/On his birth-day – 10th May 1836, 3pp of celebratory verse addressed to the 3rd and final baron who was kicked to death ten years later, Egyptology, Horace Smith (1779-1849), To the Egyptian Mummy in Belzoni’s Exhibition, 1pp, n.d., the leaf illustrated with a pen-and-ink vignette of the Great Pyramids, ‘To Mrs Booth Wilbraham by the Hon. E. Stanley/Nov:r. 2. 1822’, presumably Edward Stanley, later 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, though not in his hand, 3pp, ‘Lines on the death of Mrs. Pa*ton Whitty’, 2pp, the paper watermarked 1808, ‘Epitaph on Rich: Humble Esq:re/Alderman of London’, 1pp, watermarked 1830, Christ in the Garden, Mrs. Norton’s My Eldest Daughter, 3pp, Thomas Banfield sonnet, Informal/comic verse, including Going out a Shopping, n.d. [c. 1870], others, early 19th century and later, including two humorously addressed to Lady Laurie of Maxwelltown, Dumfries, Scotland, etc., (28).