Miscellaneous Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Englis...

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Miscellaneous Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century English Manuscripts. Mostly vers de société and further poetry, with an occasional letter, including Robert Southey (1774-1843), ‘Mary [&] Sapphics’, 8pp, n.d. [early 19th century), not in the author’s own hand, William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), ‘Winter Evening at Home’, with an epigram and an address, 2pp, the paper watermarked 1812, apparently not in the inspirer of the Romantic poets’ hand, John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley (1772-1840), of Saltram House, Devon, ‘Parody on “Buy a Broom” – By Lord M: From Saltram’, 20 lines in imitation of Robert Burns, ‘Dark Prophets ***’, n.d. [mid-18th century], 2pp of ink manuscript verse, Antique Buying in 18th Century Denmark, 1pp letter, n.d. [18th century], addressed ‘To His Excellence the Engl: Minister at Copenhagen’ viz. the purchase, via a Lady Müller, of an antique casket,  ‘a very antick (sic) piece of ivory: a little Chest to keep or beware precious Stones &c, and after all meaning it has been once in the Cabinet of Ludwig XIV [?Louis XIV]. […] It is supposed, Your Excellence will find the price of 10£ or about 100 Dollar Danish – not to (sic) much’, Epicureanism, a poem on the pleasure of drink and the table, illegible in places, but ‘Approved by the Bacchanalian Society/Robin Red Nose/Secretary/Sots Hole/Walsall, 6 Jan:y 1818’, inscribed on 2pp of further manuscript, Henrietta Cholmondeley, Baroness Delamere (née Williams-Wynn; d. 1852),  ‘Flowers which serve for the construction of Flora’s Dial’, presumably for the garden of Vale Royal Great House, 1pp, n.d., ‘Lines on the birth of a Son to Tho:s Cholmondeley Esqr’, 1pp of celebratory, if unsophisticated, verse, probably commemorating the birth the MP for Cheshire (1726-1779) or his son of the same name, later 1st Baron Delamere (1767-1855), n.d., George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746-1816), 1pp ALS, signed Warwick and dated 1799, ‘The Adventures of Brunswick’, 2pp of comic verse on a flea-infested bed, n.d., singed Harriot, transcript en suite, ‘An Arab girl who, when I was carried wounded into Jericho, rendered one assistance, was ordered to withdraw’, 2pp of ink MS. verse, ‘Poor Robin’s Dream’, n.d. [final-quarter 18th century], defective, extracts from Poems by Thomas Moore Esqr., dated 1804, further poetry, etc., (18).