Anonymous, ca. 1780.

Domestic travel writing in prose, extracts from Pope, and other poems, many copied from magazines and newspapers.

* As of yet, this manuscript has not been examined due to 2021-2022 pandemic access restrictions. This description is a temporary placeholder based on catalogue entries and Union First Line Index records.

Hanbury family, ca. 1780–1810.

Epitaphs, elegies, dramatic prologues and epilogues, political and social satires, parodies, and pieces on sentimental topics such as monastic ruins and the deaths of pet birds. The volume also includes a parody of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by Alexander Chalmers and a copy of Richard Fitzpatrick's "Dorinda: a Town Eclogue."

* As of yet, this manuscript has not been examined due to 2021-2022 pandemic access restrictions. This description is a temporary placeholder based on catalogue entries and Union First Line Index records.

Anonymous, ca. 1778–1787. 

Occasional, sentimental and satirical verse, most by contemporary writers; theatre-related poems; society verses addressed to or describing visitors at Bath, Scarborough and Cheltenham; commentaries on the trial of Warren Hastings; charades, riddles and lyrics.

* As of yet, this manuscript has not been examined due to 2021-2022 pandemic access restrictions. This description is a temporary placeholder based on catalogue entries and Union First Line Index records.

Bishop Worth, ca. 1730s.

11 Latin poems, 13 English poems.

Betty Careless and Dryden-themed poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1700.

Tie binding.

66 items.

Largely political satire.

Anna Sharpe, ca. 1751–1790.

38 items, some possibly in the hand of later owner Anna Maria Sharpe.

Primarily lighthearted poems.

Anne Heigham, 1781–ca. 1785. 

38 items.

Includes multiple female authors, son's tribute to mother at the end of the book, and epilogues presumably spoken at local productions.

Polite poetry.

Philip Yorke 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, ca. 1756. Principal figure in Yorke-Grey coterie.

12 items—11 original or local poems, 1 Latin paste-in.

Sonnets.

Anonymous, 1737.

7 items.

Melancholy poems on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness.

Thomas Binns, 1789–1799.

"Collection of Poems" numbered Vols. II and III, and "Miscellaneous Manuscripts" numbered Vols. 3 and 4.

117 + 74 + 112 + 116 = 419 items, numerous very long poems.

Quaker writings; political themes (anti-war, anti-slavery, pro-revolutionary); sentimental poetry and poetry about nature.

Anonymous, 1796.

7 items, including "To the Reader" poem.

Mix of religious and moral themes, political satire.

Soame Jenyns, 1730.

19 items.

Perhaps a retained copy of poems written for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, his daughter Margaret Cavendish Harley, and her circle of friends (presentation copy is British Library Add. MS 70494).

Flattery, panegyric.

Anonymous, ca. 1780.

15 items.

Approximately half Latin poetry + four Shenstone poems and one tribute to Shenstone.

Shenstonian pastoral; university poetry.

Anonymous, though several items related to Pettiwards, ca. 1767–1783.

107 items (30 prose).

Pet poems; very miscellaneous prose items including a description of masquerade ball in Lincolnshire attended by Peart-Bate coterie members.

Mrs. Ogle, ca. 1747.

32 items.

Sequence of names and hands suggests it was originally a book of 24 poems compiled by Mrs. Ogle as a gift, then the recipient added 8 items, and a later hand contributed a few additions.

Lighthearted poems about love; some satire of manners, marriage.

Anonymous, ca. 1746.

37 items, 23 poems.

Largely the work of Hannah Wakeford ("Amynta"). Begins with seven letters from Amynta to Aurelia followed by religious hymns and poems, enigmas, and poems on friendship and solitude.

Reflects the work of the Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family. 

Anonymous, ca. 1737–1755. 

17 items.

Political satire; one serious epitaph on Bolingbroke; anti-Hanover and anti-Walpole.

Mary Hilhouse, 1768–1769.

All in a single hand except the first item, which is the first three books of Pope's Essay on Man.

65 items.

Generally serious, moral poems; some essays or essay extracts taken from The Spectator.

Anonymous; perhaps Thomas Siw---, ca. 1750–1781.

Two sections: a poetry compilation and a commonplace miscellany (ca. 1813–1835)—this entry pertains only to the first section.

96 items.

Interest in women’s self-assertion, poems by Cambridge men, and Latin and Greek. Sources often identified as manuscripts or magazines.

Anonymous, ca. 1710s. 

3 items.

The first poem is a mock-heroic that praises the women of Stepney and Mile End, and the second and third respond to the first.

Stepney and Mile End coterie.

Anonymous, ca. 1770s.

19 items.

Unbound booklet with some copy errors suggesting this may have been a first copying of materials for a later collection.

Thematic focus on contentment, lack of ambition, choice of retirement and friendship over wealth and power.

Anne Watkins, ca. 1731.

32 items (23 are excerpts from Paradise Lost and 4 are Stephen Duck poems).

New Year's theme of reflection and self-improvement.

Anonymous, ca. 1744.

20 items.

Hymns, verse prayers, and prose meditations.

Anonymous graduate of King's School, Canterbury and student at Cambridge University, ca. 1760s.

7 items.

Most items related to King's School and Cambridge, seemingly all original.