Beinecke Osborn fc51

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pp. 231–232

Local title: Upon a cat drown in a china basin in which were goldfish.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: n/a

pp. 69–70

Local title: Lord Chesterfeilds Prescription to Lady Francis Sherley Or a Receipt for a Consumption.

Attributed author: Lord Chesterfeild.

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: n/a

pp. 262–268

Local title: Seven-Oaks Nunnery to the Tune of Pickington Pounds.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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pp. 31–32

Local title: To all whom it may concern to know me.

Attributed author: H: H.A.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: I'm not high church, nor low church, nor Tory nor Whig...

Other: n/a

pp. 1–3

Local title: Ode On the Honble Mrs Frances Boscawen and Miss Julia Evelyn colecting[sic] and transcribing the following poems.

Attributed author: A.R.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

 Other: Dated July 1746

p. 222.

Local title: By Mr. Littleton soon after his Wives death.

Attributed author: Mr. Littleton.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 158

Local title: Wrote by the same — in her brother's Coke on Littleton.

Attributed author: n/a

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pp. 306–309

Local title: Ode to Indifference.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Followed by Carlisle's Answer (p. 309). 

pp. 146–154

Local title: Monimia, to Philocles.

Attributed author: n/a

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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pp. 132–134

Local title: An Epistle from J: H: to Sir Hans Sloan.

Attributed author: J.H.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 197–201

Local title: Advice to a Young Lady.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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pp. 291–296

Local title: Stanzas wrote in a church yard in the country.

Attributed author: Mr. Thomas Grey[sic].

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: n/a

pp. 35–36

Local title: Upon a whole Length Picture of Mr Nash, plac’d between The Busts of Sr Isaac Newton & Mr Pope (in Lovelace’s great Room at Bath) plac’d so high that they are not well seen.

Attributed author: n/a

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pp. 22–23

Local title: Epistle wrote when dying, from Mrs Molesworth to her husband.

Attributed author: Mrs Molesworth.

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: n/a

pp. 301–302

Local title: By Lord Lyttleton. On Lady Egremont.

Attributed author: Lord Lyttleton.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 309–312

Local title: An answer by Lady Carlisle to Mrs Greville's Ode on Indifference Addressed to a Fairy.

Attributed author: Lady Carlisle.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Follows Greville's "Ode to Indifference" (p. 306). 

pp. 289–290

Local title: Miss Ha—n to Miss Duck upon having refused a great offer in favuor of Mr. More.

Attributed author: Miss Ha—n

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 202–206

Local title: Ode On a distant Prospect of Eton Colledge.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: n/a

p. 227.

Local title: To the memory of Capt. Grenville, who was slain on board the Defiance, in the engagement with the French fleet on the 3rd day of May 1747.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Also appears on p. 221 of this manuscript.

p. 221

Local title: Verses to the Memory of Capt. Grenville, who was slain on board the Defiance, in the Engagement with the French fleet on the 3d Day of May 1747.

Attributed author: n/a

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Other: Also appears on p. 227 of this manuscript.

Occasional (probably around half). When authors are attributed, it is either as part of the title or at the end of the poem.

Pre-bound, some blank pages.

Some middle folios are loose.

Quarter Morocco with red-coloured paper guards; corner guards worn away. Spine labelled: BOSCAWEN POEMS 174[ ].

Occasional short footnotes.

Variations in handwriting towards the end of the manuscript verse miscellany suggest a passage of time or dwindling interest in the neatness of the project.

No lines between titles and text, just a large space.

Very few lines between items; occasionally, there are a series of horizontal lines in the shape of a triangle, but generally there is just a large space.

Frequent numbered stanzas.

Frequently gives the impression of being organised by theme or author, namely from pp. 45–65 which only feature poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Opening poem is a meta-poem on the manuscript verse miscellany's creation titled "On the Hobble Mrs Frances Boscawen and Miss Julia Evelyn colecting[sic] and transcribing the following poems," by A.R.

Yes, plenty, including a number attributed to A.R. and the Revd. Evelyn, and the final epistle, which is by Frances Boscawen. Most poems seem to have come from friends and acquaintances.

Only the compilers' names on the title page.

Paginated.

Generous use of space, very wide margins.

Pencil margins, increasingly clear towards the middle and end of the manuscript.

Small (twentieth-century) photograph inserted on p. 229 featuring a small graveyard and two men in the distance.

Yes: "The Parson’s Barn A Collection of Poems of various kinds. Transcrib’d By Julia Evelyn And Frances Boscawen 1746."