Beinecke Osborn c130 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number	Beinecke Osborn c130
Complete	Yes
Description	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.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	20cm x 17cm
Filled Page Count	108 pages
Item Count	38
Poem Count	38
Periods	1761-1790
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	Yes
Region	Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Suffolk
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes	Conduct, morality Death, afterlife Friendship Satire - social Theatre, drama Women Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Celebrities Courtship, marriage Passions, Sentiments Solitude, loneliness, retir... Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu collections.library.yale.edu
Bibliography
Citation	“Beinecke Osborn c130.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/25. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-19 4:14:58 PM

Contributor	Role
Anne Heigham	Primary compiler
Charlotte Turner Smith	Major author

First Line	Context
Oft I've implor'd the gods in vain	pp. 3–6 Local title: Ode Attributed author: Mrs. Greville Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Poor melancholy bird—that all night long	p. 92 Local title: By the same to a nightingale. Attributed author: By the same [Charlotte Smith]. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Part of a series of six sonnets by Charlotte Smith.
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school	p. 74 Local title: A Portrait addressed to a lady with The School for Scandal. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Welcome little helpless stranger	p. 80 Local title: On the birth of Dr Priestley's son. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Regular.
Binding	Seemingly six gatherings. Contemporary vellum on boards.
Hands	Single, plus one poem in another, perhaps the compiler's son.
Indications of use	Includes son’s tribute to mother at the end ("On the Death of a Most Indulgent Mother by her Son"); suggests rereading of the book. Two items marked “+”
Item formatting	Freely drawn lines (or sometimes double lines) at the ends of items. Lines under titles.
Original poetry	Yes. Definitely "On the Death of a Most Indulgent Mother by her Son"; other poems have been written by Heigham's acquaintances, including several sonnets by Charlotte Smith and an elegy by Mr Hammond; a few other unattributed poems might also be original. The epilogues altered or spoken locally are presumably local productions ("performed by Henry Heigham").
Ownership mark	Signature inside front cover: "Anne Heigham 1781."
Page layout	Generous white space. Paginated (in original hand pp. 1-103; then p. 104 by another hand).
Table of Contents	Yes, at front.