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On seeing in a list of new music, "The Waterloo waltz"

Title
  1. On seeing in a list of new music, "The Waterloo waltz" [manuscript poem] / By a lady (copied from an Aberdeen paper), [approximately 1815?].

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Description
  1. 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet); 24 cm
Summary
  1. Copied in an unknown hand, the poem was published in newspapers and various other publications throughout much of the 19th century. Littell's Living Age (Boston: T. H. Carter & Co.), issue number 18, 14 September 1844, cites (on page 384) the original source to be "the Aberdeen Journal, 1815."
Subject
  1. Scottish poetry > 19th century > Manuscripts > Specimens
  2. Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 > Poetry
Call number
  1. Pforz MS
Note
  1. Pforzheimer Manuscript (MISC 4299); filed under "Waterloo."
  2. Begins, "A moment pause, ye British Fair, / While pleasure's phantom ye pursue ..."
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  1. Restricted access;
Title
  1. On seeing in a list of new music, "The Waterloo waltz" [manuscript poem] / By a lady (copied from an Aberdeen paper), [approximately 1815?].
Access
  1. Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
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  1. Pforz MS
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