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Farm Yard commonplace book of English verse,
- Title
- Farm Yard commonplace book of English verse, circa 1793?
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 volume (23 manuscript pages; 20 total leaves); 21 cm
- Genre/Form
- Commonplace books.
- Hymns.
- Juvenilia.
- Poetry.
- Note
- Pforzheimer Manuscript (MISC 4396); filed under "Farm Yard."
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Contents
- "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes," by Thomas Gray. -- "A Night Piece," by Elizabeth Carter. -- "The Indian Philosopher," by Isaac Watts. -- "As in smooth oil the razor best is whet," by Edward Young. -- "Written at Midnight in a Thunder storm," by Elizabeth Carter. -- "Hymn to Prosperity," by Sally Carter. -- "Ode to Melancholy," by Elizabeth Carter. -- "Verses written by Dr. Johnson on the death of his Friend Mr. Levett," by Samuel Johnson. -- "Monumental Inscription," by William Mason. -- "On Easter," by W. H. -- "On the Death of Louis 16th," by W. H. -- "A School Boys Life," by W. H. -- "On Eternity" [prose] by James Hervey. -- "Taken from Carthon, a Poem by Ossian."
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- Title
- Farm Yard commonplace book of English verse, circa 1793?
- Summary
- Sewn notebook containing fourteen manuscript pieces, chiefly poems copied from known eighteenth-century English writers, in unidentified divers hands. Three poems are by "W. H., aged 15," and are apparently unpublished. There is a light pencil sketch of a lady sleeping beneath a tree on the verso of leaf 1, and a few small sketches of faces are on the recto of leaf 20. The front cover bears an oval-bordered woodcut scene (10 x 15 cm) titled "Farm Yard"; the covers are printers' waste, the inside being part of a form for registering freeholders.
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Added Author
- Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806.Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Hervey, James, 1714-1758.Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Mason, William, 1725-1797.Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Young, Edward, 1683-1765.