Sir George Etherege
Verse
Poems by Etherege
First published in
In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.
c.1680s.Recorded in
This MS recorded in Vieth,
Copy, headed
Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley
. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves
. Date at the end of the volume: 1718
, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724
.
The Mr. Corbet
from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in Dunton MS
:
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves.
Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family.
Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).
Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Copy.
A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.
c.1680s-1700s.Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia
, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury
and Bishp Atterbury
[meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle
, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses
[not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion
; a poem Mrs M Waller
(presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.
Cited in Harvard MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
This entry separately classified as EL 8736A. Collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27.
c.1712-27.Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819), to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.
Copy, subscribed in a different ink Rochester
.
Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.
Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
c.1680s.Cited in
Copy.
Tableof contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and
Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
Copy.
Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).
Cited in
In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for
Inscribed on the title-page Hansen
: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.
Cited in Antwerp
[i.e. London], 1680): see
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, pp. 84-5.
Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for
Copy.
totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper. 17th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Selectively edited (as his
Edited from this MS, as
First published in
Copy, headed
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
Copy, headed
The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682
, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, partly written lengthways down the margins, on p. [1] of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, and ascribed to Sr George Etherege
. Late 17th century.
Owned on 21 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, ascribed to Etherege.
Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley
. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves
. Date at the end of the volume: 1718
, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724
.
The Mr. Corbet
from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in Dunton MS
:
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Incept. March. 23. 1652/3., 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
Edited from this MS in Thorpe.
Copy.
Formerly Chest II, No. 36
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published, as
Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, headed
Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.
Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 22-3.
Copy.
Copy.
This MS later brought from Ratisbon by Thomas Walpole, Envoy to the Court of Bavaria, and sent by him to Sir James Bland Burges (1752-1824) on 30 May 1795. Walpole's letter, in which he says Inclosed I have the Honor to send you the only part of the copy of Sir G. Etheredge's papers which I have hitherto received from Ratisbon
, is f. 136r.
Recorded in L 4
.
Copy.
Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.
Copy.
Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.
Copy of lines 1-8, deleted.
Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.
c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].Bookplate of William Busby
. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, title-page
, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.
c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].Bookplate of William Busby
. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, title-page
, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Thorpe
Copy, headed
In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index
).
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, in a professional hand, headed
Sotheby's, 6 November 1984, lot 1185.
Copy.
In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.
c.1680s-90s.Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan
, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street
, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross
. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.
Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, Eloass
mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.
Cited in
This MS collated in Hammond,
Copy, headed
Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).
c.1680s.Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
This MS is closely related to
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes
.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.
For other poems in this series, see
Copy, headed
A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.
c.1680s-1700s.Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 113).
Copy, headed
In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).
c.1690s.Recorded in
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 113.
Copy, headed
Tableof contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and
Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth,
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 113.
Copy.
Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).
Cited in
Copy, headed
Dobell's sale catalogue
Copy, headed
Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for
First published in Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.
For other poems in this series, see
Copy, headed
A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.
c.1680s-1700s.Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 114).
Copy, untitled.
In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).
c.1690s.Recorded in
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 114.
Copy.
Tableof contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and
Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth,
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 114.
Copy.
Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).
Cited in
Copy of the last six lines, here beginning
Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for
Inscribed on the title-page Hansen
: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.
Cited in Antwerp
[i.e. London], 1680): see
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for
First published in
Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, the poem dated 19/29 April 1686.
Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.
Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 32-4.
Copy.
Copy.
This MS later brought from Ratisbon by Thomas Walpole, Envoy to the Court of Bavaria, and sent by him to Sir James Bland Burges (1752-1824) on 30 May 1795. Walpole's letter, in which he says Inclosed I have the Honor to send you the only part of the copy of Sir G. Etheredge's papers which I have hitherto received from Ratisbon
, is f. 136r.
Recorded in L 4
.
Copy.
Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.
Copy, headed
Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.
Copy.
Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.
c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].Bookplate of William Busby
. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, title-page
, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index
).
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, in a professional hand, headed
Sotheby's, 6 November 1984, lot 1185.
Copy.
In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.
c.1680s-90s.Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan
, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street
, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross
. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.
Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, Eloass
mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.
Cited in
This MS collated in Hammond,
Copy, headed
Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).
c.1680s.Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
This MS is closely related to
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes
.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, addressed on the back (p. 102) For Mrs. Weatherly att the Countesse of mnchesters house in Downing Street in Westminster
, dated 10 May 1686, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8302. Sotheby's, 25 June 1935, lot 342, to Maggs. Formerly Chest II, 2
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman,
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.
Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8th 1721
; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764
; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die
; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent
; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab.
Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Rosenfeld (1928), p. 129. Thorpe, p. 13.
Copy, in the hand of Hugo Hughes, written before a letter of 31 December 1686.
Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.
Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 78-9.
Copy.
Copy.
Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.
Copy.
Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.
Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r.
c.1678-80s.Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) John James
. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.
This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman,
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
This MS recorded in
Later owned by William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary.
This MS recorded in Zimmerman, No. 497.
Copy, headed
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
First published in Thomas Southerne,
Copy, untitled, under a general heading
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Nahum Tate,
For the song by Congreve with the same opening line, see
Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia
, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury
and Bishp Atterbury
[meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle
, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses
[not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion
; a poem Mrs M Waller
(presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.
Cited in Harvard MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, headed
Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley
. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves
. Date at the end of the volume: 1718
, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724
.
The Mr. Corbet
from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in Dunton MS
:
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
Copy, in a musical setting.
Once owned by John Henry Mee.
First published in
Copy.
In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index
).
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
Edited from this MS in Thorpe.
First published (lines 1-16 only) in
Copy.
Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.
c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].Bookplate of William Busby
. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, title-page
, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Index, in contemporary calf. c.early 1700s.
Inscribed on the front pastedown to be left at Inbourg's Muff-shop / Pall-Mall
and St hovr Singleton
. Formerly Folger MS 473.1.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index
).
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
Edited from this MS in Thorpe.
Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1685
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
This MS is closely related to
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes
.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, in a musical setting by Thomas Stafford, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell
. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Copy, as By the same Author
[i.e. Sir George Etherege].
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the Addison Miscellany
.
Copy of lines 1-8, headed
The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682
, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Second copy of lines 1-8, headed
The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682
, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, in a musical setting.
In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of
First published in
Copy of stanzas 1 and 3, here ascribed to Etherege.
Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley
. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves
. Date at the end of the volume: 1718
, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724
.
The Mr. Corbet
from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in Dunton MS
:
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, as by Sr. George Etherege
.
Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703
.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708
. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These
.
Recorded in
Copy.
Formerly Chest II, No. 36
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, headed
Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown
.
Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.
Copy, as by Sr: Geo: Etherege
.
Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703
.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708
. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These
.
Recorded in
Copy.
Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.
This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, as By Sir George Etherege
.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the Addison Miscellany
.
Copy.
Formerly Chest II, No. 36
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in
Copy, headed
Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley
. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves
. Date at the end of the volume: 1718
, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724
.
The Mr. Corbet
from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in Dunton MS
:
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, as by Sr. George Etheridge
.
Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703
.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708
. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These
.
Recorded in
Poems of Doubtful Authorship
First published in
Copy.
1642, with remains of clasps.
Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.
Mid-late 17th century.Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS collated in
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.
Copy.
Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.
c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].Bookplate of William Busby
. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, title-page
, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, the poem dated 1682.
Catalogueof contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.
Note of purchase (f. 1r) pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index
).
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Inscribed John Brownlowe His Booke
: i.e. (? Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet, 1659-97). Among the muniments of the Earl of Ancaster.
Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1682
.
Tableof contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, the poem here dated 1682.
Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, the poem dated 1682.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.
This MS collated in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Title only (
Copy.
This MS is closely related to
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes
.
Cited in
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.
Formerly Osborn Box 22, No. 3
.
Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for
First published in
See
Now catalogued as
Now catalogued as
Now catalogued as
First published in
Copy, ascribed to Sr. Geo: Etherege
.
Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley
. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves
. Date at the end of the volume: 1718
, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724
.
The Mr. Corbet
from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in Dunton MS
:
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks,
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, headed
Catalogueof titles, 186 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf within modern half-morocco. c.1700s.
Bookplate of Basil Feilding (1668-1717), fourth Earl of Denbigh, dated 1703. Sold in 1834 by Thomas Thorpe. Owned by the Rev. Dr Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), scholar, President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Sotheby's, 5 July 1855 (Routh sale), lot 178.
Copy, headed
This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52
.
Edited from this MS in Thorpe.
First published in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
This MS is closely related to
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes
.
Cited in
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Dramatic Works
First published in London, 1664. Brett-Smith, I, 1-88 (pp. 21-2). The song in Thorpe, p. 20.
Copy of the song sung by Aurelia and Letitia, headed
This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, in a musical setting.
Owned by, and the MS pages in the hand of, the Rev. John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
c.1660s.Bookplate of Charles Barlow (fl.1720s-30s), of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Leo Liepmannssohn's sale catalogue 183 (1913), item 183 (possibly from MSS purchased in 1907 by James E. Matthew). Library stamp of the Königliche Bibliothek (now Preussische Staatsbibliothek), Berlin. Moved to Kraków in 1946.
Discussed, with various facsimile examples, in H. Diack Johnstone,
Edited from this MS in Johnstone, pp. 187-8, and in Charteris, p. 274.
Brett-Smith, I, 28-9. Thorpe, p. 22.
Copy of Palmer's song.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Brett-Smith, I, 76. Thorpe, p. 21.
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in London, 1676. Brett-Smith, II, 181-288.
Discussed in Edward A. Langhans,
The drinking song. Thorpe, p. 28. Brett-Smith, II, 256-7.
Extracts, inscribed
Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.
Copy of the drinking song, headed
Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands.
c.1686-94.Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.
First published in London, 1668. Brett-Smith, II, 1-179 (p. 169). Thorpe, p. 23.
Copy of Gatty's song, untitled.
M. B.
Compiled by Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London.
Late 17th century.Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume XI of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped
V/I F 1667.
References to Westminster Drollerie
(which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.
Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi
: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
Copy, headed
The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682
, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
Letters
Volume XXXIV of the Middleton Papers, descended from Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's Office.
1685-7.Discussed in Sybil Rosenfeld,
Volume XXXV of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.
1687-88.Discussed in Sybil Rosenfeld,
Volume XXXVIII of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.
1684-7.From my Lord Dangan to me, 394 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Volume XXXIX of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.
1687-8.Two letters by Etherege, to Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (Middleton's successor as Secretary of State for the Northern Department), and his secretary [Rowland] Tempest, the first letter in Hugo Hughes's hand and signed by Etherege, from Ratisbon, [17/27 December 1688 but docketed with date of receipt, 28 January 1688/9]; the second autograph, from Ratisbon, 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9; and one autograph letter to Tempest, from Ratisbon, 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9.
Volume XXIX of the Preston Papers, formerly owned by Sir Charles Graham, Netherby Hall, Preston Papers, vol. 1688 Letters from England [etc.]
. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 303, to Quaritch, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.
Abridged versions edited in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Part I, Appendix, p. 428. The three letters edited in Bracher, pp. 262-5, from the texts in Letterbook No. 1 (
Copy, by Mackintosh, of two letters by Etherege to Preston, from Ratisbon, [17/27 December 1688] and 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9.
Volume XXXI of the Mackintosh Collections.
Late 18th-early 19th century.Recorded in HMC. 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 261.
Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, pp. 432-4 (the date of the first letter given as 28 January 1688/9). For original letters, see
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 8/18 December 1685.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Bracher, pp. 14-15.
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 5/15 January 1685/6.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 2/12 February 1685/6.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 23 February/5 March 1685/6.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 2/12 March 1685/6.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 9/19 March 1685/6.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 20/30 April 1686.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 1/11 June 1686.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 20/30 July 1686.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 24 August/3 September 1686.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 31 August/10 September 1686.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Facsimile pages
Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 8/18 November 1686.
Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's,
Bracher, pp. 70-1.
Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1852, lot 105, and 25 January 1853, lot 183. Waller's sale catalogue for 1871, item 85. Sotheby's, 3 May 1889, lot 33, to Bennett.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.
In a large collection of letters acquired in 1977.
Edited in Rosenfeld, pp. 408-11, and in Bracher, pp. 11-12, 17-18, 79-80.
Edited in Rosenfeld, pp. 405-8 (with a facsimile of part of the last page, misleadingly captioned Specimen of Etherege's Handwriting
), and in Bracher, pp. 3-5. Discussed in Thomas H. Fujimura,
Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. One of the letters possibly that to an unspecified correspondent, dated from Ratisbon, 21 December 1685, offered at Sotheby's, 26 November 1891, lot 133. See
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.
Among a collection of Poley's papers.
1687-8.Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 184. Formerly Osborn Collection, Shelves, Poley Papers
.
Letterbooks
Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Then owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, with facsimile of an opening on p. 138. Unsold and returned to Brett-Smith's executors.
Recorded in L. 5
.
18th-century bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 4 November 1981, lot 99, to Pickering & Chatto. Then owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 227, with a facsimile page on p. 139. Unsold and returned to Brett-Smith's executors.
Recorded in L. 6
.
A quarto volume of copies of over 225 letters by Etherege (some abridged), from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 March 1687/8 (ff. 1-171), together with a verse satire on Etherege [by Hughes] (f. 172r-v), transcripts of fourteen letters sent to Etherege by correspondents (ff. 173r-86v), his accounts (f. 187r-v), Sir Georgs acct. of the Feast on the B[irth] of ye P[rince] of W[ales]
(ff. 188r-91v,
Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.
Recorded in L 2
. Edited complete in Rosenfeld (1928), with a facsimile of part of f. 66v facing p. 170. Selected letters printed in Bracher; also discussed by Bracher in The most constant and best entertainement
: Sir George Etherege's Reading in Ratisbon
Portion of a transcript of Etherege's letterbook, comprising some twenty letters (plus verse) dated from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 July 1686, in a single professional hand.
This MS later brought from Ratisbon by Thomas Walpole, Envoy to the Court of Bavaria, and sent by him to Sir James Bland Burges (1752-1824) on 30 May 1795. Walpole's letter, in which he says Inclosed I have the Honor to send you the only part of the copy of Sir G. Etheredge's papers which I have hitherto received from Ratisbon
, is f. 136r.
Recorded in L 4
.
Containing copies of letters by him, from Ratisbon, 30 November/10 December 1685 to 9/19 January 1688/9, together with his
The first volume (with letters until 26 February/8 March 1687/8) bearing the bookplate of Philip Southcote. William H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 188, with reduced facsimiles of two pages.
The second volume (with letters from 1/11 March 1687/8 onwards) offered for sale in P. J. Dobell,
Recorded in L 1
. Selected letters printed from both volumes in Bracher. The second volume discussed in Sybil Rosenfeld,
Transcript of Etherege's letterbook L 5
from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8.
Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.
Transcript of Etherege's letterbook L 6
from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8.
Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in
Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.
Copy of all the letters, verse and accounts in Sir George Etherege's letterbook from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8, in several contemporary professional hands.
Recorded in L 3
. Recorded in Bracher, p. xii.
Documents
Puttick & Simpson's, 13 May 1867 (the Rev. F.B. Woodward sale), 4th day, lot 1346. Sotheby's, 8 May 1868, lot 545, to Waller. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2401.
Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271.
Facsimiles of the signatures in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70, and in Peter Beal,
Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.