William Congreve

1670–1729

Introduction

Autograph Literary Manuscripts

Only two literary autograph manuscripts by Congreve are known to have survived, both poems and both now in the Bodleian Library (*CgW 3.5, *CgW 4). The authenticity of these autograph manuscripts may be established by comparison with a considerable number of surviving letters and documents in Congreve's hand.

Letters

Of his personal autograph letters, over seventy have been recorded in modern times, of which number thirty-four may survive in the originals. Nearly all of these have been edited in Hodges, Letters and 73 letters are printed in McKenzie, III, 136-88.

By far the greatest number of surviving letters by Congreve are addressed to his friend Joseph Keally (1672/3-1713) of Kilkenny. For the established facts about Keally, see notably Kathleen M. Lynch, Congreve's Irish Friend, Joseph Keally, PMLA, 53 (1938), 1076-87, and her A Congreve Gallery (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), pp. 23-36. Congreve is known to have written at least forty-four letters to Keally between 28 September 1697 and 29 October 1712. This correspondence evidently remained with Keally's descendants at least until 1789, when all but one (Hodges, No. 46) of the letters were published in Literary Relics by George-Monck Berkeley, who was the great-grandson of Rebecca Monck Forster, Keally's sister-in-law. At some time after 1789 the collection was dispersed. At present the originals of thirty-three of the letters are untraced and their text is known only from Berkeley (i.e. Hodges, Letters, Nos. 3, 6-8, 10, 12-14, 17-22, 24-8, 30-4, 36, 39, 40, 42, 45, 47-50).

The remaining eleven letters to Keally are given CELM entries (*CgW 74, *CgW 85, *CgW 86, *CgW 89-97).

There are at least thirty-one letters by Congreve to other correspondents, of which number twenty-three are probably preserved in the originals and are given CELM entries (*CgW 73, *CgW 75, *CgW 78-79, *CgW 81-84, *CgW 87, *CgW 98-101, *CgW 103-110, *CgW 112-113). Most of these are recorded in Hodges, Letters, and see also Hodges' discussion of The Dating of Congreve's Letters in PMLA, 51 (1936), 153-64.

Congreve's letters known only from early printed sources (Hodges Nos. 110, 112, 115, 118, 124, 132, 144, and 146) include literary correspondence with John Dennis and Catharine Trotter (including his observations on humour in comedy). These may be supplemented by the dedications he wrote for his various works and publications. The latter are addressed to such figures as Queen Anne, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Dorset, the Earl of Montagu, Lord Clifford of Lanesborough, Charles Montagu and Mrs Katharine Levenson and are reprinted in Hodges, Letters, Nos. 84, 103-7, 116, 122 and 125. Between 1692 and 1728, Congreve also wrote five formal verse epistles to John Dryden, Charles Montagu (Earl of Halifax), Sir Godfrey Kneller and Sir Richard Temple (Viscount Cobham): see Dobrée, pp. 199-200, 252-3, 289-90, 323-6 and 400-2 (also CgW 26-29.3, CgW 46-46.5).

An unspecified letter by Congreve was in an album of letters offered at Sotheby's, 17 February 1890 (Alexander Foote sale), lot 285. Two unspecified letters by Congreve, in a collection of sixty miscellaneous letters, were sold at Christie's, 5 November 1945 (Tonson/Clinton Baker sale), lot 193.

A letter allegedly by Congreve the poet, both undated and unsigned, addressed to [Mr Whistler], was formerly in the now widely dispersed collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805), once owned by the Rev. W. Sneyd of Keele Hall, Staffordshire. It was briefly described in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 289. The letter, not recorded by Hodges, contains a discussion of poetry, with references to Whitehead, Whistler, Dick Iago, Dodsley and Hammond. It would accordingly appear to date from later in the 18th century, well after Congreve's death.

Documents

A number of other documents of a financial or business nature are known to have been written or signed by Congreve. The majority comprise receipts for payment. Some are of special interest in so far as they relate to transactions with Congreve's publisher Jacob Tonson (and son), a few also throwing light on Congreve's early relations with the ageing Poet Laureate, John Dryden. Most of these miscellaneous documents have been recorded by Hodges (Letters), although a few have managed to elude his indefatigable searches and it is possible that other examples will come to light in due course. These documents are given CELM entries (CgW 114-145).

For Hodges's document No. 61, Dryden's contract with Tonson for his edition of Virgil witnessed by Congreve, see Dryden, *DrJ 376.

It should be noted — as Hodges himself frequently does — that William Congreve the dramatist has often been confused with various other members of his family bearing the same name (such as his cousin, Colonel William Congreve (1670-1746), some of whose papers are preserved at Yale and in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds). Thus the authenticity of certain of the documents recorded in CELM, whose present location is uncertain, must remain unconfirmed.

Congreve's Library

A further source for examples of Congreve's signature is certain of the books from his library. On 27 January 1728/9, in a letter to his nephew, Jacob Tonson described Congreve's collection of Books as very genteel & well chosen and worth buying. He added: I think there are in [those] books several notes of his own or corrections & everything from him will be very valuable (Hodges, Library, p. 9). Congreve's library was bequeathed in 1729 to his mistress Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, who subsequently passed it on to their daughter, Mary. In 1740 Mary married Thomas Osborne, fourth Duke of Leeds, and the library remained at their seat, Hornby Castle in Yorkshire, until its dispersal, prior to the demolition of the house, in 1930. Several manuscript lists of the family library at Hornby survive, but one, preserved in the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in Leeds, was identified by Hodges as being an eighteenth-century list specifically of Congreve's books: see Hodges, Library (facsimiles of the first and fourth pages of the manuscript catalogue appearing as his frontispiece and facing p. 26). In this forty-four-page catalogue — which is also edited, arranged in alphabetical order, in McKenzie, III, 479-542 — are recorded the titles of 659 books (some composite) dating from 1515 to 1728. Either in part or in its entirety, Congreve's library was incorporated in the thousands of books sold by the eleventh Duke of Leeds in June 1930, in a series of sales at Sotheby's (on 2-4 June) and at Hornby Castle itself (lots 1097-1294 in the seven-day sale arranged by Knight, Frank & Rutler). Only a very few of the books were identified as Congreve's in the sale catalogues and indeed most of those books sold at Hornby were not individually specified at all.

Of those titles that are mentioned in the 1930 sale catalogues, nearly seventy correspond with titles given in the early manuscript catalogue and are therefore likely to represent books from Congreve's library. These are indicated in Hodges, Library. Some twenty-five years after the Leeds sales, Hodges was able to locate — or at least record the recent existence of — some sixteen volumes (some of which were mentioned in the sale catalogues, others not). Of those volumes, twelve bear Congreve's signature. A further five volumes, currently untraced, are specifically described in the sale catalogues as bearing Congreve's signature, although, of course, many others may actually have been signed. The signed volumes traced by Hodges include Congreve's exempla of: the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 (formerly in the Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, Lt. 1, SHA; sold at Christie's, 28 November 1990, lot 115, and now in Meisei University, Tokyo); John Oldham, Works, 1686 (Yale, IjoL1 c 684b); Aristophanes, Comedies, 1692 (Boston Public Library); Homer, 1606 (Pierpont Morgan Library); Terence, Comedies, 1694 (University of Tennessee: a facsimile of the signed title-page appearing in Hodges, Library, facing p. 100); and other books recorded by Hodges as being at the University of Tennessee, at Yale, and in the possession of the Rev. J.F. Gerrard and E.S. de Beer. One of the latter's volumes inscribed by Congreve — John Raymond's An Itinerary contayning a voyage, made through Italy (London, 1646) — is now in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

A few items that Hodges failed to locate may briefly be mentioned. Congreve's signed exemplum of Thomas Randolph, Cornelianum dolium (London, 1638), evidently corresponding to Hodges, Library, No. 112, is now in the library of the University of Manchester (Christie 10. a. 20). An exemplum of Charles Cotton's translation of Montaigne's Essays (3 vols, 1685-93), bearing Congreve's signature on each title-page and evidently corresponding to Hodges, Library, No. 379, was sold at Sotheby's, 22 July 1982, Lot 580, to Quaritch. A composite volume comprising Dryden's Of Dramatick Poesie (1694), Roscommon's translation of Horace's Art of Poetry (1684) and Buckingham's The Rehearsal (1687), all three signed by Congreve and evidently corresponding to Hodges No. 406, was sold at Christie's, 19 May 1982, lot 164. It was re-offered in Quaritch's catalogue English Books before 1701 (October 1983), item 236, and is now privately owned. Congreve's inscribed exempla of François Hédelin, La Pratique du Theatre (Paris, 1657) and Charles Cotton's translation of Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne (London, 1685) were in the library of John R. B. Brett-Smith and were sold at Sotheby's, 27 May 2004, lots 122 and 123 (illustrated in the sale catalogue).

Those recorded in the 1930 sales catalogues as containing Congreve's signature include his exempla of Thomas Otway's plays; Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (1698-1702); Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Camoens, Lusiad (1655); and Stow's Survey of London (1637). Other volumes mentioned in the early manuscript catalogue include works by Beaumont and Fletcher, Jonson, Chaucer, Cowley, Dryden, Donne, Hobbes, Thomas Killigrew, Milton, Newton, Prior, Pope, Spenser, Swift, Suckling, Shadwell, Voltaire and Wycherley. There is also record, not mentioned by Hodges, of Congreve's signed exemplum of Robert Boyle's Some Considerations touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures (London, 1663), sold at Sotheby's, 15 June 1846 (William Upcott sale), lot 119.

It is also known that Congreve presented at least three exempla of his Works (3 vols, London, 1710) to friends. One was sent to Joseph Keally (see his letter of 9 November 1710: Hodges, Letters, No. 42). Another, inscribed to Anthony Henley, was recorded by J. Isaacs in Congreve's Library, TLS (2 September 1949), p. 569. Yet another bears an inscription by Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (december 1710. given me by m^r Congreve S. Marlborough). This is now in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York.

Manuscript Copies

Of those manuscript copies of original works by Congreve given CELM entries, the majority — copied chiefly in miscellanies and compilations dating from the eighteenth century — were almost certainly transcribed from printed sources. There are a few notable exceptions. While no authorial manuscripts are preserved of any of those dramatic works (especially The Way of the World) on which Congreve's reputation rests, a single document among King's Bench records in the National Archives, Kew, allows for a brief glimpse of what was probably the original acting version of his early comedy Love for Love. Over a dozen lines spoken by Sir Sampson Legend or his son Ben, in a substantially different version from the published text, are cited in an indictment against stage profanity (see CgW 62). Since the document relates to a performance of the play on 26 December 1700, it is possible that Congreve's original text as used in the first performance in April 1695 had been altered by the actors, but it is at least equally likely — as the discoverers of the document argued in 1975 — that the objectionable expressions were in Congreve's original manuscript. No further contemporary documentary sources throw light on the text of Congreve's plays other than the various printed editions, which themselves incorporate authorial revisions (for a notable instance, see, for example, David D. Mann, Congreve's Revisions of The Mourning Bride, PBSA, 69 (1975), 526-46). The full score of Congreve's opera The Judgment of Paris, possibly in the hand of the composer Daniel Purcell (CgW 58), is an important witness to one of Congreve's more peripheral dramatic productions; however, an extant manuscript of his opera Semele (CgW 71) belongs to the later production in Handel's adaptation. As is common with both plays and operas of the period, certain of the songs in Congreve's dramatic works had some degree of circulation as independent pieces, the texts recorded in CELM probably deriving from musical scores.

One of the very few poems by Congreve to achieve some degree of manuscript circulation before publication, beyond the confines of his private friends and acquaintances, is his Letter to Viscount Cobham. In his octavo edition of 1729, Edmund Curll claimed: The following Epistle…is here printed from a Manuscript of the Author, with which I was obliged by a person of the first Rank; the Public having been notoriously abused, by a very erroneous Copy, surreptitiously obtained by one Lewis in Covent-Garden and vended under the Cover of A. Dodd and E. Nutt (Summers, IV, 219). Several contemporary copies of this poem (textually closer to Curll's version than to Lewis's) are recorded (CgW 26-29.3), including one from the family papers of Congreve's publisher, Jacob Tonson. Another surreptitiously circulated poem was his pastoral elegy on the Marquess of Blandford, The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. Writing to Tonson on 1 July 1703, Congreve reported that Tonson's nephew had told me of Copies that were dispersed of the Pastoral & likely to be printed so we have thought fit to prevent 'em & print it our selves (Hodges, Letters, No. 69). In the published edition (1703), in the prefatory remarks To the Reader, Congreve explains further: These verses had been Printed soon after they were written if they had not been design'd rather privately to Condole, than publickly to Lament…But, by some Accident, many Copies of 'em have been dispersed, and one, I was informed, had been shewn to a Bookseller. So that it was high time for me to prevent their appearing with more Faults than their own (Summers, IV, 67). One of these unauthorized Copies is among the Duke of Portland's collections (CgW 45).

Verse Canon

The canon of Congreve's poetry has not been established conclusively, although the main body (most of which Congreve incorporated in his Works (1710)) is clear enough. Except for the two poems discussed above (CgW 3.5 and *CgW 4) and another set by Henry Purcell which is printed in Dobrée (CgW 47-49), those poems given CELM entries are based, for present purposes, on the canon established in Summers (virtually the same adopted in McKenzie). This includes A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (CgW 11-21), which has been sometimes assigned to the Earl of Dorset.

Yet further poems have been ascribed to Congreve in manuscript sources, whether legitimately or otherwise. These have not been given separate entries, but may be briefly listed as follows:

1. A Ballad on the Victory at Oudenarde (Ye Commons and Peers) — First published anonymously, as Jack Frenchman's Lamentation (London, 1708). McKenzie, II, 469-71 (headed Jack French-Man's Defeat). Anonymous in Poetical Miscellanies, The Sixth Part (published by Jacob Tonson, London, 1709). Reprinted, and a case for Congreve's authorship (based on contemporary references) argued, in William Congreve: A Sheaf of Poetical Scraps, ed. Dragosh Protopopesco, 2nd edition (Bucharest, [1925]), pp. 24-9, and also in Dobrée, pp. 381-3. Variously attributed to Swift, Congreve and Prior, but there seems no reason to assume the author was a major poet (D.F. Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1975), p. 382, J1-J5). See also the text and discussion in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams, 3 vols (Oxford, 1937), III, 1078-82. A manuscript copy, headed The Frenchman's Lamentation An Excellent New Song to the Tune of I'll tell the Dick, dated July 1708 and ascribed to M^r Congreve, is in an early 18th-century verse miscellany (also containing other verses by Congreve) in the British Library (Add. MS 40060, ff. 71v-3v). An anonymous copy is in the British Library (Add. MS 30162, ff. 26v-30). Another copy is in Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 11, pp. 143-6), and a four-page octavo copy endorsed M^r Prior's Ballad upon y^e Victory at Oudenard 1708, was owned in 1937 by Harold Williams.
2. The History and Fall of the Conformity-Bill (God bless our Gracious Sovereign Anne) — Published in A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs, from Oliver Cromwel To this present Time (London, 1705), pp. 557-61. The text in Alexander Pope's exemplum of this publication (British Library, C. 28. e. 15) is annotated by him Certainly written by M^r Congreve. Attributed to Arthur Maynwaring (who, like Congreve, was a member of the Order of the Toast or Punch Club) in John Oldmixon, The Life and Posthumous Works of A. Maynwaring (London, 1715), p. 40.A manuscript copy, dated January 1703/4 and subscribed Certainly written by Mr. Congreve, is in the British Library (Add. MS 40060, ff. 41r-5r). The poem is ascribed to Robert Wisdom in Bodleian (MS Locke. c. 32, f. 44r) and British Library (Add. MS 7122, f. 6r). Anonymous copies are in Bodleian (MSS Rawl. D. 360, f. 62r; Rawl. poet. 169, f. 29r; Firth b. 21, f. 51r), and elsewhere.
3. The Oath of the Tost (By Bacchus and by Venus Swear) — A manuscript copy, ascribed to M^r Congreve, is in British Library (Add. MS 40060, f. 7r). It is edited from this manuscript and attributed to Congreve in W.J. Cameron, John Dryden and Henry Heveningham, N & Q, 202 (May 1957), 199-203.
4. A Satyr Against Love (After the Rebel Lucifer was driv'n) — First published, as Revis'd and Corrected by Mr. Congreve, in London, 1703. Reprinted and discussed in John Barnard, Did Congreve write A Satyr Against Love?, BNYPL, 68 (1964), 308-22. In the prefatory remarks To the Reader in The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas (1703), Congreve specifically disowns this poem: [he] does assure the Reader he never saw or heard of any such Verses before they were so Printed, viz. without either the Name of the Author, Bookseller or Printer, being Publish'd after the Manner of a Libel (Barnard, op. cit., p. 310; Summers, IV, 67).A manuscript copy of the first forty-seven lines, ascribed to M^r. Congreve (written at the end of a manuscript medical treatise) is in the British Library (Sloane MS 3996, f. 46r-v). It is edited from that source, and assigned to Congreve, by Dragosh Protopopesco in TLS (8 November 1923) and in William Congreve: A Sheaf of Poetical Scraps, 2nd edition (Bucharest, [1925]), pp. 21-3, and also in Dobrée, pp. 378-9. It is almost certainly not by Congreve.
5. The Mulcibers, who in the Minories sweat — Attributed to Congreve (what Congreve said about Aurelia) in a letter by Clarina published in Addison and Steele's The Guardian, No. 85 (18 June 1713).A manuscript copy in a verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton (b.1699/1700) of Trinity College, Cambridge (c.1718-22) is in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. poet. 116, f. 119v).
6. On the Union (Whilst rich in brightest red the blushing rose) — Translation of a Latin poem, published in 1707 (Foxon R 304). Assigned to Nicholas Rowe in his Poems (1714).A manuscript copy, as By Mr Congreve, is among the Gibson manuscripts in Leeds University Library, MS Lt. 87, f. 82r.

Dramatic Works

A few eighteenth-century promptbooks of Congreve's plays survive and are discussed notably in Edward A. Langhans, Eighteenth Century British and Irish Promptbooks: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York, Westport, Conn., & London, 1987), pp. 30-4. Two examples from the collection of prompt-books given by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps to the Morrab Library, Penzance, were sold at Sotheby's on 27 May 1964. Lot 669 was a marked-up 18th-century prompt-copy of The Old Batchelour (1693), now in Edinburgh University Library (JA 275), while lot 674 was a similar prompt-copy of The Double-Dealer (2nd edition, [1707]), now in Edinburgh University Library (JA 274). Complete photocopies of these two prompt-books are in the University of Texas (Prompt Books Box 1). Other prompt-books of this kind no doubt survive elsewhere. Eighteenth-century editions of Congreve's plays that are, in effect, printed acting copies are discussed in Emmett L. Avery, Congreve's Plays on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (New York, 1951), pp. 161-70. The manuscript of a play by Alexander Dalrymple adapted in 1795 from Congreve's novel Incognita is in the Bodleian (MS Don. e. 55).

A manuscript of a prologue and epilogue for a private performance of Congreve's The Mourning Bride (1697) is at Yale (Osborn MSS File 19022). The performance was given, probably by Thomas Betterton's Lincoln's Inn Fields company, for George, Earl of Berkeley, and his wife Elizabeth on their 51st anniversary.

Miscellaneous

An unlocated manuscript miscellany allegedly containing a number of Poems by William Congreve was offered for sale in P.J. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1285, where it is described as a Commonplace Book also including Poems by Charles Gildon and…the poems of Boetius, made English by y^e Right Hon^ble. Richard L^d. Viscount Preston, printed 1695.

Unspecified pieces by Congreve and others are reported to have been in a late 17th-century small octavo commonplace book once owned by the Hertfordshire solicitor and historian Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949). This was sold at Sotheby's, 12 December 1977, lot 110, to Quaritch.

An exemplum of Edmund Gosse's Life of William Congreve (1888) annotated by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is in the Bodleian Library (Thorn-Drury d. 49).

Abbreviations

Berkeley — George-Monck Berkeley, Literary Relics (1789).
Davis — The Complete Plays of William Congreve, ed. Herbert Davis (Chicago and London, 1967).
Dobrée — The Mourning Bride, Poems, & Miscellanies by William Congreve, ed. Bonamy Dobrée (London [1928]).
Hodges, Letters — William Congreve: Letters & Documents, collected and edited by John C. Hodges (London, 1964).
Hodges, Library — John C. Hodges, The Library of William Congreve (New York, 1955).
Hodges, Man — John C. Hodges, William Congreve the Man (New York and London, 1941).
Summers — The Complete Works of William Congreve, ed. Montague Summers, 4 vols (London, 1923).
McKenzie — The Works of William Congreve, ed. D.F. McKenzie, prepared for publication by C.Y. Ferdinand, 3 vols (Oxford, 2011).

Verse

Absence ('Ah! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves')

See CgW 37-38.

Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')

See CgW 11-21.

A Ballad on the Victory at Oudenarde ('Ye Commons and Peers')

See Introduction.

A Complaint to Pious Selinda

See CgW 4.

Doris ('Doris, a Nymph of ripe Age')

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 142-3. Dobrée, pp. 285-7. McKenzie, II, 370-1.

CgW 1

Copy of lines 49-64, headed Character of a Jilt and beginning Peculiar therefore is her Way.

In: A quarto commonplace book of verse extracts, 340 pages (including blanks), in a small neat hand.

Mid-18th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 144 p. 110) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 1.5

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards.

c.1730s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 9 pp. 54-6) | Catalogue

The Eleventh Satyr of Juvenal ('If Noble Atticus makes plenteous Feasts')

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Summers, IV, 10-22. Dobrée, pp. 254-69. McKenzie, II, 337-47.

CgW 2

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 152 ff. 10r-15r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 2.5

Copy.

In: Transcript of The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]), without the prefatory matter, in a single neat hand, 364 quarto pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1700

Bookplates of Johannes Winckley, of Preston, and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bought in Calcutta in 1843 by Alexander Gardyne (1801-85), author. Sotheby's, 1889 (Gardyne sale), lot 0000. Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.224 pp. 145-58) | Catalogue

Epilogue [to The Way of the World] Spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle ('After our Epilogue this Crowd dismisses')

First published in The Way of the World (London, 1700). Summers, III, 78. Davis, p. 479. McKenzie, II, 224-5.

CgW 3 c.1700

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, on two pages in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet.

In: A folio guardbook of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, including (ff. 1r-9r) a quarto booklet of sixteen poems by Donne in a single neat italic hand, 54 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Herbert MS: DnJ Δ 56.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5308 E ff. 44v-5r) | Catalogue

'Faded Delia moues Compassion'

Four untitled quatrains. First published in D. F. McKenzie, A New Congreve Literary Autograph, Bodleian Library Record, 15/4 (April 1996), 292-9. McKenzie, Works, II, 466.

*CgW 3.5

Autograph

Autograph MS, with revisions in line 11, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1693-4

Once owned by James Baker. Sotheby's, 26 May 1855, lot 16, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Christie's, 29 June 1995, lot 327.

Edited from this MS and discussed in McKenzie. Facsimile in his article Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410 (p. 402).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 197)

'False tho you've been to me & Love'

A version of the first eight lines first published, as the last two stanzas of The Reconciliation, in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 141. Dobrée, p. 241. McKenzie, II, 322. The 16-line version first published in Hodges, Man (1941), p. 88 (with the suggested title A Complaint to Pious Selinda).

*CgW 4

Autograph

Autograph draft of a 16-line version, with revisions, on a single octavo leaf.

Later owned by Roger W. Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Simon Finch, Rare Books Ltd, sale catalogue (1998), item 29, with facsimile.

Edited from this MS in Hodges, Man, p. 88 (with a facsimile following). Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VII, and in DLB, vol. 84, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. Second Series, ed. Paula R. Backscheider (Detroit, 1989), p. 77. Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in D.F. McKenzie, Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 205)

Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve ('Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis')

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

CgW 5

Copy.

In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.

Early-mid-18th century

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 105 ff. 23r-5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 6

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 153 leaves.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1095 f. 124r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 7

Copy.

In: A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

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 y^e 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.

Early 18th century

The M^r. 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 IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 30r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 8

Copy.

This MS discussed and partly collated in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (March 1964), 97-100.

In: A folio volume of 124 poems by Charles Cotton (with second copies of three poems), including a few poems by others, 258 pages.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

c.1651-66 [with later additions]

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Derby Central Library (fmss 8470 pp. 250-2)

CgW 9

Copy, headed An Imitation of Horace by M^r: Congreve.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 53r-4r)

CgW 9.5

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 416 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1743-67

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 45 pp. 386-7) | Catalogue

CgW 9.8

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1690s

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 71 ff. 40v-2r) | Catalogue

'How Happy's the Husband, whose Wife has been try'd'

First published in John Dryden, Love Triumphant. or, Nature will Prevail (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 34. Dobrée, pp. 375-6. McKenzie, II, 462. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus, Book II (London, 1694).

CgW 10

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 196 ff. 44v-5v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

CgW 11

Copy, the poem here dated 1696, inscribed afterwards By E D and corrected in another hand.

This MS recorded in Harris.

In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 ff. 243v-4r) | Catalogue

CgW 12

Copy, here dated 1696 and as By: E Dorset.

This MS recorded in Harris.

In: A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 115r) | Catalogue

CgW 13

Copy, subscribed Congreve.

In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August y^e. 6^th 1717.

1715-17

University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 201) | Catalogue

CgW 14

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 90v)

CgW 14.5 c.1690s

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single octavo leaf.

In: An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands.

Among the family archives of Lord Braybrooke, of Audley End, Essex.

Essex Record Office, Chelmsford (D/DBy Z5 [unnumbered item]) | Catalogue

CgW 15

Copy, the poem here dated 1696/7, subscribed By E of Dorset (deleted), then in a different ink M^r Congreve, inscribed at the side Lady Fitzhardys Daughter.

This MS recorded in Harris.

In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS M.b.12 ff. 188v-9r) | Catalogue

CgW 16

Copy, the poem here dated 1697, with a note Lady Fitzhardys Daughter.

This MS recorded in Harris.

In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698, x + 336 pages plus index.

c.1700

Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 686 pp. 183-4)

CgW 16.5

Copy, headed Amoret.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards.

c.1730s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 9 p. 47) | Catalogue

CgW 17

Copy, headed A hugh and cry after fair Amoret. 1696 By E. D--t.

In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c^a. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a person of Quality, 298 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Early 18th century

From the library of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and possibly once belonging to Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, and her husband Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 38 pp. 178-9) | Catalogue

CgW 18

Copy, as By M^r: Congreve, the poem dated in the margin 1696/7.

In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 44 pp. 158-9) | Catalogue

CgW 19

Copy, as By the E. of Dorset, the poem dated 1696.

This MS recorded in Haris; transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 50, p. 75.

In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a Table of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 48 f. 93v) | Catalogue

CgW 20

Copy, untitled, on a single leaf, addressed on the verso To the Right Honourable The Countess of Panmure and folded as a letter.

c.1720s

Among papers of the Earl of Dalhousie.

National Archives of Scotland (GD45/26/99/58)

CgW 21

Copy, untitled, with other verses, on one side of a folio leaf, addressed on the verso to The Right Hona^bl The Earle of Panmure, folded as a letter, with a black wax seal.

c.1720s

Among papers of the Earl of Dalhousie.

National Archives of Scotland (GD45/26/99/65)

In Imitation of Horace. Ode IX. Lib. I ('Bless me, 'tis cold! how chill the Air!')

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems (London, 1692). Dobrée, pp. 237-9. McKenzie, II, 318-20.

CgW 21.5

Copy, as By M^r Congreve.

In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1690s

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 71 ff. 42r-3r) | Catalogue

Jack Frenchman's Lamentation ('Ye Commons and Peers')

See Introduction.

The Lamentations of Hecuba, Andromache, and Helen, over the dead Body of Hector ('Now did the Saffron Morn her beams display')

First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 28-32. Dobrée, pp. 228-33. McKenzie, II, 307-12.

CgW 22

Copy.

In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.

Early-mid-18th century

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 105 ff. 42r-8v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 23

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30^th 1713.

c.1700-1714

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 201 pp. 131-8) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Lesbia ('When Lesbia first I saw so heavn'ly Fair')

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 79. Dobrée, pp. 284-5. McKenzie, II, 369.

CgW 24

Copy, untitled.

In: A miscellany of verse and prose, entitled Miscellanies, many pages excised.

Compiled by one Thomas Phillibrown of London.

c.1740-58

Once owned by J.L. Lawford. Given to the library on 5 October 1901 by Mrs Green, of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 9 p. 235) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 25

Copy.

In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August y^e. 6^th 1717.

1715-17

University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 200) | Catalogue

CgW 25.5

Copy, headed Song by M^r. Congreve.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 126) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Letter to Viscount Cobham ('Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime')

First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

See also CgW 30.

CgW 26

Copy, in a neat probably professional hand, headed Albi nostrorum Sesmonum Candide Judex &c, subscribed in a different hand Aug^st y^e 24^th 1728, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed S:B: Aug^t: 24^th:-1728. c.1728.

In: A tall folio composite volume of verse and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, mounted on guards, 185 leaves, in modern half morocco.

Purchased at H.B. Rays sale, 26 July 1856, lot 1033.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21544 ff. 15r-16r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 26.5

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed M^r Congreve to Lord Cobham 1728., on three folio pages.

c.1730

Mullocks Auction Ludlow, 23 August 2007, lot 270.

Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 9244 (i).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Ludlow MS])

CgW 27

Copy, headed An Epistle from M^r. Congreve at Bath to Lord Cobham at Stowe. Aug^t. 24. 1728.

In: A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat rounded hand, including (ff. 126r-9v) a list of contents, 129 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1r) The following Collection has been the Employment of some leisure Hours; several of the Pieces have since appear'd in Print....

c.1730s

Presented by Edward Gilbertson, 9 May 1885.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 32463 ff. 98v-9v) | Catalogue

CgW 27.5

Copy, in double columns, subscribed sent to my L^d Cobham in a letter from Bath 24 August 1728, in a letter (ff. 31r-2v) by George Grenville to his brother Richard (who was Lord Cobham's nephew and heir), written from London, 19 March 1728/9.

Edited from this MS in Descriptions of Lord Cobham's Gardens at Stowe (1700-1750), ed. G.B. Clarke, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 26 (1990), pp. 24-7.

In: A large square-shaped folio composite volume of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 188 leaves, mounted on guards.

Correspondence of George Grenville (1712-70), Treasurer of the Navy, First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer, his wife Elizabeth, and his brother Richard Temple-Grenville (1711-79), Earl Temple, First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Privy Seal.

Sotheby's, 7 November 1972.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 55000 through 59999 (Add. MS 57804 f. 31v)

CgW 27.8

Copy of lines 1-56, in a neat hand, headed Verses by Congreve on Lord Cobham's Gates at Stowe, incomplete, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, stained. c.1728-40s.

Probably owned by Sir William Petty's younger son, Henry, first Earl of Shelburne (d.1751), of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

In: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly verse, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 262 leaves, mounted on guards, in brown morocco gilt.

Vol. L of the Petty Papers, owned principally by Sir William Petty (1623-87), natural philosopher and administrator in Ireland.

Formerly owned by the Earl of Shelburne, Bowood House (Petty Papers, Vol. 2).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72899 ff. 151r-2r)

CgW 28

Copy, headed Albi nostrum Sermonum Candide Judex. An Epistle to my Lord Cobham, by M^r Congreve, subscribed in a different hand Note this is one of the last Copies of Verses M^r. Congreve wrote before he died.

In: A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, i + 131 leaves, in half black morocco gilt.

c.1730s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7318 ff. 49r-50v) | Catalogue

CgW 29

Copy, headed Albi, nostrorum Sermonum Candide Judex, Hor. An Epistle to my Lord Cobham. By M^r. Congreve, subscribed Note, This is one of the last copies of Verses M^r. Congrev[e] wrote before he died. Harleian MS. N°. 7318, on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

Mid-18th century

This MS recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 16.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS C.c.1(75))

CgW 29.3

Copy, in a neat hand, headed A Letter to Lord Cobham, from the late M^r. Congreve, a little before he dy'd, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

c.1730-50

Among papers of Sir Harry Pope Blount (1702-57) and Anne, Lady Blount (d.1716), of Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire. Later among the papers of the Earl of Caledon, of Caledon Castle, Northern Ireland, and formerly preserved in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (D2433/D7/13).

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/Cd (Add) F6/13) | Catalogue

The Message ('Go thou unhappy victim')

Published in Works (1710). McKenzie, II, 465.

CgW 29.5

Copy, headed The Message, By W. C.

In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1690s

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 71 f. 51r) | Catalogue

CgW 29.6 c.1730-50

Copy, in a neat hand, headed M^r. Congreve to Lord Cobham In imitation of Horace / Albi nostrorum sermonum Candide judex, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: An unbound bundle of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 66 items.

Among papers of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Box 4 Parcel IV, No. 4 item 38)

CgW 29.8

Copy.

Early 18th century

Among the papers of the Ryder family, Earls of Harrowby.

Sandon Hall Archives, Stafford (MS 81, ff. 1r-2r)

The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary of ever Blessed Memory ('Behold, Alexis, see the Gloomy Shade')

First published in 1695. Summers, IV, 39-44. McKenzie, II, 279-85.

CgW 29.9

Copy, headed Shade.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

c.1723

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 15 pp. 45-6) | Catalogue

'Not so robust in body as in mind'

The last four lines (beginning For vertue now is neither more nor less) constituting the last four lines of Letter to Viscount Cobham, first published in London, 1729. The first four lines apparently unpublished but for the facsimile noted below.

See CgW 26-9.

CgW 30

Copy of an eight-line poem, subscribed W Congreve/Bath 24 Aug^st 1728, on a single oblong octavo leaf.

c.1730

Later in the autograph collection of James Fraser Gluck (1852-97), New York State lawyer and library curator.

Facsimile of this MS (erroneously supposed to be autograph) in Frederick G. Netherclift, The Hand-Book to Autographs (London, 1862), No. 13.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Gluck Collection ([no shelfmark])

Of Pleasing; an Epistle To Sir Richard Temple (''Tis strange, dear Temple, how it comes to pass')

Summers, IV, 148-51. McKenzie, II, 406-9.

CgW 30.5

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards.

c.1730s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 9 pp. 57-60) | Catalogue

CgW 30.8

Copy, headed Of Pleasing: An Epistle to S^r R^d. T---e, written lengthways down the pages.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Jun^r: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 110 ff. 39r-43v) | Catalogue

On Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing, Irregular Ode ('Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease')

See CgW 50-53.

Paraphrase upon Horace, Ode XIX, Lib. I ('The Tyrant Queen of Soft Desires')

First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 33. Dobrée, pp. 234-5. McKenzie, II, 313-14.

CgW 31

Copy.

In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.

Early-mid-18th century

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 105 ff. 13v-14v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

A Pindarique Ode Humbly Offer'd to the Queen On the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty's Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough ('Daughter of Memory, Immortal Muse')

First published in London, 1706. Summers, IV, 82-91. Dobrée, pp. 335-41. McKenzie, II, 419-23.

CgW 32

Copy, in a neat hand, headed To the Queen, on the victorious Progress of her Majesty's Arms under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. A Pindaric Ode. By Mr Congreve, on three folio blank pages of printed pamphlets dated 1713-14.

In: A composite volume of printed Oxford verse.

Early-mid-18th century

Once owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

Yale (Lmd96 + 700e pp. 340-1, 344) | Catalogue

CgW 32.5

Copy, headed By M^r Congreve.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 150r) | Catalogue

CgW 32.7

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of Miscellanea Latina et Anglicana, compiled by Edward Southwell (d.1760), Secretary of State for Ireland.

Early 18th century?

Thomas Osborne, Catalogue of the libraries of...several gentlemen (1748), item 248.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Edward Southwell MS] [unspecified page numbers])

CgW 32.8

Copy, headed On Mrs. Br-girdles..p Congreve, here beginning Pious Melinda goes to prayers.

Written with other verses on an endpaper in an exemplum of John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, The Temple of Death, 2nd edition (London, 1695).

c.1700

Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (John Brett-Smith sale), lot 105, unsold.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Temple of Death])

CgW 32.9

Copy, headed Song.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, 186 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1728

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 176 p. 38) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

'Pious Celinda goe to prayers'

See CgW 41.

Priam's Lamentation and Petition to Achilles, for the Body of his Son Hector ('So spake the God, and Heav'nward took his Flight')

First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 25-7. Dobrée, pp. 225-8. McKenzie, II, 303-6.

CgW 33

Copy.

In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.

Early-mid-18th century

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 105 ff. 37v-41v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 34

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30^th 1713.

c.1700-1714

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 201 pp. 127-30) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Prologue to the Court, On the Queens' Birth-Day, 1704 ('The happy Muse, to this high Scene preferr'd')

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 72-3. Dobrée, pp. 275-6. McKenzie, II, 359-60.

CgW 35 c.1704

Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, on the rectos of two conjugate quarto leaves.

In: A tall folio composite volume of chiefly verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 91 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

At least some individual items here were later owned by Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), first Earl of Danby, Marquess of Carmarthen and Duke of Leeds, politician. Sotheby's, 6-10 April 1869 (Leeds sale), including lot 725, item 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28095 ff. 50r-1r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Prologue [to The Way of the World] Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('Of those few Fools who with ill Stars are curst')

First published in The Way of the World (London, 1700). Summers, III, 12-13. Davis, p. 393. McKenzie, II, 101-2.

CgW 36 c.1700

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, headed Prologue. To M^r Congreves New Comedy call'd the way of the World. Spoke by M^r Betterton, on two pages in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1620-33

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Herbert MS: DnJ Δ 56.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5308 E f. 44r-v) | Catalogue

The Reconciliation ('Fair Caelia, Love pretended')

See CgW 4.

Song ('Alas! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves')

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 75. Dobrée, p. 241 and McKenzie, II, 322 (both as Absence and beginning Ah! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 4-8.

CgW 37

Copy, headed A song and here beginning Ah! w^t pains, w^t racking thoughts he proves.

In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August y^e. 6^th 1717.

1715-17

University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 201) | Catalogue

CgW 38

Copy, in a musical setting by Purcell, here beginning Ah! what pains, what rackin thoughts.

In: A volume of autograph music by Henry Purcell.

1690s

Guildhall Library (Gresham Music collection, Purcell autograph MS ff. 69v-70)

CgW 38.5

Copy, headed Absence, on rectos only.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Jun^r: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 110 ff. 1r-4r) | Catalogue

Song ('Cruel Amynta, can you see')

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 77. Dobrée, p. 244. McKenzie, II, 324.

CgW 39

Copy in a musical setting, untitled, in a quarto booklet of songs (1r-11v).

In: A large folio composite volume of music, iii + 107 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

Early 18th century

Later owned by Mr. E. Goddard, Portland Place, London, and by T. W. Bourne.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. c. 107 f. 5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Song ('I Look'd, and I sigh'd, and I wish'd, and I wish'd I cou'd speak')

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 75. Dobrée, pp. 239-40. McKenzie, II, 320.

CgW 40

Copy, subscried Congreve.

In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August y^e. 6^th 1717.

1715-17

University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 203) | Catalogue

Song ('Pious Selinda goes to Pray'rs')

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 78. Dobrée, p. 245. McKenzie, II, 326.

CgW 41

Copy, headed A Song by M^r Congreve, deleted.

In: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) Poems on Severall Occasions, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1735

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 629 p. 54) | Catalogue

CgW 42

Copy.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 2) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Song from The Maid's Last Prayer. Set by Mr. Purcell, and Sung by Mrs. Ayliff ('Tell me no more I am deceiv'd')

First published, as A Song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, the Words by Mr. Congreve, in The Gentleman's Journal (January 1692/3), pp. 27-8. Thomas Southerne, The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any, Rather than Fail (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 24. Dobrée, p. 243. McKenzie, II, 323-4. The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1916), pp. 82-3.

For the song by Etherege with the same opening line, see EtG 69.

CgW 43

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 196 f. 46v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 44

Copy, headed An answer to a friend for loving a common Jilt.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 306.

In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

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 C^pt Robinson att Ca^pt Eloass [Elwes] near y^e Watch house in Marlbur^hroagh street, For Cap^t. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain 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 IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 p. 125) | Catalogue

The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. A Pastoral (''Twas at the Time, when new returning Light')

First published in London, 1703. Summers, IV, 67-71. Dobrée, pp. 276-81. McKenzie, II, 361-6.

CgW 45

Copy, in a neat hand, on seven pages in a quarto booklet of six leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1703

University of Nottingham (Pw V 180) | Catalogue

To a Candle Elegy ('Thou watchful Taper, by whose silent Light')

Summers, IV, 45.2. McKenzie, II, 376.

CgW 45.2

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards.

c.1730s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 9 p. 53) | Catalogue

CgW 45.25

Copy, headed To a Candle.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Jun^r: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 110 ff. 9r, 10r) | Catalogue

To Cynthia Weeping and not speaking. Elegy ('Why are those Hours, which Heav'n in Pity lent')

First published in Dryden's Miscellany (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 103. McKenzie, II, 367-8.

CgW 45.3

Copy, headed To Cynthia weeping & not Speaking by M^r Congreve / Elegy.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations of classical texts, predominantly in one clear hand up to p. 151, with additions in other hands over a period, written from both ends, 273 pages (plus a number of blanks), in half-calf marbled boards.

Early 18th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 123 pp. 243-5) | Catalogue

CgW 45.8

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards.

c.1730s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 9 pp. 63-5) | Catalogue

To Mr. Dryden, On his Translation of Persius ('As when of Old Heroique Story tells')

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

CgW 46

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 152 f. 116r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 46.3

Copy, subscribed W: Con:.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, relating to history and classical literature, in possibly a single hand with variation over a period, 160 pages, in modern cloth.

Inscribed (p. 156), probably by the compiler, Richard Oram his Booke Annoque Domini 170[].

c.1700

University of Chicago (MS 586 pp. 85-6) | Catalogue

CgW 46.5

Copy, subscribed Will: Congreve.

c.1700

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.224 pp. 2-3) | Catalogue

To Sleep Elegy ('O Sleep! thou Flatterer of happy Minds')

First published in Works (1710). Summers, IV, 144-5. McKenzie, II, 372-3.

CgW 46.8

Copy, headed To Sleep. an Elegy, on rectos only.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Jun^r: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 110 ff. 44r-46r) | Catalogue

CgW 46.9

Copy.

In: Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum.

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre.

c.1753

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 360 Vol. I, p. 319) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

A Two-part Song, the Words by M^r. Congreve ('There ne'er was so wretched a Lover as I')

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698), Book I, p. 112. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 120-4. Dobrée, p. 376. McKenzie, II, 466-7.

CgW 47

Copy in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

In: A folio MS music book.

c.1728

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU MS 120 p. 243)

CgW 48

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Words by M^r Congreve.

In: A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).

Early 18th century

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 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.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 118-21) | Catalogue

CgW 49

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, in one or possibly two hands, with a table of contents, vi + 128 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1705-39

Owned, and possibly compiled, by William Knight (1684-1739), vicar choral (from 1712) and subchanter (from 1722) at York Minster.

York Minster (MS M. 12. S pp. 8-16)

Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve ('Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease')

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

CgW 50

Copy, headed On M^rs Arabella Hunt singing by M^r Congreve.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 3r-4v)

CgW 51

Copy, headed Upon A Lady's singing Pindarick Ode; By M^r Congreve.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.

c.1694-1740

Inscribed (inside the front cver) Tho: Jesson His Book 1694; (ff. i^r, 5v) S Harriott 1740, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed Sarah Harriott.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Jesson MS: CwT Δ 23.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 468 ff. 42r, 43r)

CgW 51.5

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1690s

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 71 ff. 44r-5v) | Catalogue

CgW 52 c.1700

Copy, untitled, on a single sheet, endorsed in the hand of Thomas Coke, minister of Queen Anne, M^r. Congreves verses on M^rs Hunt.

In: A large folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, mounted on guards.

Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 69968A ff. 52r-3r)

CgW 53

Copy, headed On M^rs. Arabella Hunt singing a Pindarique Ode By M^r. Congrave.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 pp. 156-8) | Catalogue

Verses Sacred To the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin Occasion'd by reading her Book, Entituled, Reliquiae Gethinianae ('After a painful Life in Study spent')

First published in Misery's Virtues Whet-stone Reliquiae Gethinianae, 3rd edition (London, 1703). Summers, IV, 60-1. Dobrée, pp. 250-1. McKenzie, II, 332-3.

CgW 54

Copy, as by M^r Congreve, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

In: A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.

Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 34744 f. 102r-v) | Catalogue

Prose

Incognita

First published in London, 1692. McKenzie, III, 1-62.

CgW 54.3

MS of a dramatic adaptation of Congreve's novel by Alexander Dalrymple, partly in his hand.

c.1795

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 5) | Catalogue

CgW 54.5

Copy, in a small cursive hand, with a dedication To The Honoured and Worthily Esteemed M^rs Katharine Leveson signed Cleophil and a Preface to the Reader,131 octavo pages, in contemporary olive-green morocco gilt.

1788

Initials E: B on the spine. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (John Brett-Smith sale), lot 119, to Bayntun-Coward.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Incognita MS])

Dramatic Works

The Double-Dealer, II, iii, lines 29-41. Song ('Cynthia frowns when'er I Woo her')

First published in London, 1694. Summers, II, 1-77 (p. 31). Davis, pp. 117-204 (p. 143). McKenzie, I, 125-245 (p. 157). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus (London, 1694). The Works of Henry Purcell, XVI (London, 1906), pp. 207-10.

CgW 55

Copy in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

In: A folio MS music book.

c.1728

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU MS 120 p. 287-9)

CgW 56

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song in y^e Double Dealer.

In: A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).

Early 18th century

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 90-1) | Catalogue

CgW 57

Copy, in a musical setting by Purcell.

In: A volume of autograph music by Henry Purcell.

1690s

Guildhall Library (Gresham Music collection, Purcell autograph MS ff. 44v-6)

CgW 57.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 144v) | Catalogue

The Judgment of Paris: A Masque

First published in London, 1701. Summers, III, 79-86. Dobrée, pp. 187-95. McKenzie, II, 227-35.

CgW 58

A large square-shaped folio full score of the opera by Daniel Purcell, the lyrics in a single cursive italic hand, 54 leaves (the last one vellum), in modern half red morocco.

Early 18th century

Bookplate of Robert Smith, of St Paul's Churchyard. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29398) | Catalogue

CgW 58.3

MS, finely written, folio.

1710

Once owned by the Rev. W.E. Buckley. Sotheby's, 16 April 1894, lot 306.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Buckley MS])

The Judgement of Paris: A Masque, lines 49-62. Song ('Hither turn thee, gentle swain')

Summers, p. 82. McKenzie, II, 231.

song by Venus

CgW 58.5

Copy of the song, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 148r) | Catalogue

The Judgement of Paris: A Masque, lines 132-143. Song ('Happy Nymph who shall enfold thee')

Summers, p. 85. McKenzie, II, 234.

CgW 58.8

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 148r) | Catalogue

The Judgment of Paris: A Masque, lines 75-94. Song ('Let Ambition fire thy mind')

Summers, III, 83-4. Dobrée, p. 192. McKenzie, II, 232.

CgW 59

Copy of Juno's song in an anonymous musical setting, untitled, in a quarto booklet. of songs (ff. 1r-11v).

In: A large folio composite volume of music, iii + 107 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

Early 18th century

Later owned by Mr. E. Goddard, Portland Place, London, and by T. W. Bourne.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. c. 107 f. 10v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 60

Copy of Juno's song in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A quarto songbook, compiled by an Oxford University man, ii + 32 leaves, imperfect, in modern calf.

c.1753-4

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. e. 20 f. 14r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 61

Copy of Juno's song, in an anonymous musical setting.

In: A folio music book, i + 49 leaves.

First half of 18th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 41 f. 16r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Love for Love

First published in London, 1695. Summers, II, 79-171. Davis, pp. 208-316. McKenzie, I, 247-391.

CgW 62

Extracts from an early acting text of the play, as performed on 26 December 1700 at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, on two skins of vellum.

This MS discussed and extracts printed in T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, The Text of Congreve's Love for Love, The Library, 5th Ser. 30 (1975), 334-6.

In: Official enrolled copy of an indictment of Thomas Betterton's company for profane or obscene expressions.

National Archives, Kew (KB 33/24/8 [no page numbers]) | Catalogue

Love for Love, III, iii, lines 165-173. Song ('A Nymph and a Swain to Apollo once pray'd')

Summers, II, 130. Davis, pp. 258-9. McKenzie, I, 311.

CgW 63 Early-mid-18th century

Copy of the song, in a non-professional hand, headed Song m^r Congreve, with other verses, on one side of a single long folio leaf.

In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27408 f. 16v) | Catalogue

CgW 63.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 143r) | Catalogue

Love for Love, III, xv, lines 44-75. Ballad ('A Souldier, and a Sailor')

Summers, II, 141. Davis, pp. 274. McKenzie, I, 332-3.

CgW 64

Copy of the ballad, the text accompanied by a Latin version by R.D..

In: A miscellany of English and Latin verse and university orations, 196 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled by William Parry (1687-1756?), Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

c.1724

Later owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer, and given to the library in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 13 fols 74v-5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 65

Copy of the ballad, in a musical setting by John Eccles.

In: A folio music book, ii + 262 pages.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 95 p. 237) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 66

Copy of a Latin translation of the ballad, headed A Soldier and a Sailor &c. By M^r. Congreve. Put into Latin by <space> To the same Tune and beginning Miles, Navigator.

In: A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 90r) | Catalogue

The Old Batchelour, II, ix, lines 5-17. Song ('Thus to a ripe, consenting Maid')

First published in London, 1693. Summers, I, 155-255 (p. 186). Davis, pp. 28-113 (pp. 59-60). McKenzie, I, 47-48. Musical settings of the two songs by Henry Purcell published in [first song] Joyful Cuckoldom (London, [1690s]), and [second song] Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXI (London, 1917), pp. 33-4, 35-7.

CgW 67

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

In: A folio music book, ii + 262 pages.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 95 p. 233) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 68

Copy, headed A Song.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of song lyrics, in one small hand up to f. 10r, a second ungainly hand on ff. 10v-11v, eleven leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1700s

Purchased from Mr Crumpton, 14 April 1877.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30303 f. 9v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

CgW 69

Autograph

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Purcell.

In: A volume of autograph music by Henry Purcell.

1690s

Guildhall Library (Gresham Music collection, Purcell autograph MS

ff. 19v-22r

)

CgW 69.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 147v) | Catalogue

The Old Batchelour, III, x, lines 1-25. ('As Amoret and Thyrsis, lay')

Summers, I, 194. Davis, p. 71. McKenzie, I, 64.

CgW 70

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

In: A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).

Early 18th century

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 1 bis-3) | Catalogue

Semele

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, III, 87-110. Dobrée, pp. 155-86. McKenzie, II, 237-68.

CgW 71

Copy of the opera as Alter'd from the Semele of William Congreve Set to Musick by George Frideric Handel, with some corrections in Handel's own hand, on 31 quarto pages.

1744

This being the MS submitted to the official licenser before the production at Covent Garden on 10 February 1744.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (LA 43)

The Way of the World, III, xii, lines 10-23. Song ('Love's but the Frailty of the Mind')

First published in London, 1700. Summers, III, 1-78 (p. 45). Davis, pp. 389-479 (p. 434). McKenzie, II, 95-225 (pp. 162-3).

Letters

Letter(s)

*CgW 73 1692

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, from Ilam, [21 August 1692].

Hodges, No. 1. McKenzie, III, 136 (Letter 1). Facsimile in T.J. Brown, English Literary Autographs XXI, The Book Collector, 6 (Spring 1957), facing p. 61.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 f. 56r)

*CgW 74

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 21 August 1692.

1692

Hodges, No. 2. Complete facsimile in Kathleen M. Lynch, A Congreve Gallery (Cambridge, Mass. 1951), after p. 32.

New York Public Library, Berg Collection ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 75

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Jacob Tonson, [from Tunbridge], 12 August 1693.

1693

Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 153, to Sotheran.

Hodges, No. 57. McKenzie, III, 137 (Letter 2).

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 3609)

CgW 77

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, [from Tunbridge], 12 August 1693.

In: A quarto volume of transcripts by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, of letters to Jacob Tonson, copied from the originals in the possⁿ. of Will^m. Baker, Esq^re, 143 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Late 18th century

Yale (Gen MSS Vol. 229 p. 11)

*CgW 78

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Jacob Tonson, [from Tunbridge, 15 August 1693].

1693

Sotheby's, 29 June 1925 (Tonson sale), 3rd day, lot 772.

Hodges, No. 58, pp. 91-2. McKenzie, III, 137-8 (Letter 3).

New York Public Library, Berg Collection ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 79

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Jacob Tonson, 20 August 1695.

1695

Sotheby's, 29 June 1925 (Tonson sale), 3rd day, lot 773.

Hodges, No. 62, p. 98. McKenzie, III, 141-2 (Letter 6).

New York Public Library, Berg Collection ([no shelfmark])

CgW 80

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, 20 August 1695.

Late 18th century

Yale (Gen MSS Vol. 229 p. 12)

*CgW 81 1700

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, from Calais, 11 August 1700.

Hodges, No. 4. McKenzie, III, 146-7 (Letter 11).

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 f. 61r-2v)

*CgW 82 1700

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Edward Porter, from Rotterdam, 27 September 1700.

Hodges, No. 5. McKenzie, III, 147-8 (Letter 12).

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 ff. 59r-60v)

*CgW 83

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to John Drummond, from London, 15 January 1700/1.

1701

Hodges, No. 67. McKenzie, III, 149-50 (Letter 14).

National Archives of Scotland (GD24, [unspecified item])

*CgW 84

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to John Drummond, from London, 10 April 1701.

1701

Hodges, No. 68. McKenzie, III, 153 (Letter 17).

National Archives of Scotland (GD24, [unspecified item])

*CgW 85

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 7 June 1701.

1701

Hodges, No. 9. McKenzie, III, 154 (Letter 18).

Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Gratz Collection, British Authors/Poets Case 10, Box 38, [unnumbered item])

*CgW 86

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 4 December 1702.

1702

Sotheby's, 14 March 1976, lot 326.

Hodges, No. 11, p. 25. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 68.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 3388) | Catalogue

*CgW 87

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Jacob Tonson, from London, 1 July 1703.

1703

Christie's, 17 December 1907, lot 154.

Hodges, No. 69. McKenzie, III, 155-6 (Letter 21). Facsimiles in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 317 (November-December 1913), item 3341 (Plate XI), and in Hodges, p. 109.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Gratz Collection, British Dramatists, Case 11, B. 15)

CgW 88

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 1 July 1703.

Late 18th century

Yale (Gen MSS Vol. 229 p. 15)

*CgW 89

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 20 June 1704.

1704

Hodges, No. 15. McKenzie, III, 160-1 (Letter 26).

Lord Home of The Hirsel ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 90 1706

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 30 April 1706.

Hodges, No. 23. McKenzie, III, 165 (Letter 33). Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 16 March 1937, lot 479.

Formerly British Library, Loan MS 60/2, item 7(5).

In: A folio composite volume of autograph letters.

Volume II of the Charnwood Autograph Collection, formed by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson (d.1942), wife of Godfrey Rathbone, first Baron Charnwood.

Formerly Loan MS 60/2.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70949 f. 44r)

*CgW 91

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 7 February 1707/8.

1708

Hodges, No. 29. McKenzie, III, 169 (Letter 39).

Lord Home of The Hirsel ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 92

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 2 March 1707[/8].

1708

Owned in December 1989 by Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, booksellers, Calne, Wiltshire.

Berkeley, pp. 355-7. Hodges, No. 30. McKenzie, III, 169-70 (Letter 40).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve letter (II)])

*CgW 93

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 9 November 1708.

1708

Hodges, No. 35. McKenzie, III, 172-3 (Letter 45).

Lord Home of The Hirsel ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 94

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 23 May [1709].

1709

Hodges, No. 37. McKenzie, III, 173-4 (Letter 47).

New York Public Library, Berg Collection ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 95

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, [from London, March or April 1710].

1710

Samuel J. Davey's sale catague of Historical Documents and Autograph Letters (1899), item 127.

Hodges, No. 38, p. 55. McKenzie, III, 174 (Letter 48). Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 68.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 3263) | Catalogue

*CgW 96

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from Richmond, 6 June [1710].

1710

Owned in December 1989 by Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, booksellers, Calne, Wiltshire.

Berkeley, pp. 371-2. Hodges, No. 39. McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 49).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve letter (III)])

*CgW 96.5

Autograph

Autograph letter signed (WC), to Joseph Keally, from London, 10 August 1710.

1710

Bonhams, 22 November 2011, lot 221, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 50).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve letter (IIIIa)])

*CgW 96.8

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 15 December 1710.

1710

Hodges No. 43. McKenzie, III, 176 (Letter 52).

University of Texas at Austin (Pforzheimer MS 10A) | Catalogue

*CgW 97 1711

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 5 July 1711.

Hodges, No. 46. McKenzie, III, 177-8 (Letter 54).

In: A composite volume of letters and papers, chiefly collected by George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, philosopher.

Volume VIII of the Berkeley Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 39311 f. 5r) | Catalogue

*CgW 98 1714

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, [from Stowe, Buckinghamshire], 1 January [1714?].

Hodges, No. 51. McKenzie, III, 180 (Letter 59). Facsimiles of the first page in Hodges, Man, facing p. 88, and in T.J. Brown, English Literary Autographs XXI, The Book Collector, 6 (Spring 1957), facing p. 61.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 ff. 57r-8v)

*CgW 99 1714

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, [from London, 1714?].

Hodges, No. 52. McKenzie, III, 181 (Letter 60).

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 ff. 64r-v)

*CgW 100 1717

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Edward Porter (?), 9 August [1717?].

Hodges, No. 53.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 ff. 63r-v)

*CgW 101

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Secretary of the Board of Trade, from Ashley, 5 October 1717.

1717

Hodges, No. 83. McKenzie, III, 182 (Letter 62)

National Archives, Kew (CO 137/12/72)

CgW 102

A summary in official minutes of a petition by Congreve to the Board of Trade, 9 February 1717/18.

1718

Hodges, No. 86.

National Archives, Kew (PC 2/86, p. 104) | Catalogue

*CgW 103 1718?

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, from Ashley, Thursday [November 1718?].

Hodges, No. 54 (dated [1717-19]). McKenzie, III, 182-3 (Letter 63).

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous and historical letters and papers, collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4293 ff. 54r-5v)

*CgW 104 1719

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, from Wotton, 9 August 1719.

Hodges, No. 88. McKenzie, III, 183-4 (Letter 65).

In: A composite volume of letters, chiefly to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 32685 ff. 47r-8v) | Catalogue

*CgW 105 1719

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Alexander Pope, from Ashley, [late summer 1719?].

Hodges, No. 133. McKenzie, III, 184 (Letter 66).

In: A volume of papers of Alexander Pope, principally the autograph manuscript of part of his translation of Homer's Iliad, 233 leaves.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4808 f. 191v)

*CgW 106 1719?

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, [November 1719?].

Hodges, No. 134. McKenzie, III, 184-5 (Letter 67). Facsimile in Richard Garnett & Edmund Gosse, English Literature: An Illustrated Record, 4 vols (London, 1903), III, 165.

In: A composite volume of letters, chiefly to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 32685 ff. 49r-50v) | Catalogue

*CgW 107 1720

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Alexander Pope, from Surrey Street, 20 January [1719/20?].

Hodges, No. 135. McKenzie, III, 185 (Letter 68).

In: A volume of papers of Alexander Pope, principally the autograph manuscript of part of his translation of Homer's Iliad, 233 leaves.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4808 ff. 192v, 193v)

*CgW 108

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Alexander Pope, 23 June [1720?].

1720

Hodges, No. 137. McKenzie, III, 185-6 (Letter 69).

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 870 (29)) | Catalogue

*CgW 109

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to John Palstock, 10 February 1722/3.

1723

Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 175, to Henry, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve letter (IV)])

*CgW 110

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Jacob Tonson, on one side of an octavo leaf, 8 August 1723.

1723

Hodges, No. 91. McKenzie, III, 186 (Letter 70).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS C.c.1(6))

CgW 111

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, 8 August 1723.

Late 18th century

Yale (Gen MSS Vol. 229 p. 17)

*CgW 112

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Humphrey Morice, from Surrey Street, 22 November 1726.

1726

Hodges, No. 96. McKenzie, III, 186-7 (Letter 71).

Bank of England (Letter 393 (Acc No. 429 and B151))

*CgW 113

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Humphrey Morice, from Surrey Street, 7 February 1726/7.

1727

Hodges, No. 97. McKenzie, III, 187 (Letter 72).

Bank of England (Letter 394 (Acc No. 429 and B151))

Document(s)

*CgW 114

Autograph

Counterpart of the contract between Dryden and Jacob Tonson for his translation of Virgil (see DrJ 376), signed by Tonson and by Congreve as witnesses, 15 June 1694.

1694

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36933) | Catalogue

CgW 115

A petition to Lords of the Treasury, signed by Congreve and others [from London, 1698].

1698

Hodges, No. 64.

National Archives, Kew (T1/50/43)

*CgW 116

Autograph

A promissory note by Jacob Tonson to Dryden concerning his Fables, two copies, both signed as witness by Congreve, 20 March 1698/9.

1699

Sotheby's, 29 June 1925 (H. Clinton Baker sale), lot 787.

Hodges, No. 66, p. 103.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (fD779L Bound [i])

*CgW 117 1704

Autograph

Agreement for the Duke of Newcastle to have free access to the new Haymarket Theatre, in a professional hand, signed and subscribed by Vanbrugh, also signed by William Congreve, 8 May 1704 (endorsed 9 May).

Recorded in HMC, 13th report, Appendix, Part II: Portland II (1893), p. 185. Register, No. 1768.

In: A folio composite volume of letters, 1696-1708, in various hands and paper sizes, 260 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Vere & Cavendish Papers, recorded in HMC, PortlandII, pp. 110-235.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70501 ff 133r-4v)

*CgW 118

Autograph

Receipt to Jacob Tonson, signed by Congreve, 27 June 1709.

1709

Hodges, No. 75. Facsimile in a sale catalogue (? Maggs), item 4402, Plate X.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS C.c.1(7))

*CgW 119 1710

Autograph

A receipt for money received from John Dominick Nardvice, signed W^m Congreve, on one side of an oblong quarto leaf, 27 July 1710.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.

In: A grangerized exemplum of Volume II of Thomas Davies's Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick (London, 1780), 453 pages, the leaves all mounted in a double-folio-size guardbook, in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.b.474 p. 71) | Catalogue

*CgW 120

Autograph

Receipt to Mr Grigsby, signed by Congreve, 14 August 1716.

1716

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix. Edited in Hodges, Man, p. 99.

Harvard Business School, Kress Library ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 121

Autograph

Receipt to Mr Grigsby, signed by Congreve, 13 September 1716.

1716

Recorded in Hodges, Man, p. 99.

Harvard Theatre Collection (TS 934.5 (I. 226)) | Catalogue

*CgW 122

Autograph

An authorization to pay a dividend on South Sea stock to Thomas Snow, signed by Congreve, from London, 2 October 1716.

In the autograph collection of Count Grigory Vladimirovich Orlov (1777-1826), acquired when he visited England in 1821.

1716

Recorded by M.P. Alexeyev in British Manuscripts in Russia, TLS (21 September 1946), p. 456.

State Historical Museum, Moscow (Collection of Count G. Orlov)

*CgW 123

Autograph

A document signed by Congreve, to John Warner, 23 November 1716.

In an extra-illustrated exemplum of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, edited by Samuel Weller Singer (London, 1820), tipped in after page 10.

1716

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MSS 4, Series VIII, Derby Anecdotes, Box 8, Folder 278)

*CgW 124

Autograph

A receipt for a South Sea dividend, signed by Congreve, March 1717.

1717

Sotheby's, 26 October 1916, Lot 105, to Tregaskis.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (II)])

CgW 125

Copy of a document signed by Congreve empowering Thomas Snow to accept on Congreve's behalf £5 00 of South Sea Company stock, 30 March 1717.

1717

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 445 (item 2))

*CgW 126 1717

Autograph

An authorization to sell stock, signed by Congreve, 26 April 1717.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.

In: A large quarto composite volume, comprising c.230 letters of British poets, 234 leaves (including blanks), in 19th-century half-calf.

Assembled in 1824 by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Montagu d. 1 f. 121r) | Catalogue

*CgW 127

Autograph

A receipt to Bernard Lintott for the first volume of Pope's Homer, signed by Congreve, 1 June 1717[?].

1717

Recorded in Hodges, as dated 1715, Letters, p. ix. Edited in Hodges, Man, p. 106.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 445 (item 1))

*CgW 128

Autograph

A receipt to John Warner, signed by Congreve, 11 March 1717[/18].

1718

Harvard Business School, Kress Library ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 129

Autograph

A receipt, signed by Congreve, 17 October 1718.

Recorded in the catalogue of the R.B. Adam Library (1929), III, 70. Subsequently in the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (III)])

*CgW 130

Autograph

An assignment of money to William Lowndes, signed by Congreve, 4 June 1719.

1719

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (C749 1719 June 4)

*CgW 131

Autograph

A receipt to John Warner & Co, signed by Congreve, December 1719.

1719

Sotheby's, 25 July 1978, lot 363, and 14 March 1979, lot 327. Maggs's sale catalogues No. 1021 (1981), item 43, and No. 1126 (August 1991), item 48.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (IV)])

*CgW 132

Autograph

Receipt, signed by Congreve, 29 March 1720.

1720

Sotheby's, 11 March 1908, lot 343, to Scott.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (V)])

*CgW 133

Autograph

A receipt to Mr Craiggs, signed W^m Congreve, on a narrow oblong strip of paper, 18 June 1720.

1720

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS Y.d.484(1)) | Catalogue

*CgW 134

Autograph

A receipt to John Warner, signed by Congreve, 27 October 1720.

1720

Princeton (RTC01 Box 5, fl. 22)

*CgW 135 1721

Autograph

A receipt signed by Congreve, to Charles Lockyer, 16 November 1721.

Formerly Evelyn MS 3, No. 85. Hodges, p. x.

In: A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands.

Volume DXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Evelyn MS 3.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78683 f. 37r)

*CgW 136

Autograph

A receipt to John Warner, signed by Congreve, 16 November 1721.

1721

Recorded (with the date erroneously cited as 21 November 1721) in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

Harvard, Widener Collection (HEW 7.9.13) | Catalogue

*CgW 137

Autograph

A receipt to Charles Lockyer, signed by Congreve, 15 February 1721/2.

1722

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x. Edited in Hodges, Man, p. 99.

Wellesley College ([no shelfmark])

*CgW 138

Autograph

An authorization for Thomas Snow to receive Congreve's latest dividend on South Sea stock, 9 July 1722.

1722

Laid in a printed exemplum of Congreve's Works (3 vols, London, 1761), sold at Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1988, lot 73.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (VI)])

*CgW 139

Autograph

An autograph receipt signed by Congreve, for a South Sea Company dividend of £96 from Thomas Snow and John Pattock, 14 October 1723.

1723

Sotheby's, 16 July 1984, lot 27, to John Wilson. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1449 (2011), item 46.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 6567)

*CgW 140

Autograph

A receipt to Thomas Snow and John Paltock, in connection with a south Sea annuity, signed by Congreve, 15 May 1724.

1724

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS Y.d.484(2)) | Catalogue

*CgW 141

Autograph

A receipt for South Sea dividends, signed by Congreve, 27 November 1724.

1724

Sotheby's, 29 October 1962, lot 227, to Hamilton.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (VII)])

*CgW 142

Autograph

A receipt to John Warner & Co, signed by Congreve, December 1724.

1724

Owned in 1964 by Samuel Loveman, Bodley Book Shop, New York.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (VIII)])

*CgW 143

Autograph

Authorization to Charles Lockyer for payment of South Sea dividends to Anne Congreve, signed by Congreve, and others, 26 February 1725/6.

1726

Hodges, Letters, No. 94, with a facsimile.

Harvard Theatre Collection (pfTS 939.5.13 (I/II))

*CgW 144

Autograph

An Exchequer warrant, signed by Congreve, 30 March 1727.

Sotheby's, 23 April 1923, lot 188, to Manning.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (IX)])

*CgW 145

Autograph

An Exchequer warrant, signed by Congreve, 6 April 1727.

1727

Sotheby's, 20 November 1903, lot 279, to Barker. Possibly the same document sold at Sotheby's, 19 February 1930, lot 402, to Dobell.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Congreve document (X)])

Will

CgW 146

A registered copy of Congreve's last will and testament, made 26 February 1725/6, proved 3 February 1728.

1728

Hodges, Letters, No. 148, pp. 254-8.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/621/135) | Catalogue

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Congreve

Extracts

CgW 147

Some twelve lines of extracts from Congreve on the subjects of Pleasure and Youth.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 74v, 76r)

William Congreve

Introduction

Autograph Literary Manuscripts

Letters

Documents

Congreve's Library

Manuscript Copies

Verse Canon

Dramatic Works

Miscellaneous

Abbreviations

Verse

Prose

Dramatic Works

Letters

Document(s)

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Congreve

Contents