Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Ag. E.83/044.

Copy on a single small leaf. 17th century.
RaW 69: Sir Walter Ralegh,

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Ferdinand J. Dreer Autograph Collection, 115:1, British Poets, Vol. II, pp. 9-10

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to [Edward Osborne], Lord [Latimer], [July 1677]. 1677.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1869 (Duke of Leeds sale), lot 320. Afterwards owned by Sir William Tite. Sotheby's 18 May 1874, lot 3593.

Ward, Letter 5, with a facsimile after p. 11. Also edited by Ward in TLS (29 October 1938), p. 700.

*DrJ 306: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Ward, Letter 5, with a facsimile after p. 11. Also edited by Ward in TLS (29 October 1938), p. 700.

Ferdinand J. Dreer Autograph Collection, 115:2, British Poets, Vol. II, pp. 102-4

Milton's autograph signature on a receipt recording payment to him of interest on a debt by Robert Warcupp, 16 February 1649/50. 1650.

Facsimile in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. i, item 5). Edited in Columbia XVIII, 394, and in LR, II, 298-9.

*MnJ 96: John Milton, Document(s)

Facsimile in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. i, item 5). Edited in Columbia XVIII, 394, and in LR, II, 298-9.

Ferdinand J. Dreer Autograph Collection, British Poets, [unspecified item]

Autograph letter signed, to Henry Watkins, 10 November 1710. 1710.

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 441-2.

SuT 4: Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 441-2.

Ferdinand J. Dreer Autograph Collection, British Poets, [unspecified item]

Autograph letter signed, to Henry Watkins, 8 August 1712. 1712.

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 442.

SuT 5: Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 442.

Ferdinand J. Dreer Autograph Collection, British Poets, [unspecified item]

Autograph letter signed, to Henry Watkins, from Westminster, 10 June 1713. 1713.

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 442-3.

SuT 6: Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 442-3.

Ferdinand J. Dreer Autograph Collection, 136:2, English Clergymen Vol. 4. pp. 60-2

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], from Portmore, 4 June 1659. 1659.

Sotheby's (Evans), 9 July 1832, lot 75. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans's (Sotheby's), 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 284, to Thorpe.

Edited in Eden, I, lxxxii-lxxxiv. Wheatley, III, 256-60.

*TaJ 68: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Edited in Eden, I, lxxxii-lxxxiv. Wheatley, III, 256-60.

Gratz Collection, Authors, Case 10, Box 30, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, in French, to Pierre Gassendi, from London, 10/20 July 1654. 1654.

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 184-5, Letter 66.

*HbT 138: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 184-5, Letter 66.

Gratz Collection, British Authors, Case 10, Box 33, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by More, to G. Clark, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 19 March 1678/9. 1679.
MoH 17: Henry More, Letter(s)

Gratz Collection, British Authors/Poets Case 10, Box 38, [unnumbered item]

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

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

*CgW 85: William Congreve, Letter(s)

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

Gratz Collection, British Authors/Poets Case 10, Box 38, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to [John Evelyn], London, 7 March 1664[/5?]. 1665.

Sotheby's, 9 July 1832, lot 64, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 287. Thorpe, Catalogue of Autograph Letters, 1836, item 250. Puttick & Simpson, 3 June 1878, lot 81. Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 12 (1899), item 51.

Edited in H.P. Vincent, Three Unpublished Letters of Abraham Cowley, MLN, 54 (1939), 454-8 (pp. 457-8).

*CoA 246: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

Edited in H.P. Vincent, Three Unpublished Letters of Abraham Cowley, MLN, 54 (1939), 454-8 (pp. 457-8).

Gratz Collection, British Authors/Poets Case 10, Box 38, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elmes Steward, [c.October 1698]. 1698.

Ward, Letter 53.

*DrJ 344: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Ward, Letter 53.

Gratz Collection, British Dramatists, Case 11, B. 15

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.

*CgW 87: William Congreve, Letter(s)

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.

Gratz Collection, British Poets, Case 11, Box 1, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, from Westminster, 5 January 1670/1. 1671.

Margoliouth, II, 320-1.

*MaA 540: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Margoliouth, II, 320-1.

Gratz Collection, British Poets, Case 11, Box 4, [unnumbered item]

Part of a King's Treasury document, assigning an order to John Portman, signed by Waller, 21 February 1670[/1]. 1671.
*WaE 850: Edmund Waller, Document(s)

Gratz Collection, Case 10, Box 35, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 8 February 1661/2. 1662.
*TaJ 86: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Gratz Collection, English Dramatists, Case 11, Box 16, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Edward Southwell], from Chester, 28 September 1713. 1713.

Edited in Howard P. Vincent, Two Unpublished Letters of Vanbrugh, N&Q, 173 (21 August 1937), 128-9, and in Whistler, p. 242 (Appendix I, No. 19).

*VaJ 185: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in Howard P. Vincent, Two Unpublished Letters of Vanbrugh, N&Q, 173 (21 August 1937), 128-9, and in Whistler, p. 242 (Appendix I, No. 19).

Gratz Collection, English Poets, Case 11, Box 4, [unnumbered item]

A warrant authorizing payment to Edward Basse, the assignee of Peter Pulliard, signed by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, 10 October 1651. 1651.
*WiG 76: George Wither, Warrant(s)

Penn-Forbes Collection, Vol. II, p. 70

Autograph letter signed by More, to William Penn, in the hand of an amanuensis with More's autograph marginal additions, signature and substantial postscript, on altogether sixteen folio pages, from Ragley, 22 May 1675. 1675.
*MoH 15: Henry More, Letter(s)