Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton

[Etherege letterbook 1]

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in a single contemporary scribal hand.

Late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.

The MS as a whole
EtG 154: Sir George Etherege, Letterbook(s) ('')

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook L 5 from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8.

[unspecified page numbers]
EtG 24: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')

Copy.

First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

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EtG 47: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')

Copy.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

[unspecified page numbers]
EtG 62: Sir George Etherege, Song ('Garde le secret de ton Ame')

Copy.

First published in Rosenfeld (1928), p. 129. Thorpe, p. 13.

[unspecified page numbers]
DrJ 210: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

Copy.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

[Etherege letterbook 2]

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in at least two contemporary scribal hands.

Late 17th century.

Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.

The MS as a whole
EtG 155: Sir George Etherege, Letterbook(s) ('')

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook L 6 from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8.

ff. 3v-4r
EtG 25: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')

Copy.

First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

ff. 11r-12r
EtG 48: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')

Copy, headed To My Ld Middleton, with ye Duke of Zells letter to ye Empr (a Copie of verses)...

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

f. 29r
EtG 63: Sir George Etherege, Song ('Garde le secret de ton Ame')

Copy.

First published in Rosenfeld (1928), p. 129. Thorpe, p. 13.

ff. 104v-6
DrJ 211: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

Copy.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

[Temple of Death]

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.

CgW 32.8: William Congreve, 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

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