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  • [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.

    • EtG 154 The MS as a whole

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

      Sir George Etherege, Letterbook(s)
    • EtG 24 [unspecified page numbers]

      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.

      Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
    • EtG 47 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

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

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • EtG 62 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

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

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Garde le secret de ton Ame')
    • DrJ 210 [unspecified page numbers]

      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.

      John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

  • [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.

    • EtG 155 The MS as a whole

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

      Sir George Etherege, Letterbook(s)
    • EtG 25 ff. 3v-4r

      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.

      Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
    • EtG 48 ff. 11r-12r

      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.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • EtG 63 f. 29r

      Copy.

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

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Garde le secret de ton Ame')
    • DrJ 211 ff. 104v-6

      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.

      John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

  • [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
      No description or publication history available.

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

      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 ('Daughter of Memory, Immortal Muse')

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