Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  • Ag. E.83/044.

    Copy on a single small leaf.

    17th century.
    • RaW 69
      No description or publication history available.

      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).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Document(s)

  • 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
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)

  • 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
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)

  • 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
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

  • 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
      No description or publication history available.
      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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Congreve, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Congreve, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • 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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      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
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Henry More, Letter(s)

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