Copy of a speech in parliament by Wilson against Mary Queen of Scots, headed Actio contra Mariam Scotorum reginam
, [1572?].
A MS Actio contra Mariam Scotorum reginam ascribed to Wilson is preserved in the
Unpublished?
An unbound collection of letters by or relating to Dryden and of drawings and engravings, 22 items.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1782-1872), manuscript and book collector. Sotheby's, 7 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 313, to Sabin.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, [1690?].
Ward, Letter 15.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, 9 May [1693].
Ward, Letter 24.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, 17 August 1693.
Ward, Letter 25.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 30 August [1693].
Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 157.
Ward, Letter 26.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, 12 December [1693].
Ward, Letter 28. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 54.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 26 May [1695].
Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 160.
Ward, Letter 37. NB. Ward conjecturally dates the letter 1696, but see Margaret P. Boddy, Dryden-Lauderdale Relationships, Some Bibliographical Notes and a Suggestion
, PQ, 42 (1963), 267-72 (pp. 268-9), and John Barnard, The Dates of Six Dryden Letters, PQ, 42 (1963), 396-403 (p. 400).
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 8 June [1695].
Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 161.
Ward, Letter 33.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, [c.November 1696].
Ward, Letter 40.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 12 December 1698.
Ward, Letter 55.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 9 February 1698/9.
Ward, Letter 58.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 4 March 1698/9.
Ward, Letter 59.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 18 September 1699.
Ward, Letter 64.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, October 1699.
Ward, Letter 66.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 7 November [1699].
Ward, Letter 67. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 55.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 26 November [1699].
Ward, Letter 70.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 14 December 1699.
Ward, Letter 71.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 11 April 1700.
Ward, Letter 75. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I. ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 56.
Copy of the poem, without the dedication to Lord Abingdon or a title-page, in the same cursive secretary hand as
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lots 314-15.
This MS collated in California.
First published in London, 1692. Kinsley, II, 582-95. California, III, 230-46. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 272-95.
A quarto volume of extracts from Dryden's The Works of Virgil, as well as some Latin text (ff. 39r, 58r-v, 64r-9r), in the same cursive secretary hand as
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lots 314-15.
Extensive extracts from the Aeneis (ff. 1r-10v, 24r-62r, 70r-4v); second and third books of the Georgics (ff. 11r-20v); and fourth and eighth eclogues of the Pastorals (ff. 62v-3v).
First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).
Copy.
A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...
. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.
Copy; in a neat secretary hand, 37 small quarto pages, incomplete, slightly imperfect at the lower outer corners.
c.1600.First published (by a secret English press) 1595
[for 1600?]. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).
MS of Book I in the hand of one of Milton's amanuenses (who also made an entry in his Commonplace Book:
Bearing on the verso of the first leaf the imprimatur of Thomas Tomkyns, a chaplain of Archbishop Sheldon; also signed by Richard Royston, Warden of the Stationers' Company, and by the Clerk of the Company, George Tokefield.
Accompanied by (
Subsequently owned by the publisher Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), who purchased the copyright of the poem. Sold by Henry Clinton Baker of Bayfordbury at Sotheby's, 25 January 1904 (separate catalogue), to Baker.
This MS first recorded in T. Newton's edition of Paradise Lost (London, 1749). Collated in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Complete facsimile edition in The Manuscript of Milton's Paradise Lost Book 1, ed. Helen Darbishire (Oxford, 1931); complete facsimile also in Illinois, II, 31-99. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 196 (Plate XXV); Carey & Fowler, after p. 1034 (Plates 5 & 6); and British Literary Autographs, Series I (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981), No. 41.
First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.
A letter by Richard Corbett.
Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 532.
Autograph letter signed by Corbett, as Bishop of Oxford, to William Laud, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, from Cassington, 27 April 1628 or 1630. See also
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxi. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.
Copy of lines 8-30, here beginning Londinensis in Angelum Cathedrae?
, in the hand of Richard Corbett, quoted in his letter to Laud.
Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.
Unpublished (but see
Copy, in a single secretary hand, with a title-page Licesters Comon Wealth
, on 24 folio leaves, incomplete, followed (ff. [25r-6r]) by Certaine notes taken out of some other authour concerninge my Lor: of Leicesters Comon wealth
, in modern morocco gilt.
This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
A folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 490 pages, in contemporary calf.
Mid-late 17th century.Flyleaf inscribed Stamford 1693
: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.
Copy, headed A Survey of the 3 great Kingdomes of Europe as the state of them was in K. James his time
.
A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...
. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Sir Robert Carr.
Copy, headed A Lr written by mr Tichborne to his wife the night before he dyed
.
Hirsch, pp. 311-12.
Copy, headed Queen Elizabeth's speech in the Parliament House ye 13 of March 1575
.
First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.
Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...
. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.
Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...
. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).
Copy of a version headed The Queens Speech and beginning Mr Speaker I well understand by that you haue deliuered, that you with these Gent of the lower House came to giue vs thanks...
.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...
. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...
. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...
. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...
. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
Copy, headed A balad mayde at London whe my lorde prince Arthur was wed by a Skotte hauyng muche money of dyurse lordes for hys Indytyg
, among other texts on three pages (ff. [1r, 2r-v]) of three large folio leaves, formerly the flyleaves in a printed exemplum of William Caxton's edition of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (1479) (PLM 677) and now rebound separately in modern brown morocco gilt.
The printed Cordiale bears the bookplate of Richard Bennett.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, London Thow Art The Flowre of Cytes All, RES, 13 (1937), 1-9. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts: Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 10.
Mackenzie, No. 88, pp. 177-8.
A small octavo autograph notebook, 89 leaves (plus 66 blanks), written from both ends: ff. [2v, 16r-28v] and [59v-61v rev.] written in Waller's distinctive cursive hand; ff. [3r-25v] and [1r-58v rev.] closely written in a bolder, more upright variant of his hand [cp.
Containing a series of philosophical notes in Latin, including (ff. [2v-28v] a commentary on Aristotle, (ff. [1r-58v rev.]) a series of 61 entries or definitions (De arte, De logice, De voce, &c.), and (ff. [59v-61v rev.] notes on the Bible.
Inscribed J. Lee. Doctors Commons… M.S. From the Library of Waller the Poet
and, on the spine, M.S. No 380 Waller's Library
: i.e. later in the library of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. John Pearson & Co. of 5 Pall Mall, London, catalogues of rare and valuable autographs [n.d.], variously items 98, 405, 594, and 675.
What might just possibly be this manuscript is what is described as a quarto manuscript Logicæ Rudimenta, dated 1666.allegedly in Waller's hand, offered in Willis and Sotheran's sale catalogue for 1859, item 5245.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 789.
Signature (John Milton Junior
) as witness on the post-nuptial settlement of his sister Anne, being a tripartite indenture concerning property to be bequested to Mrs Anne Phillips and her husband Edward Phillips upon the death of the latter's mother Katherine Phillips of Shrewsbury, the signature
of the elder John Milton here being in the hand of John Hutton, 27 November 1623.
Sotheby's, 4 June 1908 and 5 June 1918.
Facsimile of the signatures in A.M. Broadley, Chats on Autographs (London, 1910), p. 203. Edited in LR, I, 67-74. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 624.
A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).
Possibly compiled by one W: H:
: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS:
Copy, headed Of a Poett:
, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 48.
First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 277-87.
Copy, headed On Queene Elizabeth
and here beginning The Queene was brought from Greene-wich to White-hall
.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
Copy of seven lines, headed On Iealosie
and here beginning Pale Iealousie child of insatiate Loue
, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 11.
First published, with two verse dedications to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, in London, 1596. Hebel, I, 305-92.
Copy of lines 2-5, 7-8, headed Of Care:
and here beginning Care the consuminge Canker of the minde
, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 10.
First published in Diana (London, 1594). Grundy, pp. 200-1.
Copy of lines 46-8, here beginning Thers no pennance due to innocence
, imperfect, lacking the preceding leaf.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
Copy, untitled, subscribed R: C:
.
First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
Copy of an untitled version, arranged in two sections: lines 7- 36, here beginning Deare Vincent Corbett who so longe
, subscribed B: I:
, and lines 1-6, 37-40, here beginning I hope my pietie to, which could
.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.
Copy, subscribed G: Morley
.
Copy, in double columns, headed Lydfoord eLaw in Deuon-sheere:
.
First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Goodwin, II, 305-9.
Copy, headed Dr: Corbet's Iter Boreale
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
Copy, headed An Elegie on the Lady
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease
, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer
to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Copy, headed A Paradox in praise of a painted fface:
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.
. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie
, was first published, as A Maids Denyall
, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
Copy, headed Of Man
.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?
, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
Copy, headed On a sigh
and here beginning Go thou gentle whistlinge winde
.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
Copy, headed D.C. to ye M:B:1622:
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 29, among Pembroke's Poems
.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
Copy, headed On his Mistris Inconstancie
.
First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
Copy, untitled.
First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
Copy, headed Off on that was betrayd by a pfume
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see
Copy of an anonymous untitled 18-line poem which uses the same opening line as Beaumont's poem, here I may forgett to eate, to Sleepe, to Drinke
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
Copy, headed A winters entertainement at Saxam written by T:C.
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
Copy, headed Uppon the Queene of Bohemia
.
First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
Copy, headed Dr: C: of Oxford beinge kept out of the Haule on St George his day at Windsor by the Guard, Wrote ths verses vnto the Lord Mordent
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
Copy, headed Of the Springe
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of the Lady Marcum
, subscribed F: B:
.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
Copy.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy of the song, untitled.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
For a parody of this song, see
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed Dr Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine: 1623
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
Copy, headed Vppon Prince Charles his cominge home out of Spaine: 1623:
, and subscribed I: G:
.
First published in Poems (1660), pp. 63-4, as Benj. Rudier To the Prince At his Return from Spain. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as by John Grange.
Copy.
First published in The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer (London, 1629). pp. 166-8. Mellor, pp. 170-1.
Copy, headed I lost you & now the gaine is double to me
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 28, among Pembroke's Poems
.
Copy, headed A Letter from Dr. C: to a friend
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
Copy.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.
Copy, here beginning You will aske perhaps wherfore I stay
.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
Copy, headed Of one braginge of his Auncestors:
, subscribed I: G:
.
Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.
Copy, headed An Epitaph
, subscribed B: I.
First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
Copy, headed On his Mistris Beauty
and here beginning When in the Annalls of all wastinge Time
.
Edited from this MS in Rollins, p. 260. Facsimiles in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 12, and in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 33.
Copy, headed Dr D: at his goinge into Bohemia: A Himne to Christ:
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
Copy, headed Dr: D: to his freinde of a storme at sea
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
Copy, headed The Crosse by Dr: D:
.
This MS collated in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
Copy, untitled but headed Dr: D:
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), plate 12.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
Copy, untitled but headed Dr D:
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
Copy, headed A Dialogue betwixt a Man and a woman
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by Man
are superscribed P.
and those by Woman
superscribed R.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as probably by John Grange.
Copy, headed To the Countess of Rutland:
, subscribed ffinis: F: B:
.
First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
Second copy, headed An Eligie on the Death of the Countess of Rutland
, subscribed ffinis F: B:
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
Copy, subscribed ffinis: F B:
.
Part of the poem printed from this MS in W.G. P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596. Edited from this MS in Chambers.
First published (complete) in Sir E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-5. Reprinted from Chambers in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 377-9.
All recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 174-6), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club
, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems
.
Copy headed Dr: B. of teares
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
. By Dr Samuel Brooke.
Copy, headed His Passion for a lost Chaine of Gould
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 233. Poems (1660), p. 52, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 47, among Pembroke's Poems
.
Copy, headed Of the Sand runinge in an hower Glass
.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.
Copy, headed Of playing at Tenis by Sr E: D:
.
This MS collated in May.
First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). May, Poems, No. 13 (p. 35). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 279-80. EV 30349.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see
This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
Copy, untitled, ascribed in the margin to Sr. Henry Wotton
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy of an untitled two-stanza version, here beginning Sweet stay a while, why will you rise
.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.
First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
Copy, headed Verses made by the E: of P:
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy, headed The Answeare
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R
. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy, headed That hee would not bee beloued:
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Copy, headed The picture of his Mistris
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 54-5. Krueger, p. 48, among Pembroke's Poems
.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Poems (1660), pp. 55-6, superscribed R.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as probably by John Grange.
Copy, headed in the margin A Song which Childock Tichborne traytor made of himselfe in the Towre ye night before hee sufferd
.
This MS text recorded in Hirsch.
First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer
to this poem, see
Copy, added in a late 17th-century hand.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
Copy, headed Vpon 2 Lovers who being espoused, dyed both before they were married
, added in a late 17th-century hand.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds
, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see
Copy, headed Sr. Thomas Overbury's epitaph written by himself
.
First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.
Copy, untitled, subscribed D: C: on a blacke Gentlewoman
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS L). Also recorded in Krueger.
First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman
. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes
and superscribed R
; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961:
Copy, headed in the margin On Kinge Iames
.
A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James
and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep
, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see
Copy, headed Dr: C: Elegy on Bp. Rauis of London who dyed 1607
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
Copy, with a side-note near the end Explicit T.G. Obiit Ep:L: p'dict:30 Mart 1621. qui et tunc incidit in plu diem passionis dominæ
.
A 129-line elegy.
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.
Copy, headed in the margin Butler of Ch:Ch: In Oxon: John
.
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
Copy, untitled.
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
Copy, untitled, subscribed Browne
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
Copy, untitled and here beginning As carefull Mothers to their beds do laye
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
Copy, headed On Mris Mallett: R:C:
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
Copy, headed Vppon Mortalitie
and here beginning Like to a rowlinge of an eye
, with a sidenote against the second stanza Vppon Resurrection
.
First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye
.
Copy, headed Vppon Iustification
.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
Copy, untitled, subscribed W: S:
.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy, headed in the margin On the Nightingale
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
Text from this MS in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.
Copy, headed To a Gentle man, on a strange Cure
.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
Copy, headed On a ffountaine
and here beginning The Dolphines twisting each on others side
.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.
Copy, headed Upon Sr Walter Rawleigh made by himself before he was beheaded
, added in a late 17th-century hand.
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
Extracts relating to marriage, transcribed from a printed source, added in a late 17th-century hand.
First published in London, 1622.
Two brief extracts relating to marriage, transcribed from pp. 8-9 of a printed source, added in a late 17th-century hand.
First published in London, 1619. Dyce, II, 231-347. Bullen, I, 243-354, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 182-281, ed. George Walton Williams.
Copy of 29 characters, headed Mr Earl's Characters
.
First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).
Copy, with marginal corrections, on four folio pages.
c.1620s.Donated in 1942 by Roland L. Redmond.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copy of speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and speeches to Sir John Denham and to Serjeant Jones (19 May 1617).
A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards.
With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886.
Mid-17th century.Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.
Copy.
Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes...
. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
Copy.
Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...
. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.
Copies of various letters by Bacon.
Copy.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.
Copy.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copies of various letters by Ralegh.
Copy, headed Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in ye Gatehouse
.
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
Copy.
One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...
. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.
A duodecimo volume of state tracts and speeches, in a single probably professional hand, 49 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1630.Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Pencil inscription inside the lower cover Robinson Aug. /94
.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.
Copy.
Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth...
. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
Copy of six speeches, headed A Dialogue betweene A Melancholly dreaming Hermet A Mutinous Brainesick Soldiour & A Busie teadious Secretarie
, recorded in the table of contents (f. 1r) as Written by Mr [Henry] Cuffe seruant to the Earle of Essex
.
First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.
Copy.
Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...
. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.
An autograph list of purchases by Shadwell, 12 March 1676[/7].
1677.Six MS quarto leaves, in a stylish italic hand, bound at the front of a printed exemplum of Las obras de la S. Madre Teresa de Iesvs...primera parte qve contiene sv vida (Antwerp, 1630), the volume gilt-edged, in old calf.
c.1630.Inscribed inside the front cover, in Rome on 4 January 1836, by Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-86), Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, theologian, philologist and poet, and also with his presentation inscription, dated 5 June 1865, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Subsequently in the library of the latter's son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
Copy, in a neat hand, the formal title-page, preliminary inscription and some textual alterations in Crashaw's hand.
This MS collated in Martin, p. xciii, with a facsimile of the title-page facing p. 315. Also discussed by Martin, with a similar facsimile, in An Unedited Crashaw Manuscript, TLS (18 April 1952), p. 272. Facsimile of the title-page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 45. See also
First published, in an early version as In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 131-6. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 315-21.
Copy, with two textual alterations in Crashaw's hand, untitled, the text following on from A Hymn to...Sainte Teresa (
First published in an early version as An Apologie for the precedent Hymne [to Saint Teresa] in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 136-7. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 322-3.
Copy, 230 folio pages, imperfect, disbound.
Pages numbered 4-230 in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
; sixteen unnumbered preliminary pages supplied in another, apparently non-professional hand on a different stock of paper, presumably to replace text missing from the original copy; with many corrections, alterations and sidenotes in other hands, a series of addresses scribbled in the margin of p. 10 and on an end-leaf suggesting possible use in a professional London scriptorium.
This MS text recorded in Peck, p. 226. Discussed in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 74-7, 254 (No. 84), with facsimile examples on pp. 75-6.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on both sides of seven folio leaves.
Mounted with other separate state documents in a double-folio album, gilt-edged, in red morocco gilt.
c.1585.Inscribed found in ye evidence Room at Penshurst
and, in the hand of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe (1780-1855), sixth Viscount Strangford and first Baron Penshurst, Bought of Thomas Thorpe 1837
. Owned in 1927 by Mrs P. M. Russell, granddaughter of Lord Penshurst. Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 532, to Quaritch. Sotheby's, 10 May 1828, lot 21, to Triphook
. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 1647, with a facsimile example. Quaritch's sale catalogue in 1948, item 14. Acquired by the Morgan Library in 1953.
Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile pages in Ringler, facing p. lxiii; in The Pierpont Morgan Library: A Review of Acquisitions 1949-1968 (New York, 1969), plate 31; in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 8; in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 20; in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 199; and in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 114.
First published in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State of the Sidney Family (London, 1746), I, 62-8. Feuillerat, III, 61-71. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 129-41.
Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 33 leaves (96 x 135 mm.), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt.
A presentation MS to the courtier Thomas Puckering (1592-1636), with a prose Dedication to him in English, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration.
1607.Owned by Thomas Sowdon, of Reading, and later by H.W. Sowdon, of East Hendred, Berkshire. Martin Breslauer, sale catalogue No. 92 (1960), item 267; and Duschnes.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 28 (pp. 57-8).
A verse summary of Ecclesiasticus (in the Apocrypha) in Latin.
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.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to Sir William Herrick, from St John's College, Cambridge.
c.1615-16.Given by a proprietor of Beaumanor early in the 19th century to Lady Sitwell of Rempstone, Derbyshire, and afterwards owned by her grandson, Canon Egerton Leigh. Later in the collection of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American business man and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 256, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 37.
Martin, p. 452 (No. XIIA), and Moorman, pp. 37-8. A facsimile is also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 36.
A collection of autograph poems and letters by John Chalkhill, on separate sheets, unbound in folders.
c.1638.Once owned by the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire (John Gell marrying Chalkhill's cousin Katherine Packer in 1644). Owned after 1958 by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13-14 June 1979 (Houghton sale Part I), lot 109 (with a facsimile of No. 3 in the sale catalogue, p. 109, Plate 15).
These MSS discussed, and occasionally quoted, in P.J. Croft, Izaak Walton's John Chalkhill, TLS, 27 June 1958, p. 365.
Autograph, subscribed Youres Penelope Truloue
before a postscript, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, the address on the fourth page, accompanying
Purporting to be by a handmayd
in love with the recipient, beginning Kind Sir after a longe enquiry I haue at length atteyned the happynes to be honored with the knowledge...
, and addressed To Mr Josias Clarke at Mr John Brownes house at Twicknam
.
Autograph, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, the address, with remains of a wax seal, on the fourth page.
A letter, partly in prose, beginning Louinge Cousen / To say I am sorrie for thy sicknes, is so tryuiall a complement...
, addressed To his louinge and kinde Coussen Mris Katherine Packerre at Mr John Packers house neere the Deanes yard in Westminster
, incorporating a 41-line verse mock-lament on lacking female company (beginning Now all my hopes are dasht; the Virgins bowre
), subscribed Thy truly louinge freind and Coussen John Chalkhill or Sr Hobson...1638...
. Unpublished.
Autograph, with revisions in one line, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
Facsimile of the first page in Christie's Houghton sale catalogue, p. 109, Plate 15. Facsimile of the whole poem in P. J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, Nos. 38-9.
A pastoral lyric, 34 lines. Unpublished.
Autograph, partly in double columns, on one side of a single folio leaf.
A lyric, 32 lines. Unpublished.
Autograph, three lines deleted, on three pages of two conjugate long ledger-size leaves (40 x 15 cm.).
A humorous verse satire on women, 106 lines. Unpublished.
Autograph draft, with three lines deleted, subscribed printed at Shrewsbury by Inyge Idlesby for Danyell doalittle and are to be sold at the signe of the Cupid in Mayden lane
, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
A ballad, 44 lines, with a two-line refrain. Unpublished.
Autograph, first item on one side of a single folio leaf.
A verse riddle, ten lines. Unpublished.
Autograph, second item on one side of a single folio leaf.
A verse riddle, eight lines.
Autograph, with a revision, subscribed Penelope Truelove
, on one side of a single folio leaf, accompanying
A mock love-letter in verse, 22 lines. Unpublished.
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, from Portmore, 10 February 1659/60.
1660.Sotheby's (Evans), 9 July 1832, lot 74. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's (Evans)), 10 February 1836 (Heber sale), Part XI), lot 285, to Thorpe. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 77 (1972), in item 91.
Edited in Eden, I, xc-xci. Wheatley, III, 275-7. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 46.
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.
Autograph letter signed, to Sur Robart
, on one quarto page, [1637].
Autograph letter signed by Behn, to Abigail Waller, following her father-in-law's death on 21 October 1687, originally accompanying
Edited (from a transcript owned by George Thorn-Drury) in Summers, I, l-li. Facsimiles of the last page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1981, Lot 440, and in Mary Ann O'Donnell, A Verse Miscellany of Aphra Behn: Bodleian Library MS Firth c. 16, EMS, 2 (1990), 189-218 (Plate 8, p. 202).
Copy, in a secretary hand, title-page + 72 numbered folio pages (plus a few blanks), in modern morocco gilt.
c.1630s.Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth. Gift in 1980 of John F. Fleming (1910-87), of Larchmont, New York, bookseller.
Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
A warrant in Cowley's hand signed by Henrietta Maria for payment of 1,200 pistoles to Sir William Davenant, with a subjoined minute
in Cowley's hand, 20 June 1647.
Sotheby's, 22 June 1976, lot 105. A photocopy is in the British Library (RP 780).
Autograph copy, with corrections, signed, on four quarto pages, sent by Mrs Behn to Abigail Waller, the poet's daughter-in-law, originally accompanying
Formerly Pierpont Morgan Library MA 3585. Sotheby's, 21 July 1981, lot 441.
Facsimiles of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue; in IELM, II.i (1993), Facsimile I, after p. xxiv; and, of all the poem, in Todd, I, after p. 288.
First published in Poems to the Memory of that Incomparable Poet Edmund Waller, Esquire (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 405-7.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, as Member of Parliament, and by John Ramdsen, to the Commissioners of the Militia for Kingston-upon-Hull, from Westminster, 29 May 1660, lacking the address leaf (which is now at Wilberforce House, Hull).
1660.Curt F. Bühler, A Letter by Andrew Marvell, N&Q, 197 (11 October 1952), p. 451. Margoliouth, II, 309. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 50.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, as Member of Parliament, to the Mayor and Corporation of Kingston-upon-Hull, 24 January 1673/4.
1674.Caroline Robbins, Six Letters by Andrew Marvell, Études Anglaises, 17 (1964), 47-55 (p. 50). Margoliouth, No. 165a.
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to William Cavendish, third Earl of Devonshire.
c.1657.Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 40.
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 1 January 1650
.
Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 48.
Cowley's signature and endorsement apparently cut from an indenture between Jermyn and Sir Kenelm Digby, 29 December 1660.
1660.Autograph Papers of the Army
, parliamentary records drawn up by Clarendon in preparation for his History, on two folio pages, laid in a printed quarto volume of the work.
Facsimile of one page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 43.
A folio volume, gilt-edged, in blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, signed on the title-page Thomas Sakevile
, with occasional marginal annotations in Latin (especially pp. 259-301) in more than one hand.
It is not clear whether this is the early signature of the future Earl of Dorset or another Thomas Sackville.
Bookplates of Archibald Acheson (1806-64), Earl of Gosford, and of James Toovey (1814-93), bookseller, Burnham Abbey, Buckinghamshire.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Wallop, dated from Farnham Castle, 19 December 1678.
1678.Facsimiles of the inscription in Nicolas, I, xcix; in Keynes (1929), pp. 602-3; and in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 37.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Charles Beaumont.
c.1675.Copy of the two sets of verse, the first subscribed This aboue was written in a book by the Queenes Matie
, the second apparently signed by, and in the hand of, Sir Thomas Heneage (c.1532-95), courtier.
Inscribed on the rectos of two front endpapers in an exemplum of Henry Bull's Christian praiers and Holy Meditations (London, 1570), an octavo in contemporary calf gilt.
Late 16th century.Inscribed on the verso of the first endpaper by Thomas Dicker, of Lewes, Sussex., 19th-century banker.
Edited from this MS in Bühler, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.
Latin elegiacs beginning Genus infoelix vitae
, followed by the English version, and Heneage's sonnet to Elizabeth beginning Madam, but mark the labors of our life
first published in Curt F. Bühler, Libri Impressi Cum Notis Manuscriptis, MLN, 53 (1938), 245-9. Collected Works, Poem 7, pp. 299-300. Selected Works, Poem 5, pp. 10-11.
A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription For his worthy Friend Mr Portlock…
.
Sotheby's, 23 March 1907, lot 243, to Quaritch.
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription To his most worthy, & learned Freind Mr: John Wilson.
A facsimile of the inscribed title-page appears in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), Plate 27.
Walton's exemplum.
c.1656.Autograph petition signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl Marshal, 21 June 1717.
1717.An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.
1620.A printed exemplum bound for Edward VI (as Prince of Wales).
1545.Later in the Cope Library at Bramshill House, Hampshire.
Two original proof-sheets (sigs. Gg3v, Gg2, Ggv, Gg4) for the edition of 1605 with several MS corrections, bound at the end of an exemplum of St Augustine, The Citie of God (London, 1610).
1605.Formerly recorded in IELM, I.i, as BcF 54.5.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
Exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, E5r-v, F1r-v) supplied in MS in two professional secretary hands, the quarto volume in modern quarter-calf boards.
c.1604.Gift of Roland L. Redmond, 1950. Formerly W 01 A.
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.
1620.A printed exemplum, with Ascham's autograph inscription on the title-page, in Latin and Greek, to Sir Walter Mildmay, dated 28 October 1564.
1564.Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I. ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), Plate 14.
Autograph presentation inscription in Latin verse, To Mrs A. Wilughby
.
The Sykes-Britwell copy) which in 1940 was in the possession of Maggs Brothers. Christie's, New York, 16 November 1984, lot 126, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Donated by John F. Fleming.
Recorded in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), I, 360.
Copy.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Autograph signature and annotations.
1584.Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, p. 225.
Facsimile of an annotated page in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 16.
MS.
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
A detached signature of Waller, inserted in an exemplum of Boswell's Life of Johnson, II, 176.
Mid-late 17th century.Possibly the signature Edm Waller
on a slip of paper sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 November 1950 (Barrett sale), lot 1115.
Autograph letter signed, to James Calthorp, 21 December 1649.
1649.Facsimiles in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 28, and in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 159.
Copy of letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II).
c.1670s.Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Autograph memorandum on Mr Vanbrugh shares
, being a proposal for profit-sharing in 1708-9.
Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 64. Edited in Coke Papers, p. 99 (No. 63). Register, No. 1973.
A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.
Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink Poemes written in the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth
, the fourth stanza written sideways and headed in red ink A sonnet Madrigal by Sr. Philipp Sydney
, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), 695-706 (p. 696). Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 18.
First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see
Copy of a three-stanza version, headed Response
and beginning But if the world & love were sound
, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 696-7). Recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), No. 18.
One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply
, see
Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink On the State of France under ye Administration of ye Guises by Sr Walter Rawleigh
, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 700-1), and in Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. Collated in May. Recorded in Latham.
First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.
Copy of a two-strophe version, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink On the Brevity of Humane Happyness
and here beginning What if a daie, or an night, or an hower
, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), p. 705.
Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, identified in an inscription on the mount as probably that of Edmund Elms of Lilliford, Clerk of the City of London, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Sr Walter Raleigh his speech vpon the scaffold at his death
.
Edited from this MS in R.H. Bowers, Ralegh's Last Speech: The Elms
Document, RES, NS 21 (1951), 209-16.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand (incorrectly stated to be that of Serjeant Fleetwood), untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
This MS described in Bowers, pp. 210-11 (see
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 48 leaves (45 x 70 mm.), imperfect, in contemporary calf gilt.
A presentation MS to Andrew Ramsay (1574-1659), minister of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, with a prose Dedication to him in French, in minute roman script throughout, with decoration.
August 1615.Inscribed (f. 5v) S Palmes
. Owned in 1865 by James Douglas, of Cavers. Parke-Bernet, New York, sale 2071 (12 December 1961), lot 51. Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, sale catalogue No. 58 (June 1962), item 61. Afterwards owned by Miss Julia Parker Wightman (1909-94), of New York and Edgartown (Martha's Vineyard), book collector.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 47 (p. 76), with facsimiles of the title page and binding as Plates 27A and 27B (between pp. 42 and 43).
Verse Octonaires
in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.
