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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4804-4806
Title:: Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; 1708-1740
Scope & Content:: Three volumes. Published from these originals by Dr. John Hawkesworth in Letters written by the late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of his Friends, 1766, vols. i and ii. The letters are numbered as in this edition. The dating of some of the letters has been corrected in The Correspondence of Jon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1708-1740
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4805
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II, ff. 210 Dr John Arbuthnot, physician and wit: Letters to J. Swift: 1714-1729. includes: ff. 2, 11 Dr John Arbuthnot, physician and wit: Letters to C. Ford: 1714. f. 7 Robert Freind, DD, Head Master of Westminster School: Letter to J. Swift: 1715. ff. 9, 13, 23, 63, 75, 87 Mary Butler...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1711-1738
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4806
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III, ff. 230 includes: ff. 1, 25, 93, 193, 197 Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst: Letters to J. Swift: 1730-1737. ff. 5-82 passim John Gay, poet: Letters to J. Swift: 1714-1732. ff. 6, 12b, 22b, 32, 68b, 73b, 89, 97, 101, 107, 109, 115 Catherine Douglas, wife of Charles, 3rd Duke of Queen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1711-1740
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4807
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 291). The 'Iliad'. Contains the Preface (ff. 2-14b), and the following books: I (ff. 17-28b), II (ff. 29-44), V (ff. 55-74b), VI (ff. 76-93), VII (ff. 94-104b), VIII (ff. 106-123b), IX (ff. 125-139b), X (ff. 141-154b), XI (ff. 156-182b), XII (ff. 184-190b, 201-207b), XIII (ff. 209-24...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1707-1722
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4807-4809
Title:: POPE'S HOMER
Scope & Content:: Translation of Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey" by Alexander Pope; circa 1708-1726. Partially incomplete autograph draft of the works published by Bernard Lintot (The Iliad, 6 vols., 1715-1720; The Odyssey, 5 vols., 1725-1726). Three volumes. Quarto. Paper. Other material includes pages from a fair...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1708-1726
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4808
Title:: Vol. II. (ff. 233). Alexander Pope, The 'Iliad'. Contains the following books: XVI (ff. 1-35b), including (ff. 19-23) further copy from Poetical Miscellanies, 1709 (see 4707), XVII (ff. 37-55b), XVIII (ff. 57-73b), XIX (ff. 75-85b), XX (ff. 87-97b), XXI (ff. 99-121b), XXII (ff. 123-144b), XXIII (ff. 146-177), XXIV (ff. 179-205).
Scope & Content:: Followed by drafts of (a) the Poetical Index. ff. 207-214b;- (b) Index of Arts and Sciences. ff.215-222;- (c) an index of antiquities, not published. ff. 223-232. Also included are (a) Plans for a house, perhaps one that Pope proposed to build in London, circ. 1717-1718. f. 30b;- (b) Plans for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1712-1724
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4809
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 239). The 'Odyssey'. Contains the following books: I (ff. 1-1lb), III (ff. 13-27), IV (ff. 28-38b), V (ff. 40-53), VII (ff. 55-69), IX (ff. 71-89), X (part; ff. 92-lllb), XIII (ff. 112-123), XIV (ff. 125-143), XV (part; ff. 145-152b), XVII (ff. 155-176), XX (ff. 178- 186b), XXI (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1712-1730
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4810
Title:: Transferred
Scope & Content:: Transferred to the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4811
Title:
Scope & Content:: Minute and Register Book of the Philosophical Society of Dublin; 1684-1693. The contents are as follows.- (1) Copies of papers read before the Society, 1684-1686, interspersed with copies of correspondence and communications received from other scientific bodies (including minutes of the Oxford ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1684-1693
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4811-4812
Title:: POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vols. I, II (ff. 186; i+42). Records of the Philosophical Society of Dublin; 1684-1708. The Society was founded in January, 1684, and meetings were held until April, 1687. In April, 1693, the meetings were revived but ceased again about the middle of 1697. In 1707 the Society was refounded but ceased to exist in the following year. For an account of the history of the Society see K. T. Hoppen, The Common Scientist in the seventeenth century, 1970. Viz.:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1684-1708
Extent:: 2 items

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