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1. Add MS 42515-42518

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Title:
GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS
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Purchased with the aid of the Friends of the National Libraries (cf. Annual Report, 1931-1932, Pp. 9-12 and pls. ii, iii; cf. also Brit. Mus. Quart., vi, 1931-1932, PP. 47-50, PIS. xxiii, xxiv). Other papers from the same archive are in the Bodleian Library, cf. Bodl. Quart. Rec., vii, 1932-1934...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1753-1810]
Extent:
4 items

2. Add MS 42515-42517

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GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS, being collections made by Thomas Percy, editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and (1782) Bishop of Dromore, for a Life of Oliver Goldsmith, with other relevant materials. The Life, generally known as the Percy Memoir, appeared after many vicissitudes as Preface to vol. I of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, 1801, 4 vols., and much of the matter is there printed. The papers were used while in the possession of Miss Constance Isabel Meade, greatgr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1753-1810]
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 42518

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Title:
Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed; with autograph notes by Gabriel Harvey
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This book contains the publication by Thomas Speght (d. 1621) of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed (London: Islip, 1598). It features autograph notes by the scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey (b. 1552/3, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 42517

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GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 199). Further collections of Thomas Percy for the Life of Goldsmith, viz.:- (1) 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith', by Thomas Campbell, LL.D., Chancellor of the Diocese of Clogher. Copy, by two amanuenses, with autograph additions by Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1774-1790
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 42516

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GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 155). Collections and correspondence of Thomas Percy, relating (except art. i) to his Life of Goldsmith, viz.:- (1) Letter from Dr Samuel Johnson to the Rev. William Jessop, of Lismore, co. Waterford; 28 June 1766. Autograph. Printed in R. W. Chapman, The L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1766-1810
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 42515

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GOLDSM1TH-PERCY PAPERS. Vol I (ff. 130). Correspondence and papers of Oliver Goldsmith; 1753-1773. Viz:- (1) Letters and notes from Goldsmith, all original save the first, and all published in K. C. Balderston's edition of the Letters mentioned above. The recipients are:- R. Bryanton, 26 Sep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1753-1773
Extent:
1 item