1. Add MS 40060
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40060
- Title:
- POEMS and other pieces, chiefly satirical. Most are dated, the extreme dates, some but not all of which-seem to be those rather of copying than of composition, being 1687 and Feb. 1711 [17121. There are many references to the Kit-Cat Club and its members, but the tone of most of the poems is Tory rather than Whig; only towards the end of the volume does a definite bias on the opposite side appear. All seem to be in the same hand. The majority are published or occur in other MS. collections, ...
- Scope & Content:
- Political and Satirical Poems: State poems and others, chiefly satirical: 1687-1712. Epigrams: Miscellaneous epigrams: 1697-1712. includes: f. 1 Colonel Henry Heveningham: Letter in verse to from 1- B: 1697.: Copy.ff. 1-2 b I- B-: Letter, in verse, to Col. H. Heveningham: 1697.: Copy.ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1698-1740
- Extent:
- 1 item