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1. Bede: Historia Ecclesiastica, Vlllth century<br/>2. Aelfric: translation of Exodus, Xlth century<br/>3. John Gower: Confessio Amantis, XVth century<br/>4. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, XVth<br/>century<br/>5. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, XVth<br/>century<br/>6. John Lydgate: The Siege of Thebes, XVth century<br/>7. Generides, XVth century<br/>8. John Wyclif: translation of New Testament, XVth<br/>century<br/>9. Reginald Pecock: The Reule of Crysten Religioun,<br/>ca. 144 j<br/>10. [William Dunbar:] "London thow arte the flowre<br/>of cytes all," XVIth century<br/>11. John Bellenden: The Cronikillis of Scotland, ca.<br/>1531<br/>12. Sir Thomas More: signature on a lease, 1523<br/>13. Thomas Cranmer : letter to Thomas Cromwell, 1539<br/>14. Roger Ascham: inscription in book, 1564<br/>15. Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset: docu<br/>ment, 1605<br/>16. Gabriel Harvey: signature and notes in book,<br/>1584<br/>17. William Camden: letter to Abraham Ortelius, 1577<br/>18. Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Ralegh:<br/>"The passionate Sheepheard," XVIIth century<br/>19. Sir Walter Ralegh: letter to Sir Walter Cope, 1610<br/>20. Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence of the Earl of<br/>Leicester, ca. 1584<br/>21. Sir Philip Sidney: letter to Christopher Plantin, ca.<br/>1586<br/>22. Sir Edward Dyer: letter to Governors of Free<br/>School of St. Mary Overey, 1597<br/><br/>Francis Bacon: letter to Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1604<br/>Josuah Sylvester: "To the worthilie Honored Sr<br/>Edward Lewis, Knight," ca. 1615<br/>J OHN Da VIES OF Hereford : "Respons," ca. 1611—2<br/>Sir Henry Wotton: letter, 1604<br/>Ben Jonson: presentation inscription, ca. 1616<br/>Joseph Hall: letter to James Calthrop, 1649<br/>John Donne: letter to Sir Thomas Egerton, 1610<br/>Edward Herbert (of Cherbury): letter to Charles<br/>I, 1626<br/>William Drummond : ownership signature in a book<br/>Robert White: Cupids Banishment. A Maske, 1617<br/>Holgate Commonplace Book, 1603-45 [variant<br/>of Shakespeare's Sonnet 106]<br/>Francis Lenton: The Muses Oblation on Hymens<br/>Altar, 1647<br/>John Chalkhill: letter to Katherine Packerre, 1638<br/>Robert Herrick: letter to Sir William Hearick, ca.<br/>1615-6<br/>IzAAK Walton: presentation inscription, 1678<br/>Sir Thomas Browne: letter to William Dugdale,<br/>1658<br/>Sir William Dugd xle: letter to William Boothe,<br/>1652<br/>Edmund Waller: h tter to William Cavendish, ca.<br/>1657<br/>John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I, ca. 1665<br/>Sir John Sucklin' : letter to Viscount Conway,<br/>1640<br/>Edward Hyde, fir<br/>pers of the Army'<br/>Thomas Killigrev<br/>Richard Crashav<br/>and "An Apologi<br/>r Earl of Clarendon: "Pa-<br/>letter to Sir Robert Long, 1649<br/>BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS<br/>Jeremy Taylor: letter to John Evelyn, 1659<br/>Richard Baxter: A Preface... about the Churches<br/>Successive or Continued Visibility, 1664<br/>Abraham Cowley: letter to Sir Robert Long, 1650<br/>John Evelyn: letter to Thomas Tension, 1680<br/><br/>Andrew Marvell: letter to the Commissioners of<br/>the Militia for Kingston upon Hull, 1660<br/>George Villagers, second Duke of Bucking<br/>ham: will, 1674<br/>John Bunyan: warrant for his second arrest, 1674/5<br/>83,<br/>Sir William Temple: letter to Sir Robert South well,<br/>1669<br/>John Dryden: letter to William Walsh, 1693<br/>John Dryden: letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1699<br/>John Dryden: letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1700<br/>Anthony a Wood: letter to William Lloyd, 1687<br/>John Locke: An Essay concerning Humane Un<br/>understanding, Books I and II, 1685<br/>Samuel Pepys: shorthand notes of interview, 1695<br/>Sir Isaac Newton: notebook, 1659<br/>Daniel Defoe: letter to Samuel Elisha, 1704<br/>Richard Bentley: receipt to Jacob Tonson, 1732<br/>Matthew Prior: letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1708<br/>Sir John Vanbrugh: memorandum on actors'<br/>salaries, ca. 1708<br/>Jonathan Swift: "Apollo to the Dean," ca. 1720<br/>Jonathan Swift: letter to Benjamin Motte, 1726<br/>Jonathan Swift: letter to John Boyle, 1735<br/>William Congreve: letters to Joseph Keally, 1702<br/>and 1710<br/>CoLLEY Gibber: "Bill for y^^ Stage," 1716<br/>Joseph Addison: letter to Ambrose Philips, 1713<br/>Sir Richard Steele: letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer,<br/>1714<br/>Isaac Watts: commonplace book, after 1698<br/>Henry St. John, first Viscount Bolingbroke:<br/>letter to Charles Ford, 1724<br/>Thomas Parnell: letter to Charles Ford, 1714<br/>Edward Young: letter to Samuel Richardson, 1750<br/>Allen Bathurst, first Earl Bathurst: "On the<br/>Death of M"^ Southern," 1746<br/>John Gay: letter to William Fortescue, 1713<br/>George Berkeley: letter to Thomas Sherlock, 1728<br/>Allan Ramsay: "Henry to Emma"<br/>Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man, Book I, ca.<br/>1731<br/>Alexander Pope: Of Taste: An Epistle to the Earl<br/>of Burlington, ca. 1730-1<br/>Alexander Pope: letter to William Fortescue, 1738<br/>Samuel Richardson: letter to Frances Grainger,<br/>1749/50<br/>Samuel Richardson: History of Mrs Beaumont,<br/>ca. 1754-5<br/>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: "born to be<br/>slaves" and "Venus to y" courts above," ca. 1734<br/>Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of<br/>Chesterfield: letter to his son Philip, 1739<br/>James Thomson: "Come, dear Eliza, quit the<br/>Town," ca. 1743<br/>David Mallet: letter to the Earl of Bute, 1762<br/>Henry Fielding: receipt to Andrew Millar, 1748<br/>Henry Fielding: "Of Outlawry in Criminal<br/>Causes," ca. 1745<br/>Samuel Johnson: "The Life of Pope," 1780<br/>Samuel Johnson: letter to Hester Lynch Thrale,<br/>1782<br/>Samuel Johnson: prayer, 1784<br/>David Hume: letter to the Presidente de Meinieres,<br/>1766<br/>Laurence Sterne: "Penancies," 1750<br/>Laurence Sterne: "A Fragment in the Manner of<br/>Rabelais," ca. 1759<br/>William Shenstone: letter to Lady Henrietta Lux-<br/>borough, 1751<br/>Thomas Gray: "On the Death of a favourite Cat,"<br/>ca. 1757<br/>Thomas Gray: "The Fatal Sisters," ca. 1761<br/>David Garri,ck: letter to Hannah Pritchard, 1768<br/>Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford:<br/>Reminiscences, 1789<br/>Samuel Foote: letter to David Garrick, 1768<br/>Gilbert White: letter to his brother John, 1775<br/>Tobias George Smollett: letter to William Strahan,<br/>1759<br/>Christopher Smart: letter to Dr. Charles Burney,<br/>1770<br/>William Mason: The Rise of Fashion, 1747<br/>Edmund Burke: letter to Fanny Burney, 1782<br/>Oliver Goldsmith: The Captivity: An Oratorio,<br/>ca. 1764<br/>Oliver Goldsmith: letter to Catherine Bunbury,<br/>1773<br/>Charles Churchill: letter to David Garrick, 1762<br/>William Cowper: letter to Maria Cowper, 1767<br/>William Cowper: letter to 1 ady Hesketh, 1786<br/>George Colman, the eli i.r: letter to Thomas<br/>Cadell, 1787<br/>James Macpherson: letter ii> Paul Benfield, 1781<br/>Edward Gibbon: expanded lotes for The Decline<br/>and Fall of the Roman Emp re, 1783<br/>John Wolcot ("Peter Pin )Ar"): letter, 1800<br/>James Boswell: letter to Wi iiam Temple, 1791<br/>118. Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: Anecdotes of the<br/>late Samuel Johnson LLDy 1785<br/>119. Henry Mackenzie: letter to Dr. J ames Currie, 1802<br/>120. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: letter to Robert<br/>Crispin, 1776<br/>121. Thomas Chatterton: "Sly Dick" and "A Hymn<br/>for Christmas Day," ca. 1763-4<br/>122. Fanny Burney (Madame Arblay): advertisement<br/>for first edition of Cecilia, 1782<br/>123. George Crabbe: letter to his son George, 1828<br/>124. William Godwin: letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge,<br/>1800<br/>125. William Blake: letter to John Flaxman, 1800<br/>126. William Blake: The Pickering or Ballads Manu<br/>script, ca. 1807<br/>127. Robert Burns: letter to Frances Dunlop, 1788<br/>128. Robert Burns: letter to George Thomson, 1793<br/>129. Matthew Gregory Lewis: "On the failure of her<br/>Royal Highness's efforts to reclaim a worthless<br/>Object of her bounty," 1803 |
