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Title: [Letter-book and poetical miscellany].
Creator: Martin, Thomas.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
Crown, Mr.(John), 1640?-1712.
Rochester, John Wilmot,Earl of,1647-1680.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1674-1676]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript notebook kept by Thomas Martin of Chichester while a student at New College, Oxford. The notebook contains copies of letters written to and from Thomas to his sister, F.S., his cousin, A.P. and his friend, John Sowter (J.S.) as well as original poems and poems by popular authors such as Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, and the Earl of Rochester.
Citation/Reference: Smyth, A. Profit and delight, xv-xxii.
Condition: Bound in brown calf with blind stamping to covers and spine; sprinkled edges.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Letters
Notebooks
Poetical miscellanies
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [236] p., bound ;16 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1gw35
MS.1950.028
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--Oxford
Provenance: Inscribed on first page: "Thomas Martin Lib"
Location: CLUW

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