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Title: [Poems and riddles].
Creator: Tibbits, Mary Woodyeare, ca. 1764-1840.
Drake, Francis, 1721-1795.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1800]
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 volume of poems and riddles largely composed by Mary Woodyeare Tibbits between 1774 and 1806. Tibbits compiled the volume around 1800, copying out her own compositions in roughly chronological order, beginning with a story she wrote in 1774, at the age of 10 and continuing with additions up to about 1806. Many poems are reflections on her reading, such as "On reading poems by Ann Yearsley" or "On reading Caroline of Litchfield, " while others are addressed to her sisters, friends, and her future husband. Excerpts from published works such as Romeo and Juliet are also included, as are several poems by her cousin, Francis Drake (1721-1795). The volume was used to press flowers and leaves in the 19th century by Tibbits's granddaughter Mary Isabella Hood, wife of the 3rd Viscount Hood, who wrote annotations for her no longer extant specimens. There are still two ferns (without any annotations) near the end of the volume.
Condition: Bound in red leather with gold tooling; gilt edges and marbled endpapers.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Juvenilia
Poems
Extent: 101, [265] p., bound ;25 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1jc8h
MS.1994.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--18th century.
Place: England--Northamptonshire--Barton Seagrave
Provenance: Many poems in predominant hand signed "Mary Woodyeare, " "Mary Tibbits" or "MW." Other poems at end of volume attributed to "Dr. Drake" or "Francis Drake."|Contains remains of pressed flowers gathered in 1872-1875, and 1904, with annotations; one of these annotations signed by Mary Isabella Hood.
Location: CLUW

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