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Title: Historicall collections, or, Memoires of passages & stories collected from severall authours.
Alternative Title: Memoires of passages and stories collected from severall authours.
Creator: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Duncan, J., Rev., former owner.
Contributor: Shuttleworth, Ellen, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1682
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: Holograph manuscript.
Scope/Content: A manuscript volume complied in 1682 by Daniel Defoe for his future wife Mary Tuffley, consisting of excerpts and retellings of historical stories and accounts from his reading.
Citation/Reference: Moore, J.R. Checklist of the writings of Daniel Defoe.2 .
Citation/Reference: Novak, M. Lost Defoe manuscript discovered. (Clark Library Newsletter 1 [Fall 1981]):p. 1-2.
Condition: Bound in full vellum with elaborate gold tooling and gilt edges.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Anthologies
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [132] p., bound ;16 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1mg7s
MS.1951.009
Language: English
eng
Subject: World history--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: With dedication to "Clarinda" by "Bellmour," aliases for Defoe's future wife Mary and himself. Verso of front free endpaper inscribed "Ellen Shuttleworth, 1836, Plaistow Hall, Novbr. 29th, Saty. evening." Reported as owned by Dr. J. Duncan, Wimborne, Dorsetshire, in late 18th century.
Location: CLUW

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