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Title: [Commonplace book].
Date Created and/or Issued: [174-?]
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 commonplace book dating from the mid-18th century containing poetry, prose and riddles written in several hands. Some, if not all, work appears to be original compositions, making reference to current events in the social lives of the author(s), while other items include an epitaph on Alexander Pope and Isaac Watts hymns. A couple of poems make reference to Eardley, which is possibly the Eardley in Audley parish, Staffordshire.
Condition: Bound in full vellum.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Poems
Extent: [128] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1sw4b
MS.1983.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Traces of inscription on front and back covers; several poems written by "J.B." or "Jenny."
Location: CLUW

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