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Title
Pleasing variety for Miss Mary Arnold /[by] Mrs. Stapleton.
Alternative Title
Verses and riddles.
Medley both serious and comic.
Creator
Stapleton, Mrs.
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773.
Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Date Created and/or Issued
[178-?]
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. On back paste-down endpaper: "A medley both serious and comic." Leather damaged on both covers and spine; some water damage to pages.
Scope/Content: A manuscript book of riddles, rebuses, poems and other literary recreations, compiled by Mrs. Stapleton for Miss Mary Arnold in the late 18th century. The volume contains poetry by Lord Lyttelton, Congreve and others, as well as riddles, puzzles, rebuses and acrostics. Many of these take marital or love advice as their topic, but there are also several puzzles concerned with Tunbridge Wells and with members of the nobility.
Condition: Bound in brown leather with substantial water damage to front and back covers, as well as spine.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Poetical miscellanies
Extent
[184] p., bound ;33 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1t306
f MS.1987.001
Language
English
eng
Subject
Riddles--18th century.
Literary recreations--England--18th century.
Place
England
Location
CLUW

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