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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Hawes, Francis.
Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743.
Vane, Frances Anne Vane, Viscountess, 1713-1788.
Sheridan, Thomas, 1687-1738.
Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.
Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Contributor: Thoms, William John, 1803-1885, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1720-1760]
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: At end of several poems: Bath.
Scope/Content: Commonplace book kept by Francis Hawes between about 1720 and 1760, collecting both poetical miscellany as well as recipes for medical remedies. Poetical excerpts include works by well-known authors such as Pope, Sheridan and Ramsay, along with many other bawdy and political poems, either anonymous or by Hawes himself. Some of these political verses are quite topical, treating events like the execution of John Byng and the corruption of Sir Robert Walpole. There is also an extemporaneous poem perhaps composed by the young Frances Hawes (later, the infamous Viscountess Vane) to an uncle departing from the family home at Purley Hall. It does not seem likely based on other clues in the volume that the compiler of this volume was her father Francis Hawes, a director of the South Seas Company, but was perhaps a cousin by the same name. The medical remedies and prescriptions mostly consist of guidelines and recipes from the famous Dr. George Cheyne of Bath who apparently treated Hawes in the 1730s, as well as other recommendations from various doctors and friends.
Condition: Bound in contemporary vellum with traces of metal clasps.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Medical formularies
Extent: [366] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1xk67
MS.1993.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Poetry--18th century.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: W.J. Thoms inscribed on front paste-down endpaper, with "bought at his sale, 1887" appended in a different hand; Several poems signed "F.E Hawes" or "F.H."
Location: CLUW

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