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Commonplace book : manuscript, 1802.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 373
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwyn, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballads, English.
- English literature--18th century.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century.
- Genre:
- Commonplace books.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Poems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased from A. R. Heath (Bristol, England), 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (12 leaves) : paper ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- 1802.
- Summary:
- Commonplace book kept by Charles Baldwyn of Drayton Beauchamp, Nr Tring, Herts. beginning on Feb. 19, 1802 ending Nov. 17, 1802, with a copy of Swift's "The grand question debated whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a barrack or a Malthouse" with annotations. Also included are 4 ballads, the first, "Pretty Bessee," has 65 stanzas; the second, "Lady Bothwell's Lament," is written using Scots dialect, with a lullaby refrain.
- Contents:
- The grand question debated, whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a barrack or a malthouse, 1729 / [Jonathan] Swift.
- Pretty Bessee.
- Lady Bothwell's lament.
- Cupid's pastime.
- Selima.
- Notes:
- Written in one hand, ownership attribution at the end, f. [12v].
- No pagination.
- Binding: Contemporary marbled wrappers.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 373
- OCLC:
- 225124312
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