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A life of St. Catherine

A transcript, by F. W. Bourdillon, of a life of St. Catherine, in old French verse, contained in a manuscript in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle.

A poem

  • NLW MS 2917D
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  • 19 cent.

'Vers contre L'ouvrage intitulé: Nécessité de reconnaître L'indépendance des Colonies'.

An Omnium Gatherum

  • NLW MS 23988B.
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  • [1820s]

A manuscript album, entitled 'An Omnium Gatherum' (f. 1 verso), compiled during the 1820s (dated 1822 and 1826 on ff. 73 verso, 106) by Harriette Grant (1789-1863; later Harriette Wingfield Stratford), daughter of Henry Grant (1743-1831) of Gnoll Castle, Glamorgan. The volume includes literary excerpts, antiquarian notes, riddles, and poems, written in English, French and Welsh, together with numerous well-executed watercolur, ink and pencil studies, some noted as being 'after Rembrandt' (ff. 1 verso, 7 verso, 10, 16, 17 verso).
The drawings include views of the Vale of Ebbw from Abercarne (f. 5), Neath Castle (f. 40), view from the fishing stool at Gnoll (f. 41 verso), Llantwit Church from the terrace at Gnoll Castle (f. 58), the upper lodge at Gnoll (f. 69), part of the chapel of Neath Abbey (ff. 78 verso, 80), Arthur's Stone in Gower (f. 81 verso), a female Glamorgan peasant (f. 98), a male Welsh peasant (f. 99), Briton Ferry Church (f. 100 verso), a female peasant (f. 104), Gnoll Castle (f. 105 verso), and Melin Crython (f. 160).

Stratford, Harriette Wingfield, 1789-1863

Byron's 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers',

A transcript, dated 2 January 1815, of Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire (London, 1809) in the hand of Mrs Frances Morres Gore, whose signature appears on f. ii (ff. iv recto-verso, 1-61).
Laid in inside the back cover is a bifolium (watermark 1839) containing two poems in French, in an unidentified hand (ff. 68a-b).

Gore, Frances Morres, -1829

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous papers, including verses in English, French, and Latin, some in the hand of Catherine Harriet Morgan-Clifford, and three letters, 1869-1870, from William Pengelly, FRS, geologist, to Colonel and Mrs Morgan-Clifford (ff. 60-62).

Catherine Harriet Morgan-Clifford and William Pengelly.

Poèmes de Taldir (Tome V)

A volume of manuscript poems by Taldir, 1944-1946, entitled 'Derriere les Barreaux' / 'Drek ar Barinier' ['Behind Bars'], being his fifth volume of poetry. The volume belongs to the period of his imprisonment. It contains pencil notes by M. André Dezarrois.

Poetry, songs and prose,

Manuscript volume belonging to L.M. Gore, containing elegies, odes, epitaphs, French chansons, other songs, popular rhymes and prose compositions on generally on romantic or bucolic themes, and on the Napoleonic Wars, 1785-1807. They include unpublished Lines by Mrs [Frances] Grevelle; a eulogy of Isaac Corry by Mrs [Henrietta] O 'Neill; To_'Fanny farewell...' by William Gore; copies of published works by Sir Brooke Boothby, William Cowper, Wentworth Dillon, Samuel Johnson, George Lewis, Richard Mant, Thomas Moore, Dr Thomas Percy, Mary Darby Robinson, 1788, William Roscoe, R. B. Sheridan, Thomas Sheridan, and Esther Vanhomrigh. Other titles comprise Inscription on the Cave in the Wood at Barrrowmount, 1786, To a Favorite Sister on her Birthday by 'An Etonian' [William Gore], To Eliza Gore with a Bouquet, 1797, To Capt William Gore Leaving Ireland, 1805, The Tears of the Cruets on Taxing Vinegar and Salt, 1805, and several other anonymous or unidentified works. Many other items in the volume are associated with the theatre and personalities such as David Garrick, Mrs O 'Neill of Shanes Castle, 1785, Madam Mara, 1795, Mrs Jordan at Drury Lane, 1798, George Baker, 1803, [George] Colman, Thomas Dibdin, 1803, and Robert Elliston, 1804; there is also a prelude to a children 's play, The Desert Island; and Prelude by Richard Cumberland upon Nelson 's death, 1805.

Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.