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Poetry and letters,

Volume apparently belonging to Owen Ormsby [pre-1804], containing copies of published poems and letters by Alexander Pope, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, George Lyttelton and Thomas Parnell; A Recipe for the Vapours by Lord Lansdowne; letters by Countess Castelli to Baroness Treville concerning their friendship, a journey to Paris, Parisian society, fashion and etiquette, and the courtship of the Count de Castelli; other letters by unidentified authors on the subjects of romantic attraction, women and marriage; elegies on the poet 's emotional sensitivity and on separation from 'Celia'.

Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.