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- 1785-1807, (Watermark 1827). (Creation)
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1 vol. (77 ff.)
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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 They include unpublished Lines by Mrs [Frances] Grevelle; a eulogy of Isaac Corry by Mrs [Henrietta] O 'Neill; To_'Fanny farewell...'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.
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Mainly English, some French and Italian.
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Endpaper inscribed 'Miss Brooks Reliques of Irish Poetry'.
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Enclosures : Genius of the Caves by William Gore, and copies of An Arab 's Farewell to his Horse by Caroline Norton, a love poem and the ballad Alice Grey, (Watermark 1827).
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Contents listed at back of volume.
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Preferred citation: PQH1/8.
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- Baker, George, fl. 1803. (Subject)
- Colman, George, 1762-1836. (Subject)
- Corry, Isaac, 1755-1813. (Subject)
- Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841. (Subject)
- Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831. (Subject)
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779. (Subject)
- Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816. (Subject)
- Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833. (Subject)
- Greville, Frances, 1730?-1789. (Subject)
- O'Neill, Henrietta, 1757 or 8-1793. (Subject)
- Ormsby-Gore, William, 1779-1860. (Subject)