A collection of extracts of poetry and plays including Voltaire’s Zaïre.
Detailed Summary:
Volume of extracts of poetry and plays from writers like Michael Drayton (1563-1631), Voltaire, Antoinette Du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638-1694), and John Dryden (1631-1700), copied by Thaddeus Mason Harris in 1792. There are also critical remarks taken from published works.
There are a small numbers of corrections in the form of crossings out and the addition of corrected text superscript throughout. Excerpts from printed works have occassionally been stuck into the manuscript.