Hyde and Villiers Families Poetry Collection, 1730s-1780s (mostly 1730s-1740s)
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Firestone Library (hsvm): Box 47
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Hyde and Villiers Families Poetry Collection, 1730s-1780s (mostly 1730s-1740s)
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A collection of 46 loose manuscript verses collected by members of the Hyde and Villiers families (Earls of Clarendon).
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The collection includes copies of poems by Jonathan Swift (answer poem, “The nymph who wrote this in a humourous fit”, together with original “Rebus”), R. B. Sheridan (“Verses to the memory of Garrick”), Voltaire (verse epistle to Frederick the Great, 1747), William Congreve (epistle to Lord Cobham “Sincerest critic of my Prose or Rhime”), James Thompson (“Come gentle god of soft desire”), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Colley Cibber, and Earl Nugent (“Ode to William Pultney”), theatrical prologues and epilogues, two poems addressed to William Whitehead on his being made Poet Laureate, one poem addressed to Lord Cornbury, and various political satires (on Robert Walpole and other subjects), two poems addressed to Lady Charlotte Hyde of Rochester (1703-1746), “On seeing Mount Vesuvius burn” and “Written at Rome in the Year 1730” by the Honorable Lady Lechmere, writings titled “A Song on the Secret Expedition” and “The Qualifications necessary to make a Good Girl,” as well as various odes and verses written in honor of birthdays, weddings, and other occasions.
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