Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Index of English Literary Manuscripts

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Index of

English Literary Manuscripts Volume III

1700-1800 Part 4

Laurence Sterne - Edward Young

with a First-Line Index to parts 1-4

Alexander Lindsay

MANSELL

London and Washington

First published 1997 by Mansell Publishing Limited, A Cassell imprint Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB, England PO Box 605, Herndon, VA 20172, USA

© Alexander Lindsay 1997

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ISBN 0-7201-2283-X

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Typeset by Saxon Graphics Ltd., Derby, England. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bookcraft Ltd, Midsomer Norton, Avon

Contents

Special Acknowledgements

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Preface and General Acknowledgements

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List of Repositories

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List of Auction Houses and Booksellers

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Abbreviations

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Facsimiles

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Sterne, Laurence (StL)

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Swift, Jonathan (SwJ)

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Thomson, James (ThJ)

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Thrale, Hester Lynch (ThH) (later Piozzi)

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Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford (WaH)

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Warton, Joseph (WaJ)

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Warton, Thomas, the Younger (WaT)

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Watts, Isaac (WaI)

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Winchilsea, Anne Finch, Countess of (WiA)

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Wollstonecraft, Mary (WoM)

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Young, Edward (YoE)

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First-line Index to Verse in Volume III, Parts 1-4

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Special Acknowledgements

Houghton Library, Harvard University, made possible a month's stay in the spring of 1994, working on the manuscripts of several different authors. The generosity and hospitality of the Governors of the Lewis Walpole Library allowed me to make two visits, in the autumn of 1994 and in March 1995, working with its collections of Walpole's manuscripts and books. The award of a travel grant by the Bibliographical Society ensured that I was able to make several necessary journeys to different locations within the British Isles, including Edinburgh, Alnwick Castle, and Winchester, during the last two years of the research. The Co-Directors of the Index, Margaret M. Smith and Barbara Rosenbaum, the publisher, and myself, wish to record our gratitude to all of these institutions.

Volume III, Part 4 of the Index of English Literary Manuscripts has been published with the financial assistance of several institutions, here gratefully acknowledged in chronological order of receipt. Since 1991 this Part has been supported principally by Major Research Grants from the British Academy, which for the academic years 1993-5 were administered as a Research Fellowship at the University of Reading. Further funds came from Unesco on the recommendation of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies. For the years 1993-5 assistance was also received from the British Library through its scheme of Grants for Cataloguing and Preservation. A bursary from the John Rylands University Library of Manchester enabled me to spend three weeks at the Department of Special Collections, Deansgate, working on the manuscripts of Hester Lynch Thrale. The award of the Joan E. Nordell Visiting Fellowship by the

Finally, thanks are due to the University of Reading, which has acted as host institution to the Index for the past two years.

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Preface and General Acknowledgements

Higgs of Mansell Publishing for her kindly patience and understanding.

Eleven authors are included in this final part of Volume III of the Index, beginning with Laurence Sterne and concluding with Edward Young. It also includes the final cumulative first-line index of all the verse which is described in the manuscript entries or mentioned in the Introductions in Parts 1-4 of Volume III.

Naturally completion of Part 4 would have been impossible without the co-operation of many librarians, private owners, and scholars. Several have helped with more than one section: Giuseppe Bisaccia, Curator of Manuscripts, Boston Public Library; Dr Roger Custance, Fellows' Librarian, and Dr Geoffrey Day, Winchester College; J.J. Eyston of Mapledurham House, and the Hon. Archivist, Richard G. Williams; Mark R. Farrell, Curator of the Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library; Sara Hodson of the Huntington; Dr Dorothy Johnston, Department of Manuscripts, University of Nottingham Library; Margaret Kulis, Special Collections, the Newberry Library, Chicago; Dr Peter McNiven and the staff of the Department of Special Collections, John Rylands University Library of Manchester; His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and Colin Shrimpton, Archivist at Alnwick Castle; Stephen Parkes, Curator of the Osborn Collection at Yale, and his assistants, John Bertram and Gary Sanderling; Richard Wendorf, Leslie Morris, and the staff of the Houghton Library, Harvard University; and Laetitia Yeandle, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library. And throughout the research I have been constantly obliged to the staffs of Cambridge University Library, the British Library, and the Bodleian Library, in particular to Stella Clarke, Julian Conway, Morag Law, Nicola Thwaite, and Godfrey Waller.

One stylistic innovation has been made in Part 4, the adoption of the editorial convention of angled brackets to indicate deletions in the MSS. As in the past, it has proved difficult to fix upon an absolutely consistent policy towards transcripts of verse. On the one hand, current practice in textual criticism is to collate all MSS, and it is not part of the Index's function to preempt editorial decisions as to textual authority. On the other, it has seemed pointless to give entries to transcripts which are dated considerably after the author's death, or where there are reasonably clear indications that transcription was made from a printed text; such cases have not been listed, but are mentioned in the Introductions to each author section. No doubt some transcripts which have received entries may also derive from printed sources, but they have always a certain value as evidence of what contemporary readers admired, or of the circulation of controversial satires and ballads. I wish to thank all my colleagues on the Index, Peter Beal, Barbara Rosenbaum, but especially Margaret M. Smith with whom I collaborated on Volume III, Part 3, and who has entrusted me to complete the work she had so ably conducted for several years. As Director of the project, she has continued to act as general and advisory editor. All the sections are the better for her criticism, and her experience has been an invaluable resource in dealing with the difficulties of description which manuscripts sometimes pose. And I am grateful to Veronica

The Rt Hon. Viscountess Eccles expressed regret that her own scholarly commitments and lack of staff at Four Oaks Library did not permit her to assist the Index as she might have wished, but gave kind permission to repeat such information on the collection as is already publicly available and in print. It should be borne in mind

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PREFACE AND GENERAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS therefore that all references to her Ladyship's collections are second-hand and provisional.

Champ, Hampshire Record Office; and to Professor Bertram Davis.

For the Sterne section, I would like to thank Doug Parsons of the Rosenbach Museum & Library. For the Swift section, I must express my gratitude to the following: Professor John Irwin Fischer; the Most Hon. the Marquess of Tavistock and the Bedford Estates, the late Mrs Marie Draper, former Archivist, and her successor Mrs Ann Mitchell; Captain Sir John Leslie, Bart.; the staff of the Library, Trinity College, Dublin, especially Felicity O'Mahony and Stuart O'Séanoir, of the Department of Manuscripts; the staff of the Royal Irish Academy; the staff of Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin; the staff of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge; Brian Gill, Keeper of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, and Mrs Maxwell-Scott of Abbotsford; Mark R. Farrell; Sara Hodson; Margaret Kulis; John Bidwell of the Clark Library, Los Angeles; Dr C.M. Woolgar, University of Southampton Library; and Laetitia Yeandle.

For the Warton brothers sections, I very much wish to thank Colin Harris and Nicky Kennon of the Bodleian Library, who dealt courteously and patiently with frequent large orders from a difficult archive. Thanks are due also to Roger Custance and Geoffrey Day; to Dr David Fairer, University of Leeds; to Giuseppe Bisaccia; to Mrs Margaret Kirwan, Librarian of Oriel College, Oxford; and to Mrs Jan Martin, Librarian, Trinity College, Oxford. For the Watts section, I would like to thank William H. Loos, Curator, Grosvenor Rare Book Room, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; David Mander, Borough Archivist, and the staff of Hackney Archives Department; John Creasey, Librarian, Dr Williams's Library; Christine Nelson of the Pierpont Morgan; Ms K. Robson, University of Southampton Library; Giuseppe Bisaccia; Sara Hodson; the staff of the Department of Manuscripts, Edinburgh University Library; Paula Lee, University of Chicago Library; and Judy Harvey Sahak of Scripps College, Claremont.

For the Thomson section, grateful acknowledgement is made to the Trustees of Sir David Ogilvy of Inverquharity, and to Sir John Clerk of Penicuik for permission to describe and quote from manuscripts among their papers on deposit at the Scottish Record Office. I am also particularly obliged to Colin Shrimpton, Margaret Kulis, and to Professor James Sambrook.

For the Lady Winchilsea section, acknowledgement is made to Wellesley College and to the trustees of the estates of the Earls of Winchilsea for permission to describe and quote from manuscripts in their keeping. I also wish to thank Laetitia Yeandle; Dr Richard Luckett of Magdalene College, Cambridge; and Miss R. Watson, County Archivist, Northamptonshire Record Office.

For the Hester Lynch Thrale section, I wish to thank the staffs of the Department of Special Collections, John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and of the Houghton Library, Harvard. Thanks are also due to Bernard R. Crystal, Curator of Manuscripts, Columbia University; and to Geraint Phillipps and Eirionedd A. Baskerville of the Department of Manuscripts and Records, National Library of Wales.

For the Mary Wollstonecraft section, I would like to thank Stephen Wagner, Curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library. For the Edward Young section, I must again thank Roger Custance, J.J. Eyston, and Richard G. Williams; and also Carrie Marsh of the Honnold Library, Claremont.

For the Walpole section, thanks are due first and foremost to the staff of the Lewis Walpole Library, Billie I. Salter, Acting Librarian, Anna Malicka, and Joan H. Sussler. I am also most grateful to the staffs of the Houghton Library, Harvard, and of the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; to Michael Meredith, Librarian, Eton College; to Nicholas Lee, Archivist, University of Bristol; to T.W. Mayberry, Assistant County Archivist, Somerset Record Office; to Linda K.

Finally I would like to express my gratitude to Professors Howard Erskine-Hill and Ian Jack and Dr Hilton Kelliher for their encouragement throughout. Formal permissions to publish the facsimiles selected for each author are noted in the list thereof. Alexander Lindsay February 1996

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List of Repositories

Boston Public Library Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, MA 02117, USA Boston University Department of Special Collections, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA British Library Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG British Library, Department of Printed Books Department of Printed Books, The British Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Rare Book Room, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA Cambridge University Library Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR Capt. Sir John Leslie, Bart. Capt. Sir John Leslie, Bart., Castle Leslie, Glaslough, Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland Case Western Reserve University Department of Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University Libraries, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA Chatsworth The Librarian, Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE4 1PN Chetham's Library Chetham's Library, Long Milgate, Manchester M3 1SB Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8, Republic of Ireland

Addresses are in England unless otherwise stated. Abbotsford Abbotsford, Nr Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland [Enquiries should be addresed to the Keeper of the Library, Faculty of Advocates, Parliament House, Edinburgh EH1 1RF, Scotland] Alexander Turnbull Library The Alexander Turnbull Library, P.O. Box 8016, Wellington, New Zealand Alnwick Castle Estates Office, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1NQ Amherst Amherst College Library, Amherst, MA 01002, USA Archbishop Marsh's Library Archbishop Marsh's Library, St Patrick's Close, Dublin 8, Republic of Ireland Armagh Public Library Armagh Public Library, Market Street, Armagh, Northern Ireland Baron Walpole Baron Walpole, Wolterton Hall, Erpingham, Norwich NR117LY Bath Central Library Bath Central Library, The Podium, Northgate Street, Bath BAl 5AN Berg The Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018, USA Bibliotheca Bodmeriana Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 19-21 Route de Guignard, CH-1223 ColognyGenève, Switzerland Bodleian Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG

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LIST OF REPOSITORIES Cincinnati Public Library Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Library Square, 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202, USA Clark Library, Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street at West Adams, Los Angeles, CA 90018, US A Colorado College Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA Columbia University Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA Cornell Department of Rare Books, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Dartmouth College Department of Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH 03755, USA Dr Johnson's House, London Dr Johnson's House, Gough Square, London EC4 Dr Williams's Library Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H0AG Dublin Public Libraries, Gilbert Library Dublin Public Libraries, Gilbert Library, 138–41 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Duke University Manuscripts Department, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706, USA Earl Waldegrave Earl Waldegrave, Chewton House, Chewton Mendip, Bath BA3 4LQ Earl of Derby The Earl of Derby, Knowsley, Prescot, Merseyside L34 4AF Earl of Shelburne The Earl of Shelburne, Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire SN11 OLZ Edinburgh University Library Department of Manuscripts, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library, St John's Seminary, 5012 E. Seminary Road, Camarillo, CA 93010, USA Eton College College Library and Collections, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 6DB

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Library, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge CB21RB Folger The Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. 20003, USA Francis Bacon Library, Claremont The Francis Bacon Library, 655 Dartmouth Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, USA Gonville and Caius College Cambridge The Library, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA Hackney Archives Department Hackney Archives Department, 43 De Beauvoir Road, London Nl 5SQ Harvard The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Harvard, Widener Collection The Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Hampshire Record Office Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester, SO23 8RD Hertfordshire Record Office Hertfordshire County Record Office, County Hall, Hertford, Hertfordshire SGI3 8DE Hitchin Museum Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery, Paynes Park, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 1EQ Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA Hon. Mrs Anne Gascoigne The Honourable Mrs Anne Gascoigne, The Manor House, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire OX8 1RJ Honnold Library, Claremont The Honnold Library for the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711, USA House of Commons Library House of Commons Library, Westminster, London SW1 Huntington The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA Ickworth Ickworth (National Trust), The Rotunda, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds IP29 5QE Indiana University Department of Rare Books, S.T. Lilly Library, Indiana University, Tenth Street and Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA

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LIST OF REPOSITORIES Marquess of Tavistock Bedford Estates Office, 29A Montague Street, London WC1B 5BL [Enquiries should be addressed to the Archivist] Massachusetts Historical Society Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028, USA Mitchell Library, Glasgow The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN, Scotland Monash University The Library, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia National Library of Ireland Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland National Library of Scotland Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW, Scotland National Library of Wales Department of Manuscripts and Records, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3BU, Wales National Trust, see Ickworth and Nostell Priory New College Oxford The Library, New College, Oxford OX1 3BN Newberry Library, Chicago The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610, USA Newnham College Cambridge The Library, Newnham College, Cambridge CB3 9DF Northamptonshire Record Office Northamptonshire Record Office, Wooton Hall Park, Northampton NN4 9BQ Northwestern University University Library, Northwestern University, Evanstown, IL 60201, USA Nostell Priory Nostell Priory (National Trust), Wakefield, Yorkshire NYPL The Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, USA; see also Berg and Pforzheimer Oriel College Oxford The Library, Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW Pembroke College Cambridge The Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF

Iowa State Historical Library Iowa State Historical Department, Division of Historical Museum and Archives, East 12th and Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50319, USA Johns Hopkins University Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA John Murray, London John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., 50 Albemarle Street, London WIX 4BD John Rylands Library The John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Department of Special Collections, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH Johnson Birthplace Museum The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Breadmarket Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS136LG King's College Cambridge The Library, King's College, Cambridge CB2 1ST King's School Canterbury The King's School, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2ES Lady Eccles (Dr Mary Hyde) Lady Eccles, The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection, Four Oaks Farm, 350 Burnt Mills Road, Somerville, NJ 08876, USA Laurence Sterne Trust Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, nr York, North Yorkshire YO6 4 AD Lawrence G. Blackmon Lawrence G. Blackmon, 151 Saddle Hill Road, Stamford, CT 06903, USA Lewis Walpole Library Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032, USA Liverpool Public Library Liverpool City Libraries, Brown, Picton and Hornby Libraries, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 SEW McGill University McLennan Library, McGill University, 3459 McTavish Street, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 1Y1 Mapledurham House Mapledurham House, Estate Office, Mapledurham, Reading RG4 7TR Marquess of Bath The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 7NN [Enquiries should be addressed to the Librarian and Archivist] Marquess of Salisbury The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire [Enquiries should be addressed to the Librarian and Archivist]

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LIST OF REPOSITORIES Pforzheimer The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, Room 319, Research Division, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, USA Pierpont Morgan The Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA Princeton Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA PRO Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR Public Archives of Nova Scotia Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 6016 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W4, Canada Queens' College Cambridge The Library, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET Queen's University Belfast The Library, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1LS Northern Ireland Robert S. Pirie Robert S. Pirie, Aquila Farm, Hamilton, MA 01936, USA Rosenbach The Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum and Library, 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Royal Library, Windsor The Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire Sandon Hall, Stafford Harrowby MSS Trust, Sandon Hall, Stafford ST180BZ Scottish Record Office Scottish Record Office, PO Box 26, HM General Register House, Edinburgh EH1 3YY, Scotland Scripps College Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont,CA91711,USA Society of Antiquaries The Library, Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Wl V 0HS Somerville College Oxford The Library, Somerville College, Oxford OX2 6HD Staatsbibliothek, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz,

Handschriftenabteilung, 1 Berlin 3, Archivstr. 12-14, Germany State Library of Victoria, Melbourne The State Library of Victoria, S wanston Street, Melbourne, Australia Swarthmore College McCabe Library, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA Texas The Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Box 7219, Austin, TX 78712, USA Trinity College Cambridge The Library, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Trinity College Dublin The Library, Trinity College, College Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Trinity College Oxford The Library, Trinity College, Oxford OX1 3BH Tutt Library, see Colorado College University of Bristol The University Library, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TJ University of Chicago Department of Special Collections, The Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA University of Illinois Rare Book Room, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA University of Leeds The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT University of London The Paleography Room, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU University of Michigan William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA University of Nottingham Manuscripts Department, University of Nottingham Library, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, The Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library, 3240 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA University of Rochester Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Archives, The University of Rochester Library, Rochester, NY 14627, USA University of Southampton The Library, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH

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LIST OF REPOSITORIES Wellesley College Department of Special Collections, Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02181, USA William Salt Library, Stafford The William Salt Library, County Buildings, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2NF Williams College The Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA Winchester College Warden and Fellows' Library, Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9NA Wisbech and Fenland Museum Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE12 1ES Yale The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Yale, Osborn The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Library, 1603 A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, USA York Minster York Minster Library, Dean's Park, York YO1 2JD

University of Southern California University Library, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Library, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5, Canada University of Virginia Alderman Library, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA University of Washington, Seattle Special Collections Division, Suzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA University of York, Borthwick Institute University of York, The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, St Anthony's Hall, York YO1 2PW Victoria and Albert Museum The Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL Victoria College Library Victoria College Library, University of Toronto, Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada Warwickshire Record Office, County Record Office, Priory Park, Cape Road, Warwick CV34 4JS

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List of Auction Houses and Booksellers

Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA Peter Murray Hill Peter Murray Hill, 10 Beverley Gardens, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2UD Hanzel Galleries Hanzell Galleries, 1120 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 60605 IL, USA Heywood Hill G. Heywood Hill, Ltd., 10 Curzon Street, London W1Y7FJ Hodgson's Hodgson's, 115 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR [No longer in business; incorporated into Sotheby's.] Holmes, David David J. Holmes Autographs, 230 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA Hofmann and Freeman Hofmann and Freeman, 8 High Street, Otford, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 5PQ [No longer in business.] Joseph E. Joseph (in association with Chas. J. Sawyer), 1 Vere Street, London W1M 9HQ Lilly Joseph Lilly, 15 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London [A 19th-century dealer, no longer in business.] Maggs Maggs Brothers, Ltd., 50 Berkeley Square, London W1X6EL Marlborough Marlborough Rare Books, Ltd., 35 Old Bond Street, London W1X4PT Parke-Bernet Sotheby Parke Bernet, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021 USA [Now incorporated into Sotheby's.]

Alan G. Thomas, see Thomas American Art Association The American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, USA [Last sale in 1939; the firm's nominal successor was Parke-Bernet.] Anderson/Anderson Galleries See American Art Association Blackwell Blackwell's Rare Books, Fyfield Manor, Fyfield, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX 13 5LR Bloomsbury Book Auctions Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 3 and 4 Hardwick Street, London EC 1 Christie's Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., 8 King Street, St James's, London SW1Y 6QT Christie's (New York) Christie, Manson & Woods, 502 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022 US A Christopher Edwards Christopher Edwards, 63 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y6LX Dobell Percy J. Dobell & Son, 24 Mount Ephraim Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent [Not is business since 1972; some of the firm's papers are in the Bodleian, but the main business records do not survive.] Dominic Winter Book Auctions Dominic Winter Book Auctions, The Old School, Maxwell Street, Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 5DR Fleming John F. Fleming, Inc., 322 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022 USA [Not in business since 1988; see his sale Christie's (New York), 18 November 1988.] Freeman/Fine Arts Freeman/Fine Arts, 1808 Chestnut Street,

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-LIST OF AUCTION HOUSES AND BOOKSELLERS

Spencer Walter T. Spencer, 47 Upper Berkeley Street, London W1H 7PN [No longer in business.] Stargadt J.A. Stargadt, Rade-Strasse 10, D-3550 Marburg, Germany Stonehill C.A. Stonehill, Inc., 282 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511, US A Strong, William [A 19th-century dealer, no longer in business.] Stuart Bennett Stuart Bennett Rare Books, 35 Breakspears Road, London SE4 1YR Superior Galleries Superior Galleries, 9478 West Olypmic Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA Swann Galleries Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, USA Thomas, Alan G. Alan G. Thomas, Bookseller, c/o Westminster Bank, 300 King's Road, London SW3 5UJ [No longer in business.] Thorpe, Thomas [A 19th-century dealer, no longer in business.] Traylen Charles W. Traylen, Castle House, 49-50 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey Tregaskis James Tregaskis, The Caxton Head, 66 Great Russell Street, London WC1 [Not in business since c. 1934.] Ximenes (New York) Ximenes, 19 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA

Paul C. Richards Paul C. Richards, P.O. Box 62, 49 Meadow Lane, Bridgewater, MA 02324, USA [Stock sometimes deposited at Boston University.] Pearson John Pearson, 5 Pall Mall Place, London [Not in business since 1924.] Phillips Phillips, Son & Neale, 101 New Bond Street, London, W1YOAS Phillips (New York) Phillips, Son & Neale, Inc., 406 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA Pickering & Chatto Pickering & Chatto, Ltd. (Antiquarian Booksellers), 16 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5NB Princeton Rare Books Princeton Rare Books, P.O. Box 321, Kingston, NJ 08528, USA Puttick & Simpson Puttick & Simpson, 47 Leicester Square, London [Not in business since 1949.] Quaritch Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London, W1R 4AU Sawyer, see Joseph Simon Finch Simon Finch, Clifford Chambers, 10 New Bond Street, London W1Y9PF Sokol A. Sokol Books, Berghersh Place, Witnesham, Suffolk IP6 9EZ Sotheby's Sotheby's, 34–45 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA Sotheran Henry Sotheran, Ltd., 2 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London W1X2DP

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Abbreviations

ELH English Literary History ELN English Language Notes Garnett & Gosse (1903) English Literature, An Illustrated Record, ed. Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse, 4 vols (London, 1903) HLB Harvard Library Bulletin HLQ Huntington Library Quarterly HMC Historical Manuscripts Commission JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology JH1 Journal of the History of Ideas MLN Modern Language Notes MLQ Modern Language Quarterly MLR Modern Language Review Morrison Catalogue (1883) Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, compiled by A.W. Thibaudeau, 6 vols (privately printed, 1883) MP Modern Philology N&Q Notes and Queries NRA National Register of Archives, Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1HP

The following abbreviations are used throughout Volume III, part 4. Adam Library The R.B. Adam Library Relating to Dr Samuel Johnson and His Era, 4 vols (London, 1929-30) BC The Book Collector Berg Catalog Dictionary Catalog of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, 5 vols (Boston, 1969); Supplements, 2 vols (Boston, 1975 and 1983) BJRL Bulletin of the John Ry lands Library BLJ British Library Journal BLR Bodleian Library Record BNYPL Bulletin of the New York Public Library British Literary Manuscripts Verlyn Klinkenborg, British Literary Manuscripts, Series I from 800 to 1800 (New York, 1981) Croft, Autograph Poetry P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (Oxford, 1973) Crum First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, ed. Margaret Crum, 2 vols (Oxford, 1969) DLB Dictionary of Literary Biography, [various editors], (Detroit, 1978—) EA Etudes Anglaises

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ABBREVIATIONS PBSA Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

SP

Studies in Philology Tinker Library Robert F. Metzdorf, The Tinker Library: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Collected by Chauncey Brewster Tinker (New Haven, 1959) TLS Times Literary Supplement Universal Classic Manuscripts Universal Classic Manuscripts: Facsimiles from Originals in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, of Royal, Historic and Diplomatic Documents, Letters, and Autographs of Kings, Queens, Princes, Statesmen, Generals, Authors, etc., ed. George F. Warner, 2 vols (London, [1901]) YES Yearbook of English Studies YULG Yale University Library Gazette

PQ Philological Quarterly PULC Princeton University Library Chronicle RES Review of English Studies Rothschild The Rothschild Library: A Catalogue of the Collection of Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and Manuscripts Formed by Lord Rothschild, 2 vols (London, 1969) RP Reserve Photocopy, British Library, Department of Manuscripts SB Studies in Bibliography SEL Studies in English Literature

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Glutton', WaJ 53, and 'On Luxury', WaJ 112, British Library, Add. MS 42560, f. Iv. Reproduced by permission of the British Library.

I. Laurence Sterne. Autograph draft, first page, of sermon 'Temporal Advantages of Religion', here headed Trov:3:17. Her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness, & all her Paths are Peace', StL 14, Huntington, HM 2100. Reproduced by permission of The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.

VII. Thomas Warton the younger. Autograph draft of 'Carmen in celeberrimi Gloveri Leonidam', beginning with line 42, WaT 23, Bodleian, MS Dep.d.610, f. 26. Reproduced by permission of Trinity College, Oxford.

II. Jonathan Swift. Autograph fair copy, first page, of 'A History of Poetry, In a Letter to a Friend', SwJ 416, Folger, MS Y.c.1433. Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

VIII. Isaac Watts. Autograph fair copy of 'The foundation of ye art of dialling...', p. 15, Wai 141. Reproduced by permission of the Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont College Libraries.

III. James Thomson. Autograph fair copy of '[Lines:'Snatch me some God']', ThJ 26, together with Thomson's transcript of Joseph Addison's 'A Letter from Italy', lines 61-8, British Library, Add. MS 4457, f. 117. Reproduced by permission of the British Library.

IX. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Autograph fair copy of 'Ardelia to Melancholy', here entitled 'Areta to Melancholy', WiA 17, Northamptonshire Record Office, F.H. 233, p. 70. Reproduced by permission of the trustees of the estates of the Earls of Winchilsea and Northamptonshire Record Office.

IV. Hester Lynch Thrale. Autograph page of the conjectural '[Journal of Johnsonian Anecdotes]', ThH 1081, John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 629/1. Reproduced by permission of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

X. Mary Wollstonecraft. Autograph draft, first page, of review of Albert de Nordenshild for the Analytical Review, WoM 2. Reproduced by permission of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley & His Circle, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

V. Horace Walpole. Autograph, first page of 'Accounts of old plays & players, for Mr Garrick from Vertue's MSS', WaH 380. Reproduced by permission of the Lewis Walpole Library.

XI. Edward Young. Autograph fair copy, first page of text, of The Revenge. A Tragedy, YoE 30, Winchester College, MS 57. Reproduced by permission of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College.

VI. Joseph Warton. Autograph drafts originally intended for 'Fashion:An Epistolary Satire to a Friend', WaJ 38, but passages subsequently adapted for inclusion in 'The

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In December 1761, just before leaving for France in the hope of regaining his health, Laurence Sterne left two pages of 'Memorandums' with Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, making provision for his wife Elizabeth and their daughter in the event of his death by detailing MSS which might be published to provide them with funds. The 'Memorandums', StL 9, now at the Pierpont Morgan, mention a trunk in the keeping of his friend John HallStevenson, containing MSS of sermons, letters, a Latin university sermon which he had composed for John Fountayne, Dean of York, together with further letters at the Cox wold parsonage and at the Sternes' town house in York. Sterne was in fact to live another six years; but when he died, his daughter Lydia Sterne Medalle prepared editions of his letters and unpublished sermons as he had once intended. Before Lydia took possession of the letters and papers, however, they were examined by the Rev John Botham, Elizabeth Sterne's brother-in-law and occasional secretary to Elizabeth Montagu, who took it upon himself to destroy whatever he thought unfit for the widow to see. Among the MSS destroyed by Botham may have been a 'comic romance' which Sterne mentions in his last letters as newly begun. Nevertheless, Sterne is almost unique among the major eighteenthcentury novelists (the other exception is Fanny Burney) in that a significant amount of autograph and other authoritative MSS of his novels survive. A comprehensive list of Sterne MSS was printed in Wilbur L. Cross, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, 3rd edition (London, 1929), pp. 618-32. Much of Cross's list is taken up with letters and documents, and his very inclusiveness resulted in a large number of unlocated items, some the whereabouts of which had been unknown since the middle of the last century or even earlier. Fortunately, a very few of these MSS are now accessible again.

Only one poem by Sterne, The Unknown 0', has been recorded as surviving in a MS text and even that has been unlocated for over a century. The MS, StL 1, was preserved by his successors in the curacy of Coxwold until one of them, George Scott, lent it to a local historian, Thomas Gill, for publication in Vallis Eboracensis (Easingwold, 1852). Comparison with the original publication in the Gentleman's Magazine, July 1743, shows that besides the common contractions the MS version used some recurring symbols, for example '0' for 'World' as in the title. The MS seems to have disappeared soon after, although it was rumoured to be in the possession of one of the Scott family. Autograph MSS survive for Sterne's short autobiographical 'Memoirs' and 'A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais'. Although these two items were not published until after Sterne's death by Lydia Sterne Medalle, they are now regarded by scholars as early works. Indeed in the case of the 'Memoirs' it has been the recovery of the MS which has prompted the realization of its early date, and also the extent of Lydia Medalle's editorial interference. A facsimile edition has been produced as Sterne's Memoirs: A Hitherto Unrecorded Holograph Now brought to Light in Facsimile, Introduction and Commentary by Kenneth Monkman, privately printed for the Laurence Sterne Trust (Coxwold, 1985). The MS has very recently been sold at Christies's, 29 June 1995, Lot 371, with facsimile. It runs to 13 pages of text, written in a small notebook formed from a foolscap sheet which has been folded three times and stitched. There are thirteen pages of text, pp. 6, 8, and 12 being blank, and also p. 10 except for a an addition for p. 11 facing. A note on p. 2 reads 'Memord. I have sent down these particulars relating to my family and Self, for my Lydia, In

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MS some modern Sterne scholars are doubtful about Sterne's authorship of the fragment. Mention may be made here of an item, which although by its nature it has not received an entry, possesses considerable interest. Edward Simmens, 'Sterne's A Political Romance: New Light from a Printer's Copy', PBSA, 64 (1970), 419-29, describes a copy of Sterne's 1759 skit which has an uncancelled leaf A1 with one of the corrected readings marked up in an unidentified hand. Further marginal notes, also in an unidentified hand, name the persons involved in the original dispute. Sermons On Sterne's death, eighteen unpublished sermons were discovered, with others, in the trunk left in the care of John Hall-Stevenson. Hall helped Lydia Sterne Medalle to prepare the sermons for publication in a three-volume edition to supplement the four volumes published by her father in his lifetime as The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. It is perhaps not altogether coincidental that the two sermons for which MSS survive both appeared in the posthumous collection: 'Temporal Advantages of Religion', StL 14, at the Huntington, see FACS; and 'On Penancies', StL 13, at the Pierpont Morgan. Cross, Life, lists two further MSS of sermons once seen by the bibliophile Isaac Reed. These were The Ways of Providence Justified to Man', and 'Our Conversation in Heaven'. The former MS had a note reading, 'I have borrowed most of the Reflections upon the Characters from Wollaston, or at least have enlarged from his hints, though the Sermon is truly mine such as it is'; the latter MS was apparently endorsed near the end, 'Made for All Saints and preached on that Day 1750 for the Dean.— Present: 1 Bellows Blower, 3 Singing men, 1 Vicar & 1 Residentiary.— Memorandum: Dined with Duke Humphrey'. But since neither of these MSS has been seen since the end of the eighteenth century, they have not been given entries, even as unlocated MSS.

Likewise a comparison of Lydia Sterne Medalle's text of 'A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais', with the autograph MS, StL 3, has revealed omissions and inaccuracies. The complete text of the latter has been edited and described in Melvyn New, 'Sterne's Rabelaisian Fragment: A Text from the Holograph Manuscript', PMLA, 72 (1985), 1083-92, including facsimiles of ff. 12. The text consists of an untitled draft of two chapters, and a later unidentified hand has noted 'An original And in Sterne's hand-writing In collected edition of the Works it is entitled "The Fragment" etc.'. The MS consists of 23 leaves, apparently foliated in a later hand; only the rectos have been used, except for a cancelled reading on f. llv, an insertion on f. 19v, and what may be a numeral T on f. 7v. It is now at the Pierpont Morgan, and was at one time owned by the nineteenthcentury collector Alexander A. Smets of Savannah, Georgia; for some account of the Smets collection see Jay B. Hubble, 'Some Uncollected Poems by Joseph Addison', MP, 36 (1939), 277-81. Among the MSS which are currently unlocated is that which was published as 'Fragment Inedit' in a French thesis by Paul Stapfer, Laurence Sterne'. Etude biographique et litteraire (Paris, 1870), pp. xvi-lii. The fragment, headed simply 'To Mr. Cook', recounted in the first person a dream which took the form of a cosmic vision, apparently inspired by Fontenelle's Entretiens de la pluralite des mondes. The MS, StL 2, was owned by an unidentified lady of York, and lent to Stapfer through the Rev John Gates, Principal of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, who returned the MS after Stapfer had transcribed it. Unfortunately the owner was then taken severely ill, and Stapfer felt obliged to refrain from enquiries as to its provenance or a request to see it again; he believed it, however, to be written in Sterne's hand and also attempted to justify his attribution on internal and stylistic grounds. Nevertheless, in the absence of the

Tristram Shandy Special circumstances surround the extant portion of autograph MS of Sterne's masterpiece in that is a fair copy of the 'Le Fever episode', StL 4, made for presentation to an aristocratic admirer prior to publication. When it was published as Vol. VI, chapters 6-13, it became one of the most popular passages in the novel. Cross, Life, listed the MS as having been formerly owned by Earl Spencer at Althorp but sold in 1898, and subsequently untraced. It has since been rediscovered with the deposit of the Althorp Papers at the British Library, where it is temporarily catalogued as Althorp Papers F.I76.

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A Sentimental Journey There are three authoritative MSS of Sterne's second novel, an autograph MS of Vol. I lacking just over three chapters, StL 10, and a complete transcript of Vols. I-II, StL 11-12, made from StL 10 and a presumably autograph MS of Vol. II now lost. The authoritative account of these MSS, their relation to each other and to the printed text, is that of Gardner B. Stout in his critical edition of A Sentimental Journey. To this the present writer is much indebted. The autograph MS of Vol. I which served as printer's copy, now British Library, MS Egerton 1610, was at one time owned by the collector William Upcott who has added extra-illustrative materials from a variety of sources, mainly some engravings and the 'Memoir' excised from I.E. Nicholl's edition (1840?), and a titlepage in his own hand, 'The Sentimental Journey through France Written by Lawrence Sterne M.A. This Manuscript is in the Autograph of the Author. William Upcott, Islington 1843'. Of more interest is a tipped-in letter written by Jemima Day, 7 July 1843, probably addressed to Upcott, which reveals the provenance of the MS. It had belonged to her father for the previous forty years, and before that to her grandfather John Farnworth, who possibly acquired it through his friend the Rev Harvest, although she also speculates on some possible family connection with Sterne himself.

Contrary to previous Sterne scholarship, the staff of the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library have asserted that the MS is not autograph throughout, but only the title-page, the 'lead-in' from Chapter 5, some corrections, and the very last line; that a different ink was used for these portions is offered as supporting evidence. Professor New feels obliged to defer to this judgment, although he ventures that the main body of the text may be written in a more formal version of Sterne's hand as befits a fair copy made for presentation. The present writer is of Professor New's opinion. The collation of the MS with the published text reveals three important differences: some reassignment of the dialogue in the introductory excerpt from Chapter 5; the omission of the digression on sermons in Chapter 11; the MS is extremely lightly punctuated and lacks italics for proper names, although it occasionally uses double underlining for emphasis. Professor New also notes some minor substantive variants, most of which can be reasonably assumed to be copying errors, for example the omission of a phrase or a single word.

Sterne's MS begins on f. 11 according to the British Library's pencil foliation, but following Stout's example the contemporary foliation will be used in discussion here. It is headed 'A Sentimental Journey &c ... &c ...', which corresponds to the half-title of the early editions, and is a fair copy with revisions, written on the rectos only except for two notes and an insertion, some cancelled passages, and a cancelled folio number. It would appear to have been originally loose sheets, and Sterne took a new leaf when starting each chapter. The 161 leaves are numbered [1J-55, with an unnumbered leaf following 52, and 70-174, in the original foliation. The missing portion of the text is the latter half of the thirteenth chapter through to the sixteenth chapter inclusive. Throughout the MS are markings made by the printer in the process of casting off, a square bracket, 'Vol. I', and signature number; these usually appear in the left-hand margin. A note beside the chapter title on f. [1], '13 Sheets/No 2500/150 fine', indicates number of sheets, number of sets, and the size and quality of paper.

The other important MS of Tristram Shandy, StL 5, remains unlocated in spite of the efforts of Sterne scholars. According to William Durrant Cooper, 'Sterne Papers and Notes', N & Q, 2nd Ser., 7 (1859), 15, it was among the Turner of Kirkleatham MSS, and at that time owned by a Mrs Newcomen. Cooper describes the MS as a transcript of Vol. IV, chapters 1-17, in an unidentified hand which he had also seen in a MS at Skelton Castle of rules and minutes for a social club of Sterne and his friends. Two corrections, however, were made in Sterne's autograph: the scribe's last paragraph of Chapter 7 was cancelled and Sterne's autograph version (the apostrophe to Garrick) written overleaf; the last sentence of Chapter 15 was also in Sterne's hand.

The two-volume transcript is now at the Pierpont Morgan. StL 11, Vol. I, consists of 178 leaves, a preliminary blank, a title-page, the text foliated [lj-174, with an

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unnumbered blank between 88/9, and a final blank leaf. Vol. II, StL 12, consists of 187 leaves, a preliminary blank leaf, a title-page, the text foliated 1-184, and another blank leaf. Vol. I and also the title-page, ff. [1]85, and 87-156 of Vol. II are transcribed in one hand; the remaining leaves of Vol. II are written by a second transcriber, who unlike the first has supplied catchwords. Both volumes are written on the rectos only, and their alterations are corrections of errors in transcription rather than revisions. StL 11 largely preserves the accidentals of the autograph StL 10, and the copyist evidently attempted to maintain a page-for-page correspondence. There are similar indications that StL 12 tries to preserve a correspondence to the lost autograph Vol. II.

which have only one set of cancelled numbers, are remarkably free from revision compared with the other leaves of this chapter; the hand is larger as if a deliberate attempt was made to fill out the leaves, especially noticeable at the bottom of f. 73; furthermore the conclusion of f. 73 is evidently a revised version of a cancelled passage at the top of f. 74: Stout therefore proposes that ff. 72-3 are replacements for a discarded leaf which was numbered '60'. The transcribed StL 11 follows exactly the corrected foliation of StL 10, and its chapter 13 ends on f. 58; Sterne's foliation was one digit out, and his equivalent was therefore f. 59: which leads Stout to his final conclusion that chapter 18 originally followed chapter 13, but was transposed before the transcription was made.

Stout draws a number of conclusions from both a comparison of the texts of the MSS, and a detailed examination of their respective foliation. His argument is summarized here for the reader's convenience. StL 11 follows most, but not all, of the revisions in the autograph StL 10; StL 12 has also some substantive differences from the printed text of Vol. II. It would seem therefore that Sterne made further revisions to StL 10 after his amanuenses had made their transcription, and so it rather than the transcript was used as printer's copy. Further evidence that this recension was at one point so heavy that leaves were discarded and replaced is provided by changes in the foliation of StL 10. Sterne numbered each leaf of StL 10 before he wrote it out, but he misnumbered the seventeenth leaf '18' and continued accordingly. The error was corrected by the amanuensis who transcribed StL 10, either before or in the course of making his transcription into StL 11. Thus ff. 1-17 are foliated in Sterne's hand, and 17-49, 53-5, and 70-174 are renumbered in the hand of the amanuensis, Sterne's number being cancelled. But a comparison of StL 10 and the printed text against StL 11 shows that StL 10's text on ff. 50-2 was heavily revised and written out again by Sterne after the amanuensis had made the transcript. It would appear that Sterne discarded the first ff. 50-1, deleted the number on f. 52, and added the present ff. 50-2. Consequently the latter are numbered in Sterne's hand alone, and followed by an unnumbered leaf with, however, a cancelled numbering '52'.

The Journal to Eliza The autograph MS of the journal which Sterne wrote to Mrs Elizabeth Draper, StL 15, was discovered in a private collection at Bath by Thomas Washbourne Gibbs, then only an eleven year-old schoolboy, but who fortunately had heard sufficient about Sterne to realize that his find was worth preserving. Later in life Gibbs lent the MS to William Makepeace Thackeray, who drew upon it for the attack upon Sterne's character which he made in his lectures on The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Gibbs gave some account of his discovery and the MS in 'Some Memorials of Laurence Sterne', a paper read to the Bath Literary Institution and published in The Athenceum, No. 2631, 30 March 1878, pp. 412-14. The MS is now bound with related material in British Library, Add. MS 34527. On f. 1 is a note by Sterne which characteristically explains and attempts to conceal the nature of the 'Journal': This Journal wrote under the fictitious Names of Yorick & Draper— and sometimes of the Bramin & Bramine— but tis a Diary of the miserable feelings of a person separated from a Lady for whose Society he languish'd'— The real names— are foreigne— & the Acct. a Copy from a french Manst.— in Mr S—s hands— but wrote as it is, to cast a Viel over them—'. The second pair of pseudonyms refer to Elizabeth Draper's nickname for her clerical admirer as her 'Bramin' and his corresponding name for her of the 'Bramine'. The note continues 'There is a Counterpoint— which is the Lady's Accnt. what transactions dayly happened— & what Sentiments occupied her mind, during this Separation from her Admirer'. If such a corresponding journal by Eliza herself ever existed, it is now lost. Likewise the heading on p. 1, 'Continuation of the Bramines Journal' shows that the extant MS is the

Stout also argues that Sterne originally wrote the eighteenth chapter between the present thirteenth and fourteenth chapters. The leaves of chapter 18 in StL 10 have been refoliated by the amanuensis as 72-7; Sterne's foliation was 74-5, and four leaves which have two cancelled numbers, i.e. 76/61, 77/62, 78/63, 647/79. It would appear therefore that these leaves once occupied a place somewhere in the hiatus in the MS. Ff. 72-3,

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latter portion of the 'Journal' only. According to his letters, Sterne gave a first part of it to Eliza Draper on board ship just before her departure for India and began a new journal against her return. He then changed his mind and sent this second part to her in the care of a Mr Watts. The latter sailed for Bombay on 12 April, and the extant MS was begun that day. Bound following the 'Journal' are two autograph letters from Sterne to William and Anne James, 16 August 1767 and 28 December 1767, ff. 41-2 and 43-4. On ff. 45-6 are autograph drafts of a letter from Sterne to Daniel Draper, Eliza's husband, and on ff. 47-70 a very long letter from Elizabeth Draper to Mrs Anne James, dated from Bombay, 15 April 1772. Then come two letters from Thackeray to T.W. Gibbs: an acknowledgement of the safe receipt of the MS, 31 May [1851], f. 72; and its return with thanks, 12 September [1851], ff. 736. Finally, ff. 78-93 are a printed copy of Letters from Yorick to Eliza (London, 1779).

Neither does the sale catalogue make any mention of the volume of printed and MS poems and tracts now in the Bradshaw Collection at Cambridge University Library, which is known to have belonged to Sterne. The contents are mainly Irish material dating from the second quarter of the eighteenth century, including some transcripts of poems by Jonathan Swift, see his section SwJ 61 and 221; but also a transcript in an unidentified hand of The Ballyspellan Ballad' by Swift's friend, Patrick Delany, with an autograph annotation by Sterne, StL 16.

Library and Marginalia

Sterne's autograph entries in the borrowing register at York Minster have been recorded in C.B.L. Barr, Laurence Sterne's Borrowings from York Minster Library, 1741-54, unpublished list prepared by the assistant librarian in charge, York Minster Library, for the Laurence Sterne Bicentenary Conference, 1968, cited by Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, pp. 204-5.

Shortly after Sterne's death the York booksellers Todd and Sotheran issued A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, Among Which Are Included the Entire Library of the Late Reverend and Learned Laurence Sterne, A.M. Prebendary of York. Facsimile editions of this sale catalogue have twice been published this century, by Tregaskis in 1930, with an introduction by Charles Whibley, and more recently by Mansell with an introduction by Stephen Parks. Unfortunately Sterne scholars have established that the catalogue includes many books drawn from the booksellers' other stock, so much so that it is impossible to determine which are the genuine contents of Sterne's library; secondly, the catalogue omits the handful of books which are known to have belonged to Sterne. For example, Lewis Perry Curtis, The Politicks of Laurence Sterne (Oxford, 1929), pp. x-xi, concluded that the file of the newspaper, The Protestant York Courant, listed in the catalogue was Sterne's; but Kenneth Monkman, 'Sterne, Hamlet and Yorick', in The Winged Skull: Papers from the Laurence Sterne Bicentenary Conference, edited by Arthur H. Cash and John Stedmond (London, 1971), pp. 114-15, shows that this copy, now in his own collection, belonged not to Sterne but to the Rev George Groundrill of Sproatley. Likewise StL 17, the copy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, ou de reducation, 4 vols (Amsterdam, 1762) now at Yale, signed by Sterne on the half-title to Vol. IV and with an autograph calculation on the fly-leaf of Vol. I, does not appear in the Todd and Sotheran sale catalogue.

Letters Publication of Sterne's letters began fairly soon after his death, beginning with Letters from Yorick to Eliza (London, 1773) and Sterne's Letters to His Friends on Various Occasions (London, 1775). Modern scholars accept the former as authentic, albeit in a suspect text; the latter selection includes three genuine letters by Sterne, and eight forgeries by his young admirer William Coombe. Lydia Sterne Medalle's edition of her father's letters was an attempt to win some profit from his literary estate before further competitors found their way into print. Her editorial irresponsibility has long been notorious, and has become increasingly evident with the recovery of the MSS of letters which she published. Nevertheless the edition remains one of the main sources for Sterne's letters. Another is Sterne's Letter Book, now at the Pierpont Morgan, which he used for autograph fair copies and re-written texts of a selection of letters which he wished to preserve. The contents of the Letter Book have been printed in Cross, Life, pp. 556-95, with facsimiles of a memorandum on the first leaf, facing p. 556, and of a letter to David Garrick, 27 January 1760, facing p. 586.

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No. 161, to the Hon. William Hamilton, 17 March 1766, now at the University of Rochester; No. 143, to Thomas Howard, Earl of Effmgham, 29 May 1765, now at Yale, MS Vault Shelves/Sterne, facsimile in Bruce Redford, 'Catalogue of an Exhibition, "The Converse of the Pen: Letter Writing in the Age of Johnson'", YULG, 59 (1984), 67;

No. 11, to Archdeacon Francis Blackburne, 12 November 1750, now owned by Lady Eccles (Dr Mary Hyde);

No. 163, to Mrs Trist, 24 May 1766, sold at Sotheby's (New York), 1 May 1990 (Bradley Martin Sale), Lot 3232, to Indiana University;

No. 12, to Archdeacon Jaques Sterne, 5 April 1751, transcript in the hand of Diana Wentworth Bosville in her commonplace book, copy text in Letters, now at Yale, MS Vault Shelves/Sterne;

No. 167, to Lord Fauconberg, 6 January 1767, owned (1988) by Lawrence G. Blackmon; No. 182, to Isaac Panchaud, 25 February [1767], now at Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection, dated 20 February in Letters, following Medalle; facsimile in The Autograph Portfolio: A Collection of Fac-simile Letters From Eminent Persons (London, 1837);

No. 14, to Theophilus Garencieres, [?May 1751], owned (1988) by Lawrence G. Blackmon; No. 15, to Theophilus Garencieres, [71751], now at Boston Public Library; No. 22, to the Rev John Blake, ?late July 1758, now at Harvard;

No. 219, to Hannah, [15 November 1767], now at Harvard;

No. 28, to the Rev John Blake, [?30 September 1758], now owned by Lady Eccles (Dr Mary Hyde);

No. 223, to Sir George Macartney, 3 December 1767, printed in Letters from Medalle, now at Duke University.

No. 29, to the Rev John Blake, [early October 1758], now at the Huntington, HM 81 (excerpt only in Letters)',

Louis T. Milic, 'A Sterne Letter Re-dated', N & Q, n.s., 3 (1956), 212-13, re-dates No. 158, Sterne to John Hall-Stevenson, as 11 February 1766 instead of 5 February as in Medalle.

No. 30, to the Rev John Blake, 10 November 1758, now at the Berg; No. 37, to Robert Dodsley, 23 May 1759, now at Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection;

Several letters have been discovered since the appearance of Letters. Archibald Boiling Shepperson, 'Yorick as Ministering Angel', Virginia Quarterly Review, 30 (1954), 54-66, published five letters from Sterne giving an account of the death from tuberculosis of George Oswald at Toulouse. The letters are addressed to young Oswald's father, Richard, and to the latter's business associate John Mill. Their respective dates are: to John Mill, 24 February 1763; to Mill, 2 March 1763; to Richard Oswald, 4 March 1763; to Mill, 5 March 1763; to Richard Oswald, 18 March 1763. They were found in a letter book owned by Richard Oswald's descendants, and now at the National Library of Scotland, MS 15548, ff. 174-85, and microfilm Mf.27. Lewis Perry Curtis, 'New Light on Sterne', MLN, 76 (1961), 498-501, published a letter from Sterne to the Rev John Dealtary, 20 November 1739, together with five letters to Dealtary from the Rev Thomas Newton, 1759-60, three of which mention Sterne's literary and social success upon the publication of Tristram Shandy; all six letters had been acquired by the Bodleian in 1957. Arthur H. Cash, 'Some New Sterne Letters', TLS, 8 April 1965, p. 284, published three letters from Sterne to Dr Henry Egerton,

No. 39, to Robert Dodsley, [c. 5 October 1759], now at Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Dreer Collection; No. 63, to William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, 19 June 1760, now at Yale, Hilles Collection (autograph only in part, a large portion supplied in an unidentified hand); No. 108, to Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York, 7 May 1763, now at Yale, MS Vault Shelves/Sterne; No. 115, to Thomas Becket, 18 October 1763, now at the Rosenbach; No. 119, to Robert Foley, 5 November 1763, National Library of Scotland, MS 2208, f. 26, dated 20 January 1764 in Letters, following Medalle; No. 127, to Thomas Kilvington, [?July 1764], Christie's (New York), 11-12 June 1980 (A.A. Houghton Sale), Lot 481, with facsimile, sold to Peter Murray Hill;

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dated 4 January 1762, February 1762, and 8 March 1762, on deposit at Hertfordhire Record Office, AH 2236-7, 2240, together with three letters from Richard Phelps, secretary to the diplomat George Pitt, with whom Sterne travelled to Paris. Kenneth Monkman and James Diggle, 'Yorick and His Flock: A New Sterne Letter', TLS, 14 March 1968, p. 276, publishes a letter from Sterne to an unidentified parishioner, 14 March 1758, now at Queens'College, Cambridge.

There is a transcript of letters from Sterne to Elizabeth Draper, apparently taken from Letters from Yorick to Eliza (London, 1773), at Yale, Osborn Files/Sterne. Also at Yale, MS Vault Shelves/Sterne, are photostats of 58 autograph letters, family papers, and the British Library's MS of the 'Journal to Eliza', used by Lewis Perry Curtis in the preparation of Letters.

Cash, Sterne: The Later Years, Appendix I, 'Unedited Sterne Letters', publishes some eight new letters, besides providing a convenient summary of the Sterne letters discovered between 1935 and 1985 above. The letters published by Professor Cash are as follows: to the Rev John Blake [September Laurence Sterne Trust;

1758], The

Miscellaneous

to the Rev John Blake [?5 October 1758], Huntington (excerpt only in Letters, No. 29, p. 62);

One of the problems arising from the very success of Tristram Shandy was a glut of imitations and forgeries. To circumvent these Sterne, who acted as his own publisher for the later volumes, took to signing the first editions of certain volumes; thus his signature appears in all copies of the first edition of Vols V, VII, and IX. He also signed copies of Vol. V, second edition (1767), but the signature appears in only one of the three identified states of this volume. A copy of Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius... Accedunt Fragmenta Cornelio Gallo inscripta (Paris, 1753) given to John Wilkes, whom Sterne met in France, inscribed by Wilkes 'Ex dono L. Sterne 1764. Lutetiae Parisiorum', was offered for sale by Blackwell's, Rare Books Catalogue A17 (1981). There is a presentation copy of Sterne's first printed sermon with an inscription to Philip Harland, the squire at Sutton, of The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath, Considered (York, 1747), at York Minster. A presentation copy of Tristram Shandy to William Combe was auctioned by Parke-Bernet, 3-5 May 1939 (Johaft Spoor Sale), Lot 813, described as a first edition of 1760, now known to be in fact the first London edition. A copy of A Sentimental Journey, first edition, with two names added to the list of subscribers in Sterne's hand appeared in Parke-Bernet Catalogue 1201, 27-9 November 1950 (L. Wilmerding Sale), Lot 684. Letters, p. 85n, called attention to a composite volume containing George Berkeley's Querist (London, 1750) bound with Colley Gibber's A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (London, 1742), given by Sterne to Marmaduke Fothergill and with an autograph inscription on the flyleaf; the volume was then owned by Mrs Edwin Gray of York, but with the dispersal of her library cannot now be traced.

to the Rev. John Blake [21-30 January 1759], Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection; to the Marquis of Rockingham, 14 December 1759, Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection; to Thomas Becket, 26 September 1763, Boston Public Library, MS Ch.G. 13.43; to Thomas Astle [?23 March 1765], Harvard, Amy Lowell Collection; seven identical notes, apparently originally eight, addressed 'Revd Sir' and dated 18 July 1767, to be circulated to clergy within the Deanery of York requesting a return of the number of known or suspected Roman Catholics within their parishes, York Minster; to John Clough, Registrary of the Deanery Court and to the Dean and Chapter, 7 August 1767, covering letter to the notes preceding, also Clough's reply, 8 August 1767, York Minster. The last of the sixteen letters which Sterne is known to have written to John Blake has long been missing, but the final page has been recovered and is now at the Laurence Sterne Trust, together with an unpublished letter to Blake from Sterne's wife Elizabeth, 1758. Lydia Sterne Medalle's letter to Thomas Becket, [? December 1768], printed in Letters, Appendix: Letters pertaining to Sterne and his Family, p. 443, is now owned by Lady Eccles (Dr Mary Hyde). Her letter to William Strahan, ?Winter 1769, attempting to get a better bargain for Vols V-VII of Sermons, printed from

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The copyright agreement for Tristram Shandy, in Sterne's autograph, dated 9 March 1760, signed by Sterne and James Dodsley, and witnessed by Richard Berenger, is now at the Berg. By its terms Sterne was to receive for Vols I-II, London edition, £250 in advance, a further £200 payable within six months, and allowed to retain the profits of the York and Dublin editions; the original price of 400 guineas for Vols III-IV has been emended to 380 guineas. William Hogarth's original drawings for the frontispieces to Tristram Shandy, Vol. I, London edition, and Vol. Ill, are also now at the Berg. Sterne's autograph receipt to the bookseller Thomas Becket for £205.17s.0d. paid for the final volume of Tristram Shandy, 21 January 1767, is now at Harvard, Autograph File.

York Minster, Box Dl, contains several documents relating to Sterne: the letter of Sterne's presentation to the living of Stillington, 20 February 1743/4, in the hand of John Clough, assistant registrar to the Dean and Chapter, signed by the Prebendary and patron of Stillington, Richard Levett; a testimonial to Sterne's good character, also in Clough's hand, witnessed by William Dodsworth, William Berdmore, and Thomas Harrison; the summons, schedules, and induction papers for Sterne's installation into the prebend of of Givendale, together with the summons, schedule, induction and proxy papers for his later installation as Prebendary of North Newbald, 8 January 1742. A letter from Thomas Belasyse, Earl Fauconberg, to the Archbishop of York, 28 March 1760, nominating Sterne to the curacy of Coxwold, is now at the University of York, Borthwick Institute. The letter is actually in Sterne's autograph throughout, only the signature being in Lord Fauconberg's own hand. There is a facsimile in Letters, facing p. 102, and a photocopy at Yale, MS Vault Shelves/Sterne.

A large number of MS documents survive which chart Sterne's career as a clergyman in Yorkshire. Some of these are still at York Minster, others are now at the University of York, Borthwick Institute, or the British Library. The certificate of his ordination as deacon, signed by Richard Reynolds, Bishop of Lincoln, 6 March 1637, is in the British Library, Add. Ch. 16158, and the certificate of his admission to priest's orders by Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester, 20 August 1738, in British Library, Add. Ch. 16160. His collation as vicar of the parish of Sutton-on the-Forest, Yorkshire, signed by Archbishop Blackburne, 24 August 1738, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16159. The letter of his installation as Prebendary of North Newbald, 5 January 1742, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16161. A dispensation for Sterne to hold the livings of Sutton and Stillington in plurality, signed by John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, and dated 3 March 1743, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16162, the Letters patent confirming the dispensation, 6 March 1743, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16163. His letter of admission as vicar of Stillington, signed by Richard Osbaldeston, Dean, 13 March 1743, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16164, and a second copy of this letter, endorsed by Richard Hauxwel, Vicar of Sherif Hutton, to the effect that he inducted Sterne to the living the following day, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16165. Sterne's collation to his third living, as curate of Coxwold, signed by Archbishop John Gilbert, 29 March 1760, is British Library, Add. Ch. 16166. These documents were exhibited by Sterne as credentials at the periodic spiritual visitations of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland or by the Archbishop of York, and have been signed by the successive registrars of the Archdecanal court, and by Richard Mackley, deputy registrar to Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York. They were donated to the British Library by W. Durrani Cooper.

These and some of Sterne's other ecclesiastical appointments are recorded in the following MSS at the University of York, Borthwick Institute, and York Minster: Institutions (Commissions) 1731-42, University of York, Borthwick Institute; Act Book (Institutions) 1755-1768, University of York, Borthwick Institute; MS minute books of the Dean and Chapter of York, York Minster; Institutions (Commissions) 1731-42, University of York, Borthwick Institute; Act Book (Institutions) 1710-62, University of York, Borthwick Institute; Exhibition Book for Visitations of the Archbishops, University of York, Borthwick Institute. Among the documents at York Minster is Sterne's reply, dated May 1743, to a questionnaire circulated by Thomas Herring, Archbishop of York, in advance of his Primary Visitation; the reply is printed as No. 7 in Letters, p. 21, and preserved in Archbishop Herring's Visitation Returns. Nearly a quarter of the '1749/50 Correspondence between the Archbishop & Dean respecting the Appointment of a Residentiary' is transcribed in Sterne's hand, see Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 230; Sterne had sided with the Dean, John Fountayne, in this trial of strength between his

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343/32. An autograph receipt to Henry Thompson for income as Vicar of Stillington, was sold by Stargadt, 3 March 1994, Lot 351.

superiors. Two autograph notes sent by Sterne to the Dean and Chapter of York, signed and dated 7 December 1761, undertake to pay Marmaduke Callis £16 for each of the livings of Sutton and Stillington where he was acting as Sterne's locum, York Minster, BB 25. Sterne's officiating in the local ecclesiastical courts is recorded in the Exhibition Book for the Peculiar Court of Pickering and Pocklington, S3[5].d. Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 245, cites a note in Sterne's autograph for the call sheet of the 1752 Pickering visitation, and from the Stillington Prebendal Peculiar Court in 1755, the penance imposed upon William Johnson and Jane Nelson for fornication, signed by Sterne, among loose papers, York Minster, C3a.

A few interesting association items may be mentioned here. The MS of a psalm, composed and sung by the parish clerk of Stillington during an outbreak of cattle plague in 1749, is now owned by Kenneth Monkman; it is quoted in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, pp. 125-6. A different version, 'A psalm composed by the Clerk of Stillington & Sung by him at Divine Service on Sunday May 28th 1749', is preserved in the commonplace book of Thomas Beckwith, York Minster, Add. MS 40, f. 3v; it has been published in Lewis Perry Curtis, 'Forged Letters of Laurence Sterne', PMLA, 50 (1935), 1076-1106. The autograph MS of David Garrick's 'An Inscription for a Stone which Becket The Bookseller has put upon Sterne's Grave', is now at the Folger, MS W.b.464, f. 58v; it was published in Medalle. The MS of James Boswell's 'A Poetical Epistle to Doctor Sterne, Parson Yorick, and Tristram Shandy', listed in the Boswell section as BoJ 63, is at the Bodleian, MS Douce. 193, and there is also a photographic copy at Yale. It is quoted in Cash, Sterne: Later Years, pp. 18-19, and 43, also in Frederick A. Pottle, 'Bozzy and Yorick', Blackwood's Magazine, 217 (1925), 295-313. The MS of a poem by the young John Nichols, 'On the report of the death of the Rev. Mr. Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy', dated March 1762, is at Columbia University. Some memories of Sterne recorded by Joseph Hunter from an interview with the former's sometime servant Richard Greenwood can be found in British Library, Add. MS 24446, ff. 26-7; Hunter's MS has been edited and published in James Kuist, 'New Light on Sterne: an Old Man's Recollections of the Young Vicar', PMLA, 80 (1965), 549-53. A page from the MS of William Makepeace Thackeray's lecture 'On Sterne and Goldsmith' from English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, in the hand of his daughter Anne Thackeray Ritchie, is at the Berg.

Several other documents are preserved at the University of York, Borthwick Institute: a signed document nominating John Stapylton as parish clerk of Stillington, D/C.Nom.PC.1764; an allegation, or application for a marriage license, and bond, both dated 28 March 1741 and signed by Sterne, Dean and Chapter of York Marriage Bonds and Allegations, D/C.MB.1741; the nomination of Lancelot Colley as temporary curate of Sutton-on-the-Forest, written in a scribal hand but signed by Sterne, R.IV.A, 1766. Sterne's answers as perpetual curate of Coxwold to a questionnaire sent by Archbishop Drummond to the York clergy in 1764, printed as No. 25 in Letters, pp. 217-18, can be found in Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns. Also at the University of York, Borthwick Institute, are transcripts, signed by Sterne, of the burial, baptismal, and marriage registers of Sutton-on-the-Forest as sent to the Archbishop of York; and a MS terrier, or inventory, signed by Sterne and two churchwardens. Sterne's nomination for a licence for his assistant curate at Coxwold since 1761, James Kilner, is University of York, Borthwick Institute, R.IV.A. 1764, p. 11 (recorded in Act Book (Institutions) 1755-1768, f. 285, R.I.AB.14). There is a digest of a questionnaire returned by Sterne in 'Parishes wth ye greater Number of Papists' and 'Resident Persons of Estate, Papists or Reputed Papists', University of York, Borthwick Institute, R.Bp.H2.9, [7087]; see Cash, Sterne: Later Years, Appendix I. The parish registers of Sutton-on-the-Forest and of Stillington, which have entries in Sterne's hand after his induction as vicar in 1738, are still in the keeping of the churchwardens of these parishes. A selection of Sterne's entries are quoted in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, pp. 111, 121, 148, and 257n.

Kenneth Monkman, 'An Annotated Copy of Sterne's Sentimental Journey', ABA Annual (1952), pp. 36-9, describes a copy in his own possession of A Sentimental Journey, '4th' edition (London, 1769), which has annotations in the hand of John Scott, later Earl of Clonmell. The article is illustrated by a facsimile and quotes liberally from Scott's annotations, which consist of acute critical comments and general observations prompted by the text.

A signed agreement engaging John Walker as Sterne's curate for the parishes of Sutton and Stillington, 30 May 1767, is now in the John Rylands Library, Eng. MS

Besides those mentioned above or in the entries themselves, the following facsimiles of Sterne's hand should be noted: a letter to Ignatius Sancho, 27 July 1766, in

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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, 5th edition (London, 1803), frontispiece; a letter to Thomas Becket, 20 March 1764, in Morrison Catalogue (1883), VI, between 182-3; Sterne's signature only from a letter to Thomas Becket, 15 July 1763, British Library, Add. MS 21508, f. 47, in Universal Classic Manuscripts; a letter to Isaac Panchaud, February [?], in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 320; the draft letter to Daniel Draper from British Library, Add. MS 34527, ff. 45-6, in Works, VIII, between 154-5; a note to David Garrick, [?24 December 1761], in Anderson Galleries Catalogue, 15-16 February 1926 (R.B. Adam Sale), p. 117; a memorandum, and a letter to David Garrick, 27 January 1760, both from the Pierpont Morgan Letter Book, in Cross, Life, facing p. 556 and p. 586 respectively; a letter to John Clough, August 1753, re a penance for Jane Harbotle, in The Winged Skull: Papers from the Laurence Sterne Bicentenary Conference, edited by Arthur H. Cash and John M. Stedmond (London, 1971), facing p. 188. W.A.L.

Cash, Sterne: Later Years Arthur H. Cash, Laurence Sterne: The Later Years (London, 1986) Cross, Life Wilbur L. Cross, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, 3rd ed. (New Haven, 1929) Letters Letters of Laurence Sterne, ed. Lewis Perry Curtis (Oxford, 1935) Medalle Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, ed. Lydia Sterne Medalle, 3 vols (London, 1775) Sermons The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Vols I-II (London, 1760); Vols III-IV (London, 1766); Vols V-VII as Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne (London, 1769) Works The Works of Laurence Sterne, ed. Wilbur L. Cross, 12 vols (New York, 1904) ARRANGEMENT

ABBREVIATIONS

Verse, StL 1 Prose, StL2-12 Sermons, StL 13-14 Diaries and Notebooks, StL 15 Marginalia in Printed Books and Manuscripts, StL 16-17

Cash, Sterne: Early and Middle Years Arthur H. Cash, Laurence Sterne: The Early and Middle Years (London, 1975)

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A History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat, listed as 'A Political Romance'.

VERSE The Unknown 0 ('Harke my gay Frd yt solemn Toll') First pub., as The Unknown World', beginning 'Hark, my gay friend, that solemn toll', and attributed 'By the Rev. Mr St—n', in the Gentleman's Magazine, July 1743, p. 376.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman First pub. in 9 vols as follows: Vols I and II ([York], 1760 [1759]); Vols III and IV (London, 1761); Vols V and VI (London, 1762 [1761]); Vols VII and VIII (London, 1765); Vol. IX (London, 1767).

StL 1 Autograph. Printed from this MS in Thomas Gill, Vallis Eboracensis (Easingwold, 1852), pp. 199-200; discussed in Cross, Life, pp. 159-61, and in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, pp. 152-4.

StL 4 Autograph fair copy, corrected, of Vol. V, chapters vi-xiii only, with a title page 'Le Fever's Story', with a note in the hand of Margaret Georgiana, Countess Spencer, The Story of Le Fever, sent to me by Sterne before it was published', 26 pages.

Unlocated(1995).

For a discussion of the hand, see Introduction; published and collated, with facsimiles, in Melvyn New, 'A Manuscript of the Le Fever Episode in Tristram Shandy', The Scriblerian, 22 (1991), 165-74.

PROSE [Fragment] First pub. as 'Fragment Inedit', with parallel French translation, in Paul Stapfer, Laurence Sterne: Etude biographique et litteraire (Paris, 1870), pp. xvi-lii.

British Library, Althorp Papers F.I76. StL 5 Transcript in an unidentified hand, with autograph corrections, Vol. IV, chapters 1-17 only.

StL 2 Autograph?, headed To Mr. Cook'.

Described in William Durrani Cooper, 'Sterne Papers and Notes', N & Q, 2nd Ser., 7 (1859), 15; mentioned in Lewis Perry Curtis, The Politicks of Laurence Sterne (Oxford, 1929), p. 129.

See Introduction; discussed in Cross, Life, pp. 154-8, and in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 258. Unlocated(1995).

Unlocated(1995).

[A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais] First pub. 1775 in Medalle, III, 165-79.

StL 6 Transcript in an unidentified hand, Walter Shandy's address to Health from Vol. V, Chapter 33, only, subscribed 'Sterne', and with a note in a different hand 'died 1768'.

StL 3 Autograph draft of two chapters, here untitled, with a note in a later unidentified hand 'An original And in Stern's hand-writing In collected edition of the Works it is entitled "The Fragment" etc.', 23 pages.

Formerly identified incorrectly as autograph fair copy. Yale, Osborn Shelves c.465.

Described and edited, with facsimiles of ff. 1 -2, in Melvyn New, 'Sterne's Rabelaisian Fragment: A Text from the Holograph Manuscript', PMLA, 12 (1985), 1083-92; also facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, I, 96; mentioned in Jay B. Hubbell, 'Some Uncollected Poems by Joseph Addison', MP, 36 (1939), 277-81, and in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 219.

StL 7 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here headed The Story of Le Fever', 15 pages, and 'A Story of Yorick— by Sterne', 20 pages, in a commonplace book owned by Joseph Coltman containing mainly later eighteenth-century verse. Volume also contains transcripts of a letter to Sterne from Ignatius Sancho, and Sterne's reply, ff. 72-3.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1011.

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StL 11 Transcript in an unidentified hand, with corrections, of Vol. I, 175 pages.

Memoirs First pub. 1775 as 'Memoirs of the Life and Family of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne' in Medalle, I, 1-24; Letters, p. 1.

See Introduction; apparently transcribed from StL 10 above; collated as 'Ml' and described, with facsimiles, in A Sentimental Journey, ed. Gardner D. Stout (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967), pp. 54-7, and Appendix C, pp. 308-15.

StL 8 Autograph, with revisions and additions, 13 pages.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1046. StL 12 Transcript in two unidentified hands, with corrections, of Vol. II, 185 pages.

Complete facsimile in Sterne's Memoirs: A Hitherto Unrecorded Holograph Now Brought to Light in Facsimile, Introduction and Commentary by Kenneth Monkman, privately printed for the Laurence Sterne Trust (Coxwold, 1985).

See Introduction; apparently transcribed from an autograph MS of Vol. II now lost; collated as 'M2' and described, with facsimiles, in A Sentimental Journey, ed. Gardner D. Stout (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967), pp. 54-7, and Appendix C, pp. 308-15.

Christie's, 29 June 1995, Lot 371, with facsimile. Memorandums First pub. in Emily J. Climenson, Elizabeth Montagu, 2 vols (London, 1906), II, 270-2; Letters, pp. 146-8.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1047. SERMONS

StL 9 Autograph, headed 'Dec: 28. 1761 Memorandums left with Mrs Montague, In Case I should died abroad. L. Sterne', subscribed 'Memorandums left by Mr. Sterne in Mrs Montagu's hands before he left England', 4 pages.

Our Conversation in Heaven, see Introduction. Penances First pub. 1769 in Sermons, VI, 83-113. StL 13 Autograph, revised, here entitled Tenancies', and with a note 'preached April 8th, 1750', 29 pages.

Pierpont Morgan. A Political Romance, see Introduction.

Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, I, 95; mentioned in Lansing Hammond, Laurence Sterne's Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Yale Studies in English 108 (New Haven, 1948), p. 50, and in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 220n.

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick First pub., in 2 vols, 1768. StL 10 Autograph fair copy, revised, of Vol. I, lacking latter part of chapter 13 and chapters 14-16, bound with extra-illustrated materials and with a title-page in the hand of William Upcott.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 418. Temporal Advantages of Religion First pub. 1769 in Sermons, V, [l]-26.

See Introduction; used as printer's copy; collated as 'SI' and described, with facsimiles, in A Sentimental Journey, ed. Gardner D. Stout (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967), pp. 54-7, and Appendices A and B, pp. 295-307; also facsimiles in Frederick Netherclift, The Autograph Miscellany: A Collection of Autograph Letters, Interesting Documents, &c. (London, 1855), in Universal Classic Manuscripts, and issued as a postcard by the British Museum.

StL 14 Autograph, revised, here headed 'Prov: 3: 17. Her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness, & all her Paths are Peace', 30 pages. See FACS; mentioned in Lansing Hammond, Laurence Sterne's Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Yale Studies in English 108 (New Haven, 1948), p. 50n, and in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 220n. Huntington, HM 2100.

British Library, MS Egerton 1610.

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MARGINALIA IN PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

The Ways of Providence Justified to Man, see Introduction.

StL 16 Delany, Patrick, 'The Ballyspellan Ballad', a transcript in an unidentified hand, in a collection of printed and MS poems and tracts, mainly Irish material 1720-36.

DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS Journal to Eliza First pub. 1904 in Works, VIII, 51-152; Letters, pp. 3227, 329-39, 341-2, 345-6, 346-9, 350-3, 354-9, 363-8, 370-5, 376-83, 384-5, 386-7, 399-400.

Mentioned in Cash, Sterne: Early & Middle Years, p. 198; also contains transcripts of a poem by Jonathan Swift, see his section, SwJ 61 and 221.

StL 15 Autograph, revised, here headed 'Continuation of the Bramines Journal Sunday Ap:13', with a preliminary note subsequently prefixed, 77 pages.

Cambridge University Library, Hib.3.730.1, No. 52.

Bound with letters from Sterne to William and Anne James, and to Daniel Draper, a letter from Elizabeth Draper to Anne James, letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to Thomas Washborne Gibbs re the loan of the MS, and a mounted copy of Letters from Yorick to Eliza (London, 1779); described in T.W. Gibbs, 'Some Memorials of Laurence Sterne', The Athenteum, No. 2631, 30 March 1878, pp. 412-14; facsimile in T.J. Brown, 'English Literary Autographs XXVII: Laurence Sterne, 1713-68', BC, 1 (1958), 285.

StL 17 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Emile ou de I'education, 4 vols (Amsterdam, 1762). Autograph note on the fly-leaf of Vol. I, and signature on the half-title to Vol. IV; seven last pages of Vol. I supplied in MS, possibly in the hand of Lydia Sterne; discussed in W.G. Day, 'Sterne's Books', The Library, 31 (1976), 245-8, and in Cash, Sterne: Later Years, p. 168. Yale, Im.St45.Zz762.

British Library, Add. MS 34527, ff. 1-40.

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distributed some of the material among his friends, and the remainder seems to have been inherited by Thomas Steele, who had married Lyon's niece. Steele died in 1819, and at an unknown date between 1820 and 1856 some of these MSS came into the possession of William Monck Mason; possibly he acquired them from Steele's impecunious son, also named Thomas. On Monck Mason's death, they were bought by John Forster who was gathering materials for his projected biography of Swift, and are now in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albeit Museum.

The MSS of Jonathan Swift, both prose and verse, are distributed in some half dozen major collections, best described in terms of their provenance. Two of these collections have been made the subject of special studies. The Swift holdings at the Huntington are treated at length in George P. Mayhew, Rage or Raillery (San Marino, 1967), which collects several previously published articles and adds fresh material, with a descriptive check-list as an Appendix, pp. 157-83. A comparable task is performed by Sir Shane Leslie, 'The Swift Manuscripts in the Morgan Library', in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, edited by Dorothy Miner (Princeton, 1954), pp. 445-8. The description of the same material in Leslie's The Script of Jonathan Swift and Other Essays (Philadelphia, 1935) is more discursive, but the earlier essay is important in that it finally laid to rest the mischievous notion of Swift's use of a 'disguised hand', so beloved of nineteenthcentury scholars.

Other MSS were in the possession of Martha Whiteway, Swift's second cousin. In 1761 Mrs Whiteway left Ireland to live in England, accompanied by her daughter and her son-in-law Deane Swift, himself Swift's cousin. Deane Swift edited and published some of this material in the later volumes of the London trade editions of the Works, and he inherited the MSS when Mrs Whiteway died. They then passed to Deane Swift's son Theophilus, on whose death some of them were saved by James Smith. Their subsequent owners were the American collectors Frederick Locker, who had them bound into two volumes, and William Bixby of St Louis, who sold them to Henry E. Huntington. Thus they came to form the nucleus of the large collection of Swift MSS now at the Huntington.

Provenance The provenance of the major MS collections is well understood. On Swift's death some of his papers had passed into the custody of Dr John Lyon, executor of his will and previously his guardian during the incapacity of his last few years. Lyon's list of 'Mss: found in the Dean's Study' can be found on f. 14v of his MS 'Catalogue of Books belonging to Dr Swift taken about Octbr 1742- & compared June 2d 1744', now at Abbotsford. Lyon was also the heir and executor of Rebecca Dingley, companion to Esther Johnson ('Stella'). Thus apart from such letters which had been given to him by Swift, he came to possess a portion of the correspondence between Swift and Esther Johnson now known as the 'Journal to Stella'. Lyon may have

The provenance of the Swift items in John Rylands Library, English MS 659, may also derive ultimately from Mrs Whiteway and Deane Swift. This packet among the Thrale MSS has been at its present location since 1931. Mrs Thrale has inscribed the cover, 'Original letters from Dean Swift & Lord Orrery'; a later pencil note, possibly in the hand of her descendant the Rev Augustus Salusbury, and dated 21 September 1800, reads 'Nothing of the Kind now there is letter from Lady

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JONATHAN SWIFT Orrery none from Lord the rest are unsigned there is no proof that they are in the Dean's hand writing— besides they are not letters only scraps'. Actually the MS does include notes and several prose and verse drafts in Swift's autograph, SwJ 299, 424-5, 438, 447-52, 469, as well as a transcript of Lord Orrery's complimentary poem to Swift, and some letters addressed to Mrs Whiteway by Lady Orrery and Dr William King. Mrs Thrale very likely acquired the MS from Samuel Johnson, whose endorsements appear on two of the items, and he may have obtained them from either his friend John Hawkesworth or from Deane Swift.

include some transcripts which he made for Temple and other members of the family, but also MSS relating to Swift's editing of Temple's letters and uncollected essays (see below). These were preserved by the Longe family at Yelverton Rectory, Norfolk, until they were sold at Sotheby's, 3 August 1934. Some of the MSS were subsequently bought by Lord Rothschild and are now at Trinity College, Cambridge; others acquired by Sir Harold Williams are now at Cambridge University Library. Still others are at present unlocated. Apart from the MSS as such, two important printed collections of Swift's writings with his autograph corrections were sold at the auction of his library in 1745. Lots 482-5 consisted of his marked-up copies of the four volumes of Miscellanies (1727-32) published by Swift in collaboration with Alexander Pope, which after being owned successively by Viscount Powerscourt and then by W.G. Panter, The Bawn, Foxrock, Co. Dublin, are now in the Rothschild Collection at Trinity College, Cambridge. Corrections have been made to both verse and prose writings; see SwJ 15, 46, 59, 83, 178, 200, 246-7, 286, 288, 314, 317, 319, 331, 391, 404, 432, 462, 464, 471, 478, 481, and 147, 170, 174, 191, 196, 243, 296, 422-3, 446, 480. Swift's own mixed set of Faulkner in six volumes formed Lots 486-91 in the 1745 Sale when it was bought by Bishop Edward Synge; it was later bought by Edmund Swifte, then by the Irish bibliophile Evelyn Philip Shirley, and is now privately owned. The set has annotations and pencil markings throughout, but Sir Harold Williams opined that only those in Vol. II, 'Poetical Works', 2nd edition (1737), are in Swift's hand; see SwJ 47, 60, 129, 144, 171 175, 184, 216, 2334, and 257.

Other MSS owe their survival to the agency of several of Swift's friends. The Fountaine MSS now at the Pierpont Morgan include several autograph fair copies of poems, which were given to Sir Andrew Fountaine, and for many years kept by his descendants at Narford, Norfolk. Other MSS in the possession of Swift's Irish friend Charles Ford, including his transcripts of some of Swift's poems, passed on Ford's death to his executor Sir John Hynde Cotton; they were preserved at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, before passing to Mrs Rowley Smith of Shortgrove, from whom they were acquired by Lord Rothschild, and are now at Trinity College, Cambridge. The Orrery Collection now at Harvard derives from yet another friend, John Boyle, fifth Earl of Orrery. Besides the material more immediately relating to Swift, it includes Orrery's annotated copy of his own memoir of the Dean, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (London, 1752). Swift's political association and intimacy with Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, and his subsequent friendship with Edward the second Earl, led naturally to that family's possessing and preserving a number of his MSS. The most important are some autograph political documents and other prose as sent to Robert Harley, SwJ 418, 441, but several transcripts of Swift's poems possess their textual authority because of their Harleian provenance. On the marriage of the second Lord Oxford's daughter some of these MSS passed to the library of the Dukes of Portland, Welbeck Abbey, and when her daughter married Viscount Weymouth others went to Longleat House, where they still remain among the various volumes of the Portland Papers in the library of the Marquess of Bath. The former group can now be found either among the Portland MSS at the University of Nottingham, or among the Harley Papers at the British Library, originally deposited there as part of the Portland Loan.

Verse The reference edition for this section is the standard, old-spelling The Poems of Jonathan Swift, edited by Harold Williams, second edition, 3 vols (Oxford, 1958). Because of its widespread use and the high quality of its annotation, which updates Williams's scholarship in several respects, references are also made to the modernspelling The Complete Poems, edited by Pat Rogers (Harmondsworth and New Haven, 1983). Different editorial policy, particularly in the choice of copy texts, naturally has led to different line-numbering and titles in some cases. Where this happens, Williams has been followed but divergences in Rogers have been noted. The surviving autograph MSS of Swift's poems are not particularly numerous, and it is worth remarking that in most cases, apart from the 'trifles' and jeux a"esprit written in invented comic languages briefly described

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JONATHAN SWIFT argues plausibly that this more familiar printed version represents a recension later than the Huntington draft. There are a number of contemporary transcripts of the poem, SwJ 381-4, but they all give the text in its betterknown form, and some probably derive from printed sources. The Huntington MS has been chosen as copy text by Rogers; Williams and other editors have used one of the printed versions.

below, the MS is a fair copy, not a working draft. Nevertheless, the autograph MSS of three poems, 'Baucis and Philemon', 'Vanbrug's House', and 'An Answer to a late Scandalous Poem', radically differ from the published versions; so much so that modern editors from Williams onwards, rather than construct a critical apparatus, have printed both MS and printed texts in full. It is in the case of 'Baucis and Philemon' that the relation of the autograph MS, SwJ 45, now at the Pierpont Morgan, to the published text is most complex. The MS is a fair copy of 180 lines corresponding broadly to lines 1-128 of the printed version; it is generally accepted that it belongs to a stage in composition prior to extensive revisions advised by Addison. More precisely the textual differences of the MS from the printed text may be expressed as follows: lines 1-10 followed by 12 additional lines; 11-12 followed by 22 additional lines; 13-28 followed by 10 additional lines; 29-30 followed by an additional couplet; 31-64 followed by a 6-line version of lines 85-8; an additional couplet; lines 89-100, 65-84, and 101-12; 6 lines corresponding to 113-16, and 16 lines corresponding to 116-28.

Next in importance to the autograph items are those transcripts which originated within Swift's circle of friends. Of especial value is the commonplace book compiled by his closest woman friend, Esther Johnson, 'Stella', which contains her transcripts of some 18 poems by Swift; an additional poem is in the hand of Lady Anne Acheson, who with her husband Sir Arthur, was also among the more intimate members of Swift's circle in the latter half of his career. The poems occupy the middle 40 pages of a quarto volume of 85 leaves, unfoliated, measuring 19.8 x 15.5 cm, bound in eighteenth-century calf with gilt spine. The history of the volume after Stella's death is given by a note in the hand of the fourth Duke of Bedford: This Manuscript was given me, by Sr Archibald Acheson at Bath 9.ber. 2d. 1768. It was given to his Father, by the Dean of St. Patrick, and is of the hand writing of Mrs Johnson'. The volume has remained in the possession of the Dukes of Bedford, but is at present missing. It was last seen when loaned to the Bibliotheque Nationale for an exhibition on 'Le Livre anglais' in 1951. Negative photostats, however, are available among Sir Harold Williams's working papers, Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 7788, Box 5.

Several autograph MSS, at both the Huntington and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster Collection, are written in the Anglo-Latin punning languages used by Swift and Thomas Sheridan for their exchanges. There are a handful of short poems written in 'LatinoAnglicus', where what appears to be Latin is read off to give an English sense, which have been given entries, SwJ 36, 114-15, 164, and 193. But in one of these Anglo-Latin MSS, Huntington, HM 14338, p. 2, is the autograph draft of the poem 'On his own Deafness', SwJ 380, first identified by George P. Mayhew; see his note in HLQ, 18 (1954), 85-7, and the expanded discussion in Rage or Raillery, Chapter 6, 'Swift's Manuscript Version of "On His Own Deafness'", pp. 115-30. The draft is written on the cover of a letter to Swift, with a superscription possibly in the hand of Thomas Sheridan. Swift had already used the cover for some jottings in 'AngloAngli', and Mayhew suggests that these notes were intended for a reply to Sheridan. The draft is untitled, its English text has major substantive differences from the previously known versions, and the first line of the Latin gives the superior reading 'Verticosus'. The Latin text here omits its third line, but this is written below, preceding line 7 of the English version to which it corresponds; as Mayhew observes, the third line of the Latin was evidently composed last. Whereas Sir Harold Williams believed that the first printing of the poem was in the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1734, Mayhew showed that it was actually published in two Dublin newspapers during October of that year; he

Woburn MS Bound volume, transcribed mainly in the hand of Esther Johnson ('Stella'), with one item transcribed in the hand of Lady Anne Acheson, 85 leaves unfoliated, many blank. Contents: SwJ 18, 38, 58, 113, 116, 118, 130, 142, 211, 217, 235, 248, 271, 274, 284, 313, 319. No publication of the whole traced; individual items collated or printed as copy-texts in Williams, Rogers, and other editions, see individual entries for details. Owned by the Marquess of Tavistock; missing (1995).

Four of the verse MSS at Trinity College, Cambridge, and two at the Pierpont Morgan, are in the hand of another Irish friend, Charles Ford, SwJ 101, 280-2, and 330. Particular difficulty has arisen from SwJ 280-2.

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JONATHAN SWIFT Williams's examination of the MSS led him to believe that the printed text of the poem 'Stella at Woodpark' as known since Faulkner (1735) was an unsatisfactory amalgam of two separate poems. In particular he noted that SwJ 280 at Trinity College, Cambridge, commenced with lines 25-40 of 'Stella at Woodpark', but here headed 'Stella's Distress on the 3d fatal day of October 1723'; there followed a double rule and a Latin quotation, and then lines 1-24 and 41-92. SwJ 281-2 at the Pierpont Morgan, which both consist of lines 1-24 and 41-92 alone, confirmed him in his supposition. He therefore printed the MS texts separately, as 'Stella's Distress on the 3d fatal day of October 1723' and 'Don Carlos in a merry Spight', preceding the familiar Faulkner text. Herbert Davis followed suit in the Oxford Standard Authors edition of Swift's Poetical Works (Oxford, 1967). Rogers, however, disputes the necessity of this, remarking that no previous scholar had been troubled by the integrity of 'Stella at Woodpark', and considers the dovetailing of the two MSS fragments sufficiently neat. Rogers's argument is sensible and convincing; and since there there is no doubt of the relationship of the MSS to 'Stella at Woodpark', they have been listed under that title here and treated as parts of a single poem.

Nichols found the text of the 'Ode to King William...' in the Gentleman's Journal, July 1692, p. 13, and although this ode is written in quatrains, not a pindaric, he printed it as Swift's in his Select Collection of Poems (London, 1780). The genuine 'Ode to the King' was first recognised in Fairbrother (1735), IV, 1, by Harold Williams. The 'Ode to King William...' is printed in Williams, I, 11, because of its long association with Swift, but with a disavowal of any remaining belief in its authenticity. No subsequent editor of Swift's poetry has included the quatrain ode, and the transcript in The Whimsical Medley' has not been given an entry here. The MSS of certain other poems raise specific textual problems, whether arising from Swift's self-censorship or from distinct textual traditions. Just such an instance is 'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift'. First of all there was printed in 1733 an unauthorised The Life and Genuine Character of Dr Swift, which modern editors have agreed to treat as an entirely distinct, albeit related, poem; there is a photostat of a contemporary transcript of this among the Williams papers at Cambridge University Library, SwJ 189. In 1739 Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was published in London by Charles Bathhurst, its text edited by William King and Alexander Pope, apparently from a MS supplied by Swift. The latter was dissatisfied with this London edition and brought out his own authorised text, published by Faulkner in Dublin later that same year, and it is this which modern editors agree to use as copy text. Bathurst's London edition has much in common with the authorised Dublin edition, but mixes in lengthy passages taken from the earlier Life and Genuine Character. Its relation to the Dublin edition may be expressed thus, lines 1-14, 17182, 189-280, 299-302, 307-8, 24 additional lines, 45962, 6 additional lines, 439-46, 319-24, 339-48, 26 additional lines, 309-14, 3 additional lines, 483-6, and a concluding additional couplet. These five additional passages correspond respectively to The Life and Genuine Character, lines 82-3 and 95-114; 117-18 and 121-4; 130-3, 136-43 and 180-93; 198-200; and 201-2. In both the London and Dublin editions there are lacunae which the printers represented with asterisks. These missing passages have been supplied by Williams, the first editor to reconstruct the text, from some copies of the first Dublin edition with additional lines entered in MS, SwJ 338-40; also copies of the second and fifth Dublin editions similarly annotated, SwJ 345-6. There is also extant a copy of the first London edition, previously owned by Williams, which adds in MS lines 183-8 of the authorised text to fill a lacuna which the printer had represented with asterisks, SwJ 344. The Huntington holds a copy of the second London edition of 1739, but with

Another MS, which although not autograph is given considerable textual value by editors, is The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of several pieces in Prose & Verse'. This large folio miscellany in three volumes was compiled for Theophilus, first Viscount Newtownbutler, and is now at Trinity College, Dublin. It contains, among others, nineteen poems by Swift, SwJ 1, 91-2, 94, 96-7, 100, 110, 135, 156, 179, 181-2, 236, 294, 307-8, 317, and 373, and also companion poems by Thomas Sheridan and Patrick Delany. Some of the poems by Swift and his friends were published from this MS by John Barrett, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in his Essay on the Early Life of Swift (London, 1808). Barrett was a great scholar in many respects, but unfortunately he was not always an exact one; Williams has shown that besides the authentic poems which Barrett printed as Swift's from The Whimsical Medley', he also attributed too many others on no better grounds than his own supposition or fancy. One poem deserves special remark although it is no longer accepted as Swift's, the 'Ode to King William, on His Successes in Ireland' (To purchase Kingdoms, and to buy Renown'), transcribed in The Whimsical Medley', Vol. II, pp. 3913. Deane Swift's acquaintance knew that he possessed a text of an early pindaric ode by Swift addressed to William III, but which he neglected to collect in Works, and the poem was for a time presumed lost. John

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JONATHAN SWIFT differences between the St James's Chronicle and Monthly Review texts, this claim is probably bogus. On the other hand Chesterfield's statement that he owned an autograph MS of the poem is entirely plausible; at one time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he had known Swift personally, and he was among the purchasers at the auction of Swift's library.

MS additions apparently supplied from a Dublin edition, SwJ 347. A less complicated instance is the text of 'On Poetry: A Rapsody', first printed at the end of 1733, and reprinted in Faulkner (1735), II. Four additional passages were published as addenda in Scott (1824). Two of these, together with two further additional couplets, are found added in MS in John Boyle, Earl of Orrery's copy of the 1733 edition which is now in the Williams Collection at Cambridge University Library, SwJ 203; there is also a transcript of these two passages among the Orrery Papers at Harvard, SwJ 204. Finally there is a transcript of all six passages, the four as printed by Scott and the two supplied by Orrery, bound into a copy of Faulkner (1735) at the Huntington, SwJ 205. Modern editors have varied in their handling of these additions: Williams relegated them to an appendix to the text on the grounds that it was uncertain whether their excision came within Swift's final artistic intentions; Davis follows suit in the Oxford Standard Authors Poetical Works; Rogers incorporates all six passages into the text.

The extant MSS are two transcripts in the hands of William Collins and William Shenstone, SwJ 84 and SwJ 85. The former passed to Joseph Warton who took it to Winchester College, and it has been published in William Collins: Drafts & Fragments edited by J.S. Cunningham (Oxford, 1956). David Nichol Smith remarks 'There is no evidence as to how Collins came to know the poem, or how he came to make his hurried transcript', and, 'Joseph Warton's statement that Collins "copied from Swift" may possibly mean that Collins saw the original manuscript, but this cannot be proved and seems improbable'. Shenstone's transcript was entered in his 'Miscellany'; a note by Thomas Percy explains that Shenstone had the text from the bookseller Robert Dodsley, 'as the Composition of Dean Swift', and a second footnote mentions the publication, 'very defectively', in The Friends.

The Day of Judgement' is another poem where the relation between the MS and printed texts is extremely complex. Besides Williams and Rogers, the important discussions by Sidney L. Gulick, 'Jonathan Swift's "The Day of Judgement'", PMLA, 48 (1933), 850-5, and by Maurice Johnson, 'Text and Possible Occasion for Swift's "Day of Judgement"', PMLA, 86 (1971), 210-17, should also be consulted. The poem was first published in The Friends, 2 vols (London, 1773), II, 75-7, where it is introduced in a letter purportedly from 'F.A.' of 'Dublin College' and its source given as 'Mr Rochfort'; this must refer to one of the brothers John and George Rochfort, friends of Swift, more likely the former. The letter claims that Swift's poem was written down from an oral version 'only preserved in Memory, by a few Friends of his'. Williams dismisses this version as a corrupt memorial text. On 7 April 1774, Mrs Eugenia Stanhope had published Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son, including the text of a letter to Voltaire of 27 August 1752; Chesterfield had apparently enclosed a transcript of Swift's poem, and wrote Ten ai 1'original ecrit de sa propre main'. The absence of the poem itself from Letters to His Son was remarked almost at once and others proceeded to make good the deficiency: a text was supplied to the St James's Chronicle, 12 April 1774, by one 'Mercutio'; and a notice of Letters to His Son in the Monthly Review, July 1774, not only remarked the omission of the poem, but offered a text which it claimed was more correct than that in the St James's Chronicle. Since there are only three minor substantive

It is possible to argue that the St James's Chronicle text and the transcripts made by Collins and Shenstone all derive ultimately from Chesterfield's MS; on this view, the three texts are in broad substantive agreement except that Collins's transcript omits lines 19-20. An alternative conclusion which gives more weight to the variants between these three versions is that of Sidney L. Gulick, 'No "Spectral Hand" in Swift's "Day of Judgement'", PBSA, 71 (1977), 333-6. In reply to Leland B. Peterson, The Spectral Hand in Swift's "Day of Judgement'", PBSA, 70 (1976), 182-219, Gulick concludes that only a few minimal changes to the text came from transcribers' hands, but that Swift revised the poem and left two or three versions. Some of the MSS collated or mentioned by Williams can no longer be located, and it seems that he did not confirm their whereabouts for his second edition. The two transcripts of 'Apollo, to Dean Swift' owned by Lord Mount Temple remain untraced since the Broadlands collection was dispersed by sales in the 1950s, SwJ 20-1. Another transcript of this poem, SwJ 25, was stolen along with other eightenth-century MSS after the Gilbert Collection had passed to Dublin Public Libraries. The commonplace book owned by the late Mrs Cartwright of Aynho Park, containing SwJ 32, 61, 105, 270, and 325, is no longer in the possession of her family. And two MSS owned by Williams himself, SwJ

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65 and 72, are not among his papers at Cambridge University Library.

Canon Not the least of the merits of Williams's edition is its patient and comprehensive review of over a hundred doubtful poems which have been attributed to Swift at one time or another. In many cases Williams has no difficulty in showing the attribution to be virtually supposititious. It should be noted, however, that Williams's decision to print the full text of a poem in his 'Dubious' section does not necessarily indicate that he regarded its attribution to Swift as a serious possibility; in some cases the text is given simply because it is not readily available elsewhere.

A number of transcripts which were evidently made from printed sources have not been given entries, but may be noted here. There are two transcripts of 'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift', one of them adding a note to the title The Third Edition', in Yale, Osborn, Poetry Box X/4 & 5. Clark Library, Los Angeles, MS fC6346M3, contains transcripts of four poems by Swift: 'Prometheus', ff. 20-1; the revised version of 'Baucis and Philemon', here headed 'Imitated from the Eighth Book of Ovid', ff. 91-3; 'To Mrs Biddy Floyd', f. 93v; and The History of Vanbrug's House, ff. 93v-4. The MS has been examined by George P. Mayhew, who concluded that the first of these was probably transcribed from its first English publication in The Weekly Journal, or Saturday's Post, 16 January 1725, and the others from one of Edmund Curll's pirated productions, A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick, and Somewhat Beside (London, 1710). Transcripts of two poems by Swift can be found in a commonplace book at Trinity College, Cambridge, Rothschild no. 1439, 'Baucis and Philemon' and 'A Description of a City Shower'; the source of transcription is given as 'Mesellinous Works', meaning Miscellanies. The Last Volume (1727). An early eighteenth-century commonplace book, Folger, MS V.a.308, ff. 78v-80v, contains a transcript of 'Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated', with a note to the title 'An. 1713. Ed. 2nd.'. This MS also contains a transcript of extracts from 'Cadenus and Vanessa', lines 316-33, 364-403, and 408-31 only, here headed 'Dr. Sw—t's his Cadenus, & Vanessa', ff. 85v-6. British Library, Add. MS 26877, contains thirteen poems by Swift, including the doubtful 'Aye and No: A Fable' and The Elephant', marked as transcripts from Miscellanies. The Last Volume (1727). This MS also contains transcripts of two further poems attributed to Swift, the source being given as 'Whartons poems, vol. 1', which refers to either an Edmund Curll production, Whartoniana: or, Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, 2 vols (London, 1727), or to its reprinting as Poetical Works of Philip Late Duke ofWharton, 2 vols (London, [1731?]). The two poems are 'Upon Rover a Ladys Spaniel Dog instructions to a painter', printed as a doubtful attribution in Williams, III, 1124, and 'A Song on the Arch Bp. of Dublin by honest Jo one of his graces farmers', which is accepted as authentic by Williams and Rogers. There are transcripts of extracts and shorter poems by Swift in Thomas Austen's commonplace books, Harvard MSS Eng.616, I, and Eng.611, II, but since these MSS were compiled in the early 1770s, they need scarcely be considered to have any textual value.

Subsequent scholars have adjusted rather than seriously challenged the parameters of the canon as defined by Williams. 'A description of Mother Ludwell's cave', was first published as possibly an early poem from Swift's Moor Park years in Julia G. Longe's biography of Sir William Temple's sister, Martha, Lady Giffard (London, 1911), p. 188, from a MS which remains untraced, SwJ 99. Williams, III, 1068-9, discusses the poem but does not print it. The attribution to Swift was defended by John Middleton Murry in his Jonathan Swift: A Critical Biography (London, 1954), pp. 45-8, and the poem included in the Muses Library Collected Poems of Jonathan Swift, edited by Joseph Horrell, 2 vols (London, 1958), I, 34. It is also accepted by Rogers, who acknowledges that his hesitation is as much due to the question of the poem's merit as of its authenticity. Particular uncertainty surrounds a small group of poems which appeared in the Pope-Swift Miscellanies, and which have been variously attributed to Pope, Swift, and Gay; in at least two cases it has been suggested that the poem may be a collaborative effort involving more than one of the Scriblerians. It has also been remarked, notably by Rogers, that the note to the contents list of the 1742 edition of the Miscellanies, which reads, 'Whatever are not marked with a star, are Dr. Swift's', is not entirely unambiguous; that it admits a possibility that some starred items are by Swift. Rogers has reopened the case for Swift's authorship of some of these poems, including 'Ay and No: A Fable', not considered by Williams, and accepted as Gay's in the new standard edition of the latter's Poetry and Prose, edited by Vinton A. Dealing and Charles E. Beckwith, 2 vols (Oxford, 1974), and The Elephant', decisively rejected by Williams. After being ejected from the Gay canon by G.C. Faber in his Poetical Works of John Gay (Oxford, 1926), 'Bounce to Fop' was claimed for Pope by Norman Ault in New Light on Pope (London, 1950), pp. 337-50, and in the Twickenham Poems of Alexander Pope, VI, Minor Poems, 366-71. Williams accepted

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Ault's opinion and omitted the poem. For the counterarguments the reader should consult the headnote in Rogers, pp. 895-7, as well as his essay, 'The Authorship of "Bounce to Fop": A Re-Examination', Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 85 (1982), 241-68. Briefly, Rogers argues that the attribution 'By Dr S—t' in the first publication of the poem, T. Cooper's folio edition of 1736, and the note added by Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, in his copy of this printing, 'much altered by Mr Pope', point to a poem originally written by Swift and revised by Pope, but that internal, stylistic evidence points to Swift's having a much greater share in the extant text than Ault was prepared to allow. The three extant transcripts, SwJ 54-6, give two different states of the text apparently preceding the first published version. Rogers also accepts as authentic 'On the burning of Whitehall in 1697', a poem added to the canon by Sir Walter Scott, but rejected by Williams. The MS source for this poem is a transcript in the hand of Henry Weber, Scott's amanuensis, SwJ 215. It is found in Harvard, HEW.9.11.3, f. 27, which also contains Weber's transcript of a poem headed 'Swift's first poetical Essay in the year 1690 when at Oxford in the 23rd year of his age from an original MS in the possession of the Rev. Mr. John Worrall', entitled 'Horace, B.2. Ode 18', and beginning "Tis true, my cottage mean & low'. Williams, however, showed that this poem was published as James Arbuckle's in A Collection of Letters and Essays on Several Subjects Lately Publish 'd in the Dublin Journal, 2 vols (Dublin 1729), II, 37-9.

Recent scholarship has called into question Swift's authorship of 'An Apology to the Lady C—r-t', arguing that the poem was probably written by Patrick Delany. The question is discussed thoroughly by James Woolley, The Canon of Swift's Poems: The Case of "An Apology to Lady Carteret'", in Reading Swift: Papers from the Second Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Richard. H. Rodino and Hermann J. Real (Munich, 1993), pp. 245-64. It must be said that four contemporary MSS attribute the poem to Delany, SwJ 27, 29-30, and 35. 'Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock' has been attributed to Pope, Abel Evans, and William King as well as to Swift. To the transcripts listed in the Pope section, PoA 343-7, may be added another at Yale, Osborn, Poetry Box X/58, here simply entitled 'On Marlborough's House'. There remains a poem which is attributed to Swift in MS but has not been published in any edition. There are two transcripts of a poem beginning 'Your Naturalists hold a formation of parts' in the Marquess of Bath's library at Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. 17, f. 123v, and Vol. 20, f. 117. The former is written on the recto of the same leaf as a transcript in the same scribal hand of 'On Wisdom's Defeat In a Learned Debate', SwJ 230, a poem assigned to Swift by modern editors although not without reservation; the latter is headed 'By the Revd. Dr. Sw—t. Dean of Ste. P—k '. There are a few minor variants. Given the Harleian provenance of the Portland Papers, this attribution deserves consideration. There is a third transcript in British Library, MS Egerton 2560, f. 104; here the text omits the eighth line as given in the two Longleat transcripts, and is subscribed 'On ye Great Master [?]' which picks up a phrase from the last line. The leaf is endorsed The Ayes & Noes 1724'. The poem appears to be a squib aimed at John, Duke of Montagu, political ally of Walpole and Grand Master of the Order of the Bath, which had been reinstituted in 1724 as a means of extending the patronage system through which Walpole rewarded the politically compliant.

On the other hand, Rogers rejects the poem variously entitled 'Blue-Skin's Ballad' or 'Newgates Garland', which under the former title had been printed and discussed in Williams, III, 1111. Although he remained sufficiently hesitant to assign the poem to his 'Dubious' category, Williams attached some weight to its publication as a Dublin broadside dated '1724/5', and he remarked that certain, admittedly circumstantial, details of the first publication seemed to him to point to a Dublin origin for the ballad. Herbert Davis also included 'Blue-Skin's Ballad' as a doubtful attribution in the Oxford Standard Authors edition of Swift's Poetical Works (Oxford, 1967). Dearing and Beckwith firmly assign this ballad to Gay, asserting that there is no need to involve Swift, but a few of their reviewers, notably H. Bunker Wright in MP, 76 (1978-9), 89-94, felt that this is to dismiss too lightly the possibility of Swift's having contributed the third and last stanzas. Given that the issue remains open to discussion, the poem has been listed here under the title of 'Blue-Skin's Ballad', SwJ 51-3. Rogers has also rejected two other poems seriously

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JONATHAN SWIFT The NYPL, Spencer Collection, includes a set of Faulkner (1735), with a poem on the front flyleaves entitled To Miss Betty Gibson with the Dean's works, in four volumes a fable.—1734/5', which begins 'A lovely Nymph receives a Gift'; there is a photocopy at the British Library, RP 2711. The poem has been attributed to Swift himself, and described as in his autograph. The hand is not Swift's, and to judge by the conclusion of the poem itself the author was Betty Gibson's own father. Also at NYPL is a MS of verses entitled 'A Poem humbly addressed to Serjeant Bettesworth', and beginning 'As Brothers of a German Heir', formerly thought to be by Swift and in his hand, but which has now been removed to the Forgeries section. The poem is not by Swift, but includes a flattering injunction to him, and the hand may possibly be that of George Faulkner, his publisher. There is another transcript of this poem at the University of Nottingham, Portland MS Pw V 761.

script of A Meditation upon a Broom-stick, SwJ 439, endorsed in the hand of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford, now among the Portland MSS at the University of Nottingham. An item not included in Prose Writings, but available as Appendix III in the Journal to Stella, edited by Harold Williams, 2 vols, (Oxford, 1948), II, 677, is Swift's 'Memorial to Robert Harley Concerning the First-Fruits'. This relates to his role as emissary of the Church of Ireland in 1710 to request the extension of Queen Anne's Bounty, the remission of payment to the Crown of the first year's tithes of a benefice, to the Irish Church. Coldly treated by Godolphin and other Whig Lords, Swift found a sympathetic hearer in Robert Harley. Swift's autograph draft, SwJ 441, is bound with a collection of his letters in British Library, Add. MS 4804, and the 'Memorial' was published from this MS by John Hawkesworth in Works, X (Letters, I), 33. The autograph fair copy as sent to Harley, SwJ 442, and with the latter's endorsement, is now among the Harley Papers in the British Library, Add. MS 70026. A further MS, possibly autograph but incomplete, is now at the Berg, SwJ 443.

A few misattributions may be noted here. Four poems by Pope, published in Miscellanies. The Third Volume (1732), are attributed to Swift in Yale, Osborn.fc.60, p. 50: 'Epigram' ('Peter complains that God hath given'); 'Another from the French' ('Sir I admit your General Rule'); 'Another' ('Well then poor G— lies under Ground'); 'Another' ('You beat your Pate and Fancy Wit will come'). And in Yale, Spence Papers, Box VII, are transcripts of The Quidnuncki's' and 'A New Song of New Similes', both now usually assigned to Gay, but here attributed to Swift with the alternative titles 'On ye Death of ye Duke of Orleans' and 'A new Song of Old Similes. To the Tune of Chevy Chase'.

Another autograph MS for which no publication has been traced, can be found among the Harley Papers in the former Portland Loan, SwJ 453. It is now British Library, Add. MS 70267, Miscellanea No. 48. Endorsed 'Observations on the Pr Councill in Ireland' and headed 'W—g Pr Councellors', it is a list of Whig members of the Irish Privy Council, including Archbishop William King and Joseph Addison; opposite each name Swift has written a comment, either noting degree of commitment to the Whig cause or frequent absenteeism. It would appear that Swift, with his expert knowledge of Irish affairs, drew up this list for Harley's benefit, indicating which of the Irish Privy Councillors could be expected to prove inveterate and effective political opponents. The MS is dated 'Decb. 19. 1713', when the Tory ministry was passing into a deepening political crisis. For two items with Swift's autograph endorsements also in British Library, Add. MS 70267, see the Library and Marginalia section below.

Prose The reference edition for this section is The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, 14 vols (Oxford, 1939-66). Although its treatment of MSS is thorough, there are a few omissions. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the autograph fair copy of the 'Character of Mrs. Howard', SwJ 392, a rather critical portrait sent to the lady herself and preserved among her papers in British Library, Add. MS 22625. Unlike the text printed in Works by Deane Swift, the MS adds 'Part the 1st' to the title; Swift's friendship with Mrs Howard was an uneasy one in that he regarded her as too much the courtier to venture too far on behalf of others, himself included, and it is thought that 'Part the 1st' was his warning that he had reserves of irony in store. Prose Writings also makes no mention of MSS of two of Swift's light-hearted short pieces: the autograph fair copy of A History of Poetry, In a Letter to a Friend, now Folger, MS Y.c.1433, SwJ 416 and FACS; and a tran-

The prose work with which Swift perhaps took more pains than any other was his History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, and he was disappointed when Bolingbroke demurred at its publication. Intended to be a justification of his friends in the Tory ministry, it was initially composed during the winter of 1712-13, but Swift continued to work upon it until as late as 1737. A series of six short autograph notes, SwJ 417, evidently for Book IV of the History, is now at the Huntington,

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JONATHAN SWIFT Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, SwJ 421; a transcript by George Faulkner, purportedly made in 1738 but, according to Williams, more likely in 1736. The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen was at last published in 1758 by the London bookseller Andrew Millar, apparently from a corrected MS edited by Dr Charles Lucas. Williams's study of the texts show that there is no reason to doubt Millar's claim to have had access to a transcript with Swift's final corrections; but he concludes that the Windsor MS was probably not the basis for either Millar's edition or for the text entitled 'The History of the Last Session of Queen Anne', published in Faulkner, IX (1759).

HM 14380. Identified by George P. Mayhew, the notes have been published and described in 'Notes for The History of the Four Last Years, Book IV, HLQ, 24 (1961), 311-22, reprinted as Chapter 2 of his Rage or Raillery, pp. 26-36. But the notes cannot belong to a preliminary stage of composition; as Mayhew points out, the first entry begins with reference 'L.4. P.29', the third note with a reference 'P.25', and the sixth '29': the notes must therefore be for revisions and additions to pages 25-9 of an already existing MS of Book IV. Mayhew identifies the notes as referring to the Duke of Ormonde's manouvres during the campaign of 1712, and suggests that they were made between February and May 1713 when Swift is known to have resumed work on the History. He further suggests that the information contained in the notes came from Sir Thomas Hanmer, who had been engaged in diplomatic activity in the Low Countries during the summer of 1712. It is clear from references in the 'Journal to Stella' and from a note to Swift by Hanmer that the latter was reading and commenting upon a MS of the History in the spring of 1713.

Swift's dissatisfaction with the first printing of his most famous work, Gulliver's Travels, by Benjamin Motte, is well known. The Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum includes Charles Ford's transcription of a list of the errata in the first edition, SwJ 412, and more importantly a copy of the first edition itself with copious corrections in Ford's hand, partly in the margins but also on inserted leaves, SwJ 411. A second copy of the first edition, also with corrections in Ford's hand which are again written partly on inserted leaves, is now at the Pierpont Morgan, SwJ 413. These corrections were incorporated in the text published in Faulkner (1735), which many scholars accept as representing Swift's final artistic intentions. The most controversial of the copies of the Motte 1726 Gulliver's Travels with MS corrections is that now in Armagh Public Library, SwJ 410. A previous generation of Swift scholars, including Sir Harold Williams, judged that the corrections were not in Swift's hand; but more recently David Woolley and Colin McKelvie have accepted them as autograph. Besides authenticating the hand, David Woolley's 'Swift's Copy of Gulliver's Travels: The Armagh Gulliver, Hyde's Edition, and Swift's Earliest Corrections', in The Art of Jonathan Swift, edited by Clive T. Probyn (London, 1978), pp. 131-78, also shows that 23 of the Armagh copy's emendations appear in the rare first Dublin reprint of Gulliver's Travels, published by John Hyde in 1726. Six of the emendations are unique to Hyde's edition in that they do not appear in Faulkner's text, but on the other hand the Hyde reprint omits some two-thirds of the Armagh copy's emendations. Among modern editions, some of the MS readings of the 'Armagh Gulliver' have been adopted in the Penguin English Library Gulliver's Travels, edited by Angus Ross (Harmondsworth, 1969), which uses Motte's 1726 edition as copy text; a less justifiable proceeding is their incorporation into Faulkner's 1735 text in Colin McKelvie's Appletree Press Gulliver's Travels (Belfast, 1976).

Swift's autograph draft of the character of Robert Harley, one of the principal actors in the History, sent to Harley for his approval, is now among the Portland Papers in the library of the Marquess of Bath, SwJ 418. The most important, however, of the extant MSS is SwJ 419, which has been authoritatively discussed by Harold Williams in 'Jonathan Swift and the Four Last Years of the Queen', The Library, 16 (1935-6), 61-90. The MS consists of 137 leaves, 273 pages of text written in the right-hand columns with corrections on the left. If Williams is correct, the hand is that of Roger Kendrick, Swift's verger, but the corrections and the inscription 'Written at Windsor in the Year 1713 ('1714' deleted)' are in Swift's autograph. It was bought for the Royal Library by Sir Charles Holmes, librarian at Windsor Castle, from Pearson in the last years of the nineteenth-century. Its previous history is uncertain, but Williams identifies it as possibly the MS brought over by Lord Orrery to Dr William King in England in July 1737. In 1741 George Faulkner came to England with Swift's instructions to see to its return, but King was unable to despatch the MS before Faulkner went back to Ireland, and at Faulkner's request he gave the MS to Orrery. The MS was finally obtained from Orrery by Faulkner in 1751, brought to Ireland and given to the Archbishop of Dublin, who placed it in the custody of Lord Chief Justice Singleton. Two other transcriptions are known to have existed: a corrected transcript left in the custody of Mrs Martha Whiteway which Williams identifies with the MS collated by Percy Fitzgerald, the collations now being in the

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JONATHAN SWIFT Not surprisingly, no autograph MSS survive for such politically dangerous works as The Drapier's Letters or The Public Spirit of the Whigs. Some extracts from the fourth Drapier's Letter, however, transcribed in the hand of Edward Vernon, c. 1725, can be found in British Library, Add. MS 40804, ff. 44-Iv reversed.

preface from a different source; he is perhaps referring to the transcripts of letters received by Temple which are now at the University of Southampton, Broadlands Archive, Br 6. The transcripts were evidently made over a period of many years, and are out of chronological order; Swift was obliged to draw up an index assigning them numbers. No less than eight hands appear in the volume: of these the earliest is that of Thomas Downton, a previous secretary to Temple, and four other amanuenses remain unidentified. Besides the list of contents headed The Order of the Letters in this Volume' in Swift's autograph, six letters are transcribed in his hand; these may be late additions, as they do not appear in his own chronological index. A seventh, previously thought to be in his hand, is actually in that of the young Esther Johnson; a transcript of Temple's letter to his father, 10 May 1666, it occupies pp. 194-204 of the letterbook, and was possibly made from an earlier transcript on pp. 34-8, now excised. Some corrections to Stella's transcript may possibly be in Swift's hand; it is difficult to be sure, and the evident resemblances between their hands support his claim that he had taught Stella penmanship. See the description and facsimiles in A.C. Elias, 'Stella's Writing-Master', The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 134-9. The volume evidently remained in Swift's possession until his death because it appears as Lot 634 in the 1745 Sale; it was bought on that occasion by Lord Chesterfield, who made the inscription, The Letters in the following Collection marked with a cross are the Handwriting of Dr. Swift'.

Works edited by Swift Swift's last responsibility to his early employer and patron, Sir William Temple, was to complete the editing for posthumous publication of the statesman's letters and such essays as remained unprinted or uncollected. The surviving MSS which relate to this task, with other material belonging to Swift's years in the Temple household at Moor Park, are now at Trinity College, Cambridge, Rothschild Collection, nos 2253-5, and the Williams Bequest at Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 7788, Box 3. Rothschild, no. 2253 is Swift's transcript of 'Hints Written at the Desire of Dr. F. and of His Friend', written by Sir William Temple in 1694, SwJ 483. This is a portion of 'A Defence of the Essay upon Antient and Modern Learning', eventually included in the posthumous Miscellanea. The Third Part (London, 1701), edited by Swift. The text runs to 16 pages, with section headings numbered 1 and 5-6, sections 2-4 being missing. Above the heading is a note in a nineteenth-century hand 'See Sr. Wm. Temple's Works [1770] Vol. 3. p. 471. This MS is in the Handwriting of Dr. Jonn. Swift'. A separate note in a contemporary scribal hand, headed 'Fragment upon ye Subject of Ant. & Mod. Learning', explains the circumstances of the composition of this fragment. The MS appeared in the the Longe Sale as Lot 1070, with a facsimile in Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 1-3 August 1934, p. 101. Temple's further autograph drafts with emendations and a link phrase in the same scribal hand are now in the Williams Bequest, Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 7788, Box 3. A note by Williams shows that he believed the scribal hand to be Swift's; but in a recent discussion of the question, Elias, Swift at Moor Park, Appendix D, pp. 325-8, observes that Williams appears not to have seen the Rothschild MS where the two hands may be compared.

The third item in the Rothschild Collection, SwJ 484, is an autograph fair copy of two paragraphs intended for Swift's preface to the collection of Temple's Letters, The Publisher's Epistle to the Reader'. They were omitted from the published text, however, and both pages are cancelled in the MS. No MSS relating to the companion volume, Temple's Letters to the King (London, 1703), have been traced in the course of the present enquiry. For some presentation copies of Swift's editions of Temple, and a description of transcripts which he undertook for other members of the family, see the Marginalia and Miscellaneous sections below.

The largest of the items, SwJ 485, has been described in some detail in Elias, Swift at Moor Park, Appendix A, pp. 311-13. It is a volume of transcripts of Temple's letters, which includes all except one of those published by Swift in Letters of Sir W. Temple, Bart., 2 vols (London, 1700). It does not contain the letters addressed to Temple, which were printed in a separate section at the end of each volume, and according to Swift's published

Diaries and Notebooks Nine of Swift's personal account books are still extant, together with two related notebooks dealing with special aspects of the finances of St Patrick's Cathedral. One of the account books is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, another is in the Rothschild Collection at

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JONATHAN SWIFT 160, the latter continuing on p. 3, with what seems to be a note to pass on an anecdote to Thomas Sheridan, 'Rememb the Abbot when you write to S—'. On p. 4 is the first part of the poem 'Ireld.', SwJ 166, which continues on pp. 8-9, and on p. 5 the poem 'On Ld. Carterets Arms...', SwJ 200. There follows on pp. 6-7 a declaration beginning 'I do here give notice to posterity,...', in which Swift declares he will avoid the mistake of his friends Pope and Gay in commemorating through satire the names of the worthless and insignificant. After a blank unnumbered page following p. 9, the prose journal begins 'Friday at 11 in the morning I left Chester, it Was Sept 22d 1727', and occupies pp. 10-23, with 'When Mrs Welch's Chimny smoks' on p. 21, SwJ 375. The remainder of the volume consists of eight blank unnumbered pages, but on the verso of the last leaf is a reversed entry, a list of 'Male Toasts'. A leaf which apparently became detached from the rest of the volume is now in British Library, MS Egerton 201, f. 1, identified and described in George P. Mayhew, 'A Missing Leaf from Swift's "Holyhead Journal'", BJRL, 41 (1959), 388-413. On it are memoranda and prose jottings, some of which have been further identified as notes for 'Shall I repine', recognisable by references to the poem's source in Scarron, and to Scarron's own source in a passage of Lucretius, SwJ 276 and 496; see Clive T. Probyn, The Power of Time: Swift as Translator', N & Q, n.s., 16 (1969), 337.

Trinity College, Cambridge, and the remainder are in in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. They have been published as The Account Books of Jonathan Swift, transcribed and with an introduction by Paul V. Thompson and Dorothy Jay Thompson (Newark, 1984). The introduction to this edition gives an excellent description of the nature and scope of these volumes: Though the books are mainly lists of household expenses, Swift also included other matter, notably income from his livings and his cathedral property, as well as debts owed to him, wins and losses at cards, lists of letters sent and received, various memoranda, and stray remarks and notations' (p. vii). The Thompsons note that the seven account books now in the Forster Collection have probably come down from John Lyon; he is the first person to make an identifiable reference to them in his notes on Faulkner and on Hawkesworth's 'Life'. They further remark that if Swift sustained the regular practice of making up these accounts and kept the notebooks, he may at one time have had between thirty and forty of them in his possession; Lyon makes reference to now lost account books for the years 1699-1700, 1700-1, 1701-2, 1707-8, 171314, and possibly 1741-2. The 'Holyhead Journal' is a diary kept by Swift during the week 22-9 September 1727, while waiting for passage back to Ireland from the storm-bound harbour, SwJ 495. The notebook contains five poems written during this enforced sojourn. Of these only 'Shall I repine' was printed in Swift's lifetime, entitled The Power of Time' and probably not from this MS; the others appeared only with the publication of the diary as a whole by John Churton Collins in the Gentleman's Magazine, June 1882. The poems are entered separately from the text of the 'Journal' except for 'When Mrs Welch's Chimny smoks', SwJ 375, which actually appears as prose and was first arranged as verse in Williams. The volume was acquired by John Forster from Dr John Henthorn Todd of Trinity College, Dublin, and at one time had been in the possession of Swift's friend John Worrall. On the binding leaf is an inscription in Swift's autograph, This Book I stole from the Rt Honble George Dodington Eqr, one of the Lords of the Treasury June 1727. But the scribblings are all my own'; below is a later inscription, This Book was all wrote by Dean Swift, & was Mr Worral's', with the signature 'Jo. Worral' cancelled. On p. 1 facing is a list of memoranda, notably items which Swift intended to purchase, either for friends or for St Patrick's Cathedral, before leaving London; it is headed 'Memds Those only done wch are crossed'. On p. 2 are the drafts of the poems 'Shall I repine' and 'Holyhead. Sept. 25. 1727', SwJ 277 and

'Holyhead Journal' Autograph volume, 16 leaves, a few blank. Contents: SwJ 160, 166, 200, 276-7, 375. First pub. in J. Churton Collins, 'An Unpublished Diary, written by Dean Swift', Gentleman's Magazine, 252 (June 1882), 731-43; contents printed as copy-texts or collated in Williams, Rogers, and Prose Writings, see individual entries for details; described in George P. Mayhew, 'A Missing Leaf from Swift's "Holyhead Journal'", BJRL, 41 (1959), 388-413. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 519 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/10); detached leaf in British Library, MS Egerton 201, f. 1. Another volume now in the Victoria and Albeit Museum, Forster MS 530, SwJ 497, contains chiefly autograph jottings in Latino-Anglicus and Anglo-Angli. It consists of 118 pages and has a title-page reading 'Latin Angl et Familia de Ling et Angl. Angl.'. Some of the jottings are written on the versos of letters to Swift, and some accounts are are occasionally interspersed; this indicates

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p. 25. There is also extant an autograph inventory of Swift's library, dated 19 August 1715. This was formerly owned by T.P. LeFanu of Abington, Bray, and was described and published by him in two articles, 'Dean Swift's Library', Journal of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th Sen, 6 (1896), and 'Catalogue of Dean Swift's Library in 1715, with an Inventory of his Personal Property in 1742', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 37 (1927), 263-5. The MS is now owned by his son William LeFanu, and currently on deposit at King's College, Cambridge. It has been published in facsimile, accompanied by a numbered alphabetical list of the books with short modern bibliographical descriptions, as A Catalogue of Books Belonging to Dr Jonathan Swift. A facsimile of Swift's autograph with an introduction and alphabetic catalogue by William LeFanu, Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph No. 10 (Cambridge, 1988).

Latino-Anglicus, pp. 2-7, 9-15, 24-165, 168-72, 181-4, 187, 189-97, 200-13, 215-7 220-3 Anglo-Angli, pp. 8, 17-23, 173-9, 185-6, 199, accounts, pp. 166, 180, 188, 198, Irish Words, p. 167 letters, pp. 214, pp. 218-9 The Latino-Anglicus epigram, 'A Sui ne is abuti cum par ito Die', SwJ 115, can be found on p. 205, together with a sentence for 'A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson', the mock dedication of Gulliver's Travels, SwJ 409. Also to be found throughout the volume are words and phrases noted for use in Polite Conversation, SwJ 461, and two drafts in LatinoAnglicus for 'A Consultation of Four Physicians upon a Lord that was dying', SwJ 393-4. A notebook, previously owned by Lord Harmsworth, was sold at Sotheby's, 22 June 1976, Lot 252. It is a word-book, probably compiled by Swift, although written mainly in the hand of Stella, SwJ 500. It is described in the Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, pp. 130-1, as consisting of 76 pages of text with fourteen blank pages at the end. The contents are entered alphabetically under two-letter headings, 1975 words with their definitions, and 20 words without. There are some eighteen annotations and additions in Swift's autograph, and he has written on the flyleaf This is all in our late friends own hand'. The Sale Catalogue traces the provenance of the present volume and notes that this cannot be the word-book mentioned in Scott, I, 154, which had a much smaller number of entries. It apparently passed to Elizabeth Eustace from Frances, daughter of Swift's friend, the minor poet Mrs Siccan; the Eustace family had themselves been friendly with Swift and Stella, and the notebook remained in the possession of their descendants until 1925, when it was acquired by Cecil Harmsworth from Charlotte Gore, niece of Elizabeth Eustace's husband William.

Swift's books, together with some MSS, were auctioned at his death. A Catalogue of Books, The Library of the late Rev. Dr. Swift (Dublin, 1745), printed for the sale by Faulkner, is extremely rare. Williams knew of only two copies: his own which is now at Cambridge University Library; and Sir Walter Scott's, preserved at Abbotsford. But others have since come to light. A copy with the sale prices entered in the hand of Swift's relative, the Dublin surgeon and bookcollector John Putland, and bound with other Dublin sale catalogues, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster Collection; it has been described by E.J.W. McCann, The Priced Copy of the Auction Catalogue of Swift's Library, and Some Other Dublin Catalogues', Swift Studies, 1 (1986), 64-6. Another copy was sold by Christie's, 29 September 1982, to H.D. Lyon. But controversy has arisen concerning the copy offered by Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 28 July 1988, Lot 28, sold to Pickering & Chatto, and now at Yale. An additional 32 items have been added on p. 16 of this copy in an unidentified hand, and Arthur Freeman, 'William Street, 1746, Revisited: Thirty-two New Books from the Library of Jonathan Swift', BC, 38 (1989), 68-78, claimed that these should be considered as books genuinely owned by Swift, omitted by oversight from the catalogue, but included in the sale. This has been contradicted courteously but in detail by F.P. Lock, 'Swift's Library: The Yale Copy of the Sale Catalogue Reconsidered', BC, 40 (1991), 31-50, and the rejoinder by Freeman in the same issue, 'Swift Reconsidered', pp. 51-6, partially withdraws his original assertions. David Woolley, The Dean's Library and the Interlopers', Swift Studies, 4 (1989), 2-12, had already responded negatively to Freeman's argument.

Library and Marginalia The study of Swift's own library must begin with Harold Williams's monograph, Dean Swiff s Library (Oxford, 1932), to which the following account is much indebted. The earliest information on Swift's books is a list of his reading at Moor Park during the twelve months 7 January 1696/7 until 7 January 1697/8; it survives as a transcript in the hand of John Lyon, entered in his annotated copy of Hawkesworth's 'Life' in the Forster Collection, and was published in Sheridan, Life (1784),

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JONATHAN SWIFT Lots 78-80 Plato, OXaTcovos 'airavra TCI cra)£ou,eva. Platonis opera quae exstant omnia. Ex nova J. Serrani interpretation, ejusdem notis illustrata, 3 vols ([Geneva], 1578); LeFanu 318

What gives the catalogue especial interest is that those books containing Swift's own marginalia were marked with an asterisk. For the reader's interest these asterisked items are listed here in order of Lot; where the book also appears in the 1715 autograph inventory, the number assigned by William LeFanu in his edition of that MS is cited, and cross-references to the entries have also been provided when the volume is still extant. Lots 296, 324, 347, and 620, which are not not asterisked in the catalogue of the 1745 Sale, presumably through oversight, are here added to the list.

Lot 81 Xenophon, EevocJxovTOS xct eupurKO|xeva. Xenophontis quae exstant opera graece multo quam ante castigatius edita, adjecta etiam ad marginem scripturae discrepantia latine tertia nunc cura ita elucubrata ut nova pene toga prodeant opera loannis Leunclavii. Accesserunt ^milii Porti notae, 2 vols in one (Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1625); LeFanu 3

Lot 3 La Rochefoucauld, Frangois, due de, and La Chatre, Edme de, comte de Nangay, Memoires de la minorite de Louis XIV (Villefranche, 1690); LeFanu 297; see SwJ 525

Lot 83 Philostratus, Philostrat Lemnii Opera quce exstant, F. Morellus cum MSS. contulit, recensuit, et hactenus nondum Latinitate donata vertit (Paris, 1608); LeFanu 25; see SwJ 538

Lot 24 Virgilius Maro, Publius, P.V.M. Poemata, H. Stephani scholiis illustrata. Tertia editio ([Geneva], 1599), see SwJ 543

Lot 91 Strabo, Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII, Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit... emendavit, ac commentariis illustravit. Adjucta est etiam Gulielmi Xylandri latina versio ab eodem Casaubono recognita. Accessere Fed. Morelli in eundum geographum observatiunculae (Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1620); LeFanu 15

Lot 25 Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, An. Manl. Sever. Boetii, Consolationis philosophiae libri V, Ejusd. opuscula sacra auctiora, Renatus Vallinus recensuit, & notis illustravit (Leyden, 1656); LeFanu 202

Lot 92

Lot 26 Vida, Marcus Hieronymus, Poeticorum libri tres. Accedunt Bombycum libri duo et Scacchia Ludus, eodem autore [Edited by Basil Kennett] (Oxford, 1701)

Herodotus,

Herodoti Halicarnassei historiarum libri IX. Eiusdem narratio de vita Homeri. Cum Vallae interpret, latina historiarum Herodoti, ab Henri Stephano recognita. Editio adornata opera & studio Gothofredi lungermani (Geneva, 1618); LeFanu 1; see SwJ 519

Lot 28 Justinus, M. Juniani Justini historia ex Trogo Pompeio, recensuit et emendationes addidit Tanaquill Faber. Editio nova (Saumur, 1671); LeFanu 460; see SwJ 524

Lot 94 Suidas, Som8as, cujus Latinam interpretationem, et Graeci textus emendationem &. Portus conscripsit, 2 vols (Geneva, 1619); LeFanu 27

Lot 33 Valerius Maximus, Valerii Maximi dictorum factorumque memorabilium lib. IX, Cum Justi Lipsii notis (Amsterdam, 1647); LeFanu 229

Lot 95 Dion Cassius, TOD Auovos TOV Kcwrcriot) P(0(XaVLK(OV 'iCTTOpLCOV

Lot 42 Rabelais, Francois, Les oeuvres. Contenant cinq livres, de la vie, faicts, & dits heroiques de Gargantua, & son fits Pantagruel (Lyon, 1558)

ptpXttt TTeVTC KttL CLXOai.

Dionis Cassii Romanarum historiarum libri XXV, ex Gulielmi Xylandri interpretatione, [bound with] Xipilinus, Epitome Dionis ([Paris], 1592); LeFanu 130

Lot 43 Eutropius, Flavius, Eutropii Breviarium, historia Romana, Emendavit iterum E. Vinetus (Pictavis, 1564); LeFanu 217 Lot 46 Tacitus, Publius Cornelius, C. Corn. Tacitus juxta correctius exemplar editus, cum adjectis capitulorum numeris (Amsterdam, 1649); LeFanu 040

Lot 105 Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI. Cl. Salmasius ex veteribus libris recensuit, et librum adjecit notarum ac emendationum. Quib. adjunctse sunt notae ac emendationes I. Casauboni jam antea editae (Paris, 1620); LeFanu 43

Lots 65-6 Bernier, Frangois, Voyages de Francois Bernier, Contenant la description des etats du Grand Mogol, de rHindoustan, du Royaume de Kachemire. Le tout enrichi de cartes et de figures, 2 vols (Amsterdam, 1699); LeFanu 345

Lot 111 Satyre Menipee de la Vertu du Catholicon d"Espagne\ et de la tenue des Estats de Paris. Derniere edition [by P. Le Roy, J. Gillot, J. Passerat, N. Rapin, F. Chrestien and P. Pithon] ([Paris?], 1612); LeFanu 392; see SwJ 542

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JONATHAN SWIFT Lot 115 Jolly vet, Everte, Poesies Chretiennes, Ouvrage posthume (Utrecht, 1708); LeFanu 348

Lot 322 Grotius, Hugo, De veritate religionis christianae, Editio novissima, in qua ejusdem annotationes suis quseque paragraphis as faciliorem usum subjects sunt (Amsterdam, 1699); LeFanu 253; SwJ 516

Lot 132 Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas, Oeuvres diverses, 2 vols in one (Amsterdam, 1697); LeFanu 308

Lots 323-4 Hughes, John, Poems on Several Occasions, 2 vols (London, 1735); see SwJ 523, Vol. II only

Lots 202-3 Hobbes, Thomas, Thomce Hobbes Malmesburiensis opera philosophica quce Latine scripsit, omnia, accuratus edita, 2 vols (Amsterdam, 1688); LeFanu 155

Lot 336 Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, Q. Horatii Flacci Opera, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita. Accesserunt variae lectiones, quae in libris MSS. et eruditorum commentariis occurunt [ed. J. Talbot] (Cambridge, 1699); LeFanu 120; see SwJ 520

Lot 215 Gellius, Aulus, A. Gelii Noctium Atticorum libri XX. prout supersunt quos ad libras MSStos novo labore exegerunt, perpetuis notis illustraverunt J.F. et J. Gronovii (Leyden, 1706); LeFanu 132; see SwJ 513

Lot 337 Virgilius Maro, Publius, Opera (Leyden, 1636); LeFanu 186

Lot 223 Antiquae musicae auctores septem Graece et Latine notis, M. Meibomius restituit ac notis explicavit (Amsterdam, 1652); LeFanu 411; see SwJ 503

Lot 338 Terentius Afer, Publius, P. Terentii Comoediae sex recensitae. Acceserunt variae lectiones [ed. J. Leng] (Cambridge, 1701); LeFanu 122

Lot 228 'AvOoXo-yux 8ia4>opo>v eTn/ypaixjicmov TraXoawv, Florigelium diversorum epigrammatum veterum, in septem libros divisum, magno epigrammatum numero et duobus indicibus auctum [Edited with annotations by Henri Estienne] ([Paris], 1566); LeFanu 133

Lot 340 Gibbs, James, The First Fifteen Psalms of David Translated into Lyric Verse (London, 1701); see SwJ 514 Lot 347 Wycherley, William, Love in a Wood (London, 1694), The Gentleman Dancing-Master (London, 1702), The Country Wife (London, 1709), The Plain Dealer (London, 1700), bound in one volume; LeFanu 152; see SwJ 544

Lots 238-40 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, The History of the Rebellion and the Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, 3 vols (Oxford, 1707); LeFanu 84; see SwJ 509

Lot 361 Procopius, of Caesarea, Procopii Ccesariensis Avei fora peni!', 12 pages. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 532 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 18).

SwJ 433 Autograph draft, here untitled, endorsed in an unidentified hand 'McCulla's Project about Halfpence, & a new one proposed 1729', 4 pages.

[Latino-Anglicus] No publication of the whole traced; described and quoted in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, p. 162. SwJ 428 Autograph, 7 pages.

jottings

in

Copy text in Prose Writings.

Latino-Anglicus,

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 523 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 8).

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JONATHAN SWIFT Prose A Letter to a Member of Parliament in Ireland upon the chusing a new Speaker there First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 128; Prose Writings, II, 127.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 579 (Pressmark F.48.D.39). Maxims controlled in Ireland First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 136; Prose Writings, XII, 129.

SwJ 434 Autograph, corrected, with autograph endorsement 'Writt in Ireland upon the chusing a new Speaker there 1708 (as I rememb.)', 8 pages.

SwJ 438 Autograph draft of hints for this essay with notes on other Irish problems, second leaf headed 'Maxims examind.', 3 pages.

Copy text in Prose Writings. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 514 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 2).

Printed in Prose Writings, XII, Appendix B, 309-10, with facsimile of first page facing 131; also in J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 379-80.

A Letter to a Young Lady, on her Marriage First pub. in Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727), p. 319; Prose Writings, IX, 83.

John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(11).

SwJ 435 Autograph fair copy, here untitled, signed and dated Deanery House, 11 February 1723, sent by Swift to Deborah Stanton.

A Meditation upon a Broom-stick First pub. in A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick, and Somewhat Beside (London, 1710); Prose Writings, I, 237.

Facsimiles of first and last pages in Prose Writings, IX, xxviii and 83; printed and discussed, with facsimile of p. 7, in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, pp. 37-68.

SwJ 439 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled 'Meditations on a Broom-Stick in imitation of ye Hon'ble H—y B—le Esqr.', endorsed 'Meditations on a Broomstick Dr Swift: 1709' in the hand of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford, one page.

Huntington, HM 1599. A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, concerning the Weavers First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 177; Prose Writings, XII, 63.

University of Nottingham, Portland MS Pw 2V 26.

SwJ 436 Autograph, revised, here untitled, endorsed in the hand of Deane Swift? 'Lettr to the A Bp. Ap. 1729 About Weavers &c.', 18 pages.

Memoirs, Relating to That Change Which Happened in the Queen's Ministry in the Year 1710 First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 1; Prose Writings, VIII, 105.

Copy text in Prose Writings. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 520 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 7).

SwJ 440 Transcript in two unidentified hands, with autograph revisions, here untitled, endorsed by Swift 'Draught of [MJemoirs' and dated October 1714, 39 pages.

List of Subjects for a Volume First pub. in Sheridan, Life (1784), p. 56. SwJ 437 Transcript in the hand of John Lyon, a list of 22 of Swift's poems and prose works, headed 'What he was about publishing in Oct 1708, appears from these words in his own hand on the back of a Letter directed to him at that time at Lord Pembroke's in Leicester Fields', now inserted in Lyon's annotated copy of John Hawkesworth, The Life of the Revd. Jonathan Swift (London, 1755), pp. 36-7.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 516, ff. 1-20 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/3). Memorials to Robert Harley Concerning the FirstFruits First pub. as 'Letter XXX', 'Copy of a Memorial of Dr. Swift to Mr. Harley, about the first-fruits', in Works, Quarto, X [Letters, I], ed. John Hawkesworth (1766), 33; Journal to Stella, ed. Harold Williams, 2 vols (Oxford, 1948), II, Appendix III, 677.

Printed in Ehrenpreis, II, Appendix B, 768-9.

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SwJ 447 Autograph, together with quotations in Latin from Aristophanes's Wasps and The Birds, a note on Philippe de Comines's Memoirs, and a list of measurements of area, on a bifolium with an unfinished letter to Swift's mother dated Moor Park, 5 August 1698, one page.

SwJ441 Autograph draft, here untitled, on a bifolium, the conjugate endorsed 'Copy of Memorial to Mr Harley— about 1st Fruits', 2 pages. British Library, Add. MS 4804, ff. 36-7. SwJ 442 Autograph, endorsed 'Dr. Swift's Memoriall about the First-fruits of Ireland. Octbr. 7. 1710', with a further endorsement in the hand of Robert Harley, 'R/octo: 16: 1710', 3 pages.

John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(8). [Notes on English Bulls] First pub. in George P. Mayhew, 'Swift's Games with Language in Rylands English MS 659', BJRL, 36 (1954), 424-32.

Printed in HMC (Portland), IV, 609-10. British Library, Add. MS 70026, [unfoliated but arranged chronologically]. SwJ 443 Autograph?, dated 7 October 1710, incomplete.

SwJ 448 Notes, mainly autograph but with the final item in the hand of Thomas Sheridan, headed 'Bulls, Anglo-Lat-Polite, &c', and endorsed by Swift 'Engl. Bulls', 2 pages.

Berg. Men famous for their Learning, Wit or great Employments or Quality of my Acquaintance, who are dead, and Men of Distinction and my Friends who are yet alive. Febr. 19th 1728-9 No publication traced; described in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, p. 164.

See also J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 384. John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(14).

SwJ 444 Autograph, 4 pages.

[Notes on Oxford's Ministry in the Autumn of 1713] First pub. in J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 382-4.

Huntington, HM 14344. A Modest Defence of Punning First pub. 1957 in Prose Writings, IV, 203.

SwJ 449 Autograph notes on English politics. SwJ 445 Autograph fair copy, corrected, in the form of a letter to a Member of Parliament, dated Cambridge, 8 November 1716, 3 pages.

See also Ehrenpreis, II, Appendix E, 773-4. John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(13).

Copy text in Prose Writings.

[Notes on Scottish and Irish idioms] First pub. in George P. Mayhew, 'Swift's Games with Language in Rylands English MS 659', BJRL, 36 (1954), 418-24.

Pierpont Morgan. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to their Parents or Country First pub. Dublin, 1729; Prose Writings, XII, 107.

SwJ 450 Autograph, the Irish idioms headed 'Quilca lingua', and endorsed 'Scotch' and 'Prae fora Pierio Theba au mona livedo', 3 pages.

SwJ 446 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The Third Volume (1732). Rothschild, no. 1422.

See also J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 381-2.

Trinity College Cambridge.

John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(12).

[Notes on American Indians] First pub. in J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 372-3.

[Notes on Suetonius] First pub. in J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 386-8.

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SwJ 451 Autograph, 5 pages.

On the Bill for the Clergy's Residing on their Livings First pub. in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse. By J. Swift (1789); Prose Writings, XII, 179.

John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(16). [Notes on Tacitus] First pub. in J.L. Clifford and Irwin Ehrenpreis, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS 659 and Related Documents', BJRL, 37 (1955), 385.

SwJ 457 Autograph fair copy, with corrections, some possibly in the hand of a later editor, and with an unfinished draft letter from Swift to Mrs Fenton?, Dublin, 28 December 1731, on the verso of the last leaf, 8 pages.

SwJ 452 Autograph notes on the Annales, Historia, Germania, and Agricola, 2 pages.

Copy text in Prose Writings; Correspondence, 111,511.

John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(15).

King's College Cambridge. Observations on the Pr[ivy] Councill in Ireland No publication traced.

On the Death of Mrs Johnson First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 255; Prose Writings, V, 227.

SwJ 453 Autograph, list of Whig members of the Irish Privy Council with remarks, headed 'W—g Privy Councellrs.', on a bifolium endorsed 'Observations on the Pr Councell in Ireland. Decb. 19. 1713', 2 pages.

SwJ 458 Autograph? Anderson Galleries, 22-4 March 1915 (Adrian H. Joline Sale, Part IV), Lot 517.

British Library, Add. MS 70267, Miscellanea No. 48.

Polite Conversation First pub. as A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, by Simon Wagstaff (London, 1738); Prose Writings, IV, 97.

Of Mean and Great Figures made by several Persons First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII.2, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 241; Prose Writings, V, 83.

SwJ 459 Autograph notes of collected phrases, together with Anglo-Latin jottings on pages from a pocket notebook, one page.

SwJ 454 Autograph, revised, endorsed by Swift? 'Great & small figures', 4 pages.

Printed in 'Notes for Polite Conversation' in Prose Writings, IV, Appendix G, 276-7; discussed in George P. Mayhew 'Swift's AngloLatin Games and a Fragment of Polite Conversation in Manuscript', HLQ, 17 (19534), 133-59; also in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, pp. 131-55, with facsimile facing p. 34.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 537 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 21). SwJ 455 Autograph fair copy, with additions, endorsed by Swift? 'Of Mean and great Figures made by Severall Persons', 4 pages. Copy text in Prose Writings.

Huntington, HM 14341, f. 2v.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 538 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 22).

SwJ 460 Autograph notes of collected phrases, among Anglo-Latin jottings.

Of Publick Absurdityes in England First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 117; Prose Writings, V, 79.

Printed in 'Notes for Polite Conversation' in Prose Writings, IV, Appendix G, 276-7. Huntington, HM 14338.

SwJ 456 Autograph draft, endorsed twice by Swift? 'Absurdityes in Engld', 7 pages.

SwJ 461 Autograph notes of collected phrases, among Anglo-Latin jottings.

Copy text in Prose Writings.

Printed in 'Notes for Polite Conversation' in Prose Writings, IV, Appendix G, 276-7.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 534 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 20).

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Proposal for Virtue First pub. in Henry Craik, The Life of Jonathan Swift (London, 1884), p. 424; Prose Writings, XIV, 14.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 530, pp. 13, 37, 48, 60, 103, 158, 164 (Pressmark F.48.D.36). Predictions for the Year 1708 First pub., under the pseudonym 'Isaac Bickerstaff, 1708; Prose Writings, II, 139.

SwJ 467 Autograph, heads for an essay, 2 pages. Written on the versos of a bifolium with Swift's first will, 1727; described in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, p. 164.

SwJ 462 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727).

Huntington, HM 14346, pp. 1-2.

Rothschild, no. 1422. Puns and Jokes First pub. 1911 in Ball, II, Appendix I, 407; Prose Writings, IV, Appendix A, 259.

Trinity College Cambridge. Prefermts of Ireland First pub. in George P. Mayhew, 'Jonathan Swift's "Prefermts of Ireland, 1713-14'", HLQ, 30 (1967), 297305.

SwJ 468 Autograph, in a MS volume entitled 'Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift', 2 pages. Pierpont Morgan, MA 653.

SwJ 463 Autograph, list of proposed preferments and promotions in the Church of Ireland, dated '1713-14', one page.

[Puns on the letters of the Greek alphabet] No publication of the whole traced; pub. in part in G.P. Mayhew, 'Swift's Games with Language in Rylands English MS 659', BJRL, 36 (1954), 413-5.

Described in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, p. 163. Huntington, HM 27943.

SwJ 469 Autograph, conjugate leaf endorsed 'Guinea Greek Letters', one page.

A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners First pub. 1709; Prose Writings, II, 41.

John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 659(7).

SwJ 464 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727).

[Riddles] No publication of the whole traced; mentioned in Ellen Douglass Leyburn, 'Swift's Language Trifles', HLQ, 15 (1951-52), 195-200.

Rothschild, no. 1422. Trinity College Cambridge. A Proposal for Correcting, Improving Ascertaining the English Tongue First pub. 1712; Prose Writings, IV, 1.

SwJ 470 Autograph, prose riddles beginning 'Oyster like Spleen', 4 pages.

and

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 535 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 24).

SwJ 465 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727).

The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with Respect to Religion and Government First pub. in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1711), p. 95; Prose Writings, II, 1.

Rothschild, no. 1422. Trinity College Cambridge. SwJ 466 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here untitled, 47 pages.

SwJ 471 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727).

Apparently transcribed from the MS sent by Swift to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, 1712.

Rothschild, no. 1422.

British Library, MS Harley 6386.

Trinity College Cambridge.

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JONATHAN SWIFT Prose Sermon: On Brotherly Love Preached by Swift at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1 December 1717; first pub. as Brotherly Love (London and Dublin, 1754); Prose Writings, IX, 169.

Storyes for Shern No publication traced; mentioned in Mayhew, Rage or Raillery, p. 138n. SwJ 475 Autograph, cancelled, in English among Latino-Anglicus jottings.

SwJ472 Autograph, here entitled 'Brotherly Love', dated 24 and 29 November 1717, 20 pages; bound with SwJ 407. Dublin Exhibition, no. 87; discussed in Herbert Davis, 'The Manuscript of Swift's Sermon on Brotherly Love', in Pope and His Contemporaries: Essays Presented to George Sherburn, ed. James L. Clifford and Louis A. Landa (Oxford, 1949), pp. 147-58; facsimile in Treasures of the Library, Trinity College, Dublin, ed. Peter Fox (Dublin, 1986), p. 135.

Huntington, HM 14341, [p. 2 reversed]. Thoughts on Various Subjects First pub., as 'Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting. Written October the 1st 1706', in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1711), p. 235; Prose Writings, IV, 241. SwJ 476 Transcript in an unidentified hand, extracts only, in a notebook among the papers of the Blount family. Mapledurham House, Box C.56.

Trinity College Dublin, MS 1050.

To My Lord High Admirall. The Humble Petition of the Doctor, and the Gentlemen of Ireland First pub. 1910 in Ball, I, 380; Prose Writings, IV, Appendix A, 261-2.

Some Considerations upon the Consequences hoped and feared from the Death of the Queen First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 84; Prose Writings, VIII, 99.

SwJ 477 Transcript in an unidentified hand?, in a MS volume entitled 'Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift'.

SwJ 473 Autograph fair copy, revised, here endorsed on p. [4] 'Memoirs' and 'On the hopes & fears by the Queen's Death', 4 pages.

Copy text in Prose Writings. Pierpont Morgan, MA 563.

Copy text in Prose Writings, with facsimile of the first page facing 101.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, listed as 'Gulliver's Travels'.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 515 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 3).

A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind First pub. in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1711), p. 247; Prose Writings, I, 246.

Some free Thoughts upon the present State of Affairs First pub. Dublin, 1741; Prose Writings, VIII, 73.

SwJ 478 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727).

SwJ 474 Transcript in an unidentified hand, with autograph revisions, here entitled 'Some Free Thoughts &c, May 1714', with an autograph memorandum on the first page, 'This is the Original Manuscript left in Possession of Mrs Martha Whiteway Corrected by me Jonath: Swift. Jun. 15th. 1737— seven. I send a Fair Copy of this, to be printed in England. Jonath: Swift'.

Rothschild, no. 1422. Trinity College Cambridge. Upon Giving Badges to the Poor First pub. in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 220; Prose Writings, XII, Appendix C, 173. SwJ 479 Autograph, with additions, dated 'DeanryHouse, Sept. 26, 1726', and endorsed 'Badges to the Poor', 6 pages.

Rothschild, no. 2263; copy text in Prose Writings, with facsimiles of title-page and first page between pp. xxiv-v.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 518 (Pressmark F.48.G.6/2, Item 6).

Trinity College Cambridge.

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Learning', and also a note in a nineteenthcentury hand 'See Sr. Wm. Temple's Works [1770] Vol. 3. p. 471. This MS is in the Handwriting of Dr. Jonn. Swift', 16 pages.

Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting, listed as Thoughts on Various Subjects'. A Vindication of His Excellency John, Lord Carteret First pub. as A Vindication of his Ex—y the Lord C— (Dublin, 1730); Prose Writings, XII, 149.

Longe Sale, Lot 1070, with a facsimile on p. 101; Rothschild, no. 2253; discussed in Elias, Swift at Moor Park, Appendix D, pp. 325-8; for the MS of Temple's later autograph drafts of this essay, with emendations and additions once erroneously thought to be in the hand of Swift, see Introduction.

SwJ 480 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The Third Volume (1732). Rothschild, no. 1422. Trinity College Cambridge.

Trinity College Cambridge.

A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; against What is objected to him by Mr Partrige, in his Almanack for the present Year 1709 First pub., under the pseudonym 'Isaac Bickerstaff, 1709; Prose Writings, II, 157.

Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, Bart. First pub. 1700; Preface only in Prose Writings, I, 255.

SwJ 481 Autograph corrections in Swift's copy of Miscellanies. The First Volume (1727).

SwJ 484 Autograph fair copy, cancelled, of two paragraphs of the The Publisher's Epistle to the Reader' omitted from the published text, 2 pages.

Rothschild, no. 1422.

Longe Sale, Lot 1071; Rothschild, no. 2254; Cambridge Exhibition, no. 75; printed in Prose Writings, I, xix.

Trinity College Cambridge. When I come to be old First pub. as 'Resolutions when I come to be old' in Works, Quarto, VIII. 1, ed. Deane Swift (1765), 240; Prose Writings, I, xxxvii.

Trinity College Cambridge. SwJ 485 Volume of transcripts of Sir William Temple's letters, in the hand of Thomas Downton, four unidentified hands, and in the hands of Esther Johnson and Swift, with a list of contents headed The Order of the Letters in this Volume' in Swift's autograph, inscribed in the hand of Lord Chesterfield The Letters in the following Collection marked with a cross are the Handwriting of Dr. Swift', 326 pages.

SwJ 482 Autograph, revised, endorsed 'Resolutions &c. 1699', one page. Facsimiles in John Forster, The Life of Jonathan Swift (London, 1875), I, 104; also in Prose Writings, I, facing xxvii. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 504 (Pressmark F.48.E.4/3).

Lot 634 in 1745 Sale, bought by Lord Chesterfield; Rothschild, no. 2255; described in Elias, Swift at Moor Park, Appendix A, pp. 311 -13.

WORKS EDITED BY SWIFT

Trinity College Cambridge.

A Defence of the Essay of Ancient and Modern Learning First pub. in Sir William Temple, Miscellanea, Part HI (London, 1701).

DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS Account From Novrbr. 1st. 1702 to Novbr. 1st. 1703 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 1.

SwJ 483 Transcript in the hand of Swift, here headed 'Hints Written at the Desire of Dr. F. and of His Friend', sections 1 and 5-6 only, with a note in a contemporary scribal hand headed 'Fragment upon ye Subject of Ant. & Mod.

SwJ 486 Autograph, 32 pages. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 505 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/1).

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Account Of Expences From Novbr. 1st. 1703 to Novbr. 1st. 1704 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 35.

Account Of Expences from Novbr. 1st 1732 to Novbr. 1st 1733 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 207.

SwJ 487 Autograph, 22 pages.

SwJ 493 Autograph, 32 pages.

Rothschild, no. 2258.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 511 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/7).

Trinity College Cambridge. Account: Of Expences From Novrbr. 1. 1708 to Novbr. 1.1709 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 59.

Account of Expences from Novr. 1st 1734 to Novr. 1st 1735 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 241.

SwJ 488 Autograph, 35 pages.

SwJ 494 Autograph, 48 pages; bound with SwJ 108. Royal Irish Academy, MS 24.C.31.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 506 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/2).

[Holyhead Journal] First pub. in John Churton Collins, 'An Unpublished Diary, written by Dean Swift', Gentleman's Magazine, June 1882, pp. 731-43; omitting verse, in Prose Writings, V, 201, and Appendix B, 334.

Account Of Expences From Novrbr. 1. 1709 to Novbr. 1.1710 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 95. SwJ 489 Autograph, 20 pages.

SwJ 495 Autograph notebook containing verses and a diary for 22-9 September 1727; inscribed by Swift This Book I stole from the Honrble George Dodington Esqr. June 1727. But the scribblings are all my own', 25 pages.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 507 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/3). Account Of Expences From Novbr. 1. 1711 to Novbr. 1.1712 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 115.

See Introduction; contains SwJ 160, 166, 200, 277, 375; copy text in Prose Writings, with facsimile of the first leaf in Appendix B, facing 334.

SwJ 490 Autograph, 25 pages. Contains SwJ 398; list of letters from this notebook is printed as Appendix I in Correspondence, V, 220-1.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 519 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/10).

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 508 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/4).

SwJ 496 Autograph memoranda, on a leaf apparently detached from SwJ 495 above, 2 pages.

Account From Novbr. 1.1712 to Novbr. 1.1713 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 141.

Printed in Prose Writings, V, Appendix B, 3356; discussed in George P. Mayhew 'A Missing Leaf from Swift's "Holyhead Journal'", BJRL, 41 (1959), 388-413.

SwJ 491 Autograph, 26 pages.

British Library, MS Egerton 201, f. 1.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 509 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/5).

Journal to Stella, see Introduction. Account Of Expences from Novbr. 1st 1717 to Novbr. 1st 1718 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 167.

Latin Angl et Familia de Ling et Angl. Angl No publication of the whole traced; quoted in Ellen Douglass Leyburn, 'Swift's Language Trifles', HLQ, 15 (1951-2), 195-200.

SwJ 492 Autograph, 38 pages.

SwJ 497 Autograph, containing Latino-Anglicus and Anglo-Angli prose, some written on versos of

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 510 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/6).

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See Introduction.

letters sent to Swift, notes on Irish words, some accounts, 119 pages including title-page.

British Library, Add. MS 70267, Misc. 41(u).

See Introduction; contains SwJ 36, 115, 194, 389,393-5,410,430,461.

SwJ 502 Anonymous, memorandum addressed to Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, advising him to amend the terms of the Regency Act, with an autograph endorsement by Swift, three pages.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 530 (Pressmark F.48.D.36). Money payd out of the weekly Collections of the Cathedrall of St Patrick's From Febry. llth to 18 1738-9 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 289.

See Introduction. British Library, Add. MS 70267, Misc. 41(y).

SwJ 498 Autograph, cathedral and charity-money, 17 pages.

SwJ 503 Antiquae musicae auctores septem Graece et Latine notis, M. Meibomius restituit ac notis explicavit (Amsterdam, 1652).

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 513 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/9).

Lot 223 in 1745 Sale, bought by Bishop Edward Synge; LeFanu 411; annotations published in Prose Writings, XIV, 45.

The State of the Weekly Collections of St Patrick's Church Reed by ye Dean from 1730 to April 1742 First pub. 1984 in Account Books, p. 307.

Cornell University. SwJ 504 Baronius, Caesar, Annales ecclesiastici auctore Ccesare Baronio, Nouissima editio, postremum ab auctore aucta et recognita, 12 vols (Antwerp, 1612).

SwJ 499 Autograph, with the heading in the hand of Dr John Lyon, personal and cathedral accounts, 8 pages. Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 512 (Pressmark F.48.D.34/8).

Autograph annotations in Vols I and IV-VI; Lot 606 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 72; microfilm in the Bodleian; annotations published in Prose Writings, XIV, 16.

[Word-Book] No publication of the whole traced; facsimile in Sotheby's Catalogue, 22 June 1976, between pp. 130-1.

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

SwJ 500 Mainly in the hand of Esther Johnson, with autograph additions and corrections, alphabetical lists of words and their definitions, inscribed in Swift's autograph, 'This is all in our late friends own hand', 76 pages.

SwJ 505 Bible, English, The Bible, That is, the Holy Scriptures (London, 1600). Autograph annotations on the flyleaf, two Latin memoranda and a eulogy of Sir William Temple dated 27 January 1699, latter cancelled; annotations published in Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken, '"A Pretty Mixture": Books from Swift's Library at Abbotsford House', BJRL, 67 (1984-5), 52243; discussed in Elias, Swift at Moor Park, pp. 101, 108.

Described by Harold Williams, letter to TLS, 5 June 1930; mentioned in A.C. Elias, 'Stella's Writing Master', The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 134-9. Sotheby's, 22 June 1976, Lot 252. MARGINALIA IN PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Abbotsford. SwJ 506 Bodin, Jean, Les Six Liures de la Republique de I. Bodin Angeuin (Paris, 1576).

SwJ 501 Anonymous, memorandum addressed to Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, advising him to seek the support of the moderate Whigs, with an autograph endorsement by Swift, one page.

Autograph note pasted on to inside front cover, and pencil markings throughout; Lot 591 in 1745 Sale; Sotheby's, 6 December 1929, Lot

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657; LeFanu 85; annotations printed in Prose Writings, V, 244-7; discussed in Harold Williams, Dean Swift's Library (Cambridge, 1932), pp. 51-2.

SwJ 511 Davila, Enrico Caterino, The Historic of the Civill Warres of France, translated out of the original [by William Aylesbury and Sir Charles Cotterell] (London, 1647).

Yale, Ik.Sw55.+Zz576.

Lot 594 in 1745 Sale; mentioned in George P. Mayhew, 'Jonathan Swift's "On the burning of Whitehall in 1697" Re-examined', HLB, 19 (1971), 399-411 [404n]; annotations published in Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken, '"A Pretty Mixture": Books from Swift's Library at Abbotsford House', BJRL, 67 (1984-5), 522-43.

SwJ 507 Browne, Sir John, An Essay on Trade in General; and, on That of Ireland in Particular (Dublin, 1728); bound with Seasonable Remarks on Trade. With Some Reflections on the Advantages That Might Accrue to Great Britain, by a Proper Regulation of the Trade of Ireland (Dublin, 1728).

Abbotsford.

Lot 296 in 1745 Sale; Sotheby's, 15 December 1920, Lot 208, sold to Maggs; annotations printed in Prose Writings, V, 256-7.

SwJ 512 Doleman, R. (pseud. Robert Parsons), A Conference About the Next Succession to the Crown of England ([London], 1681).

Cambridge University Library, Williams.538.

Lot 419 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 366; Rothschild, no. 2316; annotations printed in Prose Writings, V, 241-3.

SwJ 508 Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop Burners History of His Own Time, 2 vols (London, 1724-34).

Trinity College Cambridge.

Autograph annotations in Vols I-II, printed in Prose Writings, V, 266-94; see also Emily H. Patterson, 'Swift's Marginalia in Burnet's History of His Own Time', Enlightenment Essays, 3 (1972), 47-54.

SwJ 513 Gellius, Aulus, A. Gelii Noctium Atticorum libri XX. prout supersunt quos ad libros MSStos novo labore exegerunt, perpetuis notis illustraverunt J.F. et J. Gronovii (Leyden, 1706). Lot 215 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 132.

Owned (1995) by the Earl of Shelburne.

Victoria and Collection.

SwJ 509 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, 3 vols (Oxford, 1707).

Albert

Museum,

Forster

SwJ 514 Gibbs, James, The First Fifteen Psalms of David Translated into Lyric Verse (London, 1701), transcript in the hand of Neale Molloy of the text, of Swift's annotations, and of later annotations by William Dunkin, with a note that this was made from a previous transcript of the original by Nicholas Coyne.

Lots 238-40 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 84; Dublin Exhibition, no. 80; annotations printed in Prose Writings, V, 295-320. Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin.

Lot 340 in 1745 Sale; Sotheby's, 24 May 1825 (Jane Boswell Sale), Lot 3197; described and quoted in Ellen Douglass Leyburn, 'Swift's Language Trifles', HLQ, 15 (1951-2), 195-200.

SwJ 510 Comines, Philippe de, Seigneur d'Argenton, The Historic of Philip de Commines, translated from the French by Thomas Dannett (London, 1614).

Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 529 (Pressmark F.48.D.35).

Autograph annotation and pencil markings; Lot 365 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 97; Rothschild, no. 2309; annotation printed in Prose Writings, V, xxxi.

SwJ 515 Giffard, Martha, Lady, her MS translation of Jorge de Montemayor's Diana, with Swift's autograph corrections.

Trinity College Cambridge.

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adornata opera & studio lungermani (Geneva, 1618).

For Swift's transcript of this MS, Rothschild no. 2251, Trinity College Cambridge, see Introduction.

Gothofredi

Autograph note in Latin facing title-page, signed and dated 6 July 1720, with a note by George Faulkner authenticating Swift's hand; Lot 92 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 1; annotation printed with translation and facsimile in Prose Writings, V, 243, corrected in David Harvey, 'Jonathan Swift on Herodotus', N & Q, n.s., 36(1989), 50-1.

Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 7788, Box 3. SwJ516 Grotius, Hugo, De veritate religionis christianae, Editio novissima, in qua ejusdem annotationes suis quaeque paragraphis ad faciliorem usum subjects sunt (Amsterdam, 1699). Inscribed on title-page 'Dan Jackson ex dono Ion. Swift', with Swift's autograph annotation on p. 376, and on last page 'lect. Sept. 6 1706. J.S.'; Lot 322 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 253; described in C.L. McKelvie, 'Some Books from Swift's Library', Hermathena, 120 (1976), 30-4.

Winchester College. SwJ 520 Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, Q. Horatii Flacci Opera, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita. Accesserunt variae lectiones, quae in libris MSS. et eruditorum commentariis occurunt [ed. J. Talbot] (Cambridge, 1699).

Armagh Public Library.

Lot 336 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 120; annotations described and published in E.J.W. McCann, 'Jonathan Swift's Library', BC, 34 (1985), 323-41.

SwJ 517 Herbert, Edward, Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reigne of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1649).

Privately owned (1985).

Lot 366 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 99; described in Some Unpublished Marginalia of Jonathan Swift (Privately printed, Cambridge, 1945); annotations printed in Prose Writings, V, 24751.

SwJ 521 Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, Q. Horatii Flacci Opera, [ed. Michel Mattaire] (London, 1715). Victoria and Albert Museum.

Rothschild, no. 2313

SwJ 522 Howells, William, Medulla Historic Anglicanat: The Ancient and Present State of England, 9th ed. (1734).

Trinity College Cambridge. SwJ 518 Herbert, Thomas, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia Especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchic, and Some Parts of the Orientall Indies, of Their Religion, Language, Habit and Other Matters Concerning Them (London, 1634).

Presented by Swift to Mary Harrison, 29 May 1736; annotations printed in Prose Writings, V, 262; also in Francis Manley, 'Swift's Marginalia in Howells's Medulla Historiae Anglicanae', PMLA, 73 (1958), 335-8.

Autograph note facing title-page, and some pencil markings; Lot 378 in 1745 Sale; annotation printed in Prose Writings, V, 243.

SwJ 523 Hughes, John, Poems on Several Occasions, 2 vols (London, 1735), Vol. II only.

Johns Hopkins University.

Lot 324 in 1745 Sale; sold at Sotheby's, 16 July 1929 (W.G. Panter Sale); annotations pub. in Harold Williams, Dean Swift's Library, p. 59.

Harvard. SwJ 519 Herodotus,

Clark Library, Los Angeles. Herodotus Halicarnassei historiarum libri IX. Eiusdem narratio de vita Homeri. Cum Valla interpret, latina historiarum Herodoti, ab Henri. Stephano recognita. Editio

SwJ 524 Justinus, M. Juniani Justini historia ex Trogo Pompeio, recensuit et emendationes addidit Tanaquill Faber. Editio nova (Saumur, 1671).

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Lot 28 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 460; Rothschild, no. 2314.

Swift's marginalia, with a note in the hand of Philip Carteret Webb 'The Notes are the Genuine Work of Dean Swift, and were Copyed from his Original, in the Dean's own Writing by John Putland Surgeon his near Relation from whom I had this Book'.

Trinity College Cambridge. SwJ 525 La Rochefoucauld, Fran9ois, due de, and La Chatre, Edme de, comte de Nan$ay, Memoires de la minorite de Louis XIV (Villefranche, 1690).

Transcribed from SwJ 529 preceding; marginalia from SwJ 530 printed in A Supplement to Dr. Swift's Works, ed. John Nichols, 3 vols (1779), 1,429, 462.

Lot 3 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 297. Queen's University Belfast.

Formerly Royal Institution of Great Britain; Paul Grinke, Catalogue 10 (1974), item 161.

SwJ 526 Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus, L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Divinarum institutionum libri septem. Eiusdem De ira Dei liber I. De opificio Dei liber I. Epitome in libros suos, liber acephalos. Carmen de Dominica resurrectione. Carmen de passione Christi (Cologne, 1544).

SwJ 531 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), transcript of Swift's marginalia in the hand of Henry Weymouth, inscribed The Original book, in which they were written with the Dean's own hand, was formerly in the hands of Mr John Putland Surgeon, his near relation; by him they were transcribed into another copy for Mr Astle Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and from that copy I transcribed them here HW'.

Autograph? markings with an inscription recording the gift of the volume from Edward Pearce, 1730; Lot 620 in 1745 Sale; sold at Sotheby's, 23 June 1988, Lot 101, to Maggs. Simon Finch, Catalogue 8 (1992).

Cambridge University Library, Williams.463. SwJ 527 Laud, William, A Relation of the Conference Between William Lawd and Mr. Fisher, the Jesuite, with an Answer to Such Exceptions as A.C. Takes against It (London, 1639).

SwJ 532 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), with transcript of Swift's marginalia in the hand of Isaac Reed. Derives from Putland's transcript, SwJ 530 above.

Lot 377 in 1745 Sale; LeFanu 407. Privately owned (1988).

British Library, Department of Printed Books, G. 15289.

SwJ 528 Lucretius Carus, Titus, De rerum natura (Amsterdam, 1631).

SwJ 533 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), with transcript of Swift's marginalia in the hand of Joseph Ritson.

Autograph? pencil markings; mentioned in Prose Writings, V, xxxi. Pierpont Morgan.

Transcribed from Reed's copy, SwJ 532 preceding.

SwJ 529 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733).

Victoria and Collection.

Autograph marginalia in a copy with John Putland's bookplate; annotations from SwJ 529 printed in Prose Writings, V, 257-62.

Albert

Museum,

Forster

SwJ 534 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), with transcript in the hand of Lord Newport of Swift's marginalia, inscribed 'The MSS notes were copied from the original under Dean Swift's hand, with which I am well acquainted. Newport',

Harvard, EC7.Sw551.Zz.733m. SwJ 530 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), with transcript in the hand of John Putland, in pencil, of

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and with a note in the hand of Lady Betty Germaine 'This book with the abominable lying account said to be by Dean Swift was sent to me when he dyed. E.G.'.

Lot 420 in 1745 Sale; annotations first pub. in Joanna Richardson 'Some Dilke Papers', TLS, 29 August 1952, p. 565; and in Prose Writings, XIV, 38, 46.

Discussed in W.F. Trench and K.B. Garett, 'On Swift's Marginalia in Copies of Macky's Memoirs', The Library, 4th Sen, 19 (1938), 354-62.

Unlocated(1995).

Owned (1897) by Rev A. Clark Kennedy.

SwJ 541 Puckle, James, The Club', or, a Dialogue Between Father and Son (1713).

SwJ 535 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), transcript of Swift's marginalia and inscriptions from SwJ 534 preceding into this copy for James Henthorn Todd c. 1841.

Autograph? pencil markings; mentioned in Prose Writings, V, xxxiin. Harvard.

Discussed in W.F. Trench and K.B. Garett, 'On Swift's Marginalia in Copies of Macky's Memoirs', The Library, 4th Sen, 19 (1938), 354-62.

SwJ 542 Satyre Menipee de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne. Et de la tenue des Estats a Paris [by P. Le Roy, etc.] ([Paris?], 1612).

Trinity College Dublin, Department of Early Printed Books, RR.gg.31.

Lot 111 in 1745 Sale. Yale.

SwJ 536 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), with transcript in the hand of Parsons Sterling of Swift's marginalia.

SwJ 543 Vergilius Maro, Publius, P.V.M. Poemata, H. Stephani scholiis illustrata. Tertia editio ([Geneva], 1599).

Owned (1938) by W.F. Trench.

Notes, autograph and in the hand of Deane Swift, on the front end-paper on the history of the volume, also annotations by a previous owner; Lot 24 in 1745 Sale; annotations printed in 'A Book from Swift's Library', Bodleian Library Record, 3 (1957), 180-1.

SwJ 537 Macky, John, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky Esq. (1733), with transcript of Swift's marginalia in the hand of Thomas Birch, dated 1753. British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.115.n.45.

Bodleian, Douce coll. (V.63).

SwJ 538 Philostratus, Philostrati Lemnii Opera qua? exstant, F. Morellus cum MSS. contulit, recensuit, et hactenus nondum Latinitate donata vertit (Paris, 1608).

SwJ 544 Wycherley, William, The Plain Dealer (London, 1700); bound with copies of Wycherley's Love in a Wood (London, 1694), The Gentleman Dancing-Master (London, 1702), The Country Wife (London, 1709).

Lot 83 in 1745 Sale; Le Fanu 25; annotations printed in Scott, I, 260n, from a transcript by Theophilus Swift.

Lot 519 in 1745 Sale.

Autograph annotations, and a signed presentation inscription to Swift in the hand of William Wycherley; Lot 347 in 1745 Sale; described, and inscription and selected annotations published in George P. Mayhew, "A Missing Leaf from Swift's "Holyhead Journal'", BJRL, 41 (1959), 388-413 [403n].

Berg.

Huntington, RB 121977.

Unlocated(1995). SwJ 539 Pope, Alexander, Works (London, 1735), Vol. II only.

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Cranstone', probably Thomson's friend the Rev John Cranstoun of Ancrum. Other names, possibly in Thomson's hand, appear throughout the volume: 'Betty Gaston daughter to David Gastion Merchantt in Kelso', p. 9; 'Christian Gastion', p. 26; 'John Johnston', p. 26. Only two of the poems were published during Thomson's lifetime. In one of the important discussions of the MS, Alan D. McKillop, 'Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23, concludes that the contents were probably composed 1716-19 and the MS itself written out c. 1720. McKillop noted that it begins as fair copy but that 'later pages are less carefully written and show more revisions and deletions'. Some leaves are torn or nibbled by vermin, so that the text of several poems is imperfect.

The reference editions for Thomson's poetry are the twin volumes edited by James Sambrook, The Seasons (Oxford, 1981) and Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems (Oxford, 1986). Together these mark a considerable advance on the previous standard edition, Poetical Works, edited by J. Logic Robertson (Oxford, 1908), which although it provided a critical edition of The Seasons, did so in a modern-spelling text, and omitted several of Thomson's juvenilia in spite of there being no real grounds for questioning their authenticity. Professor Sambrook's second volume not only includes poems discovered since 1908, in particular it frequently uses MS as copy text for Thomson's juvenile and other shorter poems. For the dramatic works, references are provided to The Plays of James Thomson, 1700-48: A Critical Edition, edited by John C. Greene, 2 vols (New York and London, 1987).

The provenance of the MS is slightly uncertain. A young London bookseller, William Goodhugh, announced that he had acquired the MS in the Gentleman's Magazine, April 1818, p. 386, and also in the Monthly Magazine, 46 (1818), 256. When Goodhugh published one of the poems in The Observer, 19 September 1818, and his associate J. Brown two more in the Literary Gazette, 3 October 1818, pp. 629-30, they stated that the MS had been given to Lord George Graham either by Thomson or by his fellow-poet and fellow-Scot David Mallet. It had then passed to Lord George's son, grandson, and finally his great niece, Miss Graham, who had given it to Goodhugh. Similar accounts are given in Goodhugh's The English Gentleman's Library Manual (London, 1827), p. 288, and in a letter from Brown to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan, 30 September 1818. Brown's three letters to Lord Buchan, whose patronage as a noted authority on Thomson he was seeking for a projected new

'Juvenile Poems' The earliest, and one of the most important, of Thomson's autograph MSS is the volume of juvenilia at the Newberry Library, Chicago. The MS itself has been missing since 1970, but fortunately the Newberry Library still possesses a photocopy. The volume consists of 26 leaves, bound in morocco. The first leaf is a titlepage written in an unidentified hand, 'Juvenile Poems wrote by James Thomson Author of the Seasons at the Age of ![?] Years'. The subsequent pages are numbered in Thomson's hand, excepting p. 28; two leaves forming pp. 42-5 have been excised. The text is written on both sides of each leaf, and the volume contains 27 poems and the concluding eight lines of a poem which began on one of the missing leaves. One heading on p. 1, 'Miscelany Poems', and an index on p. 55 are both in Thomson's hand. The latter page is also signed by 'John

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JAMES THOMSON edition of the poetry, are now bound with the MS. McKillop remarks that this account is open to question in so far as Lord George Graham died unmarried; but that he and his brother William, later Duke of Montrose, were indeed Mallet's pupils in the years 1723-31. Sambrook (1986), p. 255, considers the account in Lord Buchan's own letter to Brown, 26 January 1819, Edinburgh University Library, MS Gen. 1429/26, more dependable. Buchan states that he had seen the MS in Mallet's possession some 55 years previously, and surmises that it had passed to the heir of Lord George Graham. Sambrook concludes that Buchan probably saw the MS about a year before Mallet's death in 1765, and it was then that it came to be owned by one of the Grahams. As to its later history, Goodhugh subsequently sold the MS to the bookseller Henry Colburn, who presented it to the collector William Upcott; it was later owned by Sir John Dashwood King, and was finally received by the Newberry Library, Chicago, in 1890 as part of Henry Probasco's collection.

p. 15, A Poetical Epistle to Sir William Bennet of Grubbat Baronet p. 16, Upon May Upon the Hoop p. 17, A Hymn to God's power p. 19, A Pastoral betwixt Damon and Celia parting p. 21, The morning in the country p. 22, A Pastoral betwixt Thirsis and Corydon upon the death of Damon by whom is — mr: william riddell p. 24, A Description of ten a-clock of night in the town p. 25, The fable of a sick Kite and it's Dame p. 26, Upon Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet [p. 28], A Pastoral Entertainment described

None of the early nineteenth-century printings of the poems are textually satisfactory, whether through incompleteness, inaccuracy, or editorial interpolation. Between them Goodhugh and Brown had printed eight of the poems. Five of these were reprinted together with nine previously unpublished poems in the original Aldine edition of The Poetical Works of James Thomson, with a Memoir of Thomson by Sir Harris Nicholas, 2 vols (London, 1830); this can be said to give better texts in so far as it shares the same deficiencies in a slightly lesser degree. Thus eleven poems remained to be published for the first time in H. Schmidt-Wartenberg, 'Das Newberry Manuskript von James Thomson's Jugendgedichten', Anglia, 23 (1901), 129-52. This article offered the first comprehensive scholarly account of the MS, and also corrected the texts of previously published poems against its readings.

p. 31, Upon happiness p. 39, An Elegy upon Parting p. 40, The Fable of a Hawk and Nightingale [p.42, [?The Dog and] a peice of flesh p. 43, [Upon a Flower give]n me by...] p. 46, Upon the Sparkler! p. 47, A Song p. 47, Song of Solomon chap: 1 ver: 7 p. 48, A Dialogue In praise of the pastoral Life p. 50, A Pastoral p. 52, An Elegy upon Ja[mes Therburn] In Chatto p. 55, Index

The actual order of the volume's contents is as follows:

The titles of the poems on the excised pp. 42-5 were reconstructed by Schmidt-Wartenberg on the basis of Thomson's Index, and have been accepted by subsequent scholars. The eight surviving lines of '[Fragment: Upon a Flower given me by —]', ThJ 11, are written at the top of p. 46.

p. 1, Upon Beauty p. 5, A Pastoral betwixt David and Thyrsis and The Angell Gabriel upon the birth of Our Saviour p. 7, One to his mistriss upon receiving a flower from her

'Juvenile Poems'

Psalm 104 Paraphrazed

Autograph, bound volume, here containing 27 poems and a fragment of another, with a title-page in an unidentified hand, 'Juvenile Poems wrote by James Thomson Author of the Seasons at the Age of 1Years', 26 leaves, several imperfect, 2 leaves excised.

p. 12, The yeilding Maid Upon Marle-fei[l]d p. 14, A complaint on the miseries of this life

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JAMES THOMSON parts of The Seasons published 1730-5 descend from the 1730 quarto, and that the octavo Seasons dated '1730' and the Works (1738) 'follow the pamphlets by separate lines of descent'. So far there had been few authorial changes to the text since 1730, but Thomson now made a thorough revision for the 1744 small octavo edition of The Seasons and Works (1744). Further authoritative revisions occur in the 1745 small octavo and 1746 duodecimo editions of The Seasons. Textual changes introduced in the posthumous editions which claim to incorporate Thomson's last improvements may surely be laid at the door of George, Baron Lyttelton, Thomson's friend and patron during his life, and executor on his death.

Contents: ThJ 4-11,14, 33, 43-7, 49-50, 78-9, 90-8. No publication of the whole traced; individual items collated or printed as copy texts in Goodhugh (1827), Nicholas (1830), Schmidt-Wartenberg, and Sambrook (1986), see individual entries for details; described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, in Alan D. McKillop, 'Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23, and in Sambrook (1986), pp. 224-8. Newberry Library, Chicago. There is a transcript of the contents of 'Juvenile Poems' in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598, with lacunae which show that when the transcription was made the MS was already torn and the two missing leaves had been excised. The Forster transcript does indeed supply words and phrases where the original is imperfect; but although he prints some of these readings in his apparatus, Professor Sambrook observes, 'in most, if not all, cases they must represent only the transcriber's conjectures' (p. 228). Adjacent memoranda in Forster MS 598 suggest that the transcript dates from the early nineteenth century, probably contemporaneous with the printing of the contents of 'Juvenile Poems' by Goodhugh and Brown. Given their late date and the probably unauthoritative nature of their readings, the transcripts in Forster MS 598 are not given entries here, although noted in the appropriate editorial paragraph.

Thomson's letters to his friends, especially those to David Mallet, when he was engaged in composing the early versions of The Seasons, show that he was in the habit of enclosing draft passages for their perusal. Two transcripts of a letter to John Cranstoun, October 1725, which quotes drafts of Winter, ThJ 54 and 55, can be found in the National Library of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh. It is only for the later recension of the text that autograph MS survives, an interleaved copy of Works (1738), I, with emendations mainly in Thomson's autograph, but also some in the hand of Lyttelton, ThJ 51. The volume is now in the British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.28.e.l7. It was at one time owned by the nineteenth-century scholar John Mitford, who first mentioned and quoted it in his 'Essay on the Poetry of Gray', The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols (London, 1816), I, xcv-xcvi. A much fuller selection of the revisions was later published in Mitford's Thomson's Seasons, and Their Various Readings', Gentleman s Magazine, December 1841, pp. 563-82. Mitford mistook Lyttelton's hand for that of Alexander Pope, but the correct identification was made by Peter Cunningham in The Athenaeum, 24 July 1847, p. 785.

The Seasons Thomson's masterpiece has a complicated textual history due to its being published in stages and subjected to protracted revision. For a full account the reader should consult the authoritative discussion in Sambrook (1981), pp. xxxiv-lxxix, because only the briefest summary can be offered here. Winter was first published in a folio edition in April 1726. A revised second edition in octavo followed in July the same year; the 'third' and 'fourth' editions of September 1726 and February 1727 appear to be press-variant titles, actually printed in the same pressrun as the second edition. A revised fifth edition was published in March 1728. Meanwhile Summer had been first published separately in octavo in February 1727; the second edition, advertised in late March 1728, is simply a reissue with a cancel title-page. Spring was advertised for June 1728, and reissued with a cancel-title dated 1729 as the second edition. The complete Seasons was published in 1730 as a subscription quarto; the text of 'Winter' especially was revised, some 70 lines being transferred to the new 'Autumn'. Professor Sambrook concludes that the various pamphlet editions of separate

The nature of the revisions are well described in the Introduction to Sambrook (1981), pp. Ixvi-lxviii, and in Robert Inglesfield, 'The British Library Revisions to Thomson's The Seasons', The Library, 6th Sen, 1 (1979), 62-9. It seems likely that Thomson's revisions were made when staying with Lyttelton at Hagley Hall from late August through September 1743. Thomson sometimes uses the interleaved pages for rough drafts of his revisions, but some longer passages must have been drafted elsewhere; also asterisks appear to mark where other revisions written on loose leaves should be incorporated. It is possible to discern different stages in the process, because some revisions are either cancelled, or

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derive from printed sources: a copy of Spring, second edition (London, 1731), bound with Summer, third edition (London, 1730), ThJ 57, at the British Library, Department of Printed Books; and a copy of the octavo Seasons (London, 1730), ThJ 58, at Edinburgh University Library. More interesting is the copy of Winter, folio first edition (London, 1726), ThJ 56, in the Dyce Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum; this has MS emendations on p. 9 which do not correspond with any printed text. None of these three copies, however, are collated in Sambrook (1981).

Comparison with the text that was published in 1744 shows that Thomson ignored some of Lyttelton's suggestions to transpose certain passages, and that although he accepted some of Lyttelton's rewriting it was with his own alteration. But it is also apparent that during the winter of 1743-4 Thomson must have decided on an even more thorough recension of the text than he had originally intended, because the revisions of ThJ 51 have themselves undergone major alterations; this stage must have been carried out elsewhere. Thomson very probably abandoned the interleaved volume as inadequate for the purpose, nor can it have served as printer's copy for the 1744 editions of The Seasons and Works.

Other Verse The same British Library copy of Works (1738), I, which Thomson used for his 1743 recension of The Seasons also contains revisions to the texts of 'Britannia', ThJ 1, and 'A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton', ThJ 48. As has been remarked previously this interleaved copy seems never to have been sent to the printer, and consequently the revisions were not incorporated into the texts of these two poems during Thomson's lifetime. A few revisions to each poem were, however, adopted in the posthumous Works (1762) published by Patrick Murdoch.

After Thomson's death, Lyttelton undertook to revise the poems for the Works (1750); of The Seasons, only 'Autumn' was affected, the most important change being the excision of lines 483-569, a burlesque description of a fox-hunt and the subsequent drinking-bout. Not content with this, Lyttelton evidently intended to make further 'improvements' to the text of The Seasons subsequent to this edition. A copy of Works (1752), I, interleaved and prepared for the press, with copious revisions and a prefatory note in Lyttelton's hand, could formerly be found at Hagley Hall. The date 'MDCC.LIF on the titlepage was altered by Lyttelton to 'MDCC.LVIIF, but the revisions do not in fact appear in the 1757 or 1758 printings. Thomson's Seasons, Critical Edition, edited by Otto Zippel, Palaestra 66 (Berlin, 1908), pp. xxii-xxxi, records some 350 changes to the 1752 text, affecting some 400 lines. Certain passages were to be omitted, including the entire 'Hymn on the Seasons', other passages transposed, and some interpolations apparently by Lyttelton himself added. The Hagley Hall Works (1752) seems to have been destroyed by fire in 1925, but there is still extant a copy of the one-volume Works (1768) into which Lyttelton's revisions have been transcribed by John Mitford, British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.134.C.1. Mitford published a selection of these revisions in the latter part of his Thomson's Seasons, and Their Various Readings', Gentleman's Magazine, December 1841, pp. 576-82, cited above.

The remaining MSS of Thomson's verse are best discussed in terms of their provenance. Some of these form part of the texts of letters. A letter from Thomson to David Mallet dated 10 July 1725, now in the collection of the publisher John Murray, contains a text of the 'Hymn on Solitude', ThJ 12; this version is some six lines shorter than that found in a transcript by Lady Hertford at Alnwick Castle, see ThJ 13 discussed below, or the text published in Ralph's Miscellany of 1729. Of Thomson's long poem, Liberty, there remains a passage of 23 lines, ThJ 15, in an autograph letter from Thomson to William Cranstoun, 20 October 1735, now at the Pierpont Morgan. In the letter the lines are described as 'designed at first to be prefixed to Liberty, but afterwards reduced to those you see stand there'. The first line of the passage, '—Be then the starting Tear', corresponds to line 14 of Liberty, Part 1, and clearly forms part of the tribute to the recently deceased Charles, Lord Talbot. There is a transcript of the letter, including the lines on Talbot, ThJ 16, in the hand of John Waldie, entered together with six other letters from Thomson to Cranstoun in Waldie's commonplace book commonplace book now in the Scottish Record Office. A further transcript by Waldie, which was sent to Lord Buchan at some date prior to 1804, can be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 599, but this has not been given an entry.

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The poems which Thomson wrote to Elizabeth Young, with whom he fell deeply in love when in his forties, are preserved with his autograph letters to her at the Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575. Four poems are written out separately for enclosure with letters: 'Song: ['Come, dear Eliza']', ThJ 60; the birthday poem, '[Lines: 'Hail to the Day']', ThJ 20; 'Song: ['Come, gentle Power']', ThJ 62; and 'Song: ['One Day the God']', ThJ 72. Other poems appear in the texts of the letters themselves: '[Lines: 'O thou! for whom']' in a letter of 23 October 1745, ThJ 25; '[Lines: 'Still as I gaz'd']' in a letter of 19 April 1743, ThJ 29. In the case of 'Song: ['How long, Eliza']', only line 9 is quoted in the letter of 26 May 1743, ThJ 70. The Pierpont Morgan MS of the letter to Miss Young of 10 March 1743, which contains '[Lines: 'Ah wise too late']', is the fair copy, ThJ 18. But Thomson's autograph draft of the letter and the poem are also extant, ThJ 17, formerly among the Dundas of Ochtertyre papers at the Scottish Record Office and auctioned at Sotheby's, 21 July and 14 December 1992, unsold on both occasions. The poem was first published in Buchan (1792), p. 279, and there is a transcript in Lord Buchan's hand, ThJ 19, among his letters at Edinburgh University Library, MS Gen. 1429/26. Buchan's transcript includes some substantive variants, notably 'urge' for 'wise' in the first line, which as Sambrook (1986), p. 432, remarks are probably errors. One variant, however, does not appear in the text as he published it, so the relationship between Buchan's transcript and his published text is not altogether clear. Also among the Thomson letters from the Dundas of Ochtertyre papers which were unsuccessfully auctioned at Sotheby's in 1992 is an autograph letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young's married sister, Mrs William Robertson, Christmas Day 1742; this contains the text of '[Song; 'O thou, whose tender serious Eyes']', ThJ 71, which although not directly addressed to Elizabeth Young, may have been intended to be seen by her. This poem too was first printed in Buchan (1792), p. 277.

Other Thomson MSS seem to have passed through Buchan's hands besides those at Edinburgh University Library. For example, the revised autograph MS of 'On his Mother's Death', ThJ 36, now in the Stark Collection at Texas, has Buchan's endorsement, dated 15 April 1802 from his seat at Dryburgh Abbey, which identifies the MS as 'first rough draft' and records Buchan's gift of it to Lady Anne Hamilton. Buchan seems to have owned another autograph MS of this poem, now missing. His letter to J. Brown, 26 January 1819, at Edinburgh University Library, MS Gen. 1429/36, mentions a MS of 'On his Mother's Death' among a list of those which he presented to Edinburgh University; and when the poem was printed in Goodhugh (1827) it was purportedly 'From the original, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Buchan, by whom it was presented, by the poet in a dedication copy of the quarto edition of the Seasons, to

The MSS of four poems are inserted into a copy of The Seasons (1730), presented, as from Thomson, by Andrew Millar to Buchan's father, and given by Buchan to Edinburgh University Library. These include: an autograph alternative version of Canto II, stanza xliii, of The Castle of Indolence, ThJ 2; two autograph versions of 'Song: ['For ever, Fortune']', ThJ 65 and ThJ 66, designated 'A' and 'B' respectively in Sambrook (1986), where the latter, being evidently the fair copy, is chosen as copy text; and a transcript of To Miss Young, my dearest Amanda', ThJ 84, here headed 'Lines sent by Thomson to his Amanda with a copy of the Seasons',

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'A Miscellany of Verse and Prose Begun March the 5, 1725/6', Alnwick MS 116. These include ThJ 13, a variant version of 'A Hymn to Solitude', pp. 92-3; ThJ 35, 'On a Lady's undertaking to tell a Gentleman what he thought on by feeling his Pulse', p. 228, attributed to Thomson in the index to the MS; ThJ 87, 'To Retirement: an Ode', pp. 229-30, here dated 'June 13th. 1735'; ThJ 39, 'On the Death of Mr. William Aikman, the Painter', pp. 184-5, apparently transcribed from the draft version which accompanied Thomson's letter to Lady Hertford from Paris, 10 October 1732, printed in Letters and Documents, p. 81. These four texts were printed and discussed, ThJ 35 and ThJ 87 for the first time, in in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 439-68. The readings in Lady Hertford's transcript of the elegy on Aikman are similar to those in the Clerk of Penicuik transcript in the Scottish Record Office, ThJ 40 described above.

MSS of two poems were until relatively recently owned by Viscount Cobham at Hagley Hall, which had been the seat of Lord Lyttelton. Both were sold at Sotheby's, 12 December 1978; one was resold there on 22 July 1985, and is now in the British Library, Add. MS 63520, f. 26. This is an autograph fragment, lines 33-40 of 'On the Death of Mr. William Aikman, the Painter', with a correction to the last line in Lyttelton's hand, ThJ 38. This extract was almost certainly the source for the eight-line version published by Lyttelton in Works (1750), since the latter includes his emendation of the manuscript. The complete text of the elegy was eventually printed in Buchan (1792), as noted above. The other MS at Hagley Hall was a version of 'Song: ['Come, dear Eliza']', mainly transcribed in Lyttelton's hand but with the fourth and last quatrain in Thomson's autograph, ThJ 61; it appears to have been the source of the text printed in Nicholas (1830), which is accompanied by a note that it was supplied to the editor by William Henry, Lord Lyttelton, 'from a copy in Thomson's own hand'. The autograph MS of a short consolatory poem, 'To George Lyttelton, Esq.', ThJ 80, inscribed on a preliminary leaf of a presentation copy of The Seasons (London, 1746) now at the Huntington, must also have originally been at Hagley Hall. There is a transcript of the poem in the Earl of Buchan's hand at Edinburgh University Library, apparently deriving from Thomson's autograph MS at one remove; Buchan's transcript has a note that it was taken in 1793 from an intervening transcript made by a son of James Johnson, Bishop of Worcester, 'from a copy of the Seasons at Hagley which was presented to Mr Lyttelton soon after the death of his first wife by Mr. Thomson anno 1746'.

A later article by Hughes, 'Thomson and Lady Hertford Again', MP, 28 (1931), 468-70, published for the first time two versions of '[Lines:'In Vain the Gentle Moon']', ThJ 23, accidentally omitting the second line, and ThJ 24. The first, which begins Tn vain the silver Moon', is from Alnwick MS 112, a volume of Lady Hertford's transcripts of her correspondence with Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret. The lines occur in a letter of 22 January 1741 written by Lady Pomfret from Italy, prompted by her mentioning a poem by Lady Wortley Montagu. The second, which Hughes considered textually superior and is the copy text of this poem in Sambrook (1986), is a transcript by Lady Hertford entered in a MS volume simply entitled 'Poems', Alnwick MS 118. Not only does this second transcript have a slightly different first line, on the verso of the leaf are 24 lines which Professor Sambrook regards as possibly a continuation of the same poem, but which he scrupulously relegates to an Appendix. For 'To Seraphina. Ode' Professor Sambrook's copy text is that published after Thomson's death by Lyttelton in Works (1750). There is, however, a transcript of a slightly longer and substantively very different version of this poem, ThJ 89, in Alnwick MS 109. This volume, entitled 'Letters and Verses By Philomela', was initially used by Lady Hertford for her transcripts of poems and letters by Elizabeth Rowe. But later Lady Hertford abandoned the volume for this purpose, retranscribed Elizabeth Rowe's material into another volume, Alnwick MS 110, and used the remaining leaves of MS 109 as a general commonplace book. There is therefore no need to question Thomson's authorship of To Seraphina', but given Lyttelton's well-known practice of rewriting Thomson's

Several of Thomson's poems have been preserved in the MSS of his patroness Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford. Her daughter married the Duke of Northumberland, and the MSS are now at Alnwick Castle. Several poems are transcribed by Lady Hertford into her

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poems, this version, which runs to 28 lines and begins 'Let Mortal passions Change and dye', is probably more authentic. It is discussed and published by the present writer in Thomson and the Countess of Hertford Yet Once More', RES, forthcoming.

MSS have survived relating to all of Thomson's dramas. His autograph revisions to Acts II, V, and the Epilogue of his tragedy Sophonisba, ThJ 105, are found in the same interleaved copy of Works (1738), I, as his revisions to The Seasons, Britannia, and A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton. Two passages from the same play are quoted in a letter to Lady Hertford from Elizabeth Rowe, as transcribed by Lady Hertford in one of her MS volumes of their correspondence, ThJ 106. A short quotation from Edward and Eleonora can be found in an autograph letter to Elizabeth Young of 21 January 1744, ThJ 103, among the collection of letters and poems addressed to her now at the Pierpont Morgan.

A few shorter poems are preserved among the papers of Dr Thomas Birch in British Library, Add. MS 4457. One of these is in Thomson's autograph, '[Lines: 'Snatch me some God ']', ThJ 26, preceded by his transcript of eight lines from Joseph Addison's 'A Letter from Italy', see FACS. The passage from Addison, its first two couplets transposed and slightly modified in Thomson's transcript, here begins 'Bear me some God...', and Thomson's own lines are a riposte to Addison's praise of the Italian landscape and climate. Bound immediately preceding is Birch's own transcript of both Thomson's and Addison's lines, ThJ 27, but here Thomson's poem comes first. On the further preceding leaf there is a transcript in an unidentified hand of Thomson's '[Song: 'Sweet Tyrant Love']', ThJ 73, endorsed in a second hand with the date 'January 23d 1738'. The former hand, incidentally, also appears in the transcripts of some poems by Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, bound into the same MS; see her section, WiA 14, 95, 155, 220, 242, 252.

The other MSS belong to the Huntington's Larpent Collection of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain under the Licensing Act of 1737. Three of these, the MSS of Coriolanus, ThJ 102, of Edward and Eleanora, ThJ 104, and of Tancred and Sigismunda, ThJ 107, are transcripts in the hand of Thomson's secretary, William Paterson. The transcript of Agamemnon, ThJ 99, is probably also in Paterson's hand, although it has a slightly different appearance from the other three; it has also some revisions, one of which is in Thomson's autograph. Passing notice of these revisions is made in Jean B. Kern, 'James Thomson's Revisions of Agamemnon , PQ, 45 (1966), 289-303, but the real concern of this essay is the significant difference between the Larpent MS and the first published text of 1738, in particular the cutting of a romantic sub-plot involving Electra and Egisthus' son Hemon, some rearrangement of scenes, and a new epilogue. A letter from Benjamin Victor to Nathaniel Wood, printed in Letters and Documents, pp. 119-20, states that a group of wits lead by Alexander Pope undertook to help Thomson modify the play on the morning after the first night's performance. Kern concludes firstly that Pope's role in the alterations is unproven, although consistent with what is known of his advising dramatic authors in the 1730s; secondly that the changes are too large to have been introduced after the first night, and that more likely they were made during a break in the play's run between 10 and 15 April.

Two autograph MSS of 'To Miss Young, my dearest Amanda', ThJ 81 and 83, are at present unlocated although facsimiles of both exist: the former as frontispiece to Vol. II in the revised Aldine edition of Poetical Works, edited by D.C. Tovey, 2 vols (London, 1897); the latter, lines 1-4, only in Maggs Catalogue 554, March 1931, Item 298. Comparison shows that these two MSS are quite distinct, not only from each other but also from a third autograph MS, ThJ 82, bound into a defective copy of The Seasons (London, 1744) now in the Sumner Collection at Harvard. There is also a a presentation copy of The Seasons (London, 1744) which has a transcript of the poem in an unidentified hand written on the flyleaf, ThJ 86, in the Wells Wordsworth and Thomson Collection at Swarthmore College, which was originally the private collection of the Thomson scholar, John Edwin Wells. Also in this collection is a copy of The Castle of Indolence, second edition (London, 1748) into which has been pinned a leaf with an additional stanza, transcribed in an unidentified hand and signed with an illegible monogram, ThJ 3. The stanza, which seems to have been intended to follow Canto I, stanza Ixxii, is dated 1758. Its authenticity is rather uncertain and it is relegated to the appendix of 'Poems of Uncertain Authorship' in Sambrook (1986), p. 320.

The MSS of Alfred: A Masque present special problems arising from the piece's rather complex stage history. The original version in two acts, written by Thomson in collaboration with David Mallet, was commissioned by Frederick, Prince of Wales, performed privately at Cliveden House, 1 August 1740, and published the same year. A transcript of an enlarged version in three acts intended for the public stage, ThJ 100, was submitted by Charles Fleetwood of Drury Lane to the

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Scottish Record Office, but failed to sell when offered at Sotheby's, 21 July 1992: to Mrs William Robertson, 27 November, 7 December, and Christmas Day 1742; and the draft of the letter to Elizabeth Young, 10 March 1743. The first three of these were printed from Buchan (1792) in Letters and Documents, where the recipient of the 7 December 1742 letter was tentatively identified as Andrew Millar.

In addition to this a transcript of a later version of Alfred is also extant. This is a revision carried out by Mallet alone after Thomson's death, although it preserves substantial parts of the three-act text which he had written with Thomson, ThJ 100 above. The MS runs to fifty pages, and has revisions and additions in Mallet's hand, notably to the Epilogue and the Hermit's speech, and also two alternative stanzas for the ode 'Rule, Britannia' written on an inserted slip of paper. Mallet's Alfred was performed at Drury Lane, 23 February 1751, and printed the same year. Although evidently a transcript submitted for licensing, this MS is not in the Larpent Collection, but Huntington, HM 203.

Letters and Documents gave only an extract of Thomson's letter to an unidentified lady, 31 May 1745, printed from Maggs Catalogue 568, December 1931, Item 1429. The full text has now been published in Alan D. McKillop, Two More Thomson Letters', MP, 60 (1962), 128-30; the letter is now at the Pierpont Morgan. The same article publishes a new letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, which McKillop dated tentatively early June 1743, found at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A.S. Bell, Three New Letters of James Thomson', N & Q, n.s., 19 (1972), 367-9, prints previously unpublished letters from Thomson to his early patron, Sir William Bennet of Grubet, 22 April 1725, containing ThJ 21, 31 May 1725, and 10 April 1729; they were discovered among the Ogilvy of Inverquharity papers on deposit at the Scottish Record Office, GD 2057 box34/portfolio 4. An autograph letter from Thomson to George, Lord Lyttelton, 14 December 1747, was sold at Sotheby's, 10-11 July 1986, to Joseph; it was previously auctioned on 21 July 1983 but had failed to sell. Thomson's letter to Gavin Hamilton, 18 February 1738, taken from a printed source in Letters and Documents, pp. 118-9, was auctioned at Sotheby's, 19 July 1990, but unsold. Finally a new autograph letter from Thomson to David Mallet, 8 October 1726, was auctioned at Christie's, 29 June 1995, Lot 375.

The Larpent Collection, however, does include yet a third version of Alfred, but a printed text, not a MS. This is Larpent 51, Alfred the Great. An English Opera. Altered from the Play written by Mr. Mallet and the late Mr. Thomson, a three-act opera by Thomas Arne, who had composed the music for the 1740 performance. Arne's version, which retains all except one of the songs from the 1740 printed text and three from the 1740 transcript, as well as adding new material, was first performed in Dublin in 1744, then at Drury Lane in March 1745, and published by Millar to coincide with the London opening. The Larpent copy lacks the title-page, but appears to be the 1753 printing of the opera. Letters and Library The standard edition of Thomson's correspondence remains James Thomson (1700-48), Letters and Documents, edited by Alan D. McKillop (Lawrence, 1958). This can be updated and supplemented in a few respects. The three letters owned by Robert H. Taylor, Thomson to William Cranstoun, 7 August 1735, Thomson to Mr Paterson, [April? 1748], and Thomson to his sister Jean Thomson, 4 October 1747, have passed to Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection. The two letters owned by Ralph M. Williams, Thomson to William Cranstoun, 20 July 1725, and Thomson to [Andrew Millar?], December 1742, are now at Amherst. The two letters from Thomson to George Bubb Dodington, 24 October 1730 and 28 November 1731, formerly in the collection of A.A. Houghton, were auctioned at Christie's, 11-12 June 1980, as Lots 511 and 512 respectively, with a facsimile of the former in the sale catalogue; both were sold to Davids. As noted above some letters by Thomson were formerly among the Dundas of Ochtertyre papers in the

After Thomson's death his household effects, including his books, were auctioned 15-17 May 1749; his former bookseller, Andrew Millar, issued A Catalogue of All the Genuine Household Furniture Plate, China, Prints and Drawings, &c. of Mr. James Thomson, (Author of the Seasons) Deceased, which runs to twenty pages. Formerly scholars referred to the sale catalogue as no longer extant, but a unique copy was discovered in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, and reported in 'James Thomson's Library', TLS, 20 June 1942, p. 312. A microfile print from the Mitchell Library copy was supplied to Edinburgh University Library, and the catalogue has been published in facsimile in Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons, edited by A.N.L. Munby (London, 1971-3), I, 45-66. The catalogue lists 261 items from Thomson's library, with a request for the return of such books as have been on loan to friends. No

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copyright, MS La.II.705; a letter from Sir David Erskine to David Laing, 25 April 1828, mentioning the disposal of the Thomson MSS which had been owned by Lord Buchan, MS La.IV.17; an anonymous Latin essay, apparently eighteenth-century, headed 'Genio, memoriae et tempestatibus suavissimi poetarum Jacobi Thomson otia haec nostra D.D.D.', MS La.377/10, ff. 146-56; and a chalk drawing of Thomson inscribed 'Gul. Aikman del.' in a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730) presented by Lord Buchan, MS Df.2.51. But with regard to this last, however, a letter from Sir David Erskine to Laing, 18 June 1828, MS La.IV.6, states that the drawing is by Buchan himself.

books with marginalia have been traced in the course of the present research, however, although a copy of Sir Walter Ralegh's History of the World (London, 1736), signed by Thomson, was offered for sale in Hatfield Catalogue 18 (1983-4). A presentation copy of John Holmes, The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy (London, 1738), given to Thomson by the author, is now in the Bodleian, 3809.1.185. Grant, p. 230, notes that a presentation copy of The Seasons, given to Elizabeth Young by Thomson, was owned by Lady Gordon Cumming until stolen in 1948. A presentation copy of The Seasons (London, 1744) is at Winchester College; it is inscribed 'From the Author' in Thomson's hand, and 'to Joseph Spence/from J. Spence/to JH Lowth Ann: 1766' in the hand of Joseph Spence.

Two further association items are at Harvard: Joseph Dennie's 'A Panegyric upon Thomson, in imitation of the stile of that poet', in Dennie's autograph, bMS Am.715(176); and a sixteen-page life of Thomson by Thomas Campbell, MS Eng. 1140.3.

Miscellaneous A series of documents relating to the sale and assignment of copyright in Thomson's writings can be found in Harvard, pfMS Eng 1123 (1-4): the sale of the assignment of Sophonisba and Spring to Andrew Millar, signed by Thomson and witnessed by Mallet, 16 January 1729, printed in Letters and Documents, pp. 69-70; John Millan's receipt for payment in his sale of the assignment of Britannia, A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and The Seasons, 'Spring' excepted, 18 July 1729, printed in Letters and Documents, pp. 63-4; assignment by Jean and Mary Thomson to Andrew Millar of the copyright of Thomson's Coriolanus, Alfred, and some shorter poems, 7-11 February 1750/1, printed in Letters and Documents, p. 213; assignment by John Millan of the copyright in Thomson's works to Andrew Millar, 16 June 1738, printed in Letters and Documents, pp. 120-2. Letters and Documents, pp. 8991, also prints the assignment of the copyright of Liberty to Andrew Millar from the Entry Book of Copies, Stationer's Company; the assignment is dated 16 December 1734, and the entry 9 January 1735. Also at Harvard is a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730), in which is inserted a contract signed by fourteen booksellers, recording the number of copies each has agreed to buy and affirming that they will adhere to the agreed retail price; a facsimile of part of this document has been published in Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained, introduction by Roger E. Stoddard (Cambridge, MA, 1985), p. 23.

Contemporary European interest in Thomson's poetry is evidenced by a MS translation of 'Spring' into German by Franciscus Antonius von Rothlein, 'Kleiner Versuch des Friihlings aus der prosaischen Beschreibung des Herrn Thomsons in Verse gesetzt', Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, MS Cod. 11.462, ff. 1-2. Besides those mentioned above or in the entries themselves, the following published facsimiles of Thomson's hand may be noted: a letter to Elizabeth Young, 21 January 1743/4, in Grant, facing p. 226; a letter, probably to Paolo Rolli, 30 January 1730, in Letters and Documents, frontispiece; and of the letter to William Cranstoun, 7 August 1735, in Sotheby's Catalogue, 20 July 1954, Lot 469. W.A.L. ABBREVIATIONS Buchan (1792) David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan, Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher ofSaltoun and the Poet Thomson ([London?], 1792) Goodhugh(1827) William Goodhugh, The English Gentleman's Library Manual (London, 1827) Grant Douglas Grant, James Thomson, Poet of 'The Seasons'(London, 1951)

There are a few assocation items among the Laing MSS at Edinburgh University Library: some papers relating to the action brought by Andrew Millar in 1768 against R. Taylor for violation of the copyright of The Seasons, an important case in the history of the law of

Greene The Plays of James Thomson, 1700-48: A Critical Edition, ed. John C. Greene, 2 vols (New York and London, 1987)

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Works (17'44) The Works of Mr. Thomson, 2 vols (London, 1744)

Letters and Documents James Thomson (1700-48), Letters and Documents, ed. Alan D. McKillop (Lawrence, 1958)

Works (1750) The Works of James Thomson, 4 vols (London, 1750)

Nicholas (1830) The Poetical Works of James Thomson, with a Memoir of Thomson by Sir Harris Nicholas, 2 vols (London, 1830) Sambrook(1981) The Seasons, ed. James Sambrook (Oxford, 1981)

Works (17'62) The Works of James Thomson, With his last Corrections and Improvements. To Which is prefixed, An Account of his Life and Writings [by Patrick Murdoch], 2 vols (London, 1762)

Sambrook(1986) Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems, ed. James Sambrook (Oxford, 1986)

Zippel Thomson's Seasons, Critical Edition, ed. Otto Zippel, in Palaestra 66 (Berlin, 1908)

Schmidt-Wartenberg H. Schmidt-Wartenberg, 'Das Newberry Manuskript von James Thomson's Jugendgedichten', Anglia, 23 (1901), 129-52

ARRANGEMENT Verse, ThJ 1-98 Dramatic Works, ThJ 99-107

Works (1738) The Works of Mr. Thomson, 2 vols (London, 1738)

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The Bashful Lover, listed as '[Song: 'Sweet Tyrant Love']'.

A complaint on the miseries of this life ('I loath, O lord, this life below') First pub. in Nicolas (1830), II, 306; Sambrook (1986), p. 239.

Britannia ('As on the sea-boat shore Britannia sat') First pub. 1729; Sambrook (1986), p. 21.

ThJ 4 Autograph, here 'Juvenile Poems'.

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beginning 'A loath...', in

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 140; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 174).

ThJ 1 Autograph revisions in an interleaved copy of Wbrfcs(1738),I,262and277. Two revisions incorporated in the text of Works (1762). British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.28.e.l7.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

The Castle of Indolence ('O Mortal Man, who livest hereby Toil') First pub. 1748; Sambrook (1986), p. 173.

A Description of ten a-clock of night in the town ('Then drunken sots do reel and stagger home') First pub. in 'Thomson's Unpublished Poems', Literary Gazette, No. 89, 3 October 1818, pp. 629-30; Sambrook (1986), p. 248.

ThJ 2 Autograph, an alternative version of Canto II, stanza xliii, here beginning 'As when in Vengeance of his pilfer'd Cheese', on a slip of paper pasted into a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730), presented, as from Thomson, by Andrew Millar to the Earl of Buchan.

ThJ 5 Autograph, here beginning 'Then drucken...', lines 3-4 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); printed in Schmidt-Wartenberg, pp. 142-3; mentioned in William H. Davenport, 'An Uncollected Poem by James Thomson', N & Q, 111 (1939), 279, and in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 180).

This stanza printed in John Edwin Wells, 'Thomson's "Castle of Indolence": An Alternative Stanza', N & Q, 175 (1938), 420-1; also in apparatus to Sambrook (1986), p. 211. Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing 11.330. ThJ 3 Transcript in an unidentified hand of an additional stanza apparently intended to follow Canto I, stanza Ixxii, beginning 'Here too a gentle Lass was sometimes seen', signed with an illegible monogram and dated 1758, pinned into a copy of the 2nd ed. (London, 1748).

Newberry Library, Chicago. A Dialogue In praise of the pastoral Life ('In pastoral lays I'll sing the happy...') First pub., lines 19-24 only, in Goodhugh (1827), p. 293; in full, 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 149; Sambrook (1986), p. 258.

This stanza printed in Sambrook (1986), Appendix A, 'Poems of Uncertain Authorship', p. 320.

ThJ 6 Autograph, revised, lines 1-8, 25-30, and 46 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Swarthmore College, Wells Wordsworth and Thomson Collection.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems',

'Come, Gentle God', listed as 'Song: ['Come, gentle Power'!'.

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ThJ 9 Autograph, lines 1-5 and 26-32 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, here beginning 'When silent night outspread her sable wing', early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/6).

Newberry Library, Chicago. An Elegy upon James Therburn In Chatto ('Wow Chatto ye're a dreary place') First pub., beginning 'Now, Chatto, you're a dreary place', and omitting lines 4, 23-42, in Goodhugh (1827), p. 292; in full, 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 151; Sambrook(1986), p. 262.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

ThJ 7 Autograph, revised, here entitled 'An Elegy upon Ja... In Chatto', lines 2-4, 20-30, and 44-8 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

The fable of a sick Kite and it's Dame ('A Raven that had oft with hideous croak') First pub. 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 143; Sambrook (1986), p. 248.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, here entitled 'An Elegy upon Jas... In Shatto' and beginning '... Shatto ye're a dreary place', early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/11).

ThJ 10 Autograph, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript from this MS in an unidentified hand, here entitled The fable of a Sick ... and its Dame', early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 180).

Newberry Library, Chicago. An Elegy upon Parting ('It was a sad ay 'twas a sad farewell') First pub., as 'An Elegy on Parting', in Nicholas (1830), II, 307; Sambrook (1986), p. 254.

Newberry Library, Chicago. [Fragment: Upon a Flower given me by —] (Then softly on it she impress'd a kiss') First pub. 1901, as '[Upon a Flower give]n me by—', in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 147; Sambrook (1986), p. 256.

ThJ 8 Autograph, corrected, lines 8-13 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 146; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/5).

ThJ 11

Autograph, the remaining 8 lines of a poem begun on excised leaves, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Title reconstructed by Schmidt-Wartenberg from the index to the MS; copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript from this MS in an unidentified hand, here untitled, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/7).

Newberry Library, Chicago. The Fable of a Hawk and Nightingale ('When silent night o'erspread her sable...') First pub. 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 146; Sambrook (1986), p. 255.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

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Liberty, A Poem ('Omy lamented Talbot! while with Thee') First pub. in five parts 1735-6; Sambrook (1986), p. 42.

Hymn on Solitude ('Hail, ever-pleasing Solitude!') First pub. in Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands, Published by Mr. Ralph (London, 1729), p. 346; Sambrook(1986), p. 280. ThJ 12

ThJ 15 Autograph, 23 lines, beginning '—Be then the starting Tear', described as 'designed at first to be prefixed to Liberty, but afterwards reduced to those you see stand there', in a letter from Thomson to William Cranstoun, 20 October 1735.

Autograph, a version of 43 lines, with additional couplets between lines 13-14 and 19-20, omitting lines 22-7, and with four variant lines instead of 30-7, lines 38-9 imperfect but completed in pencil by a later hand, in a letter from Thomson to David Mallet dated 10 July 1725, 2 pages.

Printed in Nicholas (1830), I, cxiv; Letters and Documents, pp. 99-101; and apparatus to Sambrook (1986), pp. 44-5.

Printed in Peter Cunningham, 'James Thomson and David Mallet', Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society, 4 (1857-8), 7-9; also printed and discussed as the 'A version in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 446-7; Letters and Documents, pp. 9-11; facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 73-4.

Pierpont Morgan. ThJ 16 Transcript in the hand John Waldie, in a transcript of a letter from Thomson to William Cranstoun, 20 October 1735, in Waldie's commonplace book. Further transcript of this letter in the hand of John Waldie, sent with six other transcripts of letters from Thomson to William Cranstoun, December 1724-October 1735, to the Earl of Buchan prior to 1804, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 599 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 138-9).

Owned (1995) by John Murray, London. ThJ 13 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, here entitled 'A Hymn to Solitude by Mr. Thompson', with lines 20-1 between 27-8, in Lady Hertford's 'A Miscellany of Verse and Prose Begun March the 5, 1725/6'.

Scottish Record Office. [Lines: 'Ah wise too late'] ('Ah wise too late! from Beauty's Bondage free') First pub. as 'Verses addressed to Miss Young', beginning 'Ah urge too late! from beauty's bondage free', in Buchan (1792), p. 279; Sambrook (1986), p. 307.

Printed and discussed as the 'B' version in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 447-8. Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 116, pp. 92-3. A Hymn to God's power ('Hail pow'r divine! who by thy sole command') First pub. in The Observer, 19 September 1818; Sambrook(1986), p. 242.

ThJ 17 Autograph, corrected, untitled, in a draft of a letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, 10 March 1743. Sotheby's, 14 December 1992, unsold.

ThJ 14 Autograph, revised, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

ThJ 18 Autograph fair copy, untitled, in a letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, 10 March 1743.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, pp. 140-1; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 176).

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); Grant, pp. 2036; Letters and Documents, pp. 146-9. Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575. ThJ 19 Transcript in the hand of David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan. Edinburgh 1429/26.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

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[Lines: 'Hail to the Day'] ('Hail to the Day! hail to the smiling Skies!') First pub. 1951 in Grant, p. 232, with facsimile of lines 1-22; Sambrook (1986), p. 309.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986), with 24 additional lines printed in Appendix A, p. 317. Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 118, f. 11. ThJ 24 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, 8 lines, here beginning 'In vain the silver Moon to Lovers kind', in Lady Hertford's transcript of a letter sent to her by Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret, 22 January 1741, introduced as 'I have only the Verses I transcrib'd for you of Lady Mary Wortleys besides what you have had the goodness to send me; her Hymn to the Moon reminds me of some verses written by Mr. Thomson, occasion'd by his Walking in a Garden by the light of this same pale Deity'.

ThJ 20 Autograph fair copy, untitled, presented to Elizabeth Young, 1 January 1744? Copy text in Sambrook (1986); Letters and Documents, pp. 175-7. Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575. [Lines: 'Happy the house'] ('Happy the house with such a master crown'd!') First pub. in A.S. Bell, 'Three New Letters of James Thomson', N & Q, n.s., 19 (1972), 367-9; Sambrook (1986), p. 276.

Printed in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and Lady Hertford Again', MP, 28 (1931), 468-70, omitting line 2; microfilm at the British Library.

ThJ 21 Autograph?, a translation of two lines from Sir William Scott's 'Ad [Dominum Gulielum Bennett] Epistola', in a letter from Thomson to Sir William Bennet, 22 April 1725, among the Ogilvy of Inverquharity papers.

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 112, pp. 135-6. [Lines: 'O thou! for whom'] ('O thou! for whom these Letters speak a Flame') First pub. 1951 in Grant, p. 241; Sambrook (1986), p. 312.

Scottish Record Office, MS GD 205/box 34/portfolio 4. [Lines: 'In this soft Song'] ('In this soft Song, to finish every Line') First pub. in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and Lady Hertford Again', MP, 28 (1931), 470; Sambrook (1986), p. 295.

ThJ 25 Autograph, here untitled, in a letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, 23 October 1745. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); Letters and Documents, pp. 182-3. Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575.

ThJ 22 Autograph couplet inscribed in the margin of a song written in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, and possibly composed by her, in Lady Hertford's 'A Miscellany of Verse and Prose Begun March the 5, 1725/6'.

Lines on Marie Field, listed as 'Upon Marle-feild'. [Lines: 'Snatch me some God'] ('Snatch me some God from Baia's desart seats') First pub. in Alan D. McKillop, 'Some Heroic Couplets by James Thomson', MLN, 73 (1958), 12-14; Sambrook (1986), p. 293.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986). Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 116, f. 60.

ThJ 26 Autograph, corrected, here untitled and preceded by Thomson's transcript of Joseph Addison's 'A Letter from Italy', lines 61-8, which begin 'Bear me some God to Baia's gentle seats', bound among the papers of Thomas Birch, one page.

[Lines: 'In Vain the Gentle Moon'] ('In Vain the Gentle Moon to Lovers kind') First pub. in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and Lady Hertford Again', MP, 28 (1931), 468-70; Sambrook (1986), p. 296.

See FACS; copy text in Sambrook (1986); discussed in Michael M. Cohen, 'James Thomson and Addison's "Letter from Italy'", N & Q, n.s., 19(1972), 366-7.

ThJ 23 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, 8 lines, with 24 lines possibly in continuation of the same poem on the verso, in Lady Hertford's MS volume 'Poems'.

British Library, Add. MS 4457, f. 117.

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ThJ 32 Transcript in the hand of John Waldie, appended to Waldie's transcripts of seven letters from Thomson to William Cranstoun, December 1724-October 1735, in Waldie's commonplace book.

ThJ 27 Transcript in the hand of Thomas Birch, here untitled and followed by Birch's transcript of Joseph Addison's 'A Letter from Italy', lines 618, which begin 'Bear me some God to Baia's gentle seats', bound among Birch's papers, one page.

Further transcript in the hand of John Waldie, appended to Waldie's transcripts of seven letters from Thomson to William Cranstoun, December 1724-October 1735, sent to the Earl of Buchan prior to 1804, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 599 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 139-40).

British Library, Add. MS 4457, f. 116. ThJ 28 Transcript in the hand of Joseph Spence, here untitled. Yale, Osborn Shelves, Spence Papers, Box 5, folder 148.

Scottish Record Office.

[Lines: 'Still as I gaz'd'] ('Still as I gaz'd new Beauties met my Sight') First pub. in Grant, Appendix A, p. 283; Sambrook (1986), p. 307.

The Month of May, listed as 'Upon May'. The morning in the country ('When from the op'ning chambers of the east') First pub in Thomson's Unpublished Poems', Literary Gazette, No. 89, 3 October 1818, pp. 629-30; Sambrook (1986), p. 245.

ThJ 29 Autograph, untitled, in a letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, 19 April 1743. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); Letters and Documents, pp. 150-3.

ThJ 33 Autograph, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 142; mentioned in William H. Davenport, 'An Uncollected Poem by James Thomson', N & Q, 111 (1939), 279, and in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript from this MS in an unidentified hand, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 178).

[Lines: 'To honour humble Worth'] (To honour humble Worth, and, scorning State') First pub. in Buchan (1792), p. 271; Sambrook (1986), p. 305. ThJ 30 Autograph couplet, in a letter purportedly from Thomson's dog Buff to Marquis, a dog owned by William Robertson, 7 December 1742. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); Letters and Documents, pp. 140-3.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1992, unsold. An Ode, on the Winter Solstice ('Why, gentle Aura, dost thou thus complain') First pub. in Ralph M. Williams, Thomson's "Ode on the Winter Solstice'", MLN, 70 (1955), 256-7; Sambrook (1986), p. 313.

Lisy's parting with her cat (The dreadful hour with leaden pace approach'd') First pub. in Nicholas (1830), II, 276; Sambrook (1986), p. 275. ThJ 31 Autograph, revised.

ThJ 34 Autograph, corrected, endorsed in the hand of George, Lord Lyttelton, 'By Thompson—and in his own handwriting', 2 pages.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); Sotheby's, 25 May 1954, Lot 347, sold to Charles Sawyer.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986).

University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt.q., 10.

Amherst.

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On a Lady's undertaking to tell a Gentleman what he thought on by feeling his Pulse ('Taught by the Pulse, in vain Clarinda tries') First pub. in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 461-2; Sambrook (1986), p. 298.

page of a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730), presented, as from Thomson, by Andrew Millar to the Earl of Buchan. Discussed in J.E. Wells, 'Manuscripts of Thomson's Poems to Amanda and Elegy on Aikman', PQ, 15 (1935), 405-8.

ThJ 35 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, in her 'A Miscellany of Verse and Prose Begun March the 5, 1725/6', attributed to Thomson in the index.

Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing.330. ThJ 38 Autograph, lines 33-40 only, here untitled, beginning 'As Those we love decay, we dye in Part', with a correction in the hand of George, Baron Lyttelton, one page.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986). Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 116, f. 228.

Printed in Robert Phillimore, Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton, 2 vols (London, 1845), I, 313; formerly owned by Viscount Cobham, Hagley Hall; Sotheby's, 12 December 1978, Lot 133, sold to Spencer; Sotheby's, 22 July 1985, Lot 56, with facsimile.

On his Mother's death ('Ye fabled Muses I your aid disclaim') First pub. as 'On the Death of his Mother' in Buchan (1792), p. 187; Sambrook (1986), p. 278.

British Library, Add. MS 63250, f. 27.

ThJ 36 Autograph, revised, with an endorsement in the hand of the Earl of Buchan, dated Dryburgh Abbey, 15 April 1802, This is the first rough draft by Thomson of his verses on the death of his Mother as written in his Youth just after he left Scotland. I give them to the Lady Anne Hamilton of Hamilton as a memorial of my Affectionate Esteem', 3 pages.

ThJ 39 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, here entitled 'A Poem on the Death of Mr Aikman. By Mr Thomson', omitting lines 29-32, and with additional couplets between lines 26-7 and following line 28, in her 'Miscellany of Verse and Prose Begun March the 5, 1725/6'.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in E.G. Fletcher, 'Notes on Two Poems by James Thomson', N & Q, 168 (1935), 274-5; also discussed in J.E. Wells, 'James Thomson's Poem "On the Death of His Mother'", MLR, 33 (1938), 46-50.

Apparently transcribed from a draft sent by Thomson to Lady Hertford from Paris, 10 October 1732, see Letters and Documents, p. 81; printed in Helen Sard Hughes, Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 457-8. Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 116, pp. 184-5.

Texas, Stark Collection.

ThJ 40 Transcript in an unidentified hand, corrected, here omitting lines 29-32, and with additional couplets between lines 26-7 and following line 28, among the Clerk of Penicuik papers.

On May, listed as 'Upon May'. [On the Death of Mr. William Aikman, the Painter] ('Oh could I draw, my friend, thy genuine mind') First pub., lines 33-40 only, as 'Verses Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Aikman, a particular friend of the Author's' in Works (1750), II, 219; in full, as 'Thomson's Elegy on the Death of Aikman, the Painter', with a note 'From a MS of the Author's own handwriting in the collection of the Earl of Buchan', and two extra lines between 32-3, in Buchan (1792), p. 190; Sambrook (1986), p. 288.

Printed, probably from this MS, in James Anderson, The Bee, 17 (Edinburgh, 1793), 31-2. Scottish Record Office, GD 18/4644. ThJ 41 Transcript in an unidentified hand, lines 33-40 only, here entitled 'Epitaph' and beginning 'As those we love decay, we die in part', in a late eighteenth-century commonplace book.

ThJ 37 Autograph, revised, inscribed in an unidentified hand 'Elegy on his Friend Aikman. Autograph. Prima Cura', pasted on the verso of the title-

CrumA1688. Bodleian, MS Montagu.e. 14, f. 25v.

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On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster ('By Rufus' Hall, where Thames polluted flows')

A Pastoral betwixt David Thirsis and The Angell Gabriel upon the birth of Our Saviour ('What means yon apparition in the sky') First pub., omitting lines 9-10, in Nicholas (1830), II, 309; Sambrook (1986), p. 232.

First pub. in the General Evening-Post, 16-18 August 1737; Sambrook (1986), p. 300. ThJ 42 Transcript in an unidentified hand. Mentioned in a note by David Laing, Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing 11.330, 'Among Lord Buchan's MSS an old copy of lines by Thomson on the Report of a Wooden Bridge being thrown over the Thames'.

ThJ 45 Autograph, with marginal 'Juvenile Poems'.

in

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 139; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this M3; early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 16870).

Unlocated(1995). One to his mistriss upon receiving a flower from her, listed as 'Verses on receiving a Flower from his Mistress'. A Paraphrase of Psalm CIV, listed as 'Psalm 104 Paraphrazed'. A Pastoral ('Why, Damon, why do you y...') First pub. 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. Sambrook (1986), p. 260.

annotations,

Newberry Library, Chicago. 150;

A Pastoral betwixt Thirsis and Corydon upon the death of damon by whom is [meant] mr: william riddell ('Say tell me true what is the dolefull cause') First pub. as 'A Pastoral between Thirsis and Corydon, upon the Death of Damon, by whom is meant Mr. W. Riddell' in Nicholas (1830), II, 311; Sambrook (1986), p. 246.

ThJ 43 Autograph, lines 1-5, 24-32, and 50-2 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23, with facsimile, lines 1-5 only, facing 14; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/9-10).

ThJ 46 Autograph, corrected, here entitled 'A Pastoral betwixt Thirsis and Corydon upon the death of Damon by whom is ... mr: william riddell', in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 142; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 178-80).

A Pastoral betwixt Damon and Celia parting ('How shall we part? Part! Death is in the sound') First pub. 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 141; Sambrook (1986), p. 243. ThJ 44 Autograph, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 176-8).

Newberry Library, Chicago. A Pastoral Entertainment described ('While in heroick numbers some relate') First pub as 'A Pastoral Entertainment' in Nicholas (1830), II, 313; Sambrook (1986), p. 252.

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ThJ47 Autograph, lines 16-20 and 46-8 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

ThJ 50 Autograph, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 139; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, 'Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 170-2).

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 146; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, 'Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/1).

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Newberry Library, Chicago. 'Rule, Britannia', for MSS of this ode see 'Alfred: A Masque' in the Dramatic Works section.

A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton ('Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth') First pub. 1727; Sambrook (1986), p. 6.

British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.28.e. 17, pp. 250-61.

The Seasons ('See, Winter comes to rule the varied year') First pub. in the order Winter (London, 1726), Summer (London, 1727), Spring (London, 1728), and complete, including 'Autumn' and 'A Hymn on the Seasons', 1730; Sambrook (1981); transcript in an unidentified hand, Spring only, here headed 'Spring. A poem, by Mr James Thomson', written in double columns, 9 pages, probably transcribed from the first separate printing, British Library, Add. MS 26877, ff. 203v-7v.

A Poetical Epistle to Sir William Bennet of Grubbat Baronet ('My trembling muse your honour does address') First pub. as 'A Poetical Epistle to Sir William Bennet, Bart, of Grubbat' in Goodhugh (1827), p. 290; Sambrook (1986), p. 240.

ThJ 51 Interleaved copy of Works (1738), I, with autograph revisions, and further revisions in the hand of George, Baron Lyttelton; autograph MS of Alexander Pope's 'Part of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace' has been tipped into the volume.

ThJ48 Interleaved copy of Works (1738), I, with corrections and revisions, partly autograph and partly in the hand of George, Baron Lyttelton. Revisions first pub. in Works (1762); collated in Sambrook (1986).

Revisions first pub. in Works (1744); mentioned and quoted by John Mitford, 'Essay on the Poetry of Gray', The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols (London, 1816) I, xcv-xcvi, and more fully in his 'Thomson's Seasons and their Various Readings', Gentleman's Magazine, December 1841, pp. 563-82; collated in Zippel and in Sambrook (1981); discussed in John Edwin Wells, 'Thomson's Seasons "Corrected and Amended'", JEGP, 42 (1943), 104-14, and in Ralph Cohen, The Art of Discrimination (London, 1964), pp. 57-63; facsimiles of 'Winter', lines 907-20 only, in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, between 276-7, of 'Spring', lines 482-501 only, in Sambrook (1981), facing p. xcvi, and in DLB 95, Eighteenth-Century British Poets: First Series, ed. John Sitter (Detroit, 1990), p. 314; also listed in the Pope section, PoA 272.

ThJ 49 Autograph, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 140; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 174-5). Newberry Library, Chicago. Psalm 104 Paraphrazed ('To praise thy Author, soul, do not forget') First pub., lines 1-12, 66-71, 88-91, and 111-12 only, in Goodhugh (1827), p. 288; in full, Nicholas (1830), II, 297; Sambrook (1986), p. 234.

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British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.28.6.17, pp. 1-249.

ThJ 57 Composite copy of Spring, 2nd ed. (London, 1731) and Summer, 3rd ed. (London, 1730), with emendations in an unidentified hand.

ThJ 52 Autograph, note to the printer of a correction to 'Autumn', line 120, one page.

Emendations correspond to the revisions of the 1744 printings.

Described in Sambrook (1981), Introduction, note to p. Ixix, remarking that Thomson's reference suggests leaf K7 of the small octavo edition of The Seasons (London, 1744), but that the revision appears in errata to the large octavo Works (1744), I.

British Library, Department of Printed Books, 1486.b.29. ThJ 58 Copy of The Seasons, Octavo (London, 1730) with emendations in an unidentified hand.

Pierpont Morgan.

Emendations correspond to the revisions of the 1744 printings.

ThJ 53 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, lines 64-73 of the text of Winter, 1st ed. (London, 1726), beginning 'The Year, yet pleasing, but declining fast', in Lady Hertford's transcript of a letter sent to her by Elizabeth Rowe, c. 1726, in a volume of transcripts 'Letters & Verses By Mrs Rowe Before & After her Marriage'.

Edinburgh University Library. ThJ 59 Transcript in the hand of F. Cumming, 'Winter', lines 217-22 only, beginning 'Father of light and life! thou good Supreme!', in a collection of epitaphs compiled by Cumming c. 1800. Crum F239; possibly transcribed from Thomson's monument in Richmond Church, Surrey.

Printed in Elizabeth Rowe, Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse, 2 vols (London, 1739), II, 55; and in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 443; microfilm at the British Library.

Bodleian, MS Top.gen.e.32, f. 83v.

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 110, pp. 131-2.

Song: ['Come, dear Eliza'] ('Come, dear Eliza, quit the Town') First pub. as The Invitation. A Song', beginning 'Come dear Amanda quit the town', and with a musical setting, in the Gentleman's Magazine, March 1744, p. 156; Sambrook (1986), p. 308.

ThJ 54 Transcript in an unidentified hand of two draft passages for 'Winter', 7 lines beginning 'I sing of Winter and his gelid reign', and 4 lines beginning 'Nor can I, o departing Summer! choose', in a transcript of a letter from Thomson to William Cranstoun, c. 1 October 1725.

ThJ 60 Autograph, as sent by Thomson to Elizabeth Young.

Printed in Sambrook (1981), pp. xxxv-xxxvi; Letters and Documents, pp. 15-18.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); this MS first pub. in Grant, Appendix B, p. 295; mentioned in Letters and Documents, p. 159; photocopy at Edinburgh University Library; facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, I, 87, and in DLB 95, Eighteenth-Century British Poets: First Series, ed. John Sitter (Detroit, 1990), p. 320.

National Library of Scotland. ThJ 55 Transcript in an unidentified hand of two draft passages for 'Winter', 7 lines beginning 'I sing of Winter and his gelid reign', and 4 lines beginning 'Nor can I, o departing Summer! choose', in a transcript of a letter from Thomson to William Cranstoun, c. 1 October 1725.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575.

Edinburgh University Library. ThJ 61 Autograph, lines 13-16 only, with lines 1-12 transcribed in the hand of George, Baron Lyttelton, here beginning 'Come dear Amanda...'.

ThJ 56 Copy of Winter, 1st ed. (London, 1726), with emendations in an unidentified hand to p. 9 only. Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce 9893.

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JAMES THOMSON Verse Printed as To Amanda' in Nicholas (1830), II, 254, with a note that the text was supplied by William Henry, Lord Lyttelton, 'from a copy in Thomson's own hand'.

ThJ 66 Autograph fair copy, inserted in a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730), presented, as from Thomson, by Andrew Millar to the Earl of Buchan.

Sotheby's, 12 December 1978, sold to Spencer.

Designated 'B' and copy text in Sambrook (1986); discussed in J.E. Wells, 'Manuscripts of Thomson's Poems to Amanda and Elegy on Aikman', PQ, 15 (1935), 405-8.

Song: ['Come, gentle Power'] ('Come, gentle Power of soft Desire') First pub. as 'A Song. By Mr Thomson', beginning 'Come gentle god...', in the Gentleman's Magazine, February 1736, p. 103; Sambrook (1986), p. 292.

Edinburgh University Library. ThJ 67 Transcript in an unidentified hand, in a late eighteenth-century commonplace book.

ThJ 62 Autograph, as sent by Thomson to Elizabeth Young.

Crum F441; text follows the 'B' version, ThJ 66 above.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); this MS first pub. in Grant, Appendix B, pp. 295-6; mentioned in Letters and Documents, p. 159; photocopy in Edinburgh University Library.

Bodleian, MS Montagu.e.14, f. 28. Song: ['Hard is the Fate'] ('Hard is the Fate of Him who loves') First pub., with a variant quatrain instead of lines 21-8, in Works (1750), II, 227; Sambrook (1986), p. 294.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575. ThJ 63 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here untitled and beginning 'Come gentle God of soft desire', one page. Readings those of the 1736 printing; microfilm at the British Library and Cambridge University Library, MSS Reading Rooms.

ThJ 68 Autograph, with a note in the hand of Thomas Percy, signed Tho: Dromore', authenticating the poem, 3 pages.

Owned (1995) by the Marquess of Bath, Portland Papers, Vol. 18, f. 18 Iv.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); printed in Morrison Catalogue (1883), VI, 246, and in Helen Sard Hughes, Thomson and the Countess of Hertford Again', MP, 28 (1931), 469; see also H.H. Campbell, Thomson and the Countess of Hertford yet again', MP, 67 (1970), 367-9; also listed in the Percy section, PeT 694.

ThJ 64 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled 'A Song. By — Tompson', and beginning 'Come gentle God of soft desire!'. Yale, Osborn.c.152, p. 33. Song: ['For ever, Fortune'] ('For ever, Fortune, wilt Thou prove') First pub. in The Hive, a Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs, Part IV (London, 1732), p. 1; Sambrook (1986), p. 290.

Yale, MS Vault Shelves/Thomson. ThJ 69 Transcript in an unidentified hand of both Thomson's poem and Thomas Percy's note, here annotated 'Copy, 8th Sept. 1801 Dromore House'.

ThJ 65 Autograph, revised, here untitled and not divided into stanzas, with a variant version of lines 13-16, inserted in a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730), presented, as from Thomson, by Andrew Millar to the Earl of Buchan.

Crum H210; also listed in the Percy section, PeT 695. Bodleian, MS Eng.poet.d.10, ff. 74-5.

Designated 'A' in Sambrook (1986); discussed in J.E. Wells, 'Manuscripts of Thomson's Poems to Amanda and Elegy on Aikman', PQ, 15 (1935), 405-8.

Song: ['How long, Eliza'] ('How long, Eliza, must I languish') First pub. 1745? as a song sheet, entitled A New Song. The Words by Mr. Thomson. Set by Mr. Oswald', Sambrook (1986), p. 308.

Edinburgh University Library.

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tion made by George Ballard, early to mideighteenth century.

ThJ 70 Autograph, line 9 only, quoted in a letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, 26 May 1743. Letters and Documents, pp. 157-9.

CrumS1411.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575.

Bodleian, MS Ballard 47, f. 152. ThJ 75 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled 'the song', and beginning 'Sweet Tyrant Love but hear me now', one page.

[Song: 'O thou, whose tender serious Eyes'] First pub., untitled, in Buchan (1792), p. 277; Sambrook (1986), p. 306.

Harvard, bMS.834(54).

ThJ 71 Autograph, untitled, in a letter from Thomson to Mrs William Robertson, Christmas Day 1742.

ThJ 76 Transcript in the hand of W. Cochrane, in a 'Collection of Songs. English & Scots' owned by Elizabeth Cochrane.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); printed from Buchan (1792) in Grant, pp. 199-200, and in Letters and Documents, pp. 144-6.

Harvard, MS Eng.512, pp. 196-7.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1992, unsold. ThJ 77 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here beginning 'Sweet Tirant Love; but hear me now', one page.

Song: ['One Day the God'] ('One Day the God of fond Desire') First pub., omitting lines 13-16, in Works (1750), II, 226; Sambrook (1986), p. 305.

Mapledurham House, Bound Volume of Letters, Vol. Ill, f. 194.

ThJ 72 Autograph, as sent by Thomson to Elizabeth Young.

A Song ('When blooming Spring') First pub. as 'Song' in Nicholas (1830), II, 308; Sambrook (1986), p. 257.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); this MS first pub. in Grant, Appendix B, pp. 296-7; mentioned in Letters and Documents, p. 160; photocopy at Edinburgh University Library.

ThJ 78 Autograph, revised, lines 12-13 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 148; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/7).

[Song: 'Sweet Tyrant Love'] ('Sweet Tyrant Love, O hear me now') First pub. in The Charmer, a Choice Collection of Songs, Scots and English, (Edinburgh, 1751), II, 22-3; Sambrook (1986), p. 295. ThJ 73 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here untitled, endorsed in a different unidentified hand 'January 23d 1738', among the papers of Thomas Birch, one page.

Newberry Library, Chicago. Song of Solomon Chap: I ver: 7 ('...t O tell me where') First pub. 1901, as 'Song of Salomon, chap. I, v. 7', in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 148; Sambrook (1986), p. 258.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986). British Library, Add. MS 4457, f. 115.

ThJ 79 Autograph, lines 1-10 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

ThJ 74 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled in a different unidentified hand 'A Song part of Miss Betty Archer's song for it wants two stanzas more', beginning 'Sweet tyrant Love, but hear me now', and arranged as two eight-line stanzas, in a collec-

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript from this MS in an unidentified hand,

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here beginning 'My souls delight/O tell me where', early nineteenth-century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark, F.48.E.4, Item 30/8).

ThJ 82 Autograph, signed, here entitled 'To Miss Young', bound into a defective copy of The Seasons (London, 1744) which lacks all except the text of 'Spring'.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Printed in The Collection of Books and Autographs Bequeathed to Harvard College Library, by the Honorable Charles Sumner (Cambridge, MA, 1879), p. 26, where the volume is incorrectly identified as the 1728 edition of Spring; discussed in J.E. Wells, 'Thomson's Minor Poems', PQ, 22 (1943), 69-71.

To Amanda, listed as 'Song: ['Come, dear Eliza']'. To Amanda with a Copy of The Seasons, listed as 'To Miss Young, my dearest Amanda'. To Fortune, listed as 'Song: ['For ever, Fortune']'.

Harvard, Sumner Collection.

To George Lyttelton, Esq. ('Go, little Book, and find our Friend') First pub., untitled but headed 'The following Stanzas written by Thomson on the blank leaf of a copy of his Seasons, were sent by him to the good Lord Lyttelton, soon after the death of his Lucy', in Goodhugh (1827), p. 285; Sambrook (1986), p. 313.

ThJ 83 Autograph, signed. Facsimile, lines 1-4, only in Maggs Catalogue 554, March 1931, Item 298; see J.E. Wells, 'Manuscripts of Thomson's Poems to Amanda and Elegy on Aikman', PQ, 15 (1936), 407. Unlocated(1995).

ThJ 80 Autograph, here headed 'To George Lyttelton, Esq., from the Author', inscribed facing the title-page in a copy of The Seasons (London, 1746).

ThJ 84 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled 'Lines sent by Thomson to his Amanda with a copy of the Seasons', beginning 'Accept, dear Nymph, a tribute due', and written as a single stanza, in a copy of The Seasons (London, 1730) presented, as from Thomson, by Andrew Millar to the Earl of Buchan.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); transcript, apparently descended from this MS, in the hand of David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan, with a note that it was transcribed in 1793 from a transcript made by a son of James Johnson, Bishop of Worcester, 'from a copy of the Seasons at Hagley which was presented to Mr Lyttelton soon after the death of his first wife by Mr. Thomson anno 1746', Edinburgh University Library.

Designated 'Edinburgh A' by Sambrook; this MS apparently printed in Poetical Works (Glasgow, 1784) above; discussed in J.E. Wells, 'Manuscripts of Thomson's Poems to Amanda and Elegy on Aikman', PQ, 15 (1936), 405-8. Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing.330.

Huntington. ThJ 85 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here headed 'Verses sent by Mr Th: to Miss Young, afterwards Mrs Campbell, whom he celebrates in the Seasons by the name of Amanda', and beginning 'Accept, dear Nymph, a tribute due'.

To Miss Young, my dearest Amanda ('Accept, lov'd Young! this Tribute due') First pub. as 'To Amanda', beginning 'Accept, dear nymph, a tribute due', in Poetical Works (Glasgow, 1784); Sambrook (1986), p. 311.

Designated 'Edinburgh B' by Sambrook; this MS printed in Alexander Allardyce, Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century (1888), I, 23, with a note by John Ramsay of Ochtertyre that the verses were repeated to him by Mrs Robertson, second wife of Elizabeth Young's brother-in-law; discussed in J.E. Wells, 'Manuscripts of Thomson's Poems to Amanda and Elegy on Aikman', PQ, 15 (1936), 405-8.

ThJ 81 Autograph fair copy, signed, one page. Copy text in Sambrook (1986), via facsimile in Poetical Works, ed. D.C. Tovey, 2 vols (London, 1897), II, frontispiece; discussed in J.E. Wells, Thomson's Minor Poems', PQ, 22 (1943), 69-71. Unlocated(1995).

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Edinburgh 11.417/4.

University Library,

MS

Printed and discussed in Alexander Lindsay, Thomson and the Countess of Hertford Yet Once More', RES, forthcoming; microfilm at the British Library.

Laing

ThJ 86 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled 'Lines to Amanda', and beginning 'Accept, dear Nymph, a tribute due', inscribed on the flyleaf of a presentation copy of The Seasons (London, 1744).

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 109, [f. 32v]. Upon Beauty ('Beauty deserves the homage of the muse') First pub. as 'On Beauty', omitting lines 28-9 and 32-56, in Nicholas (1830), II, 302; Sambrook (1986), p. 229.

Discussed in I.E. Wells, 'James Thomson's Minor Poems', PQ, 22 (1943), 69-71. Swarthmore College, Wells Wordsworth and Thomson Collection.

ThJ 90 Autograph, revised, lines 11, 26-9, 32-55, and 113 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

To Myra, listed as '['Song: 'O thou, whose tender serious Eyes']'.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, pp. 138-9; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 166-8).

To Retirement: an Ode ('Come calm Retirement! Sylvan Power!') First pub. in Helen Sard Hughes, 'Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), pp. 459-61; Sambrook (1986), p. 297. ThJ 87 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, here headed To Retirement An Ode Wrote at St. Leonard's Hill By Mr. Thomson June 13th. 1735', in Lady Hertford's 'A Miscellany of Verse and Prose Begun March the 5, 1725/6'.

Newberry Library, Chicago. Upon Happiness ('Warn'd by the Summer-Sun's meridian Ray') First pub. in the Edinburgh Miscellany (1720), p. 197; Sambrook (1986), p. 264.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); quoted, omitting lines 5-16, in Grant, pp. 149-50.

ThJ 91 Autograph, here omitting lines 17-8, and lines 23-6, 71-5, 121-5, 96-101, and 147-9 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 116, pp. 229-30. ThJ 88 Transcript in an unidentified hand, here entitled 'Ode on Retirement— By Mr. Thomson', and omitting lines 21-4, inserted in a copy of Works (1762), I.

Described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 146; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/2-4).

University of London. To Seraphina. Ode ('The wanton's charms, however bright') First pub. in Works (1750), II, 232; Sambrook (1986), p. 296.

Newberry Library, Chicago. ThJ 89 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, here entitled To Seraphina', beginning 'Let Mortal passions Change and dye', with 8 variant lines instead of 1-4, and 6 variant lines instead of 11-14, in 'Letters and Verses By Philomela', a volume of Lady Hertford's transcripts of poems and letters by Elizabeth Rowe.

Upon Marle-feild ('What is the task that to the muse belongs?') First pub. as 'Lines on Marie Field' in Nicholas (1830), II, 301; Sambrook (1986), p. 238. ThJ 92 Autograph, here entitled 'Upon Marle-feid', in 'Juvenile Poems'.

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ThJ 95 Autograph, revised, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 140; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 175).

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Upon May ('Among the changing months May stands confest') First pub. as 'On May' in Nicholas (1830), II, 280; Sambrook (1986), p. 241.

Upon the Sparkler! ('You're cast into a divine mould') First pub. 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 147; Sambrook (1986), p. 256.

ThJ 93 Autograph, revised, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

ThJ 96 Autograph, lines 13-16 and 18 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 140; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 175).

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.4, Item 30/7). Newberry Library, Chicago.

Newberry Library, Chicago. Verses on receiving a Flower from his Mistress ('Madam, the Flow'r that I receiv'd from you') First pub. in the Edinburgh Miscellany (1720), p. 203; Sambrook (1986), p. 264.

Upon Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet (The fabled nine I'll trust no more') First pub. 1901, as 'Upon Miss Elizabeth Bennet', in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 143; Sambrook (1986), p. 249. ThJ 94 Autograph, revised, lines 67-8 imperfect, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

ThJ 97 Autograph, here entitled 'One to his mistriss upon receiving a flower from her', lines 3-4 transposed, in 'Juvenile Poems'.

Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Items 181-2, for lines 1-92, and F.48.E.4, Item 30/1, for lines 93-100).

Described in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 139; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, here entitled 'One to his Mistress upon receiving a flower from her', early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster MS 598 (Pressmark F.48.E.2, Item 170).

Newberry Library, Chicago.

Newberry Library, Chicago. The yeilding Maid ('As once I walked early in the morn') First pub. 1901 in Schmidt-Wartenberg, p. 139; Sambrook (1986), p. 237.

Upon the Hoop (The Hoop the darling justly of the fair') First pub., omitting line 13, in Goodhugh (1827), p. 291; Sambrook (1986), p. 241.

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ThJ 98 Autograph, in 'Juvenile Poems'. Copy text in Sambrook (1986); mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Two 18th Century "First Works": 2. James Thomson's Juvenile Poems', Newberry Library Bulletin, 4 (1955), 13-23; transcript in an unidentified hand from this MS, early nineteenth century, Victoria and Albeit Museum, Forster MS 598 (F.48.E.2, Items 172-3).

British Library, Add. MS 33351, f. 29v. Coriolanus First performed Covent Garden, 13 January 1749; first pub. 1749; Greene, II, 481.

Newberry Library, Chicago.

ThJ 102 Transcript in the hand of William Paterson, as submitted by John Rich to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, 12 November 1748.

DRAMATIC WORKS Agamemnon First performed Drury Lane, 6 April 1738; first pub. 1738; Greene, I, 104.

Copy text in Greene; discussed in W.B. Todd, 'Unauthorized Readings in the First Edition of Thomson's Coriolanus', PBSA, 46 (1952), 626; negative microcopy at British Library, MS Fiche 253/1215.

ThJ 99 Transcript probably in the hand of William Paterson, with revisions and corrections of which one is autograph, here entitled The Death of Agamemnon. A Tragedy. 1737', as submitted by Charles Fleetwood to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, 14 January 1738, 138 pages.

Huntington, Larpent 74. Edward and Eleonora First pub. 1739; Greene, II, 216.

Discussed in Jean B. Kern, 'James Thomson's Revisions of Agamemnon , PQ, 45 (1966), 289303; and in Greene, I, 110-11; negative microcopy at British Library, MS Fiche 253/1216.

ThJ 103 Autograph, Act III.v.59-62 only, here beginning '—Grieve not like Those/Who have no Hope: we yet shall meet again', quoted in a letter from Thomson to Elizabeth Young, 21 January 1744.

Huntington, Larpent 4. Alfred: A Masque First performed privately at Cliveden House, 1 August 1740; first pub. 1740; Greene, II, 300; written in collaboration with David Mallet; for a MS of a later revised version by Mallet, see Introduction.

Letters and Documents, pp. 169-71. Pierpont Morgan, MA 1575. ThJ 104 Transcript in the hand of William Paterson, as submitted by John Rich to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, 23 February 1739, with Rich's application subscribed in the hand of Chetwynd 'forbid to be acted by the Ld. Chamberlain the 26th March 1738/9'.

ThJ 100 Transcript in an unidentified hand, with revisions, an enlarged version in three acts, submitted by Charles Fleetwood to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, 9 February 1741, 50 pages.

Collated in Greene; mentioned in Alan D. McKillop, Thomson and the Licensers of the Stage', PQ, 37 (1958), 448-53; negative microcopy at British Library, MS Fiche 253/1217.

This version never performed; printed in Greene, II, 351; discussed in Alan D. McKillop, The Early History of Alfred', PQ, 41 (1962), 311-24; negative micocopy at British Library, MS Fiche 253/1219.

Huntington, Larpent 12.

Huntington, Larpent 27. Sophonisba First performed Drury Lane, 28 February 1730; first pub. 1730; Greene, I, 1.

ThJ 101 Transcript in an unidentified hand, 'An Ode' from Act II.v.71-106 only, here untitled but

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ThJ 105 Autograph revisions to Acts II, V, and the Epilogue, in an interleaved copy of Works (1738), I.

1739), II, 111; described in Helen Sard Hughes, Thomson and the Countess of Hertford', MP, 25 (1928), 452; microfilm at the British Library.

Revisions printed in Greene, I, 18-19.

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick MS 110, pp. 251-2.

British Library, Department of Printed Books, C.28.e.l7.

Tancred and Sigismunda First performed Drury Lane, 18 March 1745; first pub. 1745; Greene, II, 382.

ThJ 106 Transcript in the hand of Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, Act II.iii.78-82, here beginning 'I want to be alone, to find some shade' and I.iv.86-92, beginning 'Ye misterious Powers/Whose ways are ever Gracious', in Lady Hertford's transcript of a letter sent to her by Elizabeth Rowe, c. 1730, in a volume of transcripts 'Letters & Verses by Mrs Rowe Before & After her Marriage'.

ThJ 107 Transcript in the hand of William Paterson, corrected, as submitted by James Lacy to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, 14 March 1745. Some passages cancelled in the MS are retained in the published text; microcopy at the British Library, MS Fiche 253/1218.

Printed in Elizabeth Rowe, Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse, 2 vols (London,

Huntington, Larpent 50.

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and prose for publication. In this he was frustrated by her second husband's nephew and her own adopted heir, Sir John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, who kept the MSS at Brynbella, the Welsh home built by the Piozzis. Salusbury even went to the length of legal action to prevent the Williams family of Bodylwddan publishing a selection of the correspondence. Thus the MSS remained in the possession of Sir John Salusbury's descendants at Brynbella for nearly a century. Only a relatively small selection of material found its way into print: in Mangin's Piozziana; and in A.C. Hayward's Autobiography Letters and Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), 2 vols (London, 1861). Hayward's collection received little but dispraise from contemporary reviewers, and to help answer some of the criticism, the Rev Augustus Salusbury, Sir John's son, allowed him to include further copious extracts from MS Thraliana in a second edition.

In his Piozziana (London, 1833), pp. 45-6, the Rev Edward Mangin describes a conversation with the ageing Hester Lynch Piozzi. She showed him a heap of pocket-books which she described as 'a diary of mine of more than fifty years of my life', and told him she was thinking of destroying them. Mangin dissuaded her, although it seems doubtful if Mrs Piozzi was expressing more than a passing whimsy. But her description of the contents of the MSS is serious enough: 'I have scarcely omitted any thing which occurred to me during the time I have mentioned; my books contain the conversation of almost every person of almost every class, with whom I have held intercourse; my remarks on what was said; down-right facts, and scandalous on dits; personal portraits, and anecdotes of the characters concerned; criticisms on the publications and authors of the day'. This is indeed a fair description of the scope of Piozzi's journals and travelogues, which between them cover a period of nearly half a century. Recent scholarship sees in her more than the hostess of Samuel Johnson and the recorder of his conversation. She undertook a wide range of literary enterprises, verse, translations, works on world history and etymology, which testify to a productivity lasting from her youth to old age. Not only have MSS relating to all these aspects of her literary career survived; in the case of several works, it is possible to trace their evolution from material entered in a MS journal through drafts to the fair copy used by the printers.

The dispersion of the collection at Brynbella began with a series of sales at Sotheby's, 14 December 1901, 6 December 1904, 22 January, 1907, 4 June 1908, and 30 January 1918. MS Thraliana, which had been auctioned in the 1908 sale only to be bought in by the owner, was secured for the Huntington in 1921. This still left a very large number of MSS at Brynbella, the bulk of which were acquired by the John Rylands Library in 1931 from Mrs R.V. Colman, Sir John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury's great grand-daughter, and the remainder by the National Library of Wales in 1945. As to the MSS sold between 1901 and 1918, it is possible to chart changes of ownership and location for only a few of the major items. The notebook 'Minced Meat for Pyes' was at some stage acquired by the collector Percival Merritt and is now at Harvard with other MSS and books from his collection. 'The Children's Book' and MS Piozziana, acquired by Sir Randle Mainwaring,

Provenance The provenance of such a large body of MSS is remarkably straightforward. After Piozzi's death, Sir James Fellowes as her literary executor attempted to honour her wish that he should prepare a selection of her verse

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ambitious poems. One poem is not hers, the 'Epigram from Martial— Translated' on p. 83; it is also found in MS Thraliana, where it is attributed to Herbert Lawrence. Select Manuscript Poems on Various Subjects and Several Occasions Autograph, containing fair copies of 22 poems, and a transcript of a poem by Herbert Lawrence, 67 leaves, 2 blank.

Verse The corpus of Piozzi's verse is extremely large and varied. The poems are preserved in different MS sources: firstly in the MSS of prose works such as the early translation of the life of Cervantes, the travelogue Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, and that work of amateur philology, British Synonomy; in letters, notably those to Sir James Fellowes, to Edward Mangin, and Penelope Pennington; in journals such as MS Thraliana, the 'New Common Place Book', and MS Piozziana, the literary autobiography-cum-scrapbook written for Sir John Salusbury. A problem common to all these sources is that the authorship of some of the verse is not altogether clear: Piozzi often gives no indication whether a poem is one of her own, or her transcript of one of her friends' compositions; no one MS contains original material or transcripts exclusively; and it is frequently a matter of judgment whether a couplet or short passage has been improvised by Piozzi, or is a quotation from a now forgotten eighteenth-century poem or verse drama.

Contents: ThH 65, 125, 132, 142, 172, 257, 294, 297, 324, 354, 367, 409, 498, 523, 526, 528, 536, 616, 637, 663,771. No publication traced. John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 646. The other large verse MS at the John Rylands Library is a collection of poems written on disparate single leaves and bifolia of different sizes. It begins with a title page, 'Juvenile Performances', but in fact many poems belonging to Piozzi's later years have been bound together with her juvenilia. Some of the contents are also found not only in Eng. MS 646 above but in MS Thraliana too, and it is possible that many of the poems in MS Thraliana were transcribed from these once loose leaves. A few early pieces of prose can also be found in this MS, notably a draft of The Lamentation of Samoset, a Chief of the Oneydoes', ThH 941. Juvenile Performances

Although Katherine C. Balderston's edition of Thraliana is the first publication of many of the poems, it is not used as a reference edition for the entries in the Verse section. Many of the poems as they appear in MS Thraliana are untitled, and it is not at all clear that the text given there represents Piozzi's final artistic intentions, which it would appear are often best represented by autograph fair copies found in John Rylands Library, Eng. MSS 646-7 and elsewhere. Consequently several poems have been given entries with the titles and first lines taken from these fair copy MSS. Cross-references have been provided to the titles used by Hayward in his anthology of Piozzi's writings, although it seems likely that these are of his own devising and have no authority.

Autograph, containing mainly original verse, but with some transcripts of poems by others, 129 leaves. Contents: ThH 10, 12, 20 22, 32, 41, 45-6, 50, 68, 78, 91-3, 98, 104-6, 110, 112, 122, 126, 135, 138-9, 145, 148-9, 170, 174-5, 186, 190, 194, 202, 212, 217, 223, 225, 232, 234, 236, 242, 249, 255, 259, 295, 299, 305, 315-5, 319, 323, 325-7, 351-2, 356, 363, 370, 376, 395, 399-401, 404, 407, 411, 415, 419, 423, 427, 431, 435, 439, 443, 447, 451, 455, 459, 463, 471, 477, 491-2, 494, 508, 519, 529-31, 534, 540, 544, 548, 558, 562, 566, 568, 575, 583, 592, 595, 601, 608, 610, 613, 641-2, 646, 649, 661, 664-5, 670, 680, 733, 742, 769, 789, 799, 803, 814-17, 819, 821, 841-2, 852-3, 856, 864, 870-1, 877, 882, 887, 891, 940-1.

Four large MSS consist exclusively of verse. Two of these, formerly owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach, and now by Lady Eccles, have not been available for examination in the present enquiry. The other two are now at the John Rylands Library. One of these consists entirely of fair copies, written on the rectos only, and was evidently intended as a selection of Piozzi's best and most

No publication traced. John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 647. In addition to the original poems this MS includes some items written by Piozzi's friends or literary associates, and a few other authors, listed immediately below.

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Where one of these poems has been transcribed in her hand, this is indicated. The contents are numbered according to the guard-book leaf, which often carries more than one poem. 1. 'Song by H[erbert] L[awrence]' ('When the Nymphs were contending for Beauty and Fame'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 'Epigram from Martial by the Same' ('Drawn from her Side when Arria gave the Sword'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 'Song by the same' ('Fanny's Beauty so much boasted'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 7. John Salusbury, The Elephant and Castle a Fable' ('In Days not old but Fabling Days'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale, with notes 7+. John Salusbury, 'The Elephant & Castle a Fable' ('In Days not old but Fabling Days'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale, with notes 8. Arthur Collier, 'els TOV nOMDEION emtacJHOv ('Too8e KUVOS Kei/rai mom> 4>iXou cryx u ' OOLO ')> followed by 'Parodied thus by Dr. George Harris' ('Here what remains of Pompey lies'), transcripts in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 22. Charles Burney, 'To the Printer of the morning Herald' ('Herald! wherefore thus proclaim'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale, dated 'Jan: 1783' [Charles James Fox], 'Preserved in the Foundling Hospital for Wit' ('With Devon's Girl so blithe and gay'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 24. Sir Richard Jebb, 'Under this Stone lies the plague of Life' Isaac Watts, 'Tears at best are trifling Things' A. Hill, 'Tender hearted touch a Nettle' 37. 'Dr Myddletons Improvise' ('This Circling Period of your Nuptial Hour'), dated '25 July' 'Written on the Spur of ye Moment— to be Sung at the Crown & Anchor' ('Ye British Seamen list to me') on the verso, reversed, 'Gallia nos genuit vidit nos Affrica— Gangem', subscribed 'This is the way it stands in a little Abridgement of Regnards Life written by himself in La Bibliotheque Poetique' 40. [Spencer], 'Dropt on Cythera's golden sands', transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, corrected

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108. 'Gallia nos genuit, vidit et Indica Tellus', 2 lines of Latin subscribed 'These lines are from Regnards' Life which In the Year 1800 I read in the Universal Museum 1765', endorsed 'They are in Voltaire too' 111. 'Laus tua tua fraus, virtus, non copia rerum', transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 112. Voltaire, 'Ce Mortel profana tous les Talens divers', transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale; Samuel Johnson, '[Epitaph on Hogarth]', lines 1-4 only, written longitudinally in the margin, transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale; 'On Mrs. Greenwood buried at Warwick' ('O Death! O Death! Thou hast cut down'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale 113. 'Poor Bishop Kennett in 1645' ('Every Day & Hour'), transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale

3. 'Chorus of Sophocles Oi8i/rrous em KoXcovw ('Hail! Thou in whose experienc'd Eye'), 2 pages 4-5. [Sir William Jones], 'Saul & David Ode' ('Saul by a shady Plantan sate'), 4 pages 6. 'Horace ode st. —' ('Douglas, whose noble Lineage rings'), 4 pages 7. 'As Granvilles soft Numbers tune Myra's praise', 2 pages 7/8. 'Nor at Apollo's vaunted Shrine', possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 pages 8. Thrice happy he by all confest', endorsed 'Verses' in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, one page 9. 'Epistle to Madam Piozzi Aspasia, the favorite Muse of Dr Saml: Johnson Socrates' (That both those Names are Synonome'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed 'Boscherecio', 3 pages 10. T envy not Poets of yore', signed 'W S', 2 pages 11. 'Not one I [guess?] in all this friendly round', unfinished draft, one page 12. The desired Lines, Written when return'd from seeing Lord Bathursts Oakly-Woods' ('Still! still methinks dear Oakly Shades I see'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 pages 13. The Two Friars: An old story thrown into the form of an English Ballad' ('When a smile becomes thy pretty face'), dated Bath, 10 November 1810, and attributed 'E.B.', 4 pages 14. 'Address, written by Mr. Stephen Kemble, & spoken by him in the character of Falstaff (To carry coal to Newcastle— absurd!'), 2 pages 15. 'May every blessing on thy life attend', attributed to S. Boffin, and dated 8 December 1809, one page 16. 'What! The Girl I adore by another embraced!' 17. 'Momentary Reflections on meeting old General Right' ('What Right alive! I thought ere this') 18. 'Lines on presenting a white handkerchief to Mrs Piozzi' ('Dear Madam— kindly condescend'), one page 19. 'An Epitaph' ('Here lies a Man of much renown'), signed 'M.M.', f. 1; 'On the same' ('Weep Cheltenham! weep, and Bath! deplore'), signed 'M.M.'; 'An Epitaph' ('Here lies, obedient to the general doom'), signed 'M.M.', printed text, apparently upon Robert Hobart, Earl of Buckingham, f. Iv 20. To Mrs Piozzi' ('How charming must have been those days') 21. 'Oh tell me not of Attic wit', in the hand of

It will be convenient to mention at this point another MS in the John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 656, which contains only two poems by Piozzi herself, ThH 5 and 69. Otherwise it consists entirely of poems by her friends and literary associates, either as sent to her or as transcribed in her hand. Although no sustained attempt has been made to identify the other hands, it may be noted that three of them appear to be those of William Parsons, Bertie Greatheed, and the latter's wife Ann. One suspects that this MS was also a source for the verse found in MS Thraliana, and which in turn appears in MS Piozziana. The contents are listed here, the number again taken from the guard-book leaf. 1. 'The Title I thought of (which is submitted to you) was Eugenic— or Virtuous and Happy Life, a Poem— inscrib'd to Sir William Fownes Knt. & Bart, (methodis'd by the Printer) with an opposite Motto, if I cou'd have chose one, Phaps, Sir you will kindly supply it' ('Ye venerable sages of the Schools'), endorsed 'Apr. 5th. 1735 Mr Beech Poem about Sir Wm Fowns', 13 pages 2. 'Verses written on a Summer Evenings Walk By Elizabeth Surman A poor Farmer's Daughter in Gloucestershire' ('My Walk at Eve with Pleasure do I take'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 pages 2a. To Miss S—n, her poem upon ye Famous ash in O— Park' ('No weed in Natures Garden grows'), conjugate leaf endorsed by Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Verses from Dr Oliver of Bath 1760— which will serve as well as a card to tell you I'm gone out', 2 pages

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HESTER LYNCH THRALE (LATER PIOZZI) Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed 'S.S.P.' 22. To a friend who regretted the advance of old age' ('Oh talk not to me, of the days that are gone'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed 'S S P' 23. 'After visiting Sion Cottage April 1818' ('If Duty call'd the wand'rer home'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed 'S S P' 24. To Dr Brewster' ('Hail Brewster, Britain's brilliant hope!'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 25. To Professor Marsh, on his four Sermons preached at St Mary's Church Cambridge' ('Champion of truth! still wage the glorious fight'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 26. The Jolly Black Bear' ('Come zealous Dissenters of every degree'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 27. 'Pirates and Robbers with a somb'rous train', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 28. 'Why is Mrs Piozzi like a Kaleidoscope?' (The brilliant Colours that appear'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, endorsed 'Mrs Piozzi' 29. To a friend with a ring' ('Nay, pretty Gertrude, do not fear me'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, f. 1; 'Experience, to the Poet' ('Why idly Shepherd thro'the live-long day'), ff. lv-2; 'Ode to Time, inscribed to Miss Seward' ('Oh! thou whose viewless form, slow stealing Time'), ff. 2v-4; To the Muse' ('Muse of the mournful song! whose pensive smile'), subscribed 'Margaret Molford', ff. 4v-5 30. 'A Touch of the Terrifick (in imitation of Monk Lewis) by Mr: Peat' ('It is said that a Cottager once passed his Life') 31. 'Lines written impromptu, with a Pencil, on the Box at Covent Garden Theatre after Mrs: Siddons had delivered her farewell Address on taking leave of the Stage by Lord Erskine June 29th 1812' ('When first the Sun proclaims the Day'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 32. The Mistress of the Magic Spell', subscribed 'A little Sprite' in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 33. 'Age & Time were softly stealing', subscribed 'A little Sprite Janry 26th 1819' in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 34. 'Anti-Epithalamium, addresed on his approaching Nuptials, to Buonaparte' ('By Bridal Bed ne'er shall'st Thou know'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed 'W L' 35. 'A charade written by the Dean of C— which he

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gave to Me & C— to solve' ('My first is a creature which [searches?]'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi; The answer by Mrs G—' ('Your creatures in their dark abode'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi; The following Charade was sent by Mrs G. to the Dean of C— with the above answer' ('D had one of my first'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi; The Dean not being able to solve the Charade sent by Mrs G— she sent him the following answer to it' ('I'm quite surprised my dearest Dean'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'From the Assassins Blow', attributed 'Written by Isabella Hamilton' The Nabob' ('When silent time with lightly foot'), signed 'Miss Blaimer' 'Lines addressed to Miss Thrales, on their leaving Lowestofte Deer. 18th: by the Revd. Norton Nicholls' ('Farewell regretted Nymphs of the Sea Coast') 'A Sonnet by Mr Bowles of Trinity' ('I never hear the sound of thy glad bells'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi The folly of atheism an ode' ('Dull Atheist! could a giddy dance') 'Continuation of Auld Robin Gray' (The Spring it was past it was summer nae mair'), subscribed 'Lady Anne Lindsay' 'Lines to Miss Trefusis' ('O! then! possess'd of that too dangerous Art!'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'By Miss T. address'd to her own Picture Done by Shelley for Miss Bickerton' ('Haste little Image of a faithful Friend') 'By the same' ('While some through ostentation spare'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Sonnet to Hope by the same' ('Gay Hope the sweet Aurora of Lifes Morn'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi To a Friend who in some Complimentary Verses had placed Miss Trefusis among the Muses' ('Had the Ancients presumptuously offer'd to raise'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Sent in Major Barrys Name to Miss W & Miss M P' ('Sabrina's shape & Celia's Eyes'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'I do confess thou'rt sweet and fair', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, one page, f. 1; 'Can I cease to remember or cease to retrace', in

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the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, one page, f. 2; 'To a Lady' ('To sigh when sorrow leads the heart'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, f. 3 'Ask not from whence this bird of passage came', endorsed 'Mrs Piozzi with a Woodcock' 'The Prince in his Palace I always attend', one page; ['Plant the Tree'] ('See see they come, the Miriads come'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, endorsed 'London & [Ashbrook?]', 3 pages 'Sonnet address'd to the Dutchess D'Arenberg' ('The azure lustre of thy matchless eye') 'An Enigma' ('Tell me ye wise, for you the best can tell'), f. 1; 'Solution of the Enigma' ('Ere Chaos and confusion ceas'd to be'), subscribed 'Maria', f. Iv 'Song for St. David's Day' ('Talk not of St. Dennis, St. David for me'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Prologue written for a Play intended to have been acted at Tenby, by gentlemen, for the widow & orphans of a Father, Son, & Grandson, who were lost in a fishing Boat, off that place. August 1817 The same gentlemen had acted once before for Stanley's Benefit' ('Call'd to these Shores, by friendship, or by love'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Lines written on seeing the Portraits of Burke Johnson Garrick Goldsmith &c. in the Library at Streatham Park' ('Who e'er thou art whom Fates propitious seat'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Verses Address'd to Miss Halliwell on her Birthday February 16th 1819' ('Accept, dear Maid, from your poetic friend'), possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Prologue to Almeyda' ('The Muses long thro' many a various age'), probably in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 3 pages To Mrs Piozzi On Her Visit to Scotland' ('Hail! led by Science to explore') 'Lines written on receiving from Lady Hesketh an Engraving of Cowper, taken from a Drawing by Lawrence by the Revd: Dr. Randolph' ('Sweet Bard!— whose Mind is pictur'd in thy face'), possibly in the hand of Lady Hesketh To the honble. Miss Blaquiere &c.' ('One morn in December's cold gloom'), in the hand of Mrs Bradford, but with annotations in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi Charades by Person: 'My 1st is a Revolution';

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'If Friendship at the board preside'; 'My first & second are the same' 'Song for the Harmonic Society. 1802' ('From the soft lap of Ocean as Venus ascended') 'Verses on a [hawthorn?] in the [dingle?] at Llweney. Sep 24. 1803' ('O thou, to whom kind fate has giv'n') The Prince in his Palace I always attend', probably in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 pages 'My 1st Conveys the Irish Lass', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Behold the Lofty sky', and 'Oh son of God supreme', f. 1; 'And there shall be signs in the Sun and the Moon and the Stars...', quote from Revelation, in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, f. 2v reversed 'Britannia mourns her Father & her King', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, with monogram 'HS' on the verso, one page 'On a rustic seat in Wanstead Grove' ('Le heros de Rocroi doit vivre d'age en age'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, endorsed 'Verses, in honour of the Prince de Conde, written by a Lieutenant in the Emigrant Corps, killed in the English Service' [Robert Southey], 'Buonaparte he would set off, in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 5 pages 'Brinbella, pray inform your Friend', possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, one page 'In the first dawnings of dramatic Art', with the conjugate leaf endorsed To Mrs. Piozzi Denbigh, North Wales', 2 pages 'Ex tempore To Mrs: Poole on her Birth Day 17th March 1806' (This Adage says that when they're gone'), subscribed The Author not to be named', f. 1; 'Mr: Hayley's Epitaph on Mrs: Poole at 98 years & 7 Months Nov.er 1st: 1807' ('Hail and farewell! dear venerable Friend'), possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, endorsed 'On Mrs: Piozzi's old friend Mrs: Poole by Mr. Hayley', f. 2 'No Dinner, No Glee, No Party, No Pleasure at No. 8 Gay Street' ('At Dinners where Pasties & Pastimes abound'), endorsed 'Mrs Piozzi No. 8 Gay Street', one page 'Dialogue between The Soul & The Body By the Honble Genl Fitz Patrick' ('Soul & Body Two Friends being closely connected'), 4 pages 'On the Marquis of Graham being chosen Steward of the University of Glascow' ('Might

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'Mr Roberts's Welsh Poem to Mr Salusbury', 2 pages 84. 'Mawl i William salbri esc. a Barai ag Lyfr. hrose gmrint e waith Wi Johi. 1549' ('Am, haelder Lawnder am londid eilwaith'), signed 'Wm. Phillipp', endorsed in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Welsh verses', 2 pages 85. 'Englynion ymddiddan rhwng y Peydydd a Bwbach y Brain a'r Fynydd Nefyn Jonawr 1741-2' ('Eich pasio mewn distawch'), endorsed in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Welsh Poem', 7 pages 86. 'Complainte' ('D'une Amante abandonee'), one page 87. 'Cher Amant si je differe', one page 88. 'J'aplaudis a 1'emploi nouveau', one page 89. 'Un jour le Dieu Cupidon', one page 90. 'Dialogue' ('Permets-tu, belle Echo, qu'un inconnu te parle?'), endorsed in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Letters 1792 chiefly relating to the French Revolution some to & some from Foreigners or People abroad at the time', 3 pages 91. 'Le Sac de Paris tire du Tombeaux de Nostradamus' (Traitre Paris! pour qui rien n'est sacre'), with a note in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Given me by Miss Mostyn Edwards', with the conjugate leaf endorsed in an unidentified hand 'Le Sac de Paris', 2 pages 92(1-5). 'Alia Ornatissima Signora E.L. Piozzi' ('Donna gentil, non men cara a Apollo'), subscribed 'Scritta a [Scarskingwell?] in Yorkshire nel mere di Novembre 1795', 20 pages 93. 'Sonetto' (Tutto ITnferno invan' si scateno'), f. 1; 'Ecco Imeneo con le lucente face', headed 'Brindesi', f. Iv 94. 'Per 1'avventuraso giorno Delle Nozze seguite in Londra il 25. Luglio 1784. Degli Ornatissimi Sposi Piozzi Sonetto' ('Polveroso giacea il plettro mio'), possibly in the hand of Count Giuseppe Bossi, one page 95. 'An morte de Federigo di Prussia che guerriero, politica, filosofo, e poeta' ('II Prusso invito Spirito ch il pieda'), one page, f. 1; 'For Man that Lawless Libertine may rove', possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi; 'Cy gyt Madame la Marquise', f. Iv reversed 96. 'Piozzi mio Carissimo', subscribed in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Abbate Ravasi's parting Verses from Gab: Piozzi & his Wife at Milan' 97. 'Rispetassi complimenti alia Smagginatosi il

the Bard whose Numbers sweetly flow'), subscribed 'R Fitzpatrick' 'Psalm CIV ('With grateful strains arise my soul'), subscribed This was translated in the year 1772: but left unfinished. It was left (forgotten) in an old Bible and not found till the present year 1798', with the conjugate leaf endorsed 'Mrs Piozzi at Brynbella Denbigh Post', 2 pages 'On the Death of Richard West Esq. by Gray' ('In Vain to Me the smiling Mornings shine'), subscribed 'this is the Sonnet I was mentioning to you of Grays which you did Not recollect' 'The West— By Mr. Moore' ('A beam of tranquillity smil'd in the West'), dated 'July 18th 1806' 'Umbra tegit lapsam, praesentique imminet horae', headed 'Mr. Glasse' in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi; 'E'er yet the unreturning shadows fly', headed 'Mr. Glasse' in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi; 'Umbra tegit lapsas, praesentique imminet Horae', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, headed 'Dr. Gray'; 'Ere yet the Threatening Shade oerspread the Hour', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, headed 'Dr. Gray'; endorsed in the hand of George Henry Glasse?, 'Sun-dial Brinbella' 'In evil hour & with unhallow'd voice', 3 pages 'Ode to Genius inscribed to the young Roscius' ('Whence is that power, whose awful magic call'), with a note in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'written by some Chester Lady', 4 pages 'And, dear Ma'am you're still alive', one page Through many a land and Clime a ranger', one page 'Davidis Threnodia' ('Ergone magnanimi heroes, decus Israelis'), 3 pages 'Epilogus ad Adelphas' ('Quanta intus, turba est, quanto molamine Sudan'), subscribed 'Syrius Loquitur' 'Ah tui me signa dies honoris', 2 pages 'Integer vita scelerisque purus', with a note in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Applied to George 3d.' 'Cerdd fawl a dymuniad da i Hester Lynch isnig Acres ac Etiffedes John Salusbury a Fachygraig Esqr. a Hester ei Wraig, yw chanu a'r y Mesur a elwir y Queen's dream Neu Freuddwyd y Frenhines' ('Bonddigion lin olin gwiw raddol eu gwreiddin'), endorsed by Hester Lynch Piozzi

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zichiesto scherzevole sonetto' ('Bon venuto Ser Brasebi, come sta?'), followed by 'Le monde est plein de sottise & d'ennui', with the conjugate leaf endorsed 'Mrs Piozzi Pulteney St. Bath' 98. 'Lines sent by a Young Lady with a present of a Hat to a Boy of fifteen who had sent her the old fashioned New Year's Gift of an Orange stuck with Cloves & two eggs with a copy of Verses' ('Vincent, Your off'ring I receive'), in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed 'Jany: 5th 1823' 99. 'I sing of a Tutor renown'd', 4 pages 100. 'Parody on Mark Antony's speech at the death of Caesar' ('Friends, Keepers, Sportsmen! listen to my lay'), signed 'J.S.P.T.' and dated '14— Nov? 1834', 4 pages lOOa. 'On the death of a favorite Dog call'd Caesar who was buried by the side of a Dog named Cato at Wintley 14th. Novr. 1834' ('Here lie inurn'd beneath these stones'), signed 'J.S.P.T.', one page 101. 'On the Birthday Anniversary of John Owen Salusbury Esqr. January 7th 1826' ('Hail the natal day of Salusb'ry'), 3 pages 102. 'Fam'd for their civil and domestic Quads', one page 103. 'Dirge of A Highland chief executed after the rebellion' ('Son of the mighty and the free'), 2 pages 104. 'To you my ffair One I profess'd I Loved' 105. 'Robin Adair' ('Midnight's pale Moon shall waste') 106. 'When Mackreith dwelt in Arthurs Crew' 108. 'Certum Indice sis est' ('To Loves of Plants Who has the better Claim') 109/110. 'Is it this a wedding day' and 'For an huband to rejoice', reversed, subscribed 'Mr Bachetti's Verses on our Wedding Day'; 'Cheerful hart, religious mind', and 'May for many Years the same', possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 110. 'We to the Radicals, who drag the Car', headed 'Do you not think that this text in Isaiah might admit of this application' 111. 'Motto for the Princess Charlotta's Picture' ('Call'd from Life's gayest hopes, to join the blest') 112. The Battle o'er, the Battle won', probably in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 113. To love of Plants, which has the greater claim', possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi

114. 'My First is a Pronoun denoting Possession', charade dated 'Novbe 25th', with the answer 'History'; 'My First doth in Triumph the Conquest bear', charade dated 'Penzanze Novber 24th 1820' with the answer 'Car-pet' 117. 'Chanson. Faite a Chanteloup in 1775 par Monsr. de LTsle sur 1'air la bonne aventure augue' ('Vivent tous nos beaux esprits'), 2 pages 118. 'Je legue aux enfers Mon Genie' 119. 'Chanson' ('Dans ce beau valon'), 2 pages 120. 'Romance trouve au pied de las statue de Henri IV ('Je vais chanter au terns grasse'), 2 pages 121. 'On Louis the sixteenth' ('II ne s?ait que mourir, aimer et pardonner') 122. 'air la bonne aventure' ('vivent tous nos beaux esprits'), 3 pages 123. 'Cainus' ('Qui sim, forte rogas sum natu Maximus inter') 124. 'Occidit [injussus?] patriae qui occiderat hostes', and 'O Gives, Gives, impransi querite verum' 125. 'Sesi chiede chrio fia? nacqui fra rei', f. 1; 'Ridentem primo Zoroastrum ut vidit in ortu', subscribed 'Ex Patre Scipione Scambalo & Societate Jesu', f. Iv 126. 'Quest i il di che in nodo santo', 2 pages 127. 'Volto e Crin hai di Sultana', f. 1; 'Love lent his Darts to edge my Pen', possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, inscribed longitudinally in an unidentified hand 'Le Costituzzione dell'Ingilterra. Londra Per Giovanni Rivington 1783'; 'Ah s'il est vrai que Buffon perd les Yeux'; 'Ah! s'e ver che Buffon cieio diventa', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, f. 2; 'Madre, es so ch'alli Jasion'; 'Si demmi alquate Jue penne Amore'; 'Hai candore ad hai Aleqq—'; 'Alae volve, o pivol lago', f. 3 128. 'A Madame Piozzi' ('Felice Italia, se quanos in noi'), attributed in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'by Bertola at Verona', 4 pages 129. 'A non resiste il cuore', subscribed in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Poor Abbate Ravasi again! given to H:L:P by his own hand at Milan', one page 130. 'Peril bramato ritorno in Milano delle Loro A A. RR. Sonetto' ('Non cop'a rallegrar gli oppress! cuori'), 3 pages 131. 'Omnia legisti. Credo, scio, gaudio— verum est', one line, possibly in the hand of Hester

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Lynch Piozzi 132. 'Fredericks Fame shall be' 'While Right however will protect me' 133. 'You ask'd me charming Fair' 'Virtue at Court! cries Churchill with a Frown' 134. 'Ye Godesses Three!' 135. 'Je vo fra me pensada', one page 136. Think not Heroic Frederic's Fame' 137. 'Upon The Anniversary of Mr: & Mrs: Piozzi's Marriage July 25th 1801' (This circling period of the Nuptial Tie') 138. 'For little stock of private fame' 139. 'From Mr. Akin to his wife' ('Exhausted by her painful throes'), possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 pages 140. 'Quo Lyra laeta dedit curarum dulce Lenimen', one line only 141. 'Cum peritureus honos et Gloria Pieta Diei' 142. 'Compelled by Want or with desire of Gain' 143. 'LTupactatico famiglia', in pencil 144. 'Good Bye & How D'y do' ('One day Good bye met How d'you do'), attributed 'By William Spencer', in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 4 pages 145. 'Delay is bad and all must say', couplet only 146. 'Due tibi tristitiam vel quae tibi gaudia donent' 147. 'For Thee, dear Maid, at early Dawn', subscribed 'Henry Siddons'; 'Lines to a departed Sister' ('Ah! has the Year then pass'd away') 148. 'Such is the Lot of Man! Up Life's Steep Road', with note 'Savary's Sonnet on View of Mount

Prose Here also, MSS survive from virtually every stage of the literary career. Encouraged by her admiring family and her tutor, Dr Arthur Collier, the young Hester Lynch Salusbury's precocity is demonstrated by such projects as the translation of The Life of Cervantes' already mentioned, ThH 943, but also fragments of a translation of Don Quixote itself, ThH 1024. Another of these early MS translations from Spanish, 'Dissertation on the God Endovellicus', an account of an early Iberian deity, ThH 928, carries an interesting comment inscribed years afterwards by Thrale herself: This was a strange thing for a Chi Id to do'. A particularly important MS for the prose is the collection of drafts and fragments now bound together as John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 629. It contains widely disparate material, evidently written at different times: two short dramatic fragments, ThH 899-900; miscellaneous memoranda, ThH 955-64; lists of books, letters, poems, plays, and paintings, ThH 945-52; notes on the Bible and on ecclesiastical history, even astrology, ThH 972-3 and 979. More interesting, however, are those items which reflect Piozzi's preoccupations in her later years. Some notes on the spelling-forms and etymology of the names Elmina and Elvira, ThH 978, look forward to the late work on the etymology of Christian names, 'Lyford Redivivus'; and ThH 1004 is a draft of an open letter written in answer to hostile reviews of Piozzi's historical work, Retrospection. 'Fragment of a Scene near Naples', is a melodramatic episode composed after a wager laid among her literary friends during her stay in Italy, ThH 941. A fair copy of the fragment, ThH 942, was copied into Piozziana, II, nearly twenty years afterwards.

[?]'; 'He saw Mankind by Vice encrusted', subscribed 'Hermit'; followed by quotation from Massinger, and, reversed, a note that the last stanza of William Mason's elegy on his wife was composed by Thomas Gray; all in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi 150. 'It hurts not me, that Gray, as Burke's Assesor'; 'Oft' have I wonder'd that on Irish Ground', headed 'Mrs. Woodman presents Compts. to Mrs. Piozzi & has the Pleasure of sending the Verses she desired. Mrs. & Miss Woodman beg their best Compts. to Miss Thrale' 151. 'On the Marriage of Miss C. Thrale' ('Curb vagrant Muse thy daring Flight'), possibly in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi, subscribed by her 'I wonder much who wrote this Stuff— It was Miss Moore gave it me' 152. 'My first is a poor little elf to the sight', charade, subscribed 'at Bath— May 3d by W S'

Even more important, perhaps, are three items at the beginning of the MS, ThH 1081-3, which have been conjecturally identified as the surviving leaves of a journal used to record the sayings and biographical anecdotes of Samuel Johnson. Clifford, p. 123, draws attention to an entry in James Bos well's diary for 8 April

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copy of Retrospection are also extant, ThH 1006 and 1008-14; but it is evident that some of the assorted material in the commonplace book 'Minced Meat for Pyes' was collected for Retrospection; in fact this commonplace book may have been begun particularly with this end in view. For a detailed description of 'Minced Meat for Pyes', see below. Piozzi's last major literary enterprise was the still unpublished 'Lyford Redivivus or A Grandam's Garrulity'. It was intended to replace as a reference work Lyford's Etymology of Christian Names (London, 1665). According to Clifford, p. 436, a first draft was offered to a publisher in the summer of 1814, but his coolness led Piozzi to rewrite the work. The MSS of both these versions, ThH 953-4, are now in the collection of Lady Eccles. The revised version was seen early in January 1815 by Edward Mangin, who offered to find a publisher, but with no better success. Probably the publishers had been warned off by the severely adverse reviews of British Synonomy and Retrospection, both of which had been criticised for their highly personal, inconsequential style and for frankly questionable etymological and philological theories.

Two further short fragments in John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 629, relate to the published Anecdotes; one is an autograph note apparently intended for the second edition, ThH 909; the other consists of notes upon and extracts from the printed text, in an unidentified hand, ThH 912. Anecdotes was begun in Italy, where Piozzi received the news of Johnson's death, and although hampered by the lack of Johnson's letters and other papers left in London, she had taken abroad with her MS Thraliana, and was able to draw upon the first two volumes as a source of material. An autograph fair copy of Anecdotes is in the Pierpont Morgan, ThH 908, but it is agreed by scholars that this cannot be the MS despatched to the publishers from Italy, because it lacks the usual markings of printer's copy.

Hester Lynch Piozzi's Edition of Samuel Johnson's Letters Following the success of Anecdotes, Piozzi began to collect materials for Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1788). The original MSS of Johnson's letters to her, which were apparently used as printer's copy, are now widely dispersed by sale; so too are the MSS of his letters to Hill Boothby and to Francesco Sastres. But fortunately other MS materials relating to this edition can be found together in the John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 583. This includes draft passages of the Preface, ThH 1028-30, the afterword, ThH 1033-4, 1036-8, and texts of all but one of Thrale's letters to Johnson which were included in the edition. Other items are her transcript of the Latin poem, 'Verses addressed to Dr Lawrence, composed by Dr Johnson, as he lay confined with an inflamed Eye', together with her own translation beginning 'Condemn'd to shun bright Sol's reviving ray'; the former has been given an entry on the grounds that it constitutes a source document for the edition, ThH 1039, and the latter has been listed in the Verse section, ThH 688. The transcript in Thrale's hand of an elegy on Hill Boothby composed by her nephew Sir Brooke Boothby the younger, and made available by him for this edition, has also been given an entry as as a source document, ThH 1035. Johnson, Letters (1788) published for the first time translations of five verse

An analogous relationship exists between Piozzi's later travel book, Observations, and the two journals which she kept during this same period abroad. As well as keeping up entries in MS Thraliana, she recorded experiences specifically related to the Piozzis' travels in the 'Italian Journey 1784', ThH 1080, and the 'German Journey 1786', ThH 1079. Some further comment will be made on these two travelogues below. What is relevant to the immediate discussion is that their contents were rewritten as the draft of Observations in seven folio notebooks, ThH 981-7, which now form John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 619. From these in turn was made the autograph fair copy sent to the printer, ThH 988-90. Both Piozzi's corrections and the marks made by the printer in casting off appear throughout its three large volumes, which are now John Rylands Library, Eng. MSS 620-2. Of Piozzi's subsequent works, British Synonomy and Retrospection, the autograph fair copies as sent to the printer are also both extant, ThH 918-9 and 1015-6 respectively. Successive drafts and an earlier revised fair

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metres from the De Consolatione Philosophies of Boethius, the joint compositions of Johnson and Thrale, and MSS of these are also listed in the Verse section. Four of the collaborative translations can be found in John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 538, ThH 695-6, 701-8, 712-16, together with some other poems from the De Consolatione Philosophic translated entirely by Thrale, albeit at Johnson's encouragement, ThH 690 -4,697-700, 709-11. Thrale's transcripts of three translations made by Johnson alone, also in Eng. MS 538, have been given entries as source documents, ThH 1041-3. Another set of MSS of the Boethius translations is reportedly owned by Lady Eccles (see Four Oaks Library, p. 206); this may be the same set which was mentioned by Clifford, p. 58n, as in the possession of Mr L. Fleming, Bognor Regis.

Diaries and Notebooks The earliest of Mrs Thrale's journals which has survived entire is 'The Children's Book, or rather Family Book', ThH 1046, now in the collection of Lady Eccles, and edited by her in The Thrales of Streatham Park (Cambridge, MA, 1977), pp. 21-218. This octavo MS of 94 leaves was begun 17 September 1766 and continued until the close of 1778. It is very much a record of the domestic life of the Thrales, containing an emotional and often painful account of Thrale's frequent pregnancies, the illnesses of her children, and the deaths of eight of her children before even attaining youth.

All the collaborative translations in Eng. MS 538 are in Thrale's hand throughout, with Johnson's share indicated by underlining. Only the MS of 'Book III Metre 3', ThH 704 is actually in both their hands. This is bound into a copy of Johnson, Letters (1788) originally owned by Samuel Lysons, and now at Dr Johnson's House, London. This copy is of great interest in that is an apparently unique example of the uncancelled state, and shows that it was originally intended to include Thrale's Boethius translations as well as those written in collaboration; their cancellation was very likely to make the edition more exclusively Johnsonian. Also six additional letters from Johnson to the Thrales which appear in this copy, were subsequently cancelled.

Also owned by Lady Eccles is the 'Welsh Journal', ThH 1090, which records a tour undertaken by the Thrales and their eldest daughter 'Queeney' in company with Samuel Johnson, commencing 5 July and concluding 30 September 1774. The quarto MS of 48 leaves was purchased by Quaritch in the Sotheby's sale of 4 June 1908, and subsequently sold to A.M. Broadley, who published it in his Doctor Johnson and Mrs. Thrale (London, 1910). Clifford, p. 114n, remarks that 'comparison with the original manuscript... shows that Broadley's editing is not entirely trustworthy'. The MS includes the text of one poem, beginning 'To Shenstone in his grot retired', ThH 671. The same party, with the addition of Queeney's Italian tutor, Giuseppe Baretti, made a trip to France the following year, and once again Thrale kept a journal, ThH 1078. This 'French Journal', a quarto MS of 74 leaves, which covers the period 15 September to 11 November 1775, is now in the John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 617. It contains a transcript in Thrale's hand of Samuel Johnson's 'French Distichs', listed in his section as JoS 16.

Piozzi's editing has been discussed in two articles by R.W. Chapman. In 'Mrs Piozzi's Omissions from Johnson's Letters to Thrales', RES, 22 (1946), 17-28, he notes that Piozzi had access to some 85 letters from Johnson which were not used, including the six set up but later cancelled. Two important omissions are an undated letter in French, clearly written by Johnson in an overwrought state of mind, and his notorious first letter to Mrs Thrale on her remarriage, 2 July 1784. Tact and decorum also account for the suppression of some passages in the published texts, and Chapman also notes that Piozzi cut Johnson's praise of Bos well from a letter of 19 June 1775. Although comparison with extant MSS shows that Piozzi is not completely trustworthy, Chapman accepts the likely authenticity of her texts of those Johnson letters for which no MS survives. On the other hand, in his later 'Mrs. Thrale's Letters to Johnson Published by Mrs Piozzi in 1788', RES, 24 (1948), 5861, Chapman called into question the genuineness of Thrale's letters to Johnson as published in 1788. Of the MS letters in John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 538, only

MS Thra liana It has already been explained that a few of the fragments in John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 629, may be the

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remains of two journals begun before 1770: a journal of miscellaneous anecdotes and a journal of Johnsonian anecdotes. These appear to have been superceded by MS Thraliana, the commonplace book and diary which Thrale kept for over 32 years. According to the now familiar account in the first entry of 15 September 1776, Henry Thrale presented his wife with six quarto notebooks as a repository for fugitive verse, observations, and anecdotes, which was to be given 'the pompous title of Thraliana'. When she concluded the sixth volume on 30 March 1809, the diarist would remark that her first husband's gift ended with her recording the death of her second, Gabriel Piozzi.

derive very probably from printed sources, and their variant readings can be accounted for simply by inaccurate transcription or quotation from memory. There are two important exceptions, however. Thrale's transcript of 'The first Copy of Pope's Universal Prayer', entered in MS Thraliana, 1 September 1779, includes variant stanzas accepted as authentic in the Twickenham edition, despite the scepticism of the previous generation of editors, Elwin and Courthope; it is listed in the Pope section, PoA 341. Also her transcript of Gray's song, Thyrsis, when we parted, swore' predates the first publication of the poem by seven months. Its variant readings include the first line 'Thyrsis when he left me swore', and Mrs Piozzi records that she came by the poem through Gray's friend Norton Nicholls. It is collated in The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith, edited by Roger Lonsdale (London, 1968), pp. 242-3, and is listed in the Gray section, GrT 131. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the poem clearly influenced what appears to be Piozzi's own composition, 'Thyrsis vow'd he would be here', which is found in 'Minced Meat for Pyes' and in MS Piozziana, ThH 627-8.

Most of MS Thraliana, I, and a substantial part of II, are taken up with anecdotes and recorded sayings of Samuel Johnson. Much of this material is entered undated, and may have been transcribed from the earlier collection of Johnsonian anecdotes. Clifford has suggested that Thrale gradually destroyed the early journals as she copied their contents into MS Thraliana, which in its turn became a source for Anecdotes. As well as Johnsonian anecdotes, MS Thraliana is a source for poetry, both Thrale's own and her transcripts of others' verse, including some important poems by Johnson, but also other literary friends such as Herbert Lawrence, Charles Burney, William Parsons, and Robert Merry. As regards Thrale's own poems, it should be remarked that their date of entry does not necessarily reflect their date of composition. Some poems were indeed entered within a few days of being composed, but others are assigned a date, either in MS Thraliana itself or in another MS such as 'Juvenile Performances', which shows that they predate their entry in MS Thraliana sometimes by as many as fifteen years. In fact as already remarked, it seems likely that Thrale transcribed many of the poems in MS Thraliana from the bundles now bound together as John Rylands Library, Eng. MSS 647 and 656.

The poems noted below are either the originals of poems which Thrale translated, or are poems by her immediate friends. Although some of the latter, James Beattie, or the 'Delia Cruscans' Robert Merry and William Parsons, are writers of distinctly minor gift, their verse does have a genuine period interest; and the transcripts of poems by Samuel Johnson are of exceptional textual importance. MS Thraliana, I p. 17, Bennet Langton, 'Here Colas lies depriv'd of Breath' p. 18, Elizabeth Carter, Though infant Years no pompous Honours claim' p. 19, James Evans, 'Quam lubrica Res, et caduca' 'Quicquid placet Mortale non placet diu' p. 21, Arthur Collier, 'In Diem Vicessimum Septimum lanuarii Hester Lynch Salusburiae Natalem 1763' ('Hoc redente die, referst dum frigora Tepus') p. 21, Arthur Collier, 'Dum varias Artes, varias Methodosque placendi' pp. 23-4, Arthur Collier, 'Quodque suo Simili dum gaudet; conscia Virtus' p. 24, Arthur Collier, 'eis TOV nOMDEION

Much of the verse scattered throughout MS Thraliana consists of quotations from Thrale's wide reading in English poetry and drama. Extracts from Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden appear frequently, and among the authors of her own century, from Gray, Matthew Green, Pope (the translation of Homer, An Essay on Man, An Essay on Criticism, 'Eloisa to Abelard', Moral Essays, the epistles to Robert, Earl of Oxford, 'To Augustus', and 'To Dr Arbuthnot', The Dunciad), Prior (especially 'Alma'), Swift (especially 'Cadenus and Vanessa' and Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift), Thomson, Young, and the writers of the so-called 'she-tragedies', Southerne and Rowe. No attempt has been made to offer a full list of these extracts here. They

p. 24, George Harris, 'Here what remains of Pompey lies'

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p. 32, Rev William Parker, 'Oh if all Dogs but thus could write' p. 33, Rev William Parker, 'Occidit heu tandem, multos quae occidit Amantes', with an English version, 'Cloe at length expires— by whom' p. 33, Rev William Parker, 'The reeking Dagger from her wounded Side' p. 33, Rev William Parker, 'Sighing' ('Tell me gentle heaving Sigh') p. 33, Rev William Parker, 'In Amicum suum Stanyfordum et Simiam ejus' ('Visere— lianum accersor Cecropithecum'), with an English version, To see a Monkey I'm invited' pp. 34-7, Rev William Parker, To Miss Salusbury— Express from Parnassus' pp. 51-2, Sir James Marriott, 'Revois grand Frederic, le passe, le present', with an English version, 'Survey the present and revolve the past' pp. 52-3, Sir James Marriott, 'Vers Libres au sujet des Moeurs D'Hollande addresses a Mademoiselle Salusbury' ('Avez vous de penchant pour les Anglois?') pp. 53-4, Sir James Marriott, 'Verses from Ariosto addressed to Miss Salusbury' ('Ladies of old have great Atchievements done') p. 67, Samuel Johnson, ['Epitaph on Hogarth'] (The hand of him here torpid lies'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 11 p. 82, Hester Maria ('Queeney') Thrale, 'Song from Metastasio' ('When the Rivers haughty Wave') pp. 88-89, Sir William Weller Pepys, 'Give me to bless Domestick Life' p. 95, Sir William Weller Pepys, 'Verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe' ('Sweet Greville! whose too feeling Heart') p. 97, Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Silence in Love betrays more Woe' pp. 97-8, Giuseppe Baretti, 'Sonetto' ('Un Asino che avea tanto intelletto') p. 122, 'One Century it grows, and one it stays' pp. 129-31, Sally Fielding, To Miss Salusbury' ('No weed in Nature's Garden Grows') p. 154, William Hale, 'Chaste Arria from her Breast the Dagger drew' p. 154, William Hale, 'Not all like Cobham can enjoy the Dome' pp. 155-6, William Hale, 'Parody' (To hunt or not to hunt! that is the Question,—') p. 182, Charles Churchill, 'Come then cold Monitor half Foe half Friend' p. 203, 'A Riding House was given by Hyde' p. 204, 'Afraid of pamper'd and high mettled Steeds'

MS Thraliana, II p. 10, Samuel Johnson, 'Verses... written at the request of a Gentleman to whom a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle' ('What hopes, what terrors does thy gift create'), [cutting from a journal or newspaper] p. 89, Samuel Johnson, ['Lines written in ridicule of Thomas Warton's poems'] ('Wheresoe'er I turn my View'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 28 p. 89, Samuel Johnson, ['Parody of Thomas Warton'] ('Hermit hoar in solemn Cell'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 64 p. 89, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of a distich on the Duke of Modena'] ('If at your coming— Princes disappear'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 97 p. 90, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of verses from a French pantomime'] ('I am Cassander, come down from the Sky'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 129 p. 90, Samuel Johnson, ['Burlesque of lines by Lope de Vega'] ('If the Man who Turneps cries'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 3 p. 90, Samuel Johnson, ['Parody of Henry Brooke'] ('Who drives fat Oxen should himself be fat'),

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listed in the Johnson section, JoS 63 p. 91, Giuseppe Baretti, 'Viva Viva la Padrona!' pp. 91, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of lines in Baretti's "Easy Phraseology'"] ('Long may live my lovely Hetty!'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 120 pp. 91-2, Samuel Johnson, [To Mrs Thrale on completing her thirty-fifth year'] ('Oft in Danger yet alive'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 93 p. 92, Pietro Bonaventura Trepassi Metastasio, 'Deh! se pacermi vuoi' p. 92, Samuel Johnson, [Translations from Metastasio: I'] ('Would you hope to gain my heart'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 145 p. 92, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of the beginning of "Rio Verde'"] ('Glassy Water, Glassy Water'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 126 p. 93, Pietro Bonaventura Trepassi Metastasio, 'Parlata D'Emirena al falso Cortegiano Aquilio' ('Ah! tu in Corte invecchiasti, e giurerei') pp. 93-4, Samuel Johnson, 'Emirena's Speech in the Opera of Adriano by Metastasio' ('Grown old in Courts, thou art not surely one'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 146 p. 94, Samuel Johnson, ['On Lord Anson'] ('Gratum Animum laudo; qui debuit omnia Vends'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 54 p. 94, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of Dryden's epigram on Milton'] ('Quos laudet Vates, Graius, Romanus at Anglus'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 104 p. 94, Isaac de Benserade, Theatre des Ris et des Pleurs' p. 94, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of lines by Benserade'] ('In Bed we laugh, in Bed we cry'), listed in the Johnson, JoS 119 p. 95, Samuel Johnson, ['Motto for a goat'] ('Perpetui ambita bis Terra, premia lactis'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 33 p. 95, Samuel Johnson, 'In Theatre' (Tertii verso quater orbe Lustri'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 23 p. 97, Samuel Johnson, ['Ode addressed to Mrs. Thrale'] ('Permeo terras, ubi nuda rape'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 41 pp. 98-9, Charles Burney,- To Mrs Thrale on her presenting the Author with a Gold Pen' ('Such Implements though fine and splendid') pp. 100-1, Charles Burney, 'I steer the Poet like a Polar Star' p. 105, George Berkeley, 'Westward the Course of Empire takes its way'

p. 116, Joseph Trapp, 'Our Royal Master saw with heedful Eyes' p. 116, Sir William Browne, 'Our King to Oxford sent his Troop of Horse' p. 117, Herbert Lawrence, 'Ye Females of the Feather'd Choir' pp. 123-4, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of Anacreon's "Dove"'] ('Lovely Courier of the Sky'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 101 pp. 129-33, Sir William Jones, 'Saul & David Ode' ('Saul by a shady Plantane sate') p. 144, James Grainger, Sugar Cane, lines 1-2 p. 157, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 'The Lover: a Ballad' ('But when the long hours of Public are past') p. 160, pseudo-Rochester, 'Sin then dear Gill" pp. 171-3, Thomas Wilson, 'Dr Thomas to Doctor Parker— 1761' ('At Wit iratis Diis to aim') pp. 185-6, John Paterson, 'When Daphne fled Apollo's Arms' MS Thraliana, III p. 3-4, 'Stanzas by Voltaire' ('Si vous voulez que J'aime encore') pp. 5-6, Fulke Greville, 'Me to Love's Joys would you invite' pp. 9-10, Sir John Hawkesworth, 'Stanzas from Voltaire', ('If still the Lover I must play') p. 35, Charles Burney, The Monster Death keeps full in Sight' p. 36, Herbert Lawrence, Thus to her Psetus faithful Arria said' p. 59, Sir James Marriott, 'Man flattring Man, not always can prevail' p. 61, Arthur Murphy, 'A pleasing Form, where ev'ry Grace combin'd' p. 63, 'A Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd' (Thou Caroline (he says) those Shades invite') p. 68, James Grainger, 'Ode on Solitude', lines 57-64 ('When you struck the tender String') p. 81, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, lines 427-8 ('When Trade's proud Empire sweeps to swift decay') p. 82, Charles Burney, 'Musicorum et Cantorum magna est distantia', together with an English version, 'Wide's the Distance & Condition' p. 84, Charles Burney, 'Honest Praise you may parry as much as you will' p. 99, Fran§ois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 'Ce mortel prof ana tout les Talens divers' p. 99, William Greenwood, 'On Mrs Greenwood of

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Warwick' ('Oh Death! oh Death! thou hast cut down') p. 106, 'Why we love and why we hate', unidentified quotation? pp. 125-6, Samuel Johnson, ['Translations from the 'Medea' of Euripides: II'] ('Err shall they not, who resolute explore'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 143 p. 126, Samuel Johnson, ['Parody of Thomas Warton'] ('Hermit hoar in solemn Cell!'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 65 p. 126, Samuel Johnson, ['Parodies of 'The Hermit of Warkworth', II'] (The tender Infant meek and mild'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 61 p. 127, Elizabeth Burney, 'As Water though Simple will boil o'er the Pot' pp. 137-8, Alexander Pope, 'The Universal Prayer' ('Father of all, in every Age'), listed in the Pope section, PoA 341 p. 144, 'Great Knight thy Fame we must confess' p. 145, Charles Selwin, 'Drawing to fourscore Years I may' p. 147, Charles Burney, 'Farewell the sweet, the ever blest Abode', preceded by the French original, 'Adieu playsant pays de France', attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots p. 153, Samuel Johnson, ['On hearing Miss Thrale deliberate about her hat'] ('Wear the Gown, & wear the Hat'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 53 p. 178, Sir Richard Jebb, 'To do his Wife's dead Corps peculiar Honour' pp. 179-80, Sir George Baker, 'In reliquias Mariae Vanbuchell novo miraculo conservatas, et a Marito suo superstite cultu quotidiano adoratas' ('Hie exsors tumuli jacet') p. 181, Alexander Pope, adapted Thrale, 'Call round my Casks each Object of Desire' p. 190, 'Down down the precipice' p. 191, 'When Mackreith dwelt 'mong Arthur's Crew' p. 200, Clement Marot, 'Etrenne a Helly' ('Dixhuit Ans je vous donne') p. 200, [?] Mitchell, 'Thralia, cui Pater ingenium donavit Apollo' p. 202, Sophy Thrale, 'Fairest Product of the Field' pp. 205-6, Samuel Johnson, ['A short song of congratulation'] ('Long expected one and Twenty'), listed in the Johnson section, as JoS 72 p. 214, George Bubb Dodington, 'Ode to Dr Young' (Take what Friendship can impart'), and 'Love your Country, wish it well' p. 221, Alexander Pope, adapted, 'Range undisturb'd among the hostile Crew'

fly-leaf, Fanny Burney (autograph), 'Soon as I saw those beaut'ous Eyes' pp. 26-7, There was a Man in Switzerland' p. 31, George Graham, 'From Telemachus a Masque' ('—Nobler Souls/Tir'd with the tedious and disrelish'd Good') p. 40, 'Why dost not rise as from a plenteous Feast?' p. 40, Alexander Pope, adapted Thrale, 'I'll do what Jebb and Pepys advise' pp. 43-56, Charles Burney, 'St Peter and the Minstrel A Tale' (The Bard who wishes to amuse') p. 57, attrib. Samuel Wesley the elder, 'Long Tedious Years may neither moan' p. 59, Giovanni Povoleri, 'Sognai su'l far dell' Alba, & mi parea' pp. 60-1, Christopher Smart, 'At length Mother Gunter the Gods hear my Prayr' p. 64, Peter Cox, 'Did he who thus inscrib'd this Wall' pp. 64-5, Peter Cox, 'Vile Potabis modicis Sabinum Cantharis. B. I. Ode 20. To David Garrick Esqre' (Tom brings me word from Hampton Court') p. 67, 'Est nihilo nihilum fieri negat iste Libellus' pp. 71-2, Jonathan Odell, 'Like a Newton sublimely he soar'd' p. 79, 'Sonetto dal Povoleri, alia Sigra Thrale' (Thralia gentil, che qual Astro ridente') pp. 87-8, Samuel Johnson, ['On the death of Dr. Robert Levet'] ('Condemn'd to Hope's delusive Mine'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 58 p. 89, Anne Hunter, 'North American Death Song' (The Sun sets in Night, and the Stars shun the Day') p. 91, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 'Boy bring my Flow'rs & bind my Hair', line 1 only p. 94, Sir Richard Jebb, 'Lift on high the Cup divine' p. 96, 'As I walked by myself, I talk'd to myself p. 100, Sir Richard Jebb, To do his Wife's dead Corps peculiar honour' p. 100, Samuel Johnson, 'Emirena's Speech to Aquilius' ('Grown old in Courts thou art not surely one'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 147 p. 101, Samuel Johnson, 'Hie conditur quod reliquum est. Henrici Thrale' ('Qui res seu civiles, sive domesticas ita egit') p. 106, There's not one of all my brave Boys but would rather' p. 108, [Pierre Roy], 'Verses written under some Figures skaiting' ('Sur un mince Chrystal L'Hyver conduit leurs Pas') p. 108, George Selwin, 'On a thin Chrystal how they sport & toy'

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p. 108, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of French verses on skating: I'] ('O'er Ice the rapid Skaiter flies'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 105 p. 108, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of French verses on skating: IF] ('On crackling Ice o'er Gulphs profound'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 108 p. 117, Herbert Lawrence, 'What present my Passion admired', couplet only p. 120, W[illiam] W[eller] Pepys, 'Swift o'er the Level how the Skaiters slide' p. 120, Lucas Pepys, 'O'er the Ice as o'er Pleasure you lightly should glide' p. 122, Richard Owen Cambridge, 'One Apple we hear was the ruin of Adam' p. 153, 'In questa Casa trovarete' p. 153, William Seward, This poor little Town has no little to brag', preceded by Latin original pp. 155-8, Samuel Johnson, 'Messia'(Tollite concentum, Solymaeae tollite Nymphae'), listed in the Johnson section, JoS 122 p. 166, Matthew Dobson, 'Bleak Winter spreads her Icy Plains;— and swift' pp. 167-8, To Melancholy— By a Boy of 17 years old' ('Pale Maid! whose Frown and Brow severe') p. 169, 'Passe gentelle Thought to her whom I love best' p. 173, Henry Harington, 'Fifty one! and the Doctor remaining to throw' p. 174, Matthew Dobson, This Wound I feel not, faithful Arria cried' pp. 177-8, The three Black Crows' (Two honest Tradesman meeting in the Strand') p. 187, 'And boldly venture on those Realms unknown', couplet only, an unidentified quotation? p. 193, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 'Pres d'une Maitresse nouvelle', with an English version, 'Great Jupiter each Form & Shape had try'd' p. 194, Abbate Bossi, 'Sonetto' ('DTnsubria il Genio, lieto oltre 1'usato') p. 204, 'Come lenta, lenta, lenta' p. 206, Abate Bossi, 'Brindisi' ('A questa Donna Gloria ed Onor del Sesso') p. 206, Abate Ravasi, Tu nulla sai allor quando nascesti' p. 207, Abate Ravasi, 'Quando la Madre tua ti partori' pp. 210-11, William Parsons, [To Mrs. Piozzi, placed under a Print of Dr. Johnson in her Dining Room'] ('From Earth retir'd and all its empty Cares') p. 214, Abate Ravasi, 'Cesare o bene o male riforma tutto', one line only p. 227, Anselmo Artizza, 'Redde Aquilam Cesari, Francorum lilia Regi'

p. 226, Leonard Chappelow, 'Pleasure's slippery Paths when Adventurers try' p. 251, 'Distichon' ('Si Pater est Adam, et Mater fuit omnibus Eva') p. 254, William Boycott, 'Oh rail not at Custom my love-stricken Fair' p. 256, Abate Ravasi, 'Piozzi mio Carissimo' p. 262, Abate Bossi, 'Immatura perij; sed tu felicior annos', with an Italian version, 'Dalle tue Braccia, in verde Etade il Fato' p. 262, Ausonius, 'Infelix Dido! nulli bene nupta Marito', with a French translation, 'Pauvre Didon! ou t'areduite' p. 262, Scipione Scambato, 'Sichei merens obitu Sidonia Dido' p. 263, Abate Bossi, 'Povera Elisa! cui 1'iniqua Sorte' p. 263, Don Giuseppe Bossi, 'Giace in quest'Urna un Chiacceron Serrato' p. 264, Don Giuseppe Bossi, 'Ah Diana infelice al par che bella' p. 264, Abate Aurelio Bertola de' Giorgio, 'Una Lucertoletta' p. 265, Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, lines 295-6 ('But his peaceful Day Benevolence endears') p. 267, Marchese d'Araciel, 'Misera Dido! fra i nuziali Ardori' p. 267, Giovanni Battista Guarini, 'o sfortunata Dido!' p. 267, Samuel Johnson, 'Liber ut esse velim suasisti pulchra Maria', listed in the Johnson section, JoS 81 p. 267, Marchese d'Araciel, 'Perche di Liberia nutra il desio' p. 267, Abate Bossi, 'Che libero lo fossi pur vorresti' p. 271, Abate Ravasi, 'Misera Dido! che fra gl'Amor ti struggi' p. 271, Abate Ravasi, 'Dido! a qual Marito serbar gl'onori?' p. 272, 'Ah s'il est vrai que Buffon perd les Yeux' p. 272, Don Giuseppe Bossi, 'Ah s'e ver che Buffon cieco diventa' p. 272, Don Giuseppe Bossi, T'arresta Oh Passagier! e col tuo Pianto' p. 272, 'Written by Mr Voltaire under a Cupid' ('Qui que to sois, voicy ton Maistre') p. 272, Abate Bettolini or Bettorini, 'Qual che tu sia, il tuo Signor sta qui' p. 273, 'A Louis 16: Homme' ('Louis! 1'Indigent que ta Bonte protege') p. 273, Traduzione dall'Abate Bossi' ('II Mendico da tua Bonta protetto')

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MS Thraliana, V p. 7, 'Bid her sigh on from day to day' p. 30, Professor Villa, 'L'Anima non voleva, 1'anima altera' p. 37, Sir John Hawkesworth, 'Life, an Ode' ('Who can the future's Fogs dispell') p. 47, 'Strong as Necessity, She starts away', couplet only, an unidentified quotation? p. 49, William Hayley, There are you say— God bless the People' p. 50, [A.B., 'On reading Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes'] ('In these few Pages strongly marked we find') p. 51, Sir William Brown, 'In G:B: Medicum et Equitem auratam' ('Te tandem tuus Orcus habet, te Civibus Orci'), translated by Herbert Lawrence as 'Hell at length's in possession of Doctor G.B.' p. 53, William Parsons, 'Says William to Thomas take that Axe away' p. 54, William Parsons, 'When first thy Tragedy I view'd' p. 56, Francesco Sastres, 'Vano e il suon del Lusinghier', translation of Mrs Piozzi's Song for Richmond House p. 70, Robert Merry, 'One endless Now stands o'er th'eventful Stream' p. 82, Erasmus Darwin, 'Ode written on the River Derwent in a romantic Valley near its Source' ('Derwent! what Scenes thy wand'ring Waves behold!') p. 100, Bertie Greatheed, The Regent, IH.i ('Our's is the Glance/That can peer deeply in the Hearts of Men') p. 100, Gorilla, 'Miei Signori lo vi presento' p. 117, Tuneful Poet! Britain's Glory!' p. 120, Major Barry, 'Daughter of regal York's luxuriant Stem' p. 128, 'For what's the worth of any Thing', couplet only, an unidentified quotation? p. 147, William Siddons, 'Her little Stock of private Fame' p. 147, William Siddons, 'Delay is bad, and men must say' p. 153, Thomas Gray, Thyrsis when he left me swore', listed in the Gray section, GrT 131 p. 172, James Beattie, The Minstrel, Book I, stanza 16 (The Neighbours star'd & gap'd, yet bless'd the Lad') pp. 188-90, Thomas Moore, 'Dear Helena, Since in thy sapient Brain the fancy plays' pp. 191-2, Thomas Moore, The fervour of a Father's Love'

MS Thraliana, VI p. 13, Elizabeth Trefusis, 'Had the Ancients presumptuo[u]sly offered to raise' p. 14, Elizabeth Trefusis, The first with flowing Language charms' p. 28, Lord Deerhurst, (from Voltaire) 'Auroram revocate invisa Crepuscula Vitae' p. 29, Lord Deerhurst, (from the Abbe Lamoignon) 'Quid prodest Annis mox Octaginta peractis' p. 34, James Beavor, 'Reply' ('Where there's much to admire, and little to blame') p. 37, Marquis of Salisbury, 'Poor little Tommy felt a Pain' p. 39, 'Si le nom de L' Amour belle Iris vous fait peur' p. 41, 'Cy git le Pere, cy git la Mere' p. 46, Leonard Chappelow, 'Qui colet (says Martial)— facit ille Deum' ('Not Singleton that carves the lifeless Clod') p. 49, Samuel Johnson, [Translation of lines in Baretti's "Easy Phraseolgy'"] ('Long may live my lovely Hetty'), lines 1-2 only p. 51, 'Fye Bozzy! Hector and talk big!' p. 69, 'How curious 'tis young Cupid should decree' p. 72, Duke de Ossuna, attrib., 'Quisiere aunqque soy Chico' p. 74, Sir William Jones, 'On Parent Knees a naked newborn Child' p. 74, The Man who most adores A Lady's Charms'

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pp. 74 and 77, 'It hurts not me that Grey as Burke's assessor' pp. 74 and 77, T. Woodman, 'Oft have we wonder'd that on Irish Ground' pp. 75-6, Jeffrey Ekins, 'Exhausted by her painful Throes' pp. 81-2, 'Plant, Plant the Tree' ('See, See, they come the Myriads come') p. 84, Peter Pindar, 'Masquerade Verses' ('A wandring Gypsey Sir, am I'), tipped to the edge of the page p. 86, 'I never hear the Sound of thy glad Bells' p. 90, 'By Clay & Dirt obtained his Pelf p. 98, 'Mes Amis! quelle Bete!' p. 101, 'Pro fide teneo sana/Qua; docet Anglicana' pp. 107-8, Robert Dealtry, 'Amicable, Amical— Friendly' (Their Difference fair Critic! you point to our View') p. 108, 'Laus tua non tua fraus virtus non copia rerum' p. 110, 'Who if he will be free from Night-Alarms', an unidentified quotation? p. 117, William Parsons, 'Your Brother, skilled in Politicks and Law' p. 123, William Parsons, 'In Times like these, when Widows, Orphans— weep' p. 127, 'Our Passions sicken, and our Pleasures cloy', couplet only, unidentified quotation? p. 135, [?] Clarke, 'Let Blair and Sheridan unite' p. 137, William Siddons, 'Her little Stock of private Fame' p. 146, [Leonard Chappelow], 'In these blest Shades We two maintain' p. 168, James Beattie, The Hermit, stanza 3 ('Now gliding far off on the Verge of the Sky') p. 174, comte de Boufflers ('Je ne diray point que J'aime') p. 180, Richard Graves, 'Facit Indignatio Versus' ('From earliest Youth the Love of Science taught') p. 181, 'In pray'r devout, attentive to the Word' p. 182, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, line 172, ('When Winter lingring chills the Lap of May') p. 184, 'Rex Lex et Pontifex!' p. 186, Anna Seward, 'Down yon wild Vales triumphant Deva borne' p. 191, 'Here lies pretty Charlotte' p. 203, 'Tho' envious old Age strives in vain to impair me' p. 203, Sophia Lee, 'Say what is Love? a fond DayDream' p. 205, 'Q'une Femme parle sans Langue' p. 208, 'If as it still is understood' p. 208, Myddleton?, 'This Circling Period of your

nuptial Hour' pp. 216-19, 'The Mammoth' ('Soon as the Deluge ceased to pour') p. 222, William Clarges, 'Sol's setting Ray invidious Night denies' p. 222, George Henry Glasse, 'Ere yet the unreturning Shadows fly' p. 225, George Henry Glasse, 'George and Charlotte were lost in our William & Mary' p. 225, George Henry Glasse, 'Give & take. G:H: Glasse to E.B.' ('Give me to stop my flowing Tears') p. 225, 'Epigram on Command' ('& dost thou Nymph compel my lays') p. 226, George Henry Glasse, 'Any Thing' ('On a Subject so copious commanded to Rhyme') p. 232, Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, lines 239-40 ('Th'encumber'd Oar scarce leaves the dreaded Coast') p. 232, Soames Jenyns, 'The Modern Fine Lady', lines 87-8, 94-5 ('Severely humbled to her OneHorse-Chair') p. 241, 'Johnnie Armstrong' ('Make Kinnen & Capon ready then') p. 250, William Siddons, 'I envy not Poets of yore' p. 254, 'Glencurrie Glencurrie' p. 263, George Henry Glasse, 'On the Conversation between Gustavus and Genl Brune' ('Ah de Grace laissez la vos Scenes Politiques' p. 268, George Colman the younger, 'My Night Gown and Slippers' ('A Hovel: Clanking of Chains a Gallery, A Light') In Vols III and IV some pages have been excised, but in every case the text is clearly continuous. The excisions were evidently made by Thrale herself, and the material rewritten on the pages following. MS Thraliana Autograph, six volumes, a journal, including anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, original verse and transcripts of poems by others: I, 268 pages; II, 275 pages; III, 269 pages, pp. 73-4, 95-8, 157-8 163-4, 249-50 excised; IV, 275 pages, pp. 81-4, 129-30, 1236 excised; V, 277 pages; VI, 275 pages. Contents (entries only): Vol. I, ThH 15, 41, 61, 154, 171, 194, 293, 296, 338, 366, 408, 527, 535, 662, 672, 716, 770, 797, 875, 881; Vol. II, ThH 353, 402, 496, 517, 522, 567, 611, 647, 660, 721, 859; Vol. Ill, ThH 29, 43, 52, 62, 83, 159, 191, 239, 256, 335, 412, 416, 420, 424, 428, 432, 436,

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The MS now contains 113 leaves, but many of these are insertions, mostly tipped-in but in a few cases loose; only ff. 15, 17, 34-6, 39-40, 50, 52, 53, 55-65, 68, 72-7, 86, 108-10, and 110, properly belong to the actual notebook. Often the notes and anecdotes are separated by rules drawn across the page, but not invariably so; and many items, including some of the poems, are written reversed or longitudinally. On occasion parts of the same item are separated because further insertions have been made within the centrefold of an inserted bifolium. Two short poems are written on slips of pink paper pasted on to the outside covers. A few of the inserted items are written in other hands: two poems in the hand of Susanna Thrale; a note on the books of the Bible, dated 1833 and initialed 'J.S.P.S.' (i.e. John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury).

444, 448, 452, 456, 460, 464, 467, 499, 503, 525, 5412, 563, 571, 581, 597-8, 606, 676, 728, 855, 885; Vol. IV, ThH 30, 33, 42, 70, 101, 118, 151-2, 185,218,246, 260, 275, 285, 364, 383, 405, 469, 474, 480, 570, 587, 612, 618, 639, 686, 737, 740, 754, 790, 825, 854, 889; Vol. V, 67, 75, 99, 127, 141, 166, 169, 187, 192, 208, 243, 281, 397, 520, 546, 580, 633, 674, 734, 755, 804, 807, 818, 845, 849; Vol. VI, 1, 7-8, 13, 18, 23, 36, 72, 86, 89, 95, 107, 116, 119, 136, 161, 181, 198, 200, 222, 227, 265, 278, 290, 317, 329, 331, 335, 342, 361, 373, 379, 391, 396, 478, 483, 493, 495, 509, 513, 532, 550, 576, 578, 623, 651, 656, 659, 666, 720, 730, 749, 761, 778, 794, 801, 822, 843, 872, 878, 894, 932. Vols I-II used as source material in Anecdotes; first pub. 1861, excerpts only, in Hay ward; complete in Balderston (1942); microfilm at the Audio-Visual Department, John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester.

'Minced Meat for Pyes' Notebook, mainly autograph, with some material in other hands, containing anecdotes, observations, notes, and poems, 113 leaves, many insertions.

Huntington, HM 12183. It would appear to have been Thrale's practice throughout her life to keep different journals simultaneously for different purposes. Thus she continued to use the 'Children's Book' as a domestic record for several years following the commencement of the primarily literary MS Thraliana. Similarly on her extended European tour with her second husband in 1784, Mrs Piozzi as she was by then, took MS Thraliana with her and continued intermittently to make entries of a personal and literary character. But she also kept two travelogues, first the 'Italian Journey', ThH 1080, which actually begins with the couple's passage through France, and the 'German Journal', ThH 1079, written as they made their way back to England.

No publication of the whole traced; described and excerpts pub. with facsimiles, in Merritt, pp. 73-140. Contains ThH 6, 19, 28, 35, 47, 57-9, 85, 87-8, 96, 102, 111, 114-15, 124, 146, 156, 160, 165, 176, 178, 196, 204, 213, 216, 240-1, 248, 250-1, 264, 271, 277, 287, 306-7, 310, 313, 316, 321, 328, 334, 372, 377-8, 382, 385, 387, 389, 482, 486, 501, 507, 515-6, 537, 553, 557, 564, 589, 593, 602, 605, 615, 625, 627, 638, 644-5, 653, 655, 669, 681, 683, 719, 723, 725, 735, 745, 747, 751, 759, 764-5, 767, 773, 775-6, 780, 786, 830-1, 833-4, 851, 861-3, 873, 887, 893, 905, 907, 921, 923, 926, 936, 967-8, 970-1, 977, 993, 1005, 1007.

No later than 1796, with MS Thraliana still continuing, Mrs Piozzi began to use the notebook entitled 'Minced Meat for Pyes'. The title indicates that this was intended as a scrap-book of notes, observations, anecdotes, and verses, which could be drawn upon in future literary exercises. One might compare the etymology of 'farce', from the Italian 'farsa' a sausage. The original intention was apparently to gather material for Retrospection: some of the notes can be related to that work, sometimes cancelled as they were transcribed into the MS; also the title 'Retrospection' appears on the front inside cover, although now surrounded by notes added later; and the 'Hints for Preface' has been identified as draft sentences for the preface to Retrospection as published. Other notes are concerned with numerology and etymology, both prominent among Piozzi's special interests in her later years; and some poems, both her own and by others, are included.

Harvard, MS Eng. 231. Piozzi continued to make entries in 'Minced Meat for Pyes' until March 1820, the date subscribed to the poem To a Lady with a Broach Representing a Hand bearing a Heart set round with Brilliants'. But in 1809, the year in which MS Thraliana was concluded, she began the 'New Common Place Book', ThH 1087, which she also used, somewhat intermittently, until 1820. This MS is now owned by Lady Eccles, quoted in her The Impossible Friendship, pp. 118-19, and extensively throughout the later chapters of Clifford. The fullest published description, however, is that given by one of its previous owners, A.M. Broadley. According to his account, it contains a note to the effect that it was begun at Brynbella and continued at New King Street, Bath, 1815; it has a motto, 'Studium sine calamo somnium'; and the last

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entry is dated Penzance, 16 November 1820 (Broadley, p. 303). Substantial extracts are printed in Broadley as appendices: the poem 'Lines on Bodfel Hall, the Birthplace of Mrs Piozzi', ThH 312, Appendix D, pp. 278-9; Appendix H, p. 291; and on the sale of the Reynolds portraits from Streatham Park, headed 'Johnson' in the MS, including two short pieces of verse, probably quotations, Appendix J, pp. 299-300. Pasted into the MS are congratulatory letters received on the occasion of Piozzi's eightieth birthday ball, and it also contains poems upon the same event written by George Canning, Dr Whalley, and others. Broadley prints the following:

and sequential. The contents of Vol. IV on the other hand, simply entitled 'Piozziana', resemble and on occasion duplicate those of 'Minced Meat for Pyes', even if much more neatly written: notes on Welsh and Hebrew etymology; Biblical numerology; literary anecdotes; examples of society repartee; and of course verse. As in 'Minced Meat for Pyes' the observations and anecdotes are separated by rules. This volume concludes with a transcript of a letter to Salusbury, 9 July 1813, explaining the complicated history of her first husband's and her own wills, the mortgages on the Welsh properties, and the consequent legal wranglings; two postscripts concern her latest will in Salusbury's favour. Vol. V, entitled 'Scrap & Trifle Book' and dated '8th: September 1813' contains journal entries interspersed with verse; the notebook is only partly filled, and concludes 'but 'tis all over now. 2: May 1814'. In Vol. I, 33 and 35 have been omitted accidentally from the pagination, and Vol. II, 14-15, and Vol. Ill, 121-4, have been excised, but the text is apparently continuous.

'On Some Disapprobation of a Certain Ball' ('Sweet Puritans, don't frown severe'), signed 'J. Duncan', pp. 303-4; 'To Mrs. Piozzi' ('We have heard of the winter of age but we see'), p. 304; 'That King David was wrong all the world must agree', p. 304;

MS Piozziana Autograph, five volumes comprising a literary autobiography and journal made for John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, including original verse and transcripts of poems by others: I, 143 pages; II, 126 pages; III, 129 pages; IV, 119 pages; V, 53 pages.

Talk not of eighty years to me', signed 'S.S.P', p. 304; 'Verses on 27th January, 1820. Being the 80th Anniversary of the Birthday of Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi' ('If Learning, Wit, Politeness, Grace and Ease'), signed 'Britannicus', apparently by the Rev. Thomas Comber, p. 305.

Contents (entries only): Vol. I, ThH 16, 31, 34, 53, 63, 66, 133, 143, 155, 173, 195, 219, 231, 258, 286, 298, 320, 355, 368, 403, 410, 413, 417, 421, 425, 429, 433, 437, 441, 445, 449, 453, 457, 451, 465, 468, 476, 497, 504, 518, 524, 543, 554, 572, 588, 599, 607, 617, 648, 673, 689, 711, 722, 729, 772, 798, 826, 838, 860, 876, 886; Vol. II, ThH 71, 76, 84, 100, 128, 168, 189, 193, 211, 224, 245, 247, 261, 263, 269-70, 276, 284, 341, 344, 360, 365, 384, 470, 481, 501, 521, 547, 621, 626, 632, 675, 678, 687, 736, 738, 758, 792, 806, 809, 829, 846, 848, 850, 858, 935; Vol. Ill, ThH 2, 9, 11, 21, 24, 37, 60, 73, 77, 103, 108, 120, 123, 137, 147, 150, 157, 162, 177, 184, 199, 201, 214, 228, 266, 272, 279, 291, 311, 318, 330, 336, 343, 362, 374, 380, 479, 484, 512, 514, 533, 552, 579, 624, 652, 657, 668, 719, 724, 731, 746, 748, 750, 762, 768, 773, 781, 802, 823, 874, 879, 895, 903, 933; Vol. IV, ThH 3, 81, 90, 97, 179, 205, 252, 280, 304, 358, 369, 472, 488, 502, 538, 561, 590-1, 594, 628, 654, 682, 684, 726, 752, 777, 787, 832, 840, 922, 924; Vol. V, ThH 38, 113, 235, 322, 347,371,650,820.

Meanwhile Piozzi had begun the series of five quarto notebooks now usually known as 'Piozziana', or as in Clifford, 'Mainwaring Piozziana', from its sometime owner, Sir Randle Mainwaring. The first three volumes form a literary autobiography written for John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, and are variously entitled 'Poems on Several Occasions' and 'Poems & Little Characters— Anecdotes &c. Introductory to the Poems' (Vol. I), 'Poems on several Occasions with Introductory Anecdotes &c.' (Vol. II), and 'Poems on several Occasions with Anecdotes &c. Introductory to the Poems' (Vol. III). As well as shorter poems, the latter includes a fair copy of 'The Two Fountains', ThH 903, Piozzi's dramatic version of Johnson's prose tale, 'The Fountains'. The volume titles give an accurate idea of the contents in that the autobiographical prose narrative serves mainly to link the numerous poems, giving the occasion of each. Since it begins with Piozzi's earliest efforts, she must have drawn upon earlier MSS. MS Thraliana was surely an important source, because there is considerable duplication of material and episode, although the narrative of MS Piozziana is more formal

No publication of the whole traced. Sotheby's, 21 January 1907, Lot 743; Sotheby's, 23 June 1969; referred to as 'Mainwaring Piozziana', in

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p. 85, Sir William Weller Pepys, 'Impromptu' ('When Siddons reads from Milton's Page') p. 85-6, Sir William Weller Pepys, 'Give me to bless Domestic Life' p. 109, Anon., 'Honest Praise you may parry as long as you will' p. 129, [?] Mitchell, Thralia! cui Pater ingenium donavit Apollo'

Clifford and elsewhere. Harvard, MS Eng. 1280. The poems by Piozzi's friends which are transcribed by her into MS Piozziana are given below. It will be noticed that many of them are also found in MS Thraliana. MS Piozziana, I

MS Piozziana, II

p. 9, Arthur Collier, 'In Diem Vicessimum Septimum lanuaris Hester Lynch Salusbury Natalem' ('Hoc redeunte die, referat dum frigora Tempus') These were follow'd next Year by eight other Lines— on the same Occasion 27th: Jan', ('Dum varias Artes, varios Methodosque placendi') p. 10, Arthur Collier, 'Quodque suo simile dum gaudet: Conscia Virtus' p. 11, Arthur Collier, 'ei