Poetical miscellany of Mrs. Horatia Nelson (Nelson) Ward [manuscript], ca. 1817.
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Title
Poetical miscellany of Mrs. Horatia Nelson (Nelson) Ward [manuscript], ca. 1817.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1817
Description
75 leaves ; 23 x 19 cm
Associated name
Nelson, Horatia, 1801-1881, compiler.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Scope and content
Selections taken largely from contemporary poets, such as Byron, Scott, and Moore, by the daughter of Horatio Nelson and Lady Hamilton. The compiler was baptized as Horatia Nelson Thompson but was later permitted by royal license to change her name to Horatia Nelson Nelson (cf. Complete Peerage IX. 463, n.(b).).
Note
Stubs of excised leaves follow leaves 6,26,63,64,75.
Written inside of front cover is: "Horatia N. Nelson. 1817. Burnham."
Written inside of front cover is: "Horatia N. Nelson. 1817. Burnham."
Binding information
Bound in half red roan, marbled boards.
Cited/described in
Manuscript verse miscellanies, 1700-1820, 322 https://dhil.lib.sfu.ca/mvm/manuscript/332
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M.a.142