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Title

Leroux of Long Melford commonplace book, 1821-1827?

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Details

Additional Authors

Busby, Thomas Lord

Description

1 volume (169 leaves, some blank); 27 cm

Summary

Mixed volume of manuscript and printed material. On the front free endpaper (half of which is cut away) is scripted in ink, on the verso, "Began in the year 1821," followed by a later pencil addition, "by [?] Leroux of Long Melford." Leaves 1-52 and 75-77 are in manuscript, in divers hands, and contain a mixure of prose and verse, the prose typically being anecdotes of famous people. A short poem criticizing Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is on leaf 41 recto; another on Byron's Cain is on leaf 42 recto. Leaves 78-122 contain mostly pasted-in printed material (clippings of newspaper stories and poems) but also two small pasted-in manuscript pieces: a short letter addressed to "Madam" dated 1827, and a four-line joke. Also included in this section is a small broadside, "Memoirs of Buonaparte," with a hand-colored "hieroglyphic portrait" of Napoleon; and a handbill, "To the Capital Burgesses, and Burgesses at large of the Town of Wisbech," by Thomas Skrimshire. The remainder of the volume is mostly blank with occasional printed illustrations pasted in, including an engraving of "Long Melford Hall, Suffolk" and two hand-colored etchings by T. L. Busby: "More free than welcome" and "Many a slip between the cup & the Lip" (dated Feb. 1827). Laid in is a post card with an engraving of Woodhill House in Danbury and "With Best Wishes" printed at the bottom.

Subjects

• Commonplace books
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Prometheus unbound
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Cain
• Long Melford (England)
• Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821
• Clippings
• Celebrities > Great Britain > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• Commonplace books.
• Clippings.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Possibly put together by relatives of the Reverend John Leroux, Rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, who died in 1819. He had two children: George Wilson Leroux, an army officer who died in 1822 at the age of 27; and Louisa Mary Leroux, who died in 1836.

Binding (note)

• Contemporary diced calf, gilt panels on both covers, gilt ornaments on the spine.

Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Leroux of Long Melford)

OCLC

927197068

Title

Leroux of Long Melford commonplace book, 1821-1827?

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Possibly put together by relatives of the Reverend John Leroux, Rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, who died in 1819. He had two children: George Wilson Leroux, an army officer who died in 1822 at the age of 27; and Louisa Mary Leroux, who died in 1836.

Binding

Contemporary diced calf, gilt panels on both covers, gilt ornaments on the spine.

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Added Author

Busby, Thomas Lord, ill.

Research Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Leroux of Long Melford)