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Holograph notebook of poems
- Title
- Holograph notebook of poems, 1815-1835
- Author
- Wray, George, 1781-1878.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz BND-MSS (Wray, G. Fragments) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Description
- 1 volume (35 manuscript pages, 68 total leaves) + inserts; 27 cm
- Summary
- Notebook containing eleven manuscript poems, most apparently original. Some are in lament of the author's wife, Caroline, who died of childbed fever. Loosely inserted are six manuscript fragments and poems (two of which are copied into the volume); two poetical newspaper clippings; and a tattered sheet of used blotter paper.
- Alternative Title
- Fragments
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Binding (note)
- Contemporary black half morocco, blue marbled boards, gilt spine titling ("Fragments") and decoration.
- Contents
- Written on the ruins of Gray Abbey, County of Down, Ireland. -- Presented with a Snowdrop to a little Girl ("With head reclined, the snowdrop see") [author unknown]. -- On a favorite Canary Bird which died in August 1816. -- Elegy ("O Caroline! My soul delights to dwell"). -- An only Parent and an only Child. -- On seeing a Monthly Rose, which had been planted in an Earthen Vase by C. W. in Autumn 1816. -- On a Robin Redbreast which on Christmas Day 1818 was in Kildwick Church. -- Lines on Miss Elizabeth Field, who died at Harrogate, in her way to Seaton July 11, 1822, aged 20 years. -- Lines on Miss Mary Ann Field who died in London, 1824, aged 20 years. -- The Robber. -- The Sequel to the Robber. -- Inserts: The House of Mourning (clipping); On the Royal Infant, Still-Born Nov. 5, 1817 (clipping); Clerical comfort (copied extract); The Canary; Epitaph of Sir Christopher Wray (died 1591); A Receipt for a Sermon; Extract from a 1768 sermon; The Robber; blotter paper.
- Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Wray, G. Fragments)
- OCLC
- 1000399902
- Author
- Wray, George, 1781-1878.
- Title
- Holograph notebook of poems, 1815-1835
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Binding
- Contemporary black half morocco, blue marbled boards, gilt spine titling ("Fragments") and decoration.
- Connect to:
- Spine Title
- Fragments
- Research Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Wray, G. Fragments)