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Copy, on three folio pages. Late 17th century.
DrJ 198: John Dryden, To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy, call'd The Double-Dealer (‘Well then. the promis'd hour is come at last’)
Probably the three-page copy sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 2 March 1870, lot 151, to Samuel Addington, and at Sotheby's, 24 April 1876, lot 107, to Ellis. In the autograph collection of Jacob Henry Burn and later in the autograph collection of James Fraser Gluck (1852-97), New York State lawyer and library curator.
First published in William Congreve, The Double-Dealer (London, ‘1694’). Kinsley, II, 852-4. California, IV, 432-4. Hammond, IV, 327-35.
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Copy of an eight-line poem, subscribed ‘W Congreve/Bath 24 Augst 1728’, on a single oblong octavo leaf. c.1730.
CgW 30: William Congreve, ‘Not so robust in body as in mind’
Later in the autograph collection of James Fraser Gluck (1852-97), New York State lawyer and library curator.
Facsimile of this MS (erroneously supposed to be autograph) in Frederick G. Netherclift, The Hand-Book to Autographs (London, 1862), No. 13.
The last four lines (beginning ‘For vertue now is neither more nor less’) constituting the last four lines of Letter to Viscount Cobham, first published in London, 1729. The first four lines apparently unpublished but for the facsimile noted below.
See CgW 26-9.
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Autograph, headed ‘Another new song to Cloris from the blind archer’, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘For Mr Tho: Youngman’ and docketed in the hand of Alexander Pope: ‘Earl of Dorsett. Original - A. Pope’. c.1700.
*DoC 252: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song to Chloris, from the blind Archer (‘Ah! Chloris, 'tis time to disarm your bright eyes’)
Later in the autograph collection of James Fraser Gluck (1852-97), New York State lawyer and library curator.
Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIV.
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, p. 76.
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Copy, headed ‘Sir Thomas Ouerburye his obseruations in trayuelle upon ye state of the 17 prouinces as they stood Anno Domini 1609 the treaty of peace being then on foote’. Early 17th century.
OvT 47: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes
Inscribed ‘Onslow Gardyner’. From the library of the Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park. Jersey sale, London, 6 May 1885, lot 1231, to Salkeld. Then in the autograph collection of James Fraser Gluck (1852-97), New York State lawyer and library curator.
Recorded in HMC, VIII, 1, 1881, Appendix, p. 94, n. 7.
A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.
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Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 11 November 1661. 1661.
*TaJ 80: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)