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Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
1 volume (23 manuscript pages; 20 total leaves)
Preferred Citation
Farm Yard commonplace book of English verse, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Sewn notebook containing fourteen manuscript pieces, chiefly poems copied from known eighteenth-century English writers, in unidentified divers hands. Three poems are by "W. H., aged 15," and are apparently unpublished. There is a light pencil sketch of a lady sleeping beneath a tree on the verso of leaf 1, and a few small sketches of faces are on the recto of leaf 20. The front cover bears an oval-bordered woodcut scene (10 x 15 cm) titled "Farm Yard"; the covers are printers' waste, the inside being part of a form for registering freeholders.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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