Poetical miscellany of Elizabeth Gilchrist [manuscript], ca. 1800-1815.
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Title
Poetical miscellany of Elizabeth Gilchrist [manuscript], ca. 1800-1815.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1800-1815
Description
137 leaves ; 20.5 x 16 cm
Associated name
Gilchrist, Elizabeth, active 1800-1815, compiler.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Fragment.
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Waverley. Fragment.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Fragment.
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Waverley. Fragment.
Scope and content
Prose and poetry, almost all of it of the eighteenth century and mainly the late eighteenth. At the head of p. 1 is written, in the hand in which many of the extracts are written, "Miss Elizabeth Gilchrist's Collection." The extracts are in several hands, none identified except the first. Near the end of the volume is an extract from Byron's Childe Harold (1812) and one from Scott's Waverley (1814). Foliation includes 31 blank leaves.
Binding information
Original sprinkled calf, gilt.
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M.a.180
Folger accession
cs1854