Volume includes a number of visual puns, poetic parodies and humorous verses. A number of puns are depicted in drawn form and in sketches, mostly pen and ink but also including a pencil sketch and a tipped in water-colour sketch.
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- ReferenceGB 150 MS97
- Dates of Creation[mid-19th century]
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 volume
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The compiler of this volume has not been identified. Some of the verses appear to be original; others have been parodied by the writer. Several datings within the manuscript suggest that the writer was writing within the middle to later years of the 19th Century, with entries dated from 1833 to 1886.
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Acquisition Information
Purchased September 1998
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Archivist's Note
Papers arranged and described by Mark Williams, November 2016, in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; and in-house cataloguing guidelines.
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