Scrapbook of miscellaneous original and transcribed poems, many relating to Irish themes and persons

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca. 1750-1920
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English French Greek
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol (27 ff.) and 1 envelope, manuscript. Written in many different hands. The scrapbook volume contains 9 poems written on separate pieces of paper and pasted on to some of the folios; its cover is marbled on the outside. All the poems in the envelope are loose.

Scope and Content

Comprises 37 English poems, 1 French, a quotation from Plato in Greek, and a pencilled drawing of a person's head and shoulders.

Administrative / Biographical History

The compiler of this scrapbook is unknown.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Acquisition Information

Purchased at Falkner Greirson on 6 January 1987.

Note

In English, but with a little French and Greek.

Other Finding Aids

The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/bcmvlink.htm#bcltq49