Box Y.d.341(113-172)
Contains 60 Results:
Announcement of a new Thalaba, addressed to Robert Southey, Esq., 1836 October
Poem by Thomas Moore. Accompanied by newspaper cutting of same poem from the Morning Chronicle. First line: "When erst, my Southey, thy tuneful tongue."
Proposal to erect a memorial to Henry Crabb Robinson in University Hall, [London], 1869
Printed. Relating to an intended fresco of Robinson and his friends.
Signature of Watts, [16th century?] : facsimile, 19th Century
Anecdote about Mrs. Norton, [between 1799 and 1837?]
Anecdote about Charles Mathews, 19th century June 22
In Collier's hand. Describes an outing he and the Duke of Devonshire took to visit Mathews and see his collection of theatre (especially Garrick) memorabilia. Includes a short history of Matthews's career on the stage.
Notes on a poem titled "The Remonstrance", [18th or 19th century]
Notes by John Payne Collier on unattributed poem. Appends a new concluding stanza which begins "Beauty is sweet woman's dower."
Notes on a signature of John Liston, 19th century May 11
Notes by John Payne Collier. Describes a receipt signed by John Liston, actor, in 1797.
Poem by John Davies : manuscript copy, 19th century
Transcription by John Payne Collier of a poem by John Davies of Hereford dedicated to Ben Jonson from The scourge of folly (Epi. 156 ). First line: "I love thy parts; so, must I love thy whole."
Notes on a satire by Pope, 19th century
Notes by John Payne Collier. Speculates that a satire by Pope beginning "One need not sure look ugly though one's dead" illustrates a passage from a biography of William Burnet about his wife's death.
Notes on Byron and Burton, 19th century
Commentary by John Payne Collier on similarities between Byron and Burton, especially the comparison of modern Greece to a corpse.