A set of English songs and epigrams on separate sheets
MS. Douce 193
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A set of English songs and epigrams on separate sheets
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 193
Summary
Apparently chiefly in the hand of James Boswell the elder (d. 1795). They seem to belong to his Edinburgh days, for one poem (to him, by A. McIntosh) is dated Sept. 22, 1761, and another 1762 (fols. 21, 61). Many of them are included in a 'plan of a volume of poems to be published for me by Becket & Dehorde' (fol. 1), and all are light in character.
Date
written perhaps in the third quarter of the 18th cent.
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
108 Leaves
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Collection contents
A set of English songs and epigrams on separate sheets
