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Calfskin-covered notebook with vertical flap and cord (6" x 4"); 188pp, MS In part...
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- HD/14/e
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1827
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Calfskin-covered notebook with vertical flap and cord (6" x 4"); 188pp, MS In part a daily journal from 27 June to 13 July 1827 (pp. 1-15); remainder of book contains draft poetry, some copied from other notebooks, and some notes, including
Pp.47-49 Eagles
Pp.49-50 Thoughts after the ingratitude of the Northumbrian with respect to the safety lamp
Pp.50-51 To a child; daughter of P. and AB.
Pp.53-54 Though grey thy hair ...
Pp.55-56 Oh, let the breezes ...
Pp.57-65 An attempt by the Priests to imitate Moses.
Pp.66-71 And he had wandered by the pleasant side of silver Jordan ...
Pp.72-74 The massy pillars of the earth ....
Pp.76-78 In ... when spring and summer reign ...
Pp.79-82 I catch but dimly inspirations faint ....; August 1819
Pp.83-89 The effect of tears in calming the mind.
P.90 He who passes from flower to flower ...; August 1819
Pp.91-92 Thus brightest round the stagnant pool arise ....
Pp.94-95 Around his brow ....
P.97 Ye lovely hills that rise in majesty ...; Ullswater, 4 August 1825
Pp.98-100 Whatever burns, consumes; ashes remain ....: Copenhagen, 1 August 1825
Pp.101-104 Ashburnham Place, 22 January 1823
Pp. 106-108 Lord Byron, written whilst living.
P.110 additions to Byron poem
Pp.116-118 Dialogue: the Unknown
Pp.119-121 Man thirsts for immortality ...
Pp.121-122 Full twenty summers now have passed away ....
Pp.124-126 My faith, O Roman ....
P.126 Evening at Nice, 1814
P.127 note on education
Pp.128-130 To Josephora Dettela, 16 August 1827
P.131 supplement to poem on death of Lord Byron, 28 July 1827
Pp.132-133 On the fate of Mr Mann
Pp.134-135 The pleasures past which never can return ....
Pp.135-136 On virtue
Pp.137-138 The ignorance of all things. 1 March
Pp.139-146 Dialogue: the Unknown. 31 May 1827
Pp.147-148 The human intellect ...
Pp.149-150 For time has withered all the lovely flowers ...; 20 April 1827
Pp.151-154 Again that lamp from half its orb ...; 1819
Pp.155-156 When life was mine ...; 5 April
Pp.157-160 And may not all this varied life of man ...; 1819
Pp.161-162 On the death of Lord Byron: November 1824
P.163 Our human histories ...; 2 April 1827
P.164 Our life is like a cloudy sky ....; 2 April 1827
Pp.165-166 It is alone ....; 5 August 1825
P.167 And when the light ....; 1825
P.168 Then on his soul flashed the bright images ....; 1 April
P.169 We know not whence our origin we drew ....; 12 February 1825
Pp.174-176 Nought do we truly know of man ....
Pp.178-179 Lady S. and Lord E.
Pp.180-182 On the bubbles ....; December 1823
Pp.182-183 Thought; 1827
Pp.184-186 London; 1824
[Note: pp. 16-46, blank]
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- English
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Papers and correspondence of Sir Humphry Davy.
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Calfskin-covered notebook with vertical flap and cord (6" x 4"); 188pp, MS In part...