Phillips ms. 24560 Stamped in red on address leaf (2nd page): 8 o'Clock 10+MR 1801 M.D. Removed from Coleraine, The life, adventures, and opinions of Col. Hanger... London, Printed for J. Debrett, 1801 (Lilly DA506 .C7 L72 1801).
On verso of front flyleaf is a note by E. M. Thorsteinson dated April 1953. Immediately preceding page 180 there are twenty-two pages of blue paper. Bound in paper boards.
4 3/4" x 7 1/4" leather notebook containing 80 pages filled with approximately 50 entries, including: "Death's Final Conquest by Shirley" "A Dirge. By D'Urfey" "A Character from Ramsays American Revolution / Aug 27th, 1782" An extract from "Ramsays American Revolution / New York Nov: 25th 1783" "The Wanderer: to the evening Star by Richard Nesbit" "Mary Queen of Scotts Farewell to France" "The Wizard of the Rock / W. M. Smith" "Verses written by the Sea , in a Heavy Gale / Freneau" "From Moore's Irish Melodies / 'The Vale of Avoca'" An "Extract from Goldsmith's England" "Extract from the Lady of the Lake / a Poem by Walter Scott, Esq." "Lines written by Sir Walter Raleigh the night before his execution" An extract "From Miss Bowdler's Essay on Politeness" An extract "From Davis's travels in America / Philadelphia, Autumn of 1797" "Sonnet to Pocahontas by Mr. Rolf" "Extract from Wilson's Pedestrian excursion to the Falls of Niagara. 1800" "Sonnet to a Fly... Decr 6th 1815" "Thank you, pretty cow... Nursery Rhyme"
Leather back cover and quarter of front cover missing Attributed to Joseph Flowerden, published by J. Nourse, London, 1769 Medical work concludes: Finis April 15, 1780 Further medical directions include: Howards Receipt for Curing the Lame Distemper, Yaws, or almost any Corrupt Blood and To Cure a Cancer Dates inscribed in volume are: January 30, 1793 (weather record); 1798 (farm record); 1829 (pencilled note), Alexander Bourbon Kentucky? At end of volume, written dos-a-dos, are 18 pages of songs (2 leaves detached) copied by Alexander Barnett, chiefly while at Camp Hicks Creek in South Carolina, Dec. 28, 1780-Jan. 12, 1781 Names of John Brown, Congressman, and James Barnett, Capt. Jno. Barnett, John Dykes, Solomon Levi, and John Taliaferro also appear
"Principally written during a tour in North America" Canto I - 40 stanzas; Canto II - 48 stanzas; Canto III (number only) Begins: The circling year again with steady course/Renews its infant days...and ends: Farewell. This book is now indeed my last,/And these bright scenes and hours will be forever past Poem commemorates the beauty and storms of nature in the New World (I-31), America (I-3, II-1), Hudson River (II-8), Trenton River (II-12), Lake Erie (II-24, 28), Niagara (II-29, 37), the name of Washington (II-1,2), and states: But Man is not my theme; again I turn/To thee sweet Nature... (II-3) Blank leaves: 37 Watermark: J Green Son 1825
Contents: 1) Kathleen in Kathleen Mavourneen. 44 p. 13 cm.; 2) Kitty in Kathleen. Act II. 6 p. 16 cm.; 3) Dorothy Kavanagh in Kathleen Mavourneen. 7 p. 16 cm.; 4) Albert in Monte Cristo. Acts III IV. 13 p. 15 cm.; 5) Mercedes in Monte Cristo. 12 p. 13 cm.; 6) Mary Mortimer in Naval engagements. 25 p. 14 cm.; 7) Mrs. Lee in A noble outcast. 14 p. 16 cm.; 8) Daphne in Pygmalion and Galatea. 12 p. 14 cm.; 9) Fanny in Prologue--Ten nights. 5 p. 15 cm.; 10) Sadie. 17 p. 15 cm.; 11) Unidentified. 26 p. 16 cm. Name "Mary Coolidge" appears on the parts of Kathleen, Mercedes, and Mary Mortimer Some pages written on stationery of the Assumption Pioneer, Napoleonville, Louisiana, 189-; Hotel White, Edenton, North Carolina, 1899; Turnbull's Hotel, Warrenton, North Carolina, 189-; Orangeburg Hotel, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 189-. Accompanied by broadside and leaflet advertising the Carew-Kinsington theatre company featuring Mary and Janet Carew and managed by R. G. Kingston in "The Girl from Home"