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[See my Nassau, Feel my Nassau, Kiss my Nassau.]
- Description
First line: Oh my Nassau did you see how I languish,
Manuscript. Untitled poem. Devised title based on abbreviated entry in the table of contents: "See my nas. Feel my nas. Kiss--"
- Production date
- approximately 1710s-1734.
- Call number
- 143198-143259
- Provenance
- Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Associated people
- Barber, Mary, (approximately 1685-1755.)
- Belcher, James. (1687?-1743.)
- Carey, Henry, (1685 or 1686-1768.)
- Delany, Patrick, (1834-1899,)
- Grant, Francis, (1847-1918.)
- Halsey, Frederic R. (-1725,)
- Harding, John, (active 1721-1729.)
- Harding, Sarah, (1685-1763.)
- King, William, (1711-1736.)
- Mountcashell, Edward Davys, (1674-1749.)
- Owens, Samuel. (1687-1738.)
- Philips, Ambrose, (1671-1729.)
- Sheridan, Thomas, (-1738.)
- Smedley, Jonathan, (1667-1745.)
- Stretzer, Thomas, (1685-1740.)
- Swift, Jonathan,
- Tickell, Thomas,
- Ware, Henry,
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