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• Author/Creator:
  Bunbury, Henry Edward, Sir, 1778-1860.
  
• Title:
  Omnium gatherum : original, extracts, costume, epigrams, bon mots, traits, etc., [ca. 1815-1852].
  
• Physical Description:
  1 v. (ca. 125 p.) ; 23 x 22 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  Location:
  LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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  Call Number:
  LWL Mss Vol. 194
  
  Status:
  No information available
  
  
  Location:
  LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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  Call Number:
  LWL Mss File 81
  
  Status:
  No information available
  
  
   
• Notes:
  Mostly in English with some French and Italian.
  Title from title page illustration.
  Binding: Half red morocco leather with marble boards, worn.
  Purchased at the John Cabell Riley sale, Northeast Auctions, November 2011.
  
• Summary:
  Commonplace book of humorous writings, poems, epigrams, epitaphs, jokes; excerpts from essays, articles, newspapers, and books; and copies of letters to Bunbury family members in the 18th and early 19th century, from Goldsmith, Garrick, and others. Many of the poems, enigmas, and charades are anonymous, others are attributed, including: riddles by Sheridan; Coleridge's poem The Lawyers' tomb; Wolfe's The Burial of Sir John Moore; an epilogue written by H.W. Bunbury for a performance by Mrs. Jordan; anecdotes relating to Sir Joshua Reynolds and his sister; Jekyls' poem The Tears of the Crewets on taxing salt & vinegar; notes on taxation in America; verses on ladies of fashion from 1760; Praed's "Epitaph on the late King of the Sandwich Islands; Lord Byron's On the opening of the tombs of Henry VIII and Charles the 1st; Georgina Dutchess of Devonshire on the death of Charles James Fox; excerpt on the death of Dr. Meredith; Soame's poems on Tom Thumb and On Dr. Pretyman's promotion to the Bishopwick of Lincoln; a verse by H. Pemberton; poems by General Fitzpatrick including In the Temple of Friendship at St. Anne's Hill (copied in twice in English); Thomas Campbell's To a young lady on her picture and other writings; two poems by F.M. Matthews; fragments of an English translation of Manzoni's Ode on the anniversary of the Napoleon's death, followed by an Italian version laid in; Ode to the Bell of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, February 1832; epitaph of Professor Buckland by himself; lines by Garrick after an invitation from Mr. Beauclerk to dine with Dean Berry and Sir Joshua Reynolds; an extract from Blackwood's Magazine about the plot of Catherine of Cleves; anecdote about a visit from Richard Tickell with his new bride to Mrs. Bunbury 3 September 1792; two poems by Fitzpatrick about Stephen Fox ( At Almack's of pigeons I'm told there are flocks ..."); A song by Maria Riddell; "On the reported death of Lord Brougham"; "Winter" by Miss Gould; The Revd. H.F. Lyte' s poem Napoleon's grave; Canning's poem concerning Whitbread's comments on Lord Melville's impeachment (7 May 1804).
  Also included are pen and ink drawings and watercolors of travel and humorous subjects, some of which are initialed "HEB" [i.e. Henry Edward Bunbury]. In addition to the pen and ink with wash drawn title page, there are full-page drawings: Gilbralter Jews; Gilbralter; Jews; Les Trois Etats de la Sicile; pen and ink drawing for Southey's Ballad of the Bishop of Antidius, the Pope and the Devil; and preliminary pencil drawings. There are also half-pages illustrating the text, mostly untitled, as well as a 1815 drawing of "The Fortune Teller"; Oporto and Tyrol; a wash drawing of a boy leaning against a tree; and one and a half sheets of copies of famous autographs, laid in.
  Manuscripts laid in include; a letter from Lady Sarah Bunbury (née Lennox) to David Garrick (ca. 1762); poems signed "EHB" [i.e. Edward Herbert Bunbury]; poems by General Fitzpatrick, including "The soul & the body -- a Dialogue" and a sonnet in Italian "L'Astro che in sul mattin lieto scintilla ..." as inscribed at the Temple of Friendship at St Anne's Hill with a translation by Rev. Robert Cunningham; a manuscript in an unidentified hand with transcriptions of three popular ballads about the 1st Earl of Pomfret to King George I, the murderer Catherine Hayes, and the Scottish ballad of Lord Lovet and Lady Ouncabel (Child 75A). Other poems include: Thomas Gray's Song II ("Thyrsis, when he left me swore ..") with an Answer by General Fitzpatrick ("Thyrsis will return no more ..."); a poem by Mrs. Jordan; a list of things "that ought not be lost" dated 1852; "To M. de Caze, on a recent nomination to the Legion of Honour (In ancient times 'twas no great loss ...") in French and English; a fragment from Coleridge's "Tale of the Dark Ladie"; Mary Robinson's "Reflexions"; a transcription of Address to Mrs. Crewe preceding his comedy "The School for Scandal"; an enigma attributed to William Pitt, Lord Chatham ("To discover the name that my verse would express") and signed General Fitzpatrick; a riddle about Justice Clive ("The one by the Father's side is my brother ..."); a pen and ink sketch over graphite of a "Design for a statue of Cerbera chaperonica, to be placed in the great room at Almacks" and signed "HEB 1818".
  
• Format:
  Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:
  Henry Edward Bunbury, Ominion Gatherum. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:
  Buckland, William, 1784-1856.
  Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886.
  Bunbury, E. H. (Edward Herbert), 1811-1895.
  Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
  Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
  Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844.
  Canning, George, 1770-1827.
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
  Cunningham, Peter, d. 1805.
  Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1747-1813.
  Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
  Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
  Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
  Gould, Hannah Flagg, 1789-1865.
  Hayes, Catherine Hall, 1690-1726.
  Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816.
  Lennox, Sarah, Lady, 1745-1826,
  Lyte, Henry Francis, 1793-1847.
  Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873.
  Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873. Cinque maggio.
  Matthews, Frederock Hoskyns.
  Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811--Impeachment.
  Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811--Poetry.
  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Poetry.
  Pemberton, Henry, 1694-1771.
  Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
  Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839.
  Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.
  Riddell, Maria, 1772-1808.
  Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.
  Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
  Soame, Henry Francis Robert.
  Tickell, Richard, 1751-1793.
  Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore.
  Almack's (London, England)
  Ballads, English.
  English poetry--19th century.
  Occasional verse, English.
  
• Genre/Form:
  Ballads.
  Epigrams.
  Epitaphs.
  Commonplace books.
  Parodies.
  Poems.
  Drawings--British--19th century.
  Watercolors--British--19th century.
  
• Also listed under:
  Bunbury, E. H. (Edward Herbert), Sir, 1811-1895.