Manuscript material, c.1665-1899

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MS. Opie 320

Held in our offsite storage facility

Folder 1: Caroline commonplace book (fragment only) in original 17th century binding, containing the first record of the nonsense verse ‘I saw a peacock with a flaming tail…’, c.1665.
Folder 2: Photocopy of an article by Alice Law, ‘A New Caroline Commonplace Book’, The Fortnightly Review 72, 1899.
Folder 3: Manuscript anthology ‘A choice collection of divine hymns & poems for spiritual instruction and comfort of devotional verse’ compiled by G. N[esbit] for their daughters, 1727.
Folder 4: Manuscript note ‘Some sweet Expressions of dear Nancy Guerney’s in the course of her illness where she die the 19th of the 1st Month 1772 at 9 in the Morning Aged 14 Years and 9 Months’, c.1772.
Folder 5: Scrapbook of the Moravian minister Brother Ramstler, containing tributes to Brother Ramstler, mainly biblical quotation and other verse written by his pupils in English and in German, c.1809-1831, and a pictorial section with drawings, watercolours, embroidery etc., c.1790-1814. Also includes notes by Roland Knaster on the scrapbook, Count Zinzendorf, and the Moravian Church.