Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, beginning "The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day", in a commonplace book, entitled "Old songs & other poems", "in two hands, c.1760-90, containing transcribed verse and prose of the 17th and 18th centuries".
Surrogates: Digital facsimile of f. 23r from original MS available online.
Title: "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
Date:[1750s?]
Physical Description: 3 pages; transcript in an unidentified hand, partial [ll. 1-92], in a manuscript volume "bound in dark brown leather which is gilt embossed with decorations and gilt tooling. There is marbling on both inside covers and endpapers. The back board is detached"
Contents: Transcript of ll. 1-92 in an unidentified hand, beginning "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day", in a Commonplace-book owned by the Lewis family. It is "in two hands, containing prose and poetry on diverse topics (written partly in the first half of the eighteenth century, partly in the mid eighteenth century); the signatures of Kath Lewis and Johana Lewis are visible on the flyleaf".