Research Catalog

Title

Ann-Mary Pearson album of poetry.

Author

Pearson, Ann-Mary, 1770 or 1771-1855.

Publication

1818-1821

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Additional Authors

• Bertola De' Giorgi, Aurelio, 1753-1798.
• Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-1803.
• Delille, Jacques, 1738-1813.
• Montolieu, Isabelle de, 1751-1832.
• Pignotti, Lorenzo, 1739-1812.

Description

1 volume (136 manuscript pages, 192 total leaves); 21 cm

Summary

Manuscript album of apparently original poetry. The poet signs her name only once in the volume, as "A. M. Pearson," following the elegy for George III. Most poems are in English, including some translations; a few are in French and Italian. Each poem is dated: the first 28 January 1818, the last 7 July 1821. Bound in half red roan over marbled boards. Laid in to the album are: an ink and watercolor drawing on thick cardstock, heightened in gilt and silver, of a coat of arms for the family Mason, with the motto, "Demeure par la vérité"; a watercolor drawing of the Mason shield, on thick cardstock, cut out; an ink tracing, on transluscent paper, of "Armorial Bearings in the Church of St. Nicholas"; five manuscirpt pieces, including riddles (one "by Lord Byron"), a poem, and a quotation from R. Zotti's edition of Petrarch, written on the back of part of a letter cover to [Mrs.] Cockle; and an unfinished silhouette cutting of a horse.

Subjects

• Cockle, Mrs (Mary)
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• Pforzheimer Manuscript (MISC 4489).

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Ann-Mary Pearson, née Fawcett, wife of Robert Meggison Pearson, Esq., of Unthank Hall, Northumberland, England. Her daughter's governess was Mary Cockle, the minor poet and children's book writer.

Contents

"Ode to the laurel." -- "On a certain lady saying that a bank near Unthank was formed of clay." -- "To glory." -- "A petition to Terminus the god of boundaries." -- "Receipt for a modern poem." -- "The drop of water, & the river," translated from the Italian of Pignotti. -- "On gathering some moor heath in the month of October." -- "On history." -- "On a late [---?]" (pasted over). -- "On going to Unthank." -- "Verses addressed to Mrs. Cockle on her Birth-Day, 1818." -- "On the olive." -- "On the birthday of the Rig.t Hon.ble W.m Pitt." -- "To hope." -- "The nightengale & cuckoo." -- "On leaving Unthank." -- "The closing year." -- "On seeing the sun suddenly obscured by a cloud." -- "The butterfly & the flower," from the Italian of Bertola. -- "On the sea." -- "Ode to immortality." -- "Autumn," from the Italian of Casti. -- "The fall of Babylon." -- "To the memory of the admirable Crichton." -- "Canzonet on winter." -- "Le printems" [sic]. -- "Elegy on his late Majesty King Geo. 3rd." -- "An invocation to the muses." -- "Palmyra." -- "A la rose." -- "Favola di Bertola, la mammola," with translation, "The violet." -- "From Mad.me de Montolieu," with translation. -- "A l'iris." -- "Ode. To Immortality," by L'abbé de Lille, a translation.

Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Pearson, A. M.)

OCLC

1099800128

Author

Pearson, Ann-Mary, 1770 or 1771-1855.

Title

Ann-Mary Pearson album of poetry.

Production

1818-1821

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Ann-Mary Pearson, née Fawcett, wife of Robert Meggison Pearson, Esq., of Unthank Hall, Northumberland, England. Her daughter's governess was Mary Cockle, the minor poet and children's book writer.

Added Author

Bertola De' Giorgi, Aurelio, 1753-1798.

Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-1803.

Delille, Jacques, 1738-1813.

Montolieu, Isabelle de, 1751-1832.

Pignotti, Lorenzo, 1739-1812.