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Dr. Worthington's "Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine" : the great animal puzzle.

The purple island, or the isle of man: together with Piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies / By P.F.

Les obus de Choumara / P. Lachambeaudie.

The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe : with his letters and journals, and his life, by his son.

Mary Ray.

In aid of the wounded women and girls who are in hospital : it was on the fifth of December, they'll never forget that night.

[Leaflet with a poem about General Mite and Millie Edwards : 'Midgets at home', advertising the Royal American Midgets:  General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Piccadilly Hall, London (December 1882)].

[Leaflet bearing Field Marshal Tom Thumb's poetical address to the ladies].

To General Tom Thumb : O little tiny Thumb, o little tiny Thumb, a precious little birch is pickling for your b---.

On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

Cold tea and dust : reflections on the complexity of grief, in prose and poetry / Susan Elizabeth Elliot.

L'elettricismo : poemetto per le faustissime nozze delle LL. EE. d. Guido di Soragna e donna Giovanna Borromeo.

The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

Stories from the infirmary / edited by Carol Wierzbicki.

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On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

Cold tea and dust : reflections on the complexity of grief, in prose and poetry / Susan Elizabeth Elliot.

L'elettricismo : poemetto per le faustissime nozze delle LL. EE. d. Guido di Soragna e donna Giovanna Borromeo.

The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

Stories from the infirmary / edited by Carol Wierzbicki.

Poems

Images from the collections

Images of Poems

Works from the collections

On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

Cold tea and dust : reflections on the complexity of grief, in prose and poetry / Susan Elizabeth Elliot.

L'elettricismo : poemetto per le faustissime nozze delle LL. EE. d. Guido di Soragna e donna Giovanna Borromeo.

The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

Stories from the infirmary / edited by Carol Wierzbicki.

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