Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

Scope and Content: Facsimile copy of MS. letter from [Erle] Young and Charles Wolfe to John Taylor Esq., at the Rev. Mr. Anthony's, Clonoulty, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, with text of poem 'Burial of Sir John Moore', in 8 stanzas of 4 lines.

'Not a damn was heard, not a funeral note,

As his course to the rampart we hurried...' (V.1) etc.

Ref.

U140/E/002

Date:

1832

Level : item Title:

MS. volume of poetry and verse

Extent: c100pp Scope and Content:

MS. volume [by Richard Dowden, or his wife] with essays, copies of texts and verse 'Female Philosophers', poetry or songs and writings; including 'The Defence of Female Genius', 'Characters Not Drawn from Life', 'A Tory's dream of the Cork Election 1812-13'; 'To the Tenth Muse and Fourth Grace', possibly about or written by women.

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U140/E/003

Date:

?1830s

Level : item Title:

MS. Poem

Extent: 70pp Scope and Content: MS. poem ' Murder A Poem', by [?Richard Dowden], 'Addressed to all Christians and to the wiser sort of heathen in these realms'.

"Oh for a strain whose deep and mournful swell

Of tragic deeds, in tragic times may tell..." (v.1)

With footnotes.

Ref.

U140/E/004

Date:

?1840s

Level : item Title:

MS. Note/Extract from essay or letter

Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:

MS. Note/Extract from essay or letter, in 2 hands, marked 'Windle', possibly by John Windle/Windele. Refers to post in agricultural magazine, agricultural potential of Ireland.

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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