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Manuscript verse, beginning "Affected wisdom has a woman made", manuscript, unbound, [18th century];

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Manuscript verse, beginning "Affected wisdom has a woman made", manuscript, 6pp., browned, edges chipped, loose, unbound, [18th century]; and another manuscript poem, v.s., v.d. (2).

⁂ First mentioned published version in New Foundling Hospital has only eight stanzas, whereas there are eleven in this manuscript version. One manuscript source ascribes this to Horace Walpole (see Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 3). Second mentioned pre-publication version of Catherine Maria Fanshawe's Enigma on the Letter H, here wrongly ascribed to Byron.


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Manuscript verse, beginning "Affected wisdom has a woman made", manuscript, 6pp., browned, edges chipped, loose, unbound, [18th century]; and another manuscript poem, v.s., v.d. (2).

⁂ First mentioned published version in New Foundling Hospital has only eight stanzas, whereas there are eleven in this manuscript version. One manuscript source ascribes this to Horace Walpole (see Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 3). Second mentioned pre-publication version of Catherine Maria Fanshawe's Enigma on the Letter H, here wrongly ascribed to Byron.

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