Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853

Letter from Lord Hertford to his Father, consenting to marry.

The Commencement of a Letter of Lord Nelson's, &c. &c.

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notes

1

The only one which I have seen.

2

Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1838.

3

"I regard the prettie, greeful bard
With tearfull, yet delightfull, notes complaine."

    —Heliconia.

4

Lays of the Minnesingers.

5

Weekly Visitor, July, 1835.

6

"Night's sable birds, which plain when others sleep."

    —Thaumantia.

7

Evening Elegy.—Poetical Calendar.

8

Harleian Miscellany, vol. viii.

9

Query the late George Chalmers.