AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF A POEM OR POETICAL QUIP 'DR PRETTYMAN'S REVENGE AGAINST SLANDER', possible alternative title 'Dr Prettyman's Pater Noster', 7 lines, one related trial below and overleaf, about 20 lines in all, some scored through preserving reconsidered readings, scansion markings, inscribed 'R.B. Sheridan's hand writing given to me by T [? J].W. July 7th 1828. W Bartholomew', 2 pages, small quarto, vestiges of inlaying, not dated Says Pretty to Pepper I'll have satisfaction You Mr Attorney must manage my Action His Hurdle I'll traverse prithee don't look so sly Pitt himself has assured me my Action will lie... William Bartholomew, a chemist, violinist and painter of flowers, married the singer Ann Mounsey, for whom he translated or provided texts for her song. He undertook an English adaptation of Elijah. George Pretyman (1750-1827), later Bishop of Lincoln and of Winchester, was one of William Pitt the Younger's most important advisers. RARE AND PROBABLY UNPUBLISHED: not in Dramatic Works and Poems, 3 volumes, edited Cecil Price, 1966, The Letters, 2 volumes, edited by Cecil Price, 1973 or The Plays and Poems, 3 volumes, edited by R. Crompton Rhodes, 1928. No poetical manuscripts by Sheridan have been sold at auction in the last forty years at least.
AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF A POEM OR POETICAL QUIP 'DR PRETTYMAN'S REVENGE AGAINST SLANDER', possible alternative title 'Dr Prettyman's Pater Noster', 7 lines, one related trial below and overleaf, about 20 lines in all, some scored through preserving reconsidered readings, scansion markings, inscribed 'R.B. Sheridan's hand writing given to me by T [? J].W. July 7th 1828. W Bartholomew', 2 pages, small quarto, vestiges of inlaying, not dated Says Pretty to Pepper I'll have satisfaction You Mr Attorney must manage my Action His Hurdle I'll traverse prithee don't look so sly Pitt himself has assured me my Action will lie... William Bartholomew, a chemist, violinist and painter of flowers, married the singer Ann Mounsey, for whom he translated or provided texts for her song. He undertook an English adaptation of Elijah. George Pretyman (1750-1827), later Bishop of Lincoln and of Winchester, was one of William Pitt the Younger's most important advisers. RARE AND PROBABLY UNPUBLISHED: not in Dramatic Works and Poems, 3 volumes, edited Cecil Price, 1966, The Letters, 2 volumes, edited by Cecil Price, 1973 or The Plays and Poems, 3 volumes, edited by R. Crompton Rhodes, 1928. No poetical manuscripts by Sheridan have been sold at auction in the last forty years at least.
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