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Box 1

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Contains 30 Results:

Unfinished letter to Pettoc, 1915 November 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: F1
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Unidentified poem handwritten on the back.

Dates: 1915 November 10

Two postmarked envelopes, 1849 and 1901

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: F1
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One envelope is postmarked "Paris, Sept. 17 1849," and the other is addressed to "Mr. W. Hunt" of Notting Hill, postmarked "Deadwood, Cal. Oct. 17, 1901."

Dates: 1849 and 1901

Yates Recipe for a Composition in Cement, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: F1
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Handwritten recipe for making cement and plaster.

Dates: undated

Physique celeste; La Chimie, La Meccanique, 1848-1849

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F2
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Student notes written in French on science and math, collected and bound by Storey. Includes several diagrams.

Dates: 1848-1849

Algebre--aussi des Polyedres, etc., 1849

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F3
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Student notes written in French on algebra, collected and bound by Storey. Includes pen-and-ink sketch of Doric entablature.

Dates: 1849

Calcul, Arithmetique et Algebraique auss. Algebra Superioure ou Le Calcul differential et Integral, 1849

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F4
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Student notes written in French on algebra and calculus, collected and bound by Storey.

Dates: 1849

Geometry, 1849

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F5
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Student notes written in French on geometry and other sciences, collected and bound by Storey. Includes many diagrams, a few sketches, and an elaborate pen-and-ink tailpiece.

Dates: 1849

A XVIth Century Love Song by Michel Angelo other poems, circa 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F6
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Bound by Storey with red paper cover. Includes author's corrections and notes. Accompanied by a loose notebook page containing a handwritten dedication dated 1912.

Dates: circa 1863

The Poems of George Minimus, 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F7
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Storey's first published work (London: Hutchings and Crowsley, Printers, St. John's Wood). Bound in plain chipboard cover with "Love's Folly" written in pencil on cover. Includes "Love's Folly" and "Juveniles" ("Violetta to Cupid," "A Sonnett by Violetta's Lover," "A Dream," and "A Lover by the Sea Shore").

Dates: 1863

Sir Daignous in the Black Forest, 1856

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F8
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Fiction, collected and bound by Storey. Includes author's corrections and notes, and a laid in poem, "A Psalm," dated 1853.

Dates: 1856

Our Friends at Holywell. A Romance of Country Bumpkins, 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F9
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Fiction, collected and bound by Storey, although the gatherings are now loose. Includes author's corrections and notes. Also includes notes on "Old Fitch of St. Albans."

Dates: 1861

Laure (poem), circa 1855-1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F10
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Bound by Storey. Includes many corrections, with author's note dated 1863.

Dates: circa 1855-1863

Laure (poem in cantos), circa 1854-1867

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F11
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Collected and bound by Storey with notebook paper wrapper. Includes author's corrections and additions.

Dates: circa 1854-1867

Untitled book of poems, 1867

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F12
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Includes author's corrections, table of contents, and dedication "To those true friends who have taught me to esteem human nature." Also includes a list of proposed additions to dwelling with sketched plan.

Dates: 1867

Assorted handwritten poems, circa 1860-1869, 1905

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F13
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Includes "Love's Folly," "Laure", "Ode to Hever Castle," and others. One poem is dated 1905; the rest are from the decade of the 1860s.

Dates: circa 1860-1869, 1905

Too Late, 1872

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F14
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Bound by Storey with dark grey paper wrapper. Manuscript of play that includes author's corrections, additions, and notes.

Dates: 1872

Collected notes, 1870

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F15
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Various writings collected and bound by Storey, although binding cord is now missing. Includes essay comparing music appreciation to art appreciation, and other inserted and laid-in materials of various dates.

Dates: 1870

Notes on Art, 1874-1875

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F16
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Bound by Storey with dark brown paper wrapper. Numbered entries on various art topics. Includes laid in photographic image on paper of portrait (Storey's mother?), and a note "Bath Nov 20/75" by Storey about his book on art.

Dates: 1874-1875

Notes on Art and Other Subjects, 1875-1876

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F17
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Discussions of various art topics. Includes pencil sketches, laid in list of artists, and a letter addressed to "My Dearest Mother."

Dates: 1875-1876

On the Study of Art. First Crude Notions, 1875-1877

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F18
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Collection of lectures on various art topics given by Storey, collected and bound into one volume by Storey. On first page, he notes that this book is the "original manuscript of the Bedford Lectures" (see F34).

Dates: 1875-1877

Homely Ballads and Old-Fashioned Poems, 1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: F19
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First work published under his own name (London: John Bumpus, 158, Oxford Street). Original plain paper wrappers, with untrimmed pages. Many pages remain uncut.

Dates: 1879