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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D517/BOX/B/17 |
| Title | Unbound printed volume of poetry: 'Needwood Forest' by Francis Noel Clarke Mundy |
| Date | 1811 |
| Description | Front page reads 'Needwood Forest written in the year 1776. Never Published. Re-printed at the office of J Drewry 1811'. Following 'Needwood Forest' are a few shorter poems: 'To the Honorable Elizabeth Sedley, learning to spin, She and the Author equally having an aversion to a Spider', 'My Grand Climacteric, 1802', 'To My Grandson William, On his repeating to me most perfectly and accurately my Poem 'The Fall of Needwood' Which he had secretly got by heart. January 1809', 'On a Picture by R R Reinagle Representing me in an easy armed Chair, which Mrs. M took kind pains to procure for me; my grandson William reading to me; a volume of Burn's Justice, an Act of Parliament, and Books of Poetry on the table; the Portrait of myself a favoured likeness'
Included with the poem loose are two engravings: 'A View in Needwood Forest from the Holly Falls' and 'The Fall of Needwood', published 9 Nuly 1811 by J Landseer, London, M E Sneyd del |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Miller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor |
| Privacy Notice | Data Subjects in Archives Privacy Notice |
| Related Material | See D505/M/4/26/25 for a manuscript of Needwood Forest |
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