"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."
Verse designed to be Sent to Mr. Adams
Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. poet. e. 109 (S.C. 46489) [not consulted]<br>
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Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 184-5.<br>
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Date of composition c. 1740-50 from Lonsdale, apparently circulated in manuscript. No printed edition found. The New Summary Catalog gives "Thomas, Elizabeth 1714-79" as having verse at Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. poet. e. 109 (S.C. 46489) cataloged as "Verse by Elizabeth Amherst, later Mrs. John Thomas, copied by E.F. Amherst, 1798."<br>
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Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher.
