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Document Reference	Pw V 187
Title	Autograph MS poem, entitled 'The Vision', by Daniel Defoe; n.d.
Date	Nov 1706 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of fourteen 9-line verses. Two lines are cancelled at the end of verse eight, and replaced with 'as you find 'em you'd leav 'em both Foolish and Poor'. Manuscript glosses commenting on the text appear against five verses.
Title Of Work	The Vision
First Line of Poem	Come Hither ye Dreamers of Dreams
Last Line of Poem	To tell if he shew'd us less Manners or Brains
Language	English
Term	parliament, the Union, 1707
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition	Mended but fragile in fold, with slight loss of paper.
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Post Horn within crowned shield and insignia 4WR, 115 x 55 mm
Watermark	Horn (crowned shield)
Related Material	Index, ELM III, DeD 9
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 186
	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	F. H. Ellis, 'Notes for an Edition of Defoe's Verse', Review of English Studies, new series vol 32 (1981) pp 398-407
	D. Defoe, The Vision (?Edinburgh, 1706)
	POAS, VII (1975), pp 214-220

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74429	Hamilton; John (1656-1708); 2nd Lord Belhaven	1656-1708
NA1114	Defoe; Daniel (1661-1731); poet and writer	1661-1731

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