Record

Document Reference	Pw V 256
Title	Autograph MS poem, entitled 'On the Eleventh Day of February The Anniversary of the Rt. Honble. Lady Cavendish Holles Harley and of Her daughter'; n.d. [1716-1724]
Date	1716-1724
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of eleven quatrains. Addressed to Oxford's wife Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley and her daughter Margaret on their birthday. Date of 1716-1724 is given as the poem must date from between 1716, Margaret's first birthday and 1724 when Edward Harley and his wife became Earl and Countess of Oxford.
Title Of Work	On the Eleventh Day of February The Anniversary of the Rt. Honble. Lady Cavendish Holles Harley and of Her daughter
First Line of Poem	I who on rude unpolish'd reed
Last Line of Poem	And there th'Immortal Grandsire trod
Language	English
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition	Generally good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Pro Patria, approx. 94 x 95 mm Countermark: Letters CAW, approx. 10 x 64 mm.
Watermark	Pro Patria
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 257
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	M. Prior, Miscellaneous Works (Dublin, 1740) II, pp 88-90

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1048	Harley; Henrietta Cavendish (1694-1755); Countess of Oxford and Mortimer; née Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles wife of the 2nd Earl of Oxford	1694-1755
NA1079	Bentinck; Margaret Cavendish (1715-1785); Duchess of Portland; née Cavendish-Harley; dau. of 2nd Earl of Oxford; m 2nd Duke of Portland 1734	1715-1785
NA1047	Harley; Edward (1689-1741); 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; styled Lord Harley 1711-1724	1689-1741