Part ff. 1–3 - ‘Riddle’ (by Jenny Havelock)

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Add. MS a/738/ff. 1–3

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‘Riddle’ (by Jenny Havelock)

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Montagu, John George (1767–1790), politician
(1767–1790)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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First line: ‘With Youth, & perfect beauty blest’.

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      Printed, with several verbal differences, as Enigma VII, ‘By Miss Jenny Havelock, of Birtley, in the County of Durham’, in The Ladies’ Own Memorandum-Book … for the Year 1769 (London, probably 1768). Reprinted, with further variations, in The Trial of Wit, or, A New Riddle Book (Glasgow, 1782). The manuscript text is closer to the first of these printed versions.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2025.

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