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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/955
TitleCopy of poem [by Thomas Haynes Bayly] 'Isle of Beauty'
Extent1 item
Date19th century
DescriptionWritten in hooked script; commences 'Shades of evening, close not o'er us / Leave our lonely bark awhile!' and ends 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder / Isle of Beauty, fare thee well'
Undated

On reverse is pasted a pen and ink sketch of Hamlet with the lines 'To be, or not to be! That is the question'
Access StatusOpen

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