Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/74/4
Title
Thomas Branagan poem
Date(s)
- 1817-1976 (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
5pp
Context area
Archival history
Citation for a published source: The pleasures of contemplation, being a desultory investigation of the harmonies, beauties, and benefits of nature; including a justification of the ways of God to man, and a glimpse of his sovereign beauty[...], published for S. Eastwick, Philadelphia, 1817.
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Scope and content
Microfilm copy of a poem by Thomas Branagan taken from his autobiography, The pleasures of contemplation, being a desultory investigation of the harmonies, beauties, and benefits of nature; including a justification of the ways of God to man, and a glimpse of his sovereign beauty[...] (1817), and written from the perspective of an 'Irish girl' who had recently emigrated and a 'citizen' she encounters upon arrival in New York.