Found 4 collections related to Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832

Francis Place, English radical and chronicler. · To George Wilson, campaigner against the corn laws : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Jan 1842 : (MISC 4072) : 1 page (double sheet) : from London : begins, "I inclose to you an autograph which I have now cut from the title page of a book ..."; with the excised autograph of Thomas Hardy, the radical and founding member of the London Corresponding Society, mounted at the top of the letter. less

John Horne Tooke, English radical and philologist. · To Mr. Fell : 1 autograph check signed : 28 Jun 1784 : (MISC 3968) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : for one quarter of a year's rent. Mounted in the grangerized copy of Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Hazlitt.". less

Thomas Hardy, Scots-born radical and a founder of the London Corresponding Society. · To Jane Collier, wife of the journalist John Dyer Collier : 1 autograph letter signed : 14 February 1798 : (MISC 4427) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I shall be very happy Citizen to have your company to dinner next Tuesday at 4 o'clock along with a few friends -- Mrs. Collier how could you disappoint me so last Monday night?". less

· Manuscript poem copied in the hand of "Miss Hazlet" [possibly Margaret Hazlitt (1770-1841)]. Nine ten-line stanzas; begins, "Oh! shame to thee, land of the Gaul, / Oh! shame to thy children and thee ...." Published in various 19th century sources under the title, "Ode," and ascribed to Lord Byron, it is not in fact by Byron (see J. McGann's edition of Byron's complete works, volume VII, page 111). Copy date unknown; the watermark is 1814. On page 4 of the folded double sheet is an authentication note in the hand of Thomas Hardy, the radical bootmaker and founder of the London Corresponding Society, which reads in full: "The above excellent lines on the Gallic Nation on their desertion of Napoleon Bonaparte, written by Lord Byron. Copied by Miss Hazlet and sent to Thomas Hardy.". less