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- Creator
- Brooke, Thomas, 1755-1820
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
Thomas Brooke, of Ashton Hayes, near Chester, MP for Newton-le-Willows between 1786 and 1807. · To John Blackburne, MP for Lancashire : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Sep 1802 : (MISC 4173) : from Paris : 7 ¹/₃ pages (2 double sheets) : providing an account of Paris during the temporary peace with Britain following the Treaty of Amiens; begins, "In hopes of being able to have given you an account of my presentation to Buonaparte on this day, I have deferred thanking you for your letter ..."; includes accounts of Napoleon's activities, a visit to Versailles, and French women: "The dress of the ladies is not so outrè as you have heard it represented -- some of them expose their bosoms rather more than ours do ...".
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319