- Creator
- Horseman, John, 1775-1844
- Call number
- Pforz Ms
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Preferred Citation
- John Horseman manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
The Reverend John Horseman, rector of Heydon and Little Chishall, and vicar of Great Chishall. · To Samuel Parr, schoolmaster : 1 [autograph?] letter (copy) signed : 20 Aug 1821 : (BLES 3.231) : from Heydon, Royston : begins, "In a shameful and shameless newspaper, misnamed John Bull, there appeared last Monday a miserable attack upon a Character [i.e., Dr. Parr] held in the highest estimation by the wisest and best of mankind ..."; includes a copy of Horseman's reply-in-verse to the newspaper, as well as a copy of Parr's reply to Horseman. The manuscript was sent to the writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington by Parr's biographer, Emily Calcraft [see (BLES 1.070), the letter to Blessington in which Calcraft originally enclosed this manuscript]. -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
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Location
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