Richard Garnett manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Richard Garnett manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"1862-1906", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1862/1906"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Corrections on printed proofs, \"Shelley, Harriet Shelley, and Mr. T. L. Peacock\" : [post-6 Mar 1862] : (S'ANA 0693) : substantial manuscript emendations on printer's proofs for his contribution to Relics of Shelley. The published text, with a few minor exceptions, follows the revisions.</p><p>· Holograph translation of T. L. Peacock's epitaph for his daughter : [no date] : (TLP 0048) : [on envelope recto] : [no place] : reads in full, \"Earthly love speedily become unmindful, but love from heaven is mindful for ever more.\" Filed with Peacock's orginal holograph, under \"Peacock.\".</p><p>· Autograph attestation signed : [no date] : (TLP 0067) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : six lines written at the foot of a Thomas Love Peacock holograph poem, \"Farewell my son\"; reads in full, \"Verses in the handwriting of Thomas Love Peaock, apparently from an unpublished poem on some legend relating to Saint Katherine: see 'Gryll Grange,' passim.\" Filed under \"Peacock.\".</p><p>· Autograph attestation signed : [no date] : (TLP 0132) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : written on front wrapper of a manuscript review on Nonnus, by T. L. Peacock; reads in full, \"This essay would seem to be / by T. L. Peacock, / but the MS is not in his hand / R. G.\" Filed under \"Peacock.\".</p><p>· To William Leonard Courtney, philosopher and journalist : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 May 1902 : (S'ANA 0967) : introducing C. D. Locock, who will be writing on Shelley.</p><p>· To Harry Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Jul 1894 : (MISC 0812) : alerting him to a listing of two Robert Browning items in an old autograph catalog. With stamped envelope, which is mounted on to a preliminary leaf of Browning's manuscript of Colombe's Birthday. Shelved under \"Browning\" with bound manuscript volumes.</p><p>· To Charles Dealtry Locock, writer and editor : 13 autograph pieces of correspondence signed : 1902-1906 [and undated] : (S'ANA 0965-0966) (S'ANA 0968-0978) : 7 letters, 4 post-cards, 2 notes ; some touching on Shelley-related interests.</p><p>· To \"My dear Sir\" : 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jun 1880 : (S'ANA 0442) : saying that the trustees would not undertake work on the Byron volume, but he was sure \"that an abstract of their papers, skillfully made would form a very interesting contribution to a periodical like the New Quarterly or Fraser's Magazine.\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Richard Garnett, English librarian and author; spent his career at the British Museum, becoming Keeper of Printed Books in 1890. Garnett wrote and edited several works on Shelley, including Relics of Shelley (1862).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1862

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1862

date_end

1906

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1862

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1906

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20 items

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{"value"=>"Richard Garnett manuscript material : 20 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Richard Garnett, English librarian and author; spent his career at the British Museum, becoming Keeper of Printed Books in 1890. Garnett wrote and edited several works on Shelley, including Relics of Shelley (1862). &#xB7; Corrections on printed proofs, \"Shelley, Harriet Shelley, and Mr. T. L. Peacock\" : [post-6 Mar 1862] : (S'ANA 0693) : substantial manuscript emendations on printer's proofs for his contribution to Relics of Shelley. The published text, with a few minor exceptions, follows the revisions.", "generated"=>true}

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