Warren Hastings manuscript material

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unitid

{"value"=>"23500", "type"=>"local_mss"}

origination

{"value"=>"Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Warren Hastings manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1784-1811", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1784/1811"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>· To Captain Price : 1 autograph letter signed : [late Nov or early Dec 1784] : (MISC 0583) : regarding the sailing of the ship Surprise; with a note in another 18th century hand giving approximate date.</p><p>· To \"Dear Sir\" [probably Sir Thomas Lawrence, English painter] : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Feb 1811 : (MISC 0584) : from Daylesford House : enclosing a check (no longer present) for \"the balance due to you from me\"; giving consent to the exhibition of a portrait of himself at the Royal Academy. Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Hastings, commissioned for the wife of Colonel Barton, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1811.</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of Bengal from 1773 to 1785.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1784

keydate

1784

date_end

1811

date_inclusive_start

1784

date_inclusive_end

1811

extent_statement

2 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"Warren Hastings manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of Bengal from 1773 to 1785. &#xB7; To Captain Price : 1 autograph letter signed : [late Nov or early Dec 1784] : (MISC 0583) : regarding the sailing of the ship Surprise; with a note in another 18th century hand giving approximate date.", "generated"=>true}

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