John Heneage Jesse manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"John Heneage Jesse manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph verses, \"In your gay, favoured leaves, I am ordered to write\" : 20 Mar 1840 : (BLES 3.246) : 2 p.; apparently composed for the amusement Lady Blessington; begins, \"In your gay, favoured leaves, I am ordered to write, / Where wit on poetical verdure reposes; / But I fear I shall prove in those pages so bright -- / To use the Count's phrase -- like a pig among roses.\".</p><p>· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Apr 1840 : (BLES 3.249a) : from Admiralty : begins, \"After all the kindness which my work and its author so undeservedly received at your hands, I should be very ungrateful if I did not exert myself to the best in my power to obey your commands.\" With an excised letter cover address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 May 1840 : (BLES 3.249b) : from 22 Down St., Piccadilly : begins, \"In sending you the enclosed odd-looking document, some explanation is necessary.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Aug 1843 : (BLES 3.247) : from West Cowes : begins, \"I should be very thoroughly and properly ashamed of myself for not having acknowledges the receipt of 'Merideth' at an earlier period ...\"; with an additional excised letter cover address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 Jul 1845 : (BLES 3.248a) : from Admiralty : begins, \"I must return you many thanks for your very kind, but I fear too flattering note.\" With an excised stamped envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 May 1847 : (BLES 3.248b) : from 84 Mount Street : begins, \"I should indeed be most ungrateful if your wish was not law with me, but you have given me the refuse of the queens of England, and how to write half a dozen pages (much more twenty or thirty,) about either Jane Seymour or Catherine Parr, I have no idea.\".</p><p>· To \"My dear O'Beirne\" [perhaps really Richard Robert Madden?] : 1 autograph letter signed : \"Tuesday\" : (BLES 3.249c) : from Admiralty : begins, \"The only London clubs that Count D'Orsay belonged to were 'Crockford's,' as long as it lasted, and afterwards 'The Coventry' ...\"; at the head of the first page of the letter is scrawled \"From J. H. Jesse Esq. / To R. R. M.\" [i.e., Richard Robert Madden?].</p>"}

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1840

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1840

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1847

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1840

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1847

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7 items

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{"value"=>"John Heneage Jesse manuscript material : 7 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"John Heneage Jesse, English historical writer. &#xB7; Holograph verses, \"In your gay, favoured leaves, I am ordered to write\" : 20 Mar 1840 : (BLES 3.246) : 2 p.; apparently composed for the amusement Lady Blessington; begins, \"In your gay, favoured leaves, I am ordered to write, / Where wit on poetical verdure reposes; / But I fear I shall prove in those pages so bright -- / To use the Count's phrase -- like a pig among roses.\".", "generated"=>true}

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