George Meredith manuscript material

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unitid

{"value"=>"23667", "type"=>"local_mss"}

origination

{"value"=>"Meredith, George, 1828-1909", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"George Meredith manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1860's-1890's?", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1860/1899", "certainty"=>"questionable"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Also held is a printed invoice document from The Authors' Syndicate filled out in manuscript (MISC 1377); dated May 1894, the document indicates Meredith owed them £50, being \"5% commission on serial use of 'The Amazing Marriage' viz: £1000 advanced with Scribners.\" Filed under \"George Meredith.\"</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>· Notes and additions to T. L. Peacock's Science of Cookery manuscript : [after 1866?] : (TLP 0065) : 1 volume (42 manuscript leaves; 7 binder's leaves) : [from London?] : emending and expanding some of Peacock's recipes; volume also contains annotations (transcriptions?) in the hand of Meredith's wife, Mary Ellen, Peacock's eldest daughter. Shelved as *Pforz B-R 01.</p><p>· To Violet Maxse, later Lady Milner, imperial activist : 1 autograph presentation inscription signed : [1887?] : (MISC 4298) : on the half title of a copy of Meredith's 1887 new edition of Diana of the Crossways; reads in full: \"Violet / From her friend / George Meredith.\" Shelved with books under \"George Meredith.\".</p><p>· To Frederick Sandys, painter and illustrator : 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1880's-1890's?] : (MISC 0044) : from 57 Prince's Gate S.W. (printed stationery) : begins, \"I leave for Box Hill today ...\".</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>George Meredith, English novelist and poet.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1860

keydate

1860

date_end

1899

date_inclusive_start

1860

date_inclusive_end

1899

extent_statement

3 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"George Meredith manuscript material : 3 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"George Meredith, English novelist and poet. &#xB7; Notes and additions to T. L. Peacock's Science of Cookery manuscript : [after 1866?] : (TLP 0065) : 1 volume (42 manuscript leaves; 7 binder's leaves) : [from London?] : emending and expanding some of Peacock's recipes; volume also contains annotations (transcriptions?) in the hand of Meredith's wife, Mary Ellen, Peacock's eldest daughter. Shelved as *Pforz B-R 01.", "generated"=>true}

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