Eliza Townsend manuscript material

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{"value"=>"24031", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}

origination

{"value"=>"Townsend, Eliza, 1788-1854", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Eliza Townsend manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1814", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1814"}

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scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>· To Sarah Arnold of New Bedford, Massachusetts : 1 autograph letter signed \"E. A. T.\" : 18 Dec 1814 : (B'ANA 0539) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Boston : begins, \"Your Uncle Francis having done our town ye honour to linger in it a little longer than he expected enables me to add a sheet more to the pacquet already handed him.\" With a tongue-in-cheek account of how Boston has received the news of Lord Byron's impending marriage, including, \"It seems pretty generally agreed that we're to have no more poetry from him; or at any rate, that ye connubical concert will charm away (as in ye case of Saul) ye evil spirit that has long passion'd him & led him like ye New Testament Demonicae to dwell among ye tombs till (to my taste) he was fit for no other company.\".</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Eliza Townsend, American poet.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1814

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1814

date_end

1814

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1814

date_inclusive_end

1814

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1 item

prefercite

{"value"=>"Eliza Townsend manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Eliza Townsend, American poet. &#xB7; To Sarah Arnold of New Bedford, Massachusetts : 1 autograph letter signed \"E. A. T.\" : 18 Dec 1814 : (B'ANA 0539) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Boston : begins, \"Your Uncle Francis having done our town ye honour to linger in it a little longer than he expected enables me to add a sheet more to the pacquet already handed him.\" With a tongue-in-cheek account of how Boston has received the news of Lord Byron's impending marriage, including, \"It seems pretty generally agreed that we're to have no more poetry from him; or at any rate, that ye connubical concert will charm away (as in ye case of Saul) ye evil spirit that has long passion'd him led him like ye New Testament Demonicae to dwell among ye tombs till (to my taste) he was fit for no other company.\".", "generated"=>true}

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