Horace Walpole manuscript material

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unitid

{"value"=>"24089", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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

origination

{"value"=>"Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Horace Walpole manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"circa 1750's-1780's", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1750/1789", "certainty"=>"approximate"}

physdesc

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

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>· To George Augustus Selwyn, wit and politician : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Sunday night\" [1757?] : (MISC 0133) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Strawberry hill : begins, \"I wrote to you this morning in answer to your obliging letter, but my lady Townshend tells me that you are likely to go out of town tomorrow . . . .\" -- 1 autograph note unsigned : \"Monday evening\" [circa 1784?] : (MISC 0132) : 1 page (singel sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"I wish you would call on me any time tomorrow between twelve & two: I have got the two copies of Mad. du Deffand's picture . . . .\".</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Horatio [Horace] Walpole, fourth earl of Orford, English author, politician, and patron of the arts.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1750

keydate

1750

date_end

1789

date_inclusive_start

1750

date_inclusive_end

1789

extent_statement

2 items

prefercite

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

abstract

{"value"=>"Horatio [Horace] Walpole, fourth earl of Orford, English author, politician, and patron of the arts. &#xB7; To George Augustus Selwyn, wit and politician : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Sunday night\" [1757?] : (MISC 0133) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Strawberry hill : begins, \"I wrote to you this morning in answer to your obliging letter, but my lady Townshend tells me that you are likely to go out of town tomorrow . . . .\" -- 1 autograph note unsigned : \"Monday evening\" [circa 1784?] : (MISC 0132) : 1 page (singel sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"I wish you would call on me any time tomorrow between twelve two: I have got the two copies of Mad. du Deffand's picture . . . .\".", "generated"=>true}

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