Alaric Alexander Watts manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Alaric Alexander Watts manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"1823?-1837", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1823/1837", "certainty"=>"questionable"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To the Rev. Thomas Maude, clergyman and minor poet : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jun 1830 : (MISC 1590) : 2 ³/₄ pages (double sheet) : from 58 Torrington Square : begins, \"I should be more insensible than I am to the merits of good poetry . . . .\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jan 1836 : (MISC 1587) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, \"Mrs. Watts has requested me to thank you for the elegant little poem . . . .\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Feb 1836 : (MISC 1533) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, \"I regret that an extract which it was intended should have been made from your poem was unavoidably omitted . . .\"; with a newspaper clipping of a review of Maude's School-Boy pasted on page 3 of the letter sheet. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Dec 1837 : (MISC 1589) : 3 ³/₄ pages (double sheet) : from Ember Cottage, Thames Ditton : begins, \"I have to claim your indulgence for my [?] to notice the new edition of your elegant little volume . . . .\".</p><p>· To [?James Parry, painter and engraver] : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Oct 1830 : (MISC 3358) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from 58 Torrington Square : begins, \"I am informed by my friend Mr Procter that you have become the possessor of two little drawings by Stothard . . . .\" On page 2 in the lower left corner has been added in pencil, in what appears to be a contemporary hand, \"J. Parry Esq.\".</p><p>· To Jane Porter, novelist : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun 1826 : (MISC 2648) : 4 ¹/₂ pages (1 double sheet + 1 single sheet) : from 5 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall : begins, \"By some fatality which I am wholly unable to account a packet left in the hands of my booksellers several months ago for you has been mislaid.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Jun 1826 : (MISC 2649) : 5 ¹/₂ pages (2 double sheets) : from 8 North Bank, Regents Park : begins, \"Your favor of the 17th did not reach me in time to admit of my sending a reply to Wimpole St before you left town . . . .\".</p><p>· To Martin Archer Shee, portrait painter and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : \"Tuesday\" [watermark = 1823] : (SHEE 0030a) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, \"I have been engaged for some years in illustrating a simple volume of my poems . . . .\" Mounted in the Martin Archer Shee Autograph Album. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under \"Shee.\".</p>"}

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1823

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1823

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1837

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1823

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1837

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8 items

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

abstract

{"value"=>"Alaric Alexander Watts, English journalist and poet. &#xB7; To the Rev. Thomas Maude, clergyman and minor poet : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jun 1830 : (MISC 1590) : 2 &#xB3;/&#x2084; pages (double sheet) : from 58 Torrington Square : begins, \"I should be more insensible than I am to the merits of good poetry . . . .\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jan 1836 : (MISC 1587) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, \"Mrs. Watts has requested me to thank you for the elegant little poem . . . .\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Feb 1836 : (MISC 1533) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, \"I regret that an extract which it was intended should have been made from your poem was unavoidably omitted . . .\"; with a newspaper clipping of a review of Maude's School-Boy pasted on page 3 of the letter sheet. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Dec 1837 : (MISC 1589) : 3 &#xB3;/&#x2084; pages (double sheet) : from Ember Cottage, Thames Ditton : begins, \"I have to claim your indulgence for my [?] to notice the new edition of your elegant little volume . . . .\".", "generated"=>true}

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