Edward Du Bois manuscript material

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{"value"=>"21924", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"Edward Du Bois manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1818", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1818"}

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

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1818

date_inclusive_end

1818

origination

{"value"=>"Du Bois, Edward, 1774-1850", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Edward Du Bois, English writer. In addition to translating and writing several books, he held a long run as editor of the Monthly Mirror, and between 1833-45 served as treasurer and secretary of the Metropolitan Lunacy Commission.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"<p>To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 May 1818 : (P'ANA 0034) : from Temple, Brick Court : begins, \"There are two perhapses -- Perhaps you may remember that we met sometime ago at Horace Smith's; but as you then took your Nap, perhaps you went to sleep and forgot it.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 May 1818 : (P'ANA 0035) : from Temple : begins, \"I received your letter today, and I think you for it; but you give me nothing that Scheffer and others have not supplied.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Nov 1818 : (P'ANA 0036) : from Temple : begins, \"I was sitting here when I received your present, and I call Horace Smith to witness whether my Chambers would at all disgrace any part of Night-mare Abbey...\"; with a suggestion for an alternate ending. -- All letters to Peacock are published with commentary in Shelley and his Circle, v. 6 (SC 480, 481 and 507).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1818

prefercite

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

abstract

{"value"=>"Edward Du Bois, English writer. In addition to translating and writing several books, he held a long run as editor of the Monthly Mirror, and between 1833-45 served as treasurer and secretary of the Metropolitan Lunacy Commission. To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 May 1818 : (P'ANA 0034) : from Temple, Brick Court : begins, \"There are two perhapses -- Perhaps you may remember that we met sometime ago at Horace Smith's; but as you then took your Nap, perhaps you went to sleep and forgot it.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 May 1818 : (P'ANA 0035) : from Temple : begins, \"I received your letter today, and I think you for it; but you give me nothing that Scheffer and others have not supplied.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Nov 1818 : (P'ANA 0036) : from Temple : begins, \"I was sitting here when I received your present, and I call Horace Smith to witness whether my Chambers would at all disgrace any part of Night-mare Abbey...\"; with a suggestion for an alternate ending. -- All letters to Peacock are published with commentary in Shelley and his Circle, v. 6 (SC 480, 481 and 507).", "generated"=>true}

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3 items

date_start

1818

date_end

1818

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