George Moore (businessman) manuscript material

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{"value"=>"22169", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"George Moore (businessman) manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1841", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1841"}

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1841

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1841

origination

{"value"=>"Moore, George, 1806-1876", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>George Moore, English philanthropist and businessman.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"<p>To Horace Mayhew, writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1841] : (MISC 0046) : from Kidwelly, South Wales : begins, \"There is a subject for you, I think, in the following circumstance. I have just now opened the Swansea & Carmarthan Line, and the women here wear such high hats that they cannot sit in the carriage ...\"; with ink sketches of women in the hats. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"March the somethingth\" [no year] : (MISC 0047) : from Putney : begins, \"Can you illustrate this? A friend of mine is courting a Scotch lass; she is already wedded to Highland customs ... She has presented him with a genuine Maude, or Scotch Shawl, and insists upon his wearing it ...\"; with ink sketches of the shawled gentleman in various predicaments (\"in a gale\"; \"absence of mind\").</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1841

prefercite

{"value"=>"George Moore (businessman) manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"George Moore, English philanthropist and businessman. To Horace Mayhew, writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1841] : (MISC 0046) : from Kidwelly, South Wales : begins, \"There is a subject for you, I think, in the following circumstance. I have just now opened the Swansea & Carmarthan Line, and the women here wear such high hats that they cannot sit in the carriage ...\"; with ink sketches of women in the hats. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"March the somethingth\" [no year] : (MISC 0047) : from Putney : begins, \"Can you illustrate this? A friend of mine is courting a Scotch lass; she is already wedded to Highland customs ... She has presented him with a genuine Maude, or Scotch Shawl, and insists upon his wearing it ...\"; with ink sketches of the shawled gentleman in various predicaments (\"in a gale\"; \"absence of mind\").", "generated"=>true}

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2 items

date_start

1841

date_end

1841

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