Hannah More manuscript material

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{"value"=>"More, Hannah, 1745-1833", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Hannah More manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph poem, \"Time,\" signed : 17 Apr [1823] : (MISC 4041) : from Barley Wood : 1 1/2 pages (single leaf within album) : begins, \"With sense our conduit is at strife / We squander Time, yet wish for Life . . . .\" Within album of \"Original Compositins and Extracts\"; shelved with bound manuscripts under \"Original Compositions.\".</p><p>· Holograph poem, \"Solitary musings\" : 12 Jun 1826 : (MISC 3790) : from Barley Wood : 2 p. (single sheet) : 30 lines; begins, \"Lord, When dejected I appear, / And love is half absorbed by fear ...\".</p><p>· Holograph poem, \"The Bazaar\" : Jul 1827 : (O'ANA 0021) : from Barley Wood : 1 p. (single sheet) : 10 lines; begins, \"Time was, each Lady thought no harm / By ornaments she wore to charm ...\" Mounted in the grangerized copy of Brightwell's Life of Amelia Opie. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p><p>· Holograph poetical epitaph : [watermark = 1814] : (MISC 4159) : [from Brampton Park] : 1 p. (single sheet) : 10 lines; begins, \"When the great Judge of quick and dead shall <...> / And fix of all mankind the final doom...\"; with attestation in another hand below: \"Written by Hannah More while visiting at Lady Olivia Sparrow's, Brampton Park, to be put on a Tombstone in an adjoining parish, where it is inscribed.\".</p><p>· Verse extract transcription from Cowper, signed : Feb 1828 : (MISC 4148) : from Barley Wood : 1 p. (single sheet) : 3 lines; begins, \"Know, there is yet a Liberty unsung ...\".</p><p>· To Miss Battelle : 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jan [watermark = 1814] : (MISC 4023.19a) : from Barley Wood : begins, \"I have left my letter to Miss Adams open that you may see how things stand without my troubling you with a second letter ...\"; docketed on the verso: \"Oct. 20th / Mr. R. Bolton / 1819.\" Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p><p>· To Cadell & Davies, publishers : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter thirs person : 30 Mar 1799 : (MISC 3479) : [no place] : asking them \"to add to the list of persons to whom the new publication is to be sent the following names ...\"; listing Countess Dowager Spencer, Mrs. Gwatkin, Mrs. Trimmer, and Rev. Mr. Hughes. -- 1 autograph letter third person : 30 May [1815?] : (MISC 3480) : from Barley Wood : asking them \"to delilver a copy of the essay on Saint Paul to the lady who may call for it on her order.\".</p><p>· To the Rev. John Hensman, Church of England clergyman : 1 autograph letter unsigned : 13 Jul 1827 : (MISC 3740) : from Barley Wood : begins, \"I only write a line to say that if you gratify our village Bible Meeting on the 20th of this month by your presence, I hope you will take your cold dinner at Barley Wood ...\"; with a mounted paper tag with More's autograph signature mounted on p. 3, dated \"Barley Wood, Feb 1827.\".</p><p>· To Thomas James, Esq. : 1 autograph presentation inscription, signed : 18 Jul 1826 : (MISC 4301) : from Barley Wood : in Pforzheimer copy 2 of her Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, 1818. Shelved with books under \"More.\".</p><p>· To Elizabeth La Touche, orphanage and charity school headmistress : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul 1812 : (MISC 3925) : from Barley Wood : begins, \"I am half angry with my friend Sir Abraham Elton ...\" Mounted in the Agatha Hogsbottom autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p><p>· To the Rev. John Still, Church of England clergyman : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 May 1824 : (MISC 3791) : from Barley Wood : begins, \"I need not tell you that it is a common artifice in the literary world to return thanks for the present of a book as soon as it is received, from a suspicion that it will not justify any great commendation.\".</p><p>· To an unidentified recipient : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Oct [watermark = 1806] : (MISC 4086) : from Barley Wood : begins, \"Two to one, my dear friend, is rather shameful, and such you say is the state of our correspondence, I being on the debtor side ...\".</p>"}

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1799

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1799

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1828

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1799

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1828

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13 items

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

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{"value"=>"Hannah More, English writer and philanthropist. &#xB7; Holograph poem, \"Time,\" signed : 17 Apr [1823] : (MISC 4041) : from Barley Wood : 1 1/2 pages (single leaf within album) : begins, \"With sense our conduit is at strife / We squander Time, yet wish for Life . . . .\" Within album of \"Original Compositins and Extracts\"; shelved with bound manuscripts under \"Original Compositions.\".", "generated"=>true}

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