John Wilson Croker manuscript material

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

{"value"=>"19569", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"John Wilson Croker manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1802-1849", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1802/1849"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 linear foot"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1802

date_inclusive_end

1849

origination

{"value"=>"Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>John Wilson Croker, British politician and writer. As a literary critic, his harsh review of Keats's Endymion was blamed for causing the young poet's death -- as Byron put it in Don Juan, Keats was \"killed off by one critique\" ; \"snuffed out by an Article.\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Apr 1820 : (BLES 2.096) : begins, \"I do myself the honor of obeying your Ladyship's wishes to have four lines of my writing ...\" Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes.|||To a Mr. Cooke, from \"AB.G.\" : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Sep 1849 : (MISC 2380).|||To an R. L. Gwatkin : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Dec 1829 : (MISC 2379).|||To Edward Jesse, writer on natural history : 2 autograph letters signed : 12 Jan [1802] - 15 Oct 1836 : (MISC 1994-1995).|||To \"Dear John\" : 1 autograph letter signed : no date : (MISC 2378).|||To \"My dear Wynne\" : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Feb 1835 : (MISC 4170) : from West [?--bury] : begins, \"You once, I remember, told me that you thought the Col. Cecil mentioned in my edition of Boswell's Johnson, vol. ii p. 178, might be our Jacobite friend ...\".|||Collection of papers relating to the life and reminiscences of Croker : (MISC 1957) : with holograph manuscripts, numerous letters written to him, copies of letters by him, with a biography of Croker annotated by him ; also, Croker's corrections to a Memoir of the Late Sir Robert Peel. Some of the material appears to be drafts for Louis J. Jennings's Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson Croker (1884).</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Apr 1820 : (BLES 2.096) : begins, \"I do myself the honor of obeying your Ladyship's wishes to have four lines of my writing ...\" Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes."}

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1802

prefercite

{"value"=>"John Wilson Croker manuscript material : 1 linear foot, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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1 linear foot

date_start

1802

date_end

1849

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