Mary Diana Dods manuscript material

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unitid

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

{"value"=>"19605", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Mary Diana Dods manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1825", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1825"}

physdesc

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

date_inclusive_start

1825

date_inclusive_end

1825

origination

{"value"=>"Dods, Mary Diana", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Mary Diana Dods, pseudonym David Lyndsay, British writer. For a time she lived among Paris's elite Anglo-French society as a man, taking the name Walter Sholto Douglas. As Douglas, Dods had a wife and child, and her close friend, writer Mary Shelley, helped her conceal the truth behind her gender identity.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>To Wm. Spooner, care of Mssrs. Hurst & Robinson, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed \"D. Lyndsay\" : 26 Jun 1825 : (S'ANA 1019) : regarding corrections to proof sheets for an upcoming work ; includes, \"I have amended the passage thus - 'Many who were most deserving' etc. and 'Shelley is not - Lord Byron is not' etc.\" The letter is framed and stored with other flat framed items.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

keydate

1825

prefercite

{"value"=>"Mary Diana Dods manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Mary Diana Dods, pseudonym David Lyndsay, British writer. For a time she lived among Paris's elite Anglo-French society as a man, taking the name Walter Sholto Douglas. As Douglas, Dods had a wife and child, and her close friend, writer Mary Shelley, helped her conceal the truth behind her gender identity. To Wm. Spooner, care of Mssrs. Hurst & Robinson, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed \"D. Lyndsay\" : 26 Jun 1825 : (S'ANA 1019) : regarding corrections to proof sheets for an upcoming work ; includes, \"I have amended the passage thus - 'Many who were most deserving' etc. and 'Shelley is not - Lord Byron is not' etc.\" The letter is framed and stored with other flat framed items.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 item

date_start

1825

date_end

1825

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