John Bowring manuscript material

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unitid

{"value"=>"19454", "type"=>"local_mss"}

origination

{"value"=>"Bowring, John, 1792-1872", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"John Bowring manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1822-1868", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1822/1868"}

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note

{"value"=>"<p>Also held is a copy of Jeremy Bentham's Chrestomathia, bearing Bowring's ink presentation inscription. Shelved with books under \"Bentham.\"</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

physloc

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

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph poem, \"Buddhist Beatification\" : no date : (MISC 4023.04b) : begins, \"Abstraction from all cares, all thought, all love ...\" Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript material.</p><p>· Holograph memorandum, \"List of books to be specially kept\" : [no date] : (BRNG 0066) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : attribution to Bowring not without doubt; a numbered list including several Bibles and classical works; concludes with the notice, \"Note the MSS Letters & pedigrees are in my tin box at the office.\" Along with (probably unrelated) newspaper clipping re: rental at Ravensbury Park. -- Both items formerly laid in to the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring.</p><p>· To Maria Gisborne, friend of Godwin and the Shelleys : 1 letter (transcript) : 21 Aug 1832 : (S'ANA 0545E) : in the hand of John Gisborne; refering to a letter recently received by Mary Shelley, on the subject of Jeremy Bentham. In the Gisborne Letterbook, filed under Gisborne.</p><p>· To Sir George Grey, politician : 1 autograph letter (draft) unsigned : 28 May 1847 : (BRNG 0044) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 1 Queen Square, West. : begins, \"I have again most respectfully, but most casually to impart your early & serious attention to the state of affairs in the Isle of Man ...\" -- Mounted in the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring. -- Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p><p>· To Mary Lewin, née Peene, his sister-in-law : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1868 : (BRNG 0065) : 1 page (single sheet) : on embossed stationery of The Athenæum : begins, \"I am here for a few days on diplomatic business ...\" Formerly laid in to the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring.</p><p>· To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov 1822 (MISC 2097), in French, indirectly mentioning his recent prison experience in France.</p><p>· To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1828 : (P'ANA 0023) : enclosing to his correspondent a letter from John Cam Hobhouse, politician -- (enclosed letter no longer present).</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1822

date_inclusive_end

1868

keydate

1822

extent_statement

7 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"John Bowring manuscript material : 7 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer. · Holograph poem, \"Buddhist Beatification\" : no date : (MISC 4023.04b) : begins, \"Abstraction from all cares, all thought, all love ...\" Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript material.", "generated"=>true}

date_start

1822

date_end

1868

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