Sir William Drummond manuscript material

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

{"value"=>"21919", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Sir William Drummond manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1811-1816", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1811/1816"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1811

date_inclusive_end

1816

origination

{"value"=>"Drummond, William, Sir, 1770?-1828", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Sir William Drummond, Scottish classical scholar and diplomat. He was a friend of William Godwin, and his writings helped to shape the philosophical mind of Percy Bysshe Shelley.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>To Lord Blessington, husband of Lady Blessington, the writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : \"Friday\" [watermark = 1816] : (BLES 2.136) : [no place] : begins, \"I am ashamed of having been so long of answering your Lordship's kind letter; but I could not get the decision of Prince Stiliano Colonna 'till the night before last ...\" Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers.|||To Mr. Patrick, possibly Richard Patrick, classical scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Nov 1811 : (S'ANA 0473) : regarding translations from the Celtic. A related letter, unsigned with no address, and in an unknown hand, discussing \"Mr. P.\" in an occasionally derisive manner, is also included.</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"To Lord Blessington, husband of Lady Blessington, the writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : \"Friday\" [watermark = 1816] : (BLES 2.136) : [no place] : begins, \"I am ashamed of having been so long of answering your Lordship's kind letter; but I could not get the decision of Prince Stiliano Colonna 'till the night before last ...\" Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers."}

keydate

1811

prefercite

{"value"=>"Sir William Drummond manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

2 items

date_start

1811

date_end

1816

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