Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material

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unitid

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

{"value"=>"21942", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1820's-1823", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1820/1823"}

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origination

{"value"=>"Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Thomas Erskine, first Baron Erskine, British lord chancellor.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Poems : [no date; ca. 1820's?] : (BLES 2.162a) : 2 p.; four short poems on one folded lettersheet, copied in an unidentified hand; apparently done for Lady Blessington; including \"Extempore on a Yard of Flannel\"; \"On Walter Scott's Poem entitled The Field of Waterloo\"; \"On presenting Buonaparte's [spurs?] to the Prince Regent\"; and \"An Inscription for the Lap dog of the Countess of Blessington.\" Along with a copied address (in the same hand), \"Conclusion of a Speech attributed by Lord Erskine to Lord Viscount Stafford\" (BLES 2.162b). In v. 2 of the Blessington Papers.|||To Lord Byron, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Apr 1823 : (B'ANA 0322) : from Buchan Hill, Sussex : on Lord Byron's decision to join the fight for Greek independence on Greek soil; begins, \"I have asked our good friend Mr. Murray to convey to your Lordship a copy of a letter written last year to Lord Liverpool on the subject of the Greeks ...\".</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Poems : [no date; ca. 1820's?] : (BLES 2.162a) : 2 p.; four short poems on one folded lettersheet, copied in an unidentified hand; apparently done for Lady Blessington; including \"Extempore on a Yard of Flannel\"; \"On Walter Scott's Poem entitled The Field of Waterloo\"; \"On presenting Buonaparte's [spurs?] to the Prince Regent\"; and \"An Inscription for the Lap dog of the Countess of Blessington.\" Along with a copied address (in the same hand), \"Conclusion of a Speech attributed by Lord Erskine to Lord Viscount Stafford\" (BLES 2.162b). In v. 2 of the Blessington Papers."}

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{"value"=>"Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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1820

date_inclusive_end

1823

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1820

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2 items

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1820

date_end

1823

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