William Beattie manuscript material

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{"value"=>"William Beattie manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1837-1862", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1837/1862"}

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1837

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1862

origination

{"value"=>"Beattie, William, 1793-1875", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>William Beattie, Scottish physician and poet. Beattie counted many famous and influential people among his closest friends, including: Thomas Campbell, for whom he wrote a biography; Samuel Rogers, for whom he was executor; Lady Blessington, to whose Book of Beauty annual he often contributed; and Lady Byron, who reportedly \"had imparted to him the true reason of her separation from her husband, and that it was not the one given by Mrs. Stowe.\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Holograph poem, \"Planting the acorns\" : 15 Jan 1853 : (MISC 1478a) : begins: \"Acorns! by the Poet planted!\".|||Holograph annotations to printed poem, \"On the death of the late Samuel Rogers, Esq.\" : [ca. 30 Dec 1855] : (MISC 1478b) : noted in ink at the top of p. 1 of the four-page verse pamphlet, \"12 Copies Printed\" and \"Miss Martha Rogers,\" prehaps a relative of the late poet.|||Holograph poem, \"The closing Tear\" : 30 Dec 1840 : (BLES 1.060) : 3 p.; in ink, with a post-script to Lady Blessington; begins, \"Could Time contract the heart / As Time contracts our years ...\" Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.|||Holograph poem, \"To the Countess of Blessington, on perusing 'The Book of Beauty' for 1839\" : 7 Nov 1838 : (BLES 1.061) : 1 p.; in ink; begins, \"As Dian, mid you [Isles?] of light ...\".|||To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 25 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Nov [1837] : (BLES 1.056b) : [no place] : begins, \"I have again to return you my best acknowledgements for the Book of Beauty, which is certainly in your hands becoming every year more beautiful.\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday Morning\" : (BLES 1.051a) : from 6 Park Square : begins, \"The sudden death of a much valued friend, which too place on Friday morning, has prevented me replying to yr obliging communication.\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [1838] : (BLES 1.051b) : [no place] : begins, \"I beg to leave for yr gracious acceptance the accompanying book…\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday\" : (BLES 1.052b) : begins, \"I beg to acknowledge the receipt of yr obliging packet …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday 8 pm\" : (BLES 1.053b) : [no place] : begins, \"Many and most cordial thanks, my dear Lady BLESsington, for the beautiful and highly-prized souvenir which you have just sent to Mrs. Beattie …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.053c) : [no place] : begins, \"Nothing could have been more agreeable to Mrs. Beattie and myself than to have availed ourselves of yr truly obliging offer for to-morrow evening …\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [8 Sep 1839] : (BLES 1.057a) : [no place] : begins, \"I have just sketched -- roughly sketched -- the enclosed …\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 [Sep 1839] : (BLES 1.057b) : from Alton Lodge, Richmond : begins, \"Your most obliging letter from St. Leonards I should have acknowledged in person ere this …\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [7 Dec 1839] : (BLES 1.062) : [no place] : begins, \"My fair friends here have been so monopolizing in their devotions to the 'Belle of the Season,' that it was only last night that I was permitted to look upon her in the silence of my own study.\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Thursday night\" [1839] : (BLES 1.056a) : [no place] : begins, \"I beg to return you my grateful thanks for a very handsome and a very useful piece of furniture …\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [2 Jan 1840] : (BLES 1.063b) : [no place] : begins, \"I beg to enclose a slightly altered version of the lines I sent on Thursday …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Dec 1840 : (BLES 1.063a) : [no place] : begins, \"Allow me to offer you, in the united names of all at this fireside, the right cordial wishes of the season!\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Jan 1841 : (BLES 1.064) : from Park Square : begins, \"Many, many thanks, my dear Lady BLESsington, for another [proof of your kind remembrance.\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Jul [1841?] : (BLES 1.053a) : from Park Sq. : begins, \"I have to offer a thousand apologies for not sooner sending in my 'adhesion' to yr P.S. …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Oct 1841 : (BLES 1.065) : from Rose Villa, Hampstead : begins, \"I am very sorry I was not at home to receive Dr. Mastalia …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Saturday\" : (BLES 1.054a) : [no place] : begins, \"I am truly honoured and obliged by your note and its accompaniment …\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday 11 a.m.\" : (BLES 1.054b) : from Park Sq. : begins, \"I have been prevented till this morning from executing yr gracious commands.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Nov [1841?] : (BLES 1.055b) : from Park Sq. : begins, \"I beg yr gracious acceptance of the accompanying volume …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Saturday\" [1841?] : (BLES 1.055a) : from Park Sq. : begins, \"I have just time to forward the enclosed lines.\" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Tuesday 11 p.m.\" : (BLES 1.059b) : from Park Sq. : begins, \"A thousand thanks for the vest in which I hope to be invested before the frost goes.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.058a) : [no place] : begins, \"I have no words to thank you as I ought, for your very handsome present …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan [1842] : (BLES 1.059a) : [no place] : begins, \"I pray you apologize to Mrs. fairlie for the very unfinished sketch I now enclose.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov [1842] : (BLES 1.052a) : from Park Square : begins, \"Your beautiful book was put into my hands this morning, after I had the honour to forward mine …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Jan 1844 : (BLES 1.066) : from 6 Park Square : begins, \"Your beautiful presents to my wife and myself were duly received at Hampstead last night …\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.058b) : [no place] : begins, \"My best services are at yr Command …\" -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.|||To Archibald Campbell : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Apr [1854?] : (MISC 2264) : addressed to \"My trusty Trojan.\" The letter is tipped in to a copy of Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (1849), which Beattie edited. Beattie inscribed the book to Archibald Campbell. Shelved under *R Pforz BIO (Campbell, T.).|||To Thomas H. Cromek, painter : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 May 1862 : (MISC 2393) : regarding his revision of Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell.|||To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov 1854 : (BLES 5.455k) : from London : begins, \"I have just had a note from Mr. N. P. Willis, rejoicing that Lady B's 'life' has fallen in your hands.\" Mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Holograph poem, \"Planting the acorns\" : 15 Jan 1853 : (MISC 1478a) : begins: \"Acorns! by the Poet planted!\"."}

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1837

prefercite

{"value"=>"William Beattie manuscript material : 31 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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31 items

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1837

date_end

1862

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