Joseph Jekyll manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 16 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jun [1821] : (BLES 3.236a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Don't upbraid me, for I am so lame & so sensible that I have not inflicted two Morning Visits anywhere since I did Homage in Seymour Place.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Jun 1822 : (BLES 3.237b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"The horrible Extinguisher annihilated yesterday, & seeing no chance of survivorship I fled ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul 1822 : (BLES 3.236b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Rogers tells me of 'Magic Lanthorns & Sketches' -- you are as false as fair, and send me no copy, though perhaps you think I died last spring ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Sunday\" : (BLES 3.238a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"You would have seen me long before now but the horrible East Wind a fortnight ago encored an Interlude of the Gout...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec [1831] : (BLES 3.239a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Don't think me a Barbarian because I have not fallen at your feet, but on my return to town the Gout amused me for a fortnight ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Jan 1832 : (BLES 3.240a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"In consequence of a discovery that I could hobble, I have been inundated these days by invitations to dinner ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jan [1832] : (BLES 3.240b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Never did any Amphytrion of antient or modern times furnish so delicious a plate.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan 1832 : (BLES 3.239b) : from Spring Garden : reads in full, \"The apparent guilt shall be expiated on Saturday next.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov [1832] : (BLES 3.243a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"I should have been at your Ladyship's feet before now if the rascally gout had not disable mine ...\"; also includes, \"Why is there no more Byron in the New Monthly?\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Tuesday\" : (BLES 3.241) : [no place] : begins, \"I have not yet dined out though convalescent, but there is no resisting your invitation for Sunday ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Thursday\" (BLES 3.241b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"No love lost between us. This cursed gout has vanished, but left me so lame ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Sep 1835 : (BLES 3.242a) : [no place] : begins, \"My delightful friend, I thought, was as inveterate a metropolitan as myself, and it petrified me to read that she was betting at Doncaster ...\"; with the excised envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday\" : (BLES 3.242b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Colds, catarrhs, & the usual compliments of the seasons, in addition to my customary lame excuses, have prevented a morning visit ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday\" : (BLES 3.237a) : [no place] : begins, \"Sincere thanks to my kind and good friend for her enquiries. The gout has confined me to my chamber for a week ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec [no year] : (BLES 3.238b) : from Spring Gardens : begins, \"Thanks, my dear Friend, for your repeated Enquiries, the Attack was confined to my Hand, but I still keep my Chamber ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Saturday\" : (BLES 3.243b) : [no place] : begins, \"I forgot to send yesterday a little unpublished sketch ...\" -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p><p>· To an unidentified recipient : 1 autograph letter signed (fragment) : \"Monday\" 26 Aug [no year] : (SHEE 0027d) : [no place] : begins, \"Let me [ ] some other day perhaps may suit her bettter -- I do not say a _civil_ answer because you are grown a Courtier & can send no other --\" Mounted in the Martin Archer Shee Autograph Album. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under \"Shee.\".</p>"}

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1821

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1835

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{"value"=>"Joseph Jekyll, English lawyer and politician. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 16 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jun [1821] : (BLES 3.236a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Don't upbraid me, for I am so lame so sensible that I have not inflicted two Morning Visits anywhere since I did Homage in Seymour Place.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Jun 1822 : (BLES 3.237b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"The horrible Extinguisher annihilated yesterday, seeing no chance of survivorship I fled ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul 1822 : (BLES 3.236b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Rogers tells me of 'Magic Lanthorns Sketches' -- you are as false as fair, and send me no copy, though perhaps you think I died last spring ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Sunday\" : (BLES 3.238a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"You would have seen me long before now but the horrible East Wind a fortnight ago encored an Interlude of the Gout...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec [1831] : (BLES 3.239a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Don't think me a Barbarian because I have not fallen at your feet, but on my return to town the Gout amused me for a fortnight ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Jan 1832 : (BLES 3.240a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"In consequence of a discovery that I could hobble, I have been inundated these days by invitations to dinner ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jan [1832] : (BLES 3.240b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Never did any Amphytrion of antient or modern times furnish so delicious a plate.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan 1832 : (BLES 3.239b) : from Spring Garden : reads in full, \"The apparent guilt shall be expiated on Saturday next.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov [1832] : (BLES 3.243a) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"I should have been at your Ladyship's feet before now if the rascally gout had not disable mine ...\"; also includes, \"Why is there no more Byron in the New Monthly?\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Tuesday\" : (BLES 3.241) : [no place] : begins, \"I have not yet dined out though convalescent, but there is no resisting your invitation for Sunday ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Thursday\" (BLES 3.241b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"No love lost between us. This cursed gout has vanished, but left me so lame ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Sep 1835 : (BLES 3.242a) : [no place] : begins, \"My delightful friend, I thought, was as inveterate a metropolitan as myself, and it petrified me to read that she was betting at Doncaster ...\"; with the excised envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday\" : (BLES 3.242b) : from Spring Garden : begins, \"Colds, catarrhs, the usual compliments of the seasons, in addition to my customary lame excuses, have prevented a morning visit ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday\" : (BLES 3.237a) : [no place] : begins, \"Sincere thanks to my kind and good friend for her enquiries. The gout has confined me to my chamber for a week ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec [no year] : (BLES 3.238b) : from Spring Gardens : begins, \"Thanks, my dear Friend, for your repeated Enquiries, the Attack was confined to my Hand, but I still keep my Chamber ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Saturday\" : (BLES 3.243b) : [no place] : begins, \"I forgot to send yesterday a little unpublished sketch ...\" -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.", "generated"=>true}

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