Anna Maria Hall manuscript material

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{"value"=>"22355", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Anna Maria Hall manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"ca. 1830's-early 1850's", "type"=>"inclusive"}

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

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{"value"=>"<p>· To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug [ca. early 1850's] : (BLES 3.225) : 8 pages (6 single sheets) : from Firfield, Addlestone, Surrey : begins, \"The letters you were so good as to mention, were sent to me, and I was very much obliged. They contained nothing of importance, were very, very stupid, and alluded in a painful manner to a very remarkable, but as it turned out, most unfortunate individual, since dead ...\"; with much on the character of the late Lady Blessington. The letter continues in a copy in another hand [Madden's?] as (BLES 3.226b), with a note at the head of the page: \"In a subsequent communication of the 3rd of Augt Mrs Hall adds:\". -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers.</p><p>· To Jane Porter, novelist : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [22 or 29?] May [1843] : (MISC 2433) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from The Rosery : begins, \"I was very sorry not to have been at home when Mr & Mrs Sheppard did us the pleasure of calling -- & leaving your card ...\"; with a thin mourning border, gilt; with a mounted clipping advertizing an engraving of the late Sir Robert Ker Porter. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [16 Jan 1845] : (MISC 2431) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from The Rosery : begins, \"It gave us all warm pleasure to hear from you -- and to learn what rejoiced us all ...\"; with the stamped, postmarked envelope with red wax seal bearing the image of a harp and \"A M H.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Apr 1848 : (MISC 2432) : 7 pages (2 double sheets) : [no place] : begins, \"How I prize your autograph letter, how little I could have expected such a favour knowing you so seldom write ...\"; with the stamped, postmarked envelope with red wax seal bearing the image of a harp and \"A M H.\".</p><p>· To one of the daughters of Martin Archer Shee, portrait painter and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar [no year] : (SHEE 0061e) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Wentworth Cottage, Fulham Fields : begins, \"The day after I had the pleasure of seeing you, I was seized upon by Rheumatic Fever ...\"; enclosing autograph letters, apparently the several, addressed to S. C. Hall, which precede it in the Shee Autograph Album. A similar letter in the album is addressed to \"Miss E. Shee\"; the recipient of this letter could be Eliza Jane Archer Shee. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under \"Shee.\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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5 items

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{"value"=>"Anna Maria Hall manuscript material : 5 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug [ca. early 1850's] : (BLES 3.225) : 8 pages (6 single sheets) : from Firfield, Addlestone, Surrey : begins, \"The letters you were so good as to mention, were sent to me, and I was very much obliged. They contained nothing of importance, were very, very stupid, and alluded in a painful manner to a very remarkable, but as it turned out, most unfortunate individual, since dead ...\"; with much on the character of the late Lady Blessington. The letter continues in a copy in another hand [Madden's?] as (BLES 3.226b), with a note at the head of the page: \"In a subsequent communication of the 3rd of Augt Mrs Hall adds:\". -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers.", "generated"=>true}

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