Album of autograph letters to John Bowring

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{"value"=>"Bowring, John, 1792-1872", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Album of autograph letters to John Bowring"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1822-1854", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1822/1854"}

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{"source"=>"Pforzheimer copy acquisition: Quaritch : 1 Aug 2013 : £BXXX.yz"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Red half morocco album with gilt spine titling (\"MSS. / BOWRING / CORRESPONDENCE / 1822-1854\"), containing 59 manuscript letters addressed to John Bowring, the English politician, diplomat and writer. Includes letters to Bowring in his capacities as political editor of Jeremy Bentham's radical Westminster Review; as comissioner to investigate Britain's international commercial relations; as consul at Canton; and as governor of Hong Kong. Correspondents include: Maria Edgeworth, novelist and educationist; Richard Cobden, manufacturer and politician; Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist; and over fifty others. Also included are two letters and a list of books in Bowring's hand; an 1808 letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lt. John Paul of the 33rd Regiment; and an engraving of an English Water Spaniel, by J. Scott, Jun., after C. Tourne.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1822

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1854

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1822

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1 volume (70 items), 33 cm; 1 volume (70 items), 33 cm

prefercite

{"value"=>"Album of autograph letters to John Bowring, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" Red half morocco album with gilt spine titling (\"MSS. / BOWRING / CORRESPONDENCE / 1822-1854\"), containing 59 manuscript letters addressed to John Bowring, the English politician, diplomat and writer. Includes letters to Bowring in his capacities as political editor of Jeremy Bentham's radical Westminster Review; as comissioner to investigate Britain's international commercial relations; as consul at Canton; and as governor of Hong Kong. Correspondents include: Maria Edgeworth, novelist and educationist; Richard Cobden, manufacturer and politician; Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist; and over fifty others. Also included are two letters and a list of books in Bowring's hand; an 1808 letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lt. John Paul of the 33rd Regiment; and an engraving of an English Water Spaniel, by J. Scott, Jun., after C. Tourne.", "generated"=>true}

date_start

1822

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1854

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