William Bell Scott manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"William Bell Scott manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"ca. 1873-1883", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1873/1883"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph \"Introductory Memoir\" to his edition of The Poetical Works of John Keats : [ca. 1873] : (S'ANA 0055) : 23 pages (23 single sheets) : [no place] : written chiefly on rectos, with notes and additions on a few of the versos; begins, \"There is no one of the poets who lived at the beginning of this century, -- the greatest era of lyrical and narrative poetry in England, as the Elizabethan age was of dramatic -- of whom we still find it so difficult to speak without bias or prejudice, for or against, as Keats ...\".</p><p>· Holograph \"Preliminary Memoir\" to his edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, signed : [ca. 1873] : (S'ANA 0056) : 22 pages (22 single sheets) : [no place] : written on the rectos only; begins, \"From 1809, when Shelley was about seventeen, to the year of his death when he was within a month of thirty years of age, so short an age for so mighty a product! -- he published his poems generally as they were written ...\".</p><p>· Holograph \"Preliminary Memoir\" to his edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron : [ca. 1874] : (B'ANA 0043) : 18 pages (18 single sheets) : [no place] : written on the rectos only; begins, \"Of all the poets living in the beginning of our century in this country, so rich in poetry at that time, the most popular, the most celebrated, was Lord Byron ...\".</p><p>· Holograph \"Introductory Memoir\" to his edition of The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [ca. 1874] : (MISC 1302) : 24 pages (24 single sheets) : [no place] : written chiefly on rectos, with notes and additions on a few of the versos; begins, \"One of the most anomalous circumstances in the history of the great poets of the beginning of our century, is the smallness of their success on first publication ...\".</p><p>· To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Mar 1876 : (S'ANA 1100) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Belleview House : begins, \"You have never sent me the page of your intended Shelley -- or the exact size of your page ...\"; enclosing a pencil sketch of Shelley's grave [Pforz VMAT (S'ANA 0041)]. The letter is tipped in after the front free endpaper of Pforzheimer copy 3 of the 1829 edition of Shelley's Adonais; the drawing is mounted on the front free endpaper verso.</p><p>· To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet : 1 autograph letter unsigned : [no date] : (S'ANA 0054) : 2 pages (single sheet) : [no place] : with a design drawn on the top half of the sheet; text below begins, \"This is apparently the signature of the writer. Possibly the monastery had no seal ...\" With a penciled note at the foot of page 2 in an unidentified contempoary hand: \"Wm. Bell Scott, Painter & Poet -- Wrote Autobiographical Notes, rather unfriendly to D. G. Rossetti, to whom this was addressed.\".</p><p>· To Elliot Stock, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Jun 1883 : (MISC 4268) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 92 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea : begins, \"By all means keep my pieces (only two, if I recollect rightly) in the Germ ...\".</p>"}

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1873

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1883

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1873

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7 items

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{"value"=>"William Bell Scott manuscript material : 7 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"William Bell Scott, Scottish poet and painter. · Holograph \"Introductory Memoir\" to his edition of The Poetical Works of John Keats : [ca. 1873] : (S'ANA 0055) : 23 pages (23 single sheets) : [no place] : written chiefly on rectos, with notes and additions on a few of the versos; begins, \"There is no one of the poets who lived at the beginning of this century, -- the greatest era of lyrical and narrative poetry in England, as the Elizabethan age was of dramatic -- of whom we still find it so difficult to speak without bias or prejudice, for or against, as Keats ...\".", "generated"=>true}

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1873

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1883

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