Manuscript extracts from Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron

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origination

{"value"=>"Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Manuscript extracts from Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1830's", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1830/1839"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Pforzheimer Manuscript (B'ANA 0771); filed under \"Byronana\" by call number</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Copied passages in an unidentified hand, including: an account of Byron's last speech in the House of Lords (\"... he was in a state of most humorous exaltation after his display ...\"); a copy of Byron's 5 Oct 1814 letter to the Countess of [Jersey] (\"... Miss Milbanke is the good-natured person who has undertaken me, and, of course, I am very much in love ...\"); and a copy of part of Byron's 20 Feb 1816 letter to Moore (\"... A Mrs. C (now a kind of housekeeper and spy for Lady N) who in her better days, was a washerwoman, is supposed to be -- by the learned -- very much the occult cause of our late domestic discrepancies ...\"). Along with a single sheet marked in pencil in a later hand, \"Byron / & papers relating to.\" Also with an apparently unrelated two-pages (single sheet) of extracts from 19th century verse, including six lines of W. M. Praed's \"Confession of Don Carlos\"; an eight-line poem beginning, \"The crowds whom we smile with,\" signed AS (sometimes appearing in print titled, \"The Character of Company\"; ascribed in The Champion newspaper of 18 Feb 1821 to \"A.W.T.\" as part of the slightly longer poem, \"To a Sincere Friend\"); and two poems in French (\"Hymne à l'amité\"; \"Madrigal\"). All items removed from the album of Byronana which also originally housed Byron's 30 April 1814 autograph letter to Clio Rickman (B 0186), along with several other Byron-related manuscripts and printed material.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1830

date_inclusive_end

1839

keydate

1830

extent_statement

3 pages (1 double sheet 1 single sheet), various sizes; 3 pages (1 double sheet 1 single sheet), various sizes

prefercite

{"value"=>"Manuscript extracts from Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" Copied passages in an unidentified hand, including: an account of Byron's last speech in the House of Lords (\"... he was in a state of most humorous exaltation after his display ...\"); a copy of Byron's 5 Oct 1814 letter to the Countess of [Jersey] (\"... Miss Milbanke is the good-natured person who has undertaken me, and, of course, I am very much in love ...\"); and a copy of part of Byron's 20 Feb 1816 letter to Moore (\"... A Mrs. C (now a kind of housekeeper and spy for Lady N) who in her better days, was a washerwoman, is supposed to be -- by the learned -- very much the occult cause of our late domestic discrepancies ...\"). Along with a single sheet marked in pencil in a later hand, \"Byron / papers relating to.\" Also with an apparently unrelated two-pages (single sheet) of extracts from 19th century verse, including six lines of W. M. Praed's \"Confession of Don Carlos\"; an eight-line poem beginning, \"The crowds whom we smile with,\" signed AS (sometimes appearing in print titled, \"The Character of Company\"; ascribed in The Champion newspaper of 18 Feb 1821 to \"A.W.T.\" as part of the slightly longer poem, \"To a Sincere Friend\"); and two poems in French (\"Hymne à l'amité\"; \"Madrigal\"). All items removed from the album of Byronana which also originally housed Byron's 30 April 1814 autograph letter to Clio Rickman (B 0186), along with several other Byron-related manuscripts and printed material.", "generated"=>true}

date_start

1830

date_end

1839

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