Louisa Henrietta Sheridan manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Sheridan, Louisa H. (Louisa Henrietta), -1842", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Louisa Henrietta Sheridan manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"1831-1838", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1831/1838"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 7 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jul 1836 : (BLES 6.500) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"I have this moment received the accompanying letter, whose external appearance perfectly accords with its contents!\" -- 1 autograph letter third person : 17 Nov 1836 : (BLES 6.501a) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : with mourning border; saying she \"has the pleasure of transmitting a review of the 'Beautiful Book', which she has written ...\"; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Mar 1837 : (BLES 6.501b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"If ill-health be not a palliation for apparent ill-manners, I fear you will not excuse my tardy acknowledgment of y.r beautiful Annual ....\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1837 : (BLES 6.502a) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"I have been so much pleased with the plate you kindly sent for my illustration, that I have affixed it to some details of my own 'Convent days' wh. I had intended for another purpose ....\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jul 1837 : (BLES 6.502b) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South : begins, \"Having been engaged during the last two months in editing and revising a MS novel written in a most alarming scrawl -- my close attention to it has again occasioned an accident in my throat ...\"; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503a) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"It quite shames me to receive your valuable, lengthened contribution before I have sent you my Tiny one!\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"I am afraid, notwithstanding you courteously refer only to the Printer, that you fancy I gave my sanction to the conceited alteration proposed ...\"; on page 3 of the letter sheet is [a copy of?] a letter from \"Sheen\" on behalf of Stewart and Murray (printers). -- All letters mounted in volume 6 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.</p><p>· To Thomas Campbell, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jun 1831 : (MISC 2584) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Southsea, Hants : begins, \"I have read, with great pleasure, the new periodical under your direction [i.e., The Metropolitan] ...\"; with two holograph epigrapms on page 3 of the double sheet, for insertion in the magazine: \"Shepherd's Tartan,\" and \"On the Circus being removed from ----- during the Election.\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Louisa Henrietta Sheridan (married name Wyatt), British author, illustrator and editor.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1831

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1838

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1831

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8 items

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{"value"=>"Louisa Henrietta Sheridan manuscript material : 8 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"Louisa Henrietta Sheridan (married name Wyatt), British author, illustrator and editor. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 7 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jul 1836 : (BLES 6.500) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"I have this moment received the accompanying letter, whose external appearance perfectly accords with its contents!\" -- 1 autograph letter third person : 17 Nov 1836 : (BLES 6.501a) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : with mourning border; saying she \"has the pleasure of transmitting a review of the 'Beautiful Book', which she has written ...\"; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Mar 1837 : (BLES 6.501b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"If ill-health be not a palliation for apparent ill-manners, I fear you will not excuse my tardy acknowledgment of y.r beautiful Annual ....\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1837 : (BLES 6.502a) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"I have been so much pleased with the plate you kindly sent for my illustration, that I have affixed it to some details of my own 'Convent days' wh. I had intended for another purpose ....\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jul 1837 : (BLES 6.502b) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South : begins, \"Having been engaged during the last two months in editing and revising a MS novel written in a most alarming scrawl -- my close attention to it has again occasioned an accident in my throat ...\"; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503a) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, \"It quite shames me to receive your valuable, lengthened contribution before I have sent you my Tiny one!\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"I am afraid, notwithstanding you courteously refer only to the Printer, that you fancy I gave my sanction to the conceited alteration proposed ...\"; on page 3 of the letter sheet is [a copy of?] a letter from \"Sheen\" on behalf of Stewart and Murray (printers). -- All letters mounted in volume 6 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.", "generated"=>true}

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1831

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1838

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