Found 3 collections related to Twiss, Horace, 1787-1849

Horace Twiss, English lawyer and politician. · To Clara Maria Pope, flower painter : 1 letter (transcript) : 25 Feb 1812 : (P'ANA 0057) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from 4, Inner Temple Lane : copied in an unidentified hand; begins, "Having luckily a couple of hours to spare, I employed them in reading the poem [The Philosophy of Melancholoy] which you have been so good as to send me. I think the subject interesting in itself, it has received a still further charm from the grace and sweetness which the poet has treated it. Mr. Peacock's genius is not perhaps strikingly original . . . ." Published in full with commentary as SC 212 in Shelley and his Circle, volume III, page 92. less

The James Smith manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph copy of Horace Smith's poem "Man"; holograph sonnets in immitation of Shakespeare ("Absence and presence, born of Elder Night" and "Thoul't still survive, when I to Time shall bow"); and a holograph "Epigram to Count D'Orsay." Four poetic pieces held by the Pforzheimer Collection were published in a posthumous collection edited by Horace Smith in 1840; these four and an additional five pieces were published by Alfred Morrison in 1895, while the remainder remain unpublished. The bulk of the correspondence is from the 1830's. Correspondents include: Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess; Henry Colburn, publisher; Jane Porter, novelist; Horace Smith, writer and humorist (his brother) and over twenty others. less