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Creator
Calcraft, Emily
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
2 items
Preferred Citation
Emily Calcraft manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Manuscript copy, "Extract from a Sermon on Repentance," by Dr. Samuel Parr : [watermark = 1836] : (BLES 3.230) : 1 p.; begins, "The infinite importance of what he has to do, the goading conviction that it must be done, the utter inability of doing it ..." Published in R. R. Madden's Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, v. 2, p. 262. -- Manuscript mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

Biographical/historical information

Emily Calcraft, British writer. She wrote memoirs of Samuel Parr and Lord Erskine.

Scope and arrangement

Manuscript copy, "Extract from a Sermon on Repentance," by Dr. Samuel Parr : [watermark = 1836] : (BLES 3.230) : 1 p.; begins, "The infinite importance of what he has to do, the goading conviction that it must be done, the utter inability of doing it ..." Published in R. R. Madden's Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, v. 2, p. 262. -- Manuscript mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.|||To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : "Thursday" : (BLES 1.069) : from 66 Piazza di Spagna : saying she "will have the honor and pleasure of waiting upon her Ladyship on Sunday next..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday morng" : (BLES 1.070) : [no place] : begins, "I have the pleasure to send you Mr. Horseman's excellent parody of a libel on Dr. Parr ..." -- Both letters mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. The [autograph?] manuscript of Horseman's parody is mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington papers (BLES 3.231).

Using the collection

Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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