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Creator
Moore, George, 1806-1876
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
2 items
Preferred Citation
George Moore (businessman) 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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George Moore, English philanthropist and businessman. To Horace Mayhew, writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1841] : (MISC 0046) : from Kidwelly, South Wales : begins, "There is a subject for you, I think, in the following circumstance. I have just now opened the Swansea & Carmarthan Line, and the women here wear such high hats that they cannot sit in the carriage ..."; with ink sketches of women in the hats. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "March the somethingth" [no year] : (MISC 0047) : from Putney : begins, "Can you illustrate this? A friend of mine is courting a Scotch lass; she is already wedded to Highland customs ... She has presented him with a genuine Maude, or Scotch Shawl, and insists upon his wearing it ..."; with ink sketches of the shawled gentleman in various predicaments ("in a gale"; "absence of mind").

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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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