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Creator
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
2 items
Preferred Citation
Harriet Beecher Stowe manuscript material, 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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· Three copied lines from Longfellow's "The Goblet of Life," signed : 7 May 1853 : (MISC 4023.15b) : 1 page (single sheet) : from London : reads in full, "The battle of our life is brief / The alarm -- the struggle -- the relief / Then sleep we side by side / H B Stowe / London May 7. 1853." With an authentication note written below: "Witness. -- [T. Briney?] / Walworth / May 19th 1853." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

Scope and arrangement

· Three copied lines from Longfellow's "The Goblet of Life," signed : 7 May 1853 : (MISC 4023.15b) : 1 page (single sheet) : from London : reads in full, "The battle of our life is brief / The alarm -- the struggle -- the relief / Then sleep we side by side / H B Stowe / London May 7. 1853." With an authentication note written below: "Witness. -- [T. Briney?] / Walworth / May 19th 1853." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

· To [Fields, Osgood & Co.?], publishers : 1 autograph letter signed to "Gentlemen" : [circa Sep 1869] : (B'ANA 0357) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Whatever occurs in England -- whatever evidence turns up -- justice to me demands that I should once more have a hearing on this subject." Later saying, "I have concluded to present my defence of Lady Byron in a book form . . . .".

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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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