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- Creator
- Webb, John, 1768-1840
- Call number
- MssCol 3251
- Physical description
- 1 v
- Preferred Citation
- Autobiography of John Webb, Haverhill, England, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
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- Manuscripts and Archives Division
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John Webb (1768-1840) was a weaver and poet. Typescript copy of his recollections of his ancestry back to 1674; letters to his family and friends; accounts of his travels in England; and comments on contemporary English life, particularly in London after 1832, where he set up his own weaving business.
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Gift ;, Mrs. Samuel C. Webster;, 1960Key terms
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Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328