Barry Cornwall manuscript material : 13 items 1816-1862

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Barry Cornwall manuscript material : 13 items 1816-1862

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 29 Dec 1837 : (MISC 0994) : thanking her for Christmas presents, with family news and flattery on her work in Gems of Beauty. -- 16 Jun 1840 (MISC 3535) : sending his poem "The Usher" [no longer enclosed] for publication in one of her journals.

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Keats, John, 1795-1821

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John Keats was an English poet and literary critic. John Keats, English poet, was born in London, England, on 29 or 31 Oct. 1795. He died of tuberculosis in Italy on 23 Feb. 1821. In 1810, Keats was articled to a surgeon, T. Hammond, in Edmonton for five years. The contract was broken in 1814 or 1815. He then continued his study of surgery in London, entering Guy's Hospital on 2 Oct. 1815. In 1816, Keats became a dresser at Guy's and on 25 July 1816 passed his licentiate at Apothecaries' H...

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1787-1857.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874

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Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall), English minor poet and lawyer. He was a close friend of several more prominent Romantics, including William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt. Shelley once said of his poetry, "the man whose critical gall is not stirred up by such ottava rimas ... may be safely conjectured to have no gall at all.". From the guide to the Barry Cornwall manuscript material : 13 items, 1816-1862, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collecti...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858

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English collector and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Yarmouth, to Mr. Kerrich and an unidentified recipient, 1818 Sept. 16 and 1846 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872383 English physician and botanist. From the description of Papers, 1800-1820. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35527757 English botanist and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Yarmouth, 1841 Aug....

Harness, William, 1790-1869

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English divine, Shakespeare scholar, intimate friend of Byron in youth. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Murray, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505430 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Wm. M. Thackeray, 1846 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505439 ...