Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 2 items ca. 1820's-1823

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Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 2 items ca. 1820's-1823

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Poems : [no date; ca. 1820's?] : (BLES 2.162a) : 2 p.; four short poems on one folded lettersheet, copied in an unidentified hand; apparently done for Lady Blessington; including "Extempore on a Yard of Flannel"; "On Walter Scott's Poem entitled The Field of Waterloo"; "On presenting Buonaparte's [spurs?] to the Prince Regent"; and "An Inscription for the Lap dog of the Countess of Blessington." Along with a copied address (in the same hand), "Conclusion of a Speech attributed by Lord Erskine to Lord Viscount Stafford" (BLES 2.162b). In v. 2 of the Blessington Papers.

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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