George Moore (businessman) manuscript material : 2 items ca. 1841

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George Moore (businessman) manuscript material : 2 items ca. 1841

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

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Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x000273 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Hablot K. Browne], [1835]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637135 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x000381 ...

Moore, George, 1806-1876

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George Moore, English philanthropist and businessman. From the guide to the George Moore (businessman) manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1841, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...