Bessborough papers 1774-1827

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Bessborough papers 1774-1827

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bess

The papers include letters written to Lady Bessborough; poetry in the hands of Lady Devonshire and of Lamb; and music, two silhouettes, and one drawing. Some of the letters contain eyewitness descriptions of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Dorset, John Frederick Sackville, Duke of, 1745-1799

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Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1806

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Ponsonby, John William, 1781-1847

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Butler, Eleanor, Lady, 1738 or 1739-1829

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Pelham, Thomas, Earl of Chichester, 1756-1826

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Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814

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Samuel Jackson Pratt abandoned his clerical career to become successively an actor, a bookseller, a dramatist, and finally a prolific poet and novelist whose best-known productions were the poem Sympathy and a translation of The Sorrows of Werther. The collection also contains "The Linnets," a sentimental fable by Pratt, and a copy of a poem, "On Mrs. Provis leaving Bath the day after Keppel's Arrival." From the description of Pratt papers, 1779. (Unknown). W...

Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859

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1st Earl of Ripon and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. From the description of Correspondence, 1832-1833. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17974112 English statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Newby Hall, Ripon, to Thomas Carlyle, 1854 Aug. 24 and 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655155 ...

Ponsonby, Sarah, 1754 or 1755-1831

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Sarah Ponsonby was the orphaned daughter of Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby. She lived an unhappy life with relatives in Woodstock, Ireland. She met Lady Eleanor Butler in 1768. Since both women shared a mutual love of the arts, and were both unhappy with their lives, they decided to live a quiet rural life. They left Ireland and they set up home in "Plas Newydd", in Llangollen, North East Wales, in 1780. Because they led an unusual and secluded life, Ponsonby and Buttler became known as the LADIES OF...

Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Rosina [Lady Lytton], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871221 Lady Caroline Lamb, English novelist. From the description of Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 707758437 British writer. From the description of Sketch, ca. 1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79211312 Caroline ...