Papers, 1781-1807.

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Papers, 1781-1807.

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Letters by poet Anna Seward, mostly to Penelope Sophia Weston Pennington,often discussing literature, Samuel Johnson and Sir Walter Scott.

1 box (.5linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6384829

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Samuel Johnson

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Joseph Addison.

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James Boswell

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Anna Seward

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John Saville

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Romney, George, 1734-1802

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Epithet: of Add MS 38728 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x000203 English painter. From the description of Milton sketchbook [graphic] / George Romney. 1791 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78087218 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to his son, John, 1797 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657308 From the description of Autograph letter...

Thomas Seward.

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Sir Brooke Boothby

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Susanna Boothby

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Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick, 1746-1828

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Pennington, Penelope

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Penelope Pennington was a friend and correspondent of Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mrs. Siddons, and Anna Seward. From the guide to the Penelope Pennington Collection, 1798-1827, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Penelope Pennington, née Weston (1757-1827), wife of William Pennington, Master of Ceremonies for the Bristol Hotwells. From the guide to the Penelope Pennington manuscript material : 12 items, 1813-1814, (The Ne...

Seward, Anna, 1742-1809

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English poet. From the description of Conclusion of an autograph letter signed with postscript : Lichfield, to Robert Fellowes, [1804] Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664731 Anna Seward was born in Eyam, Derbyshire, and resided in Lichfield, England from age thirteen until her death. In addition to her career as a poet, she carried on a voluminous correspondence with many literary figures. From the description of Papers, 1781-1807. (Harvard University)...

Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822

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Caleb Hillier Parry was born on 21 October 1755 at Cirencester. He was the eldest son of Joshua Parry a non-conformist minister. Caleb was educated at Cirencester Grammar School (where he met and became lifelong friends with Edward Jenner), and at the Dissenter's Academy in Warrington. He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1778, the year in which he married Sarah Rigby. In 1779, they settled in Bath where their son, William Edward Parry, the Arctic expl...

St. George, Richard St. George Mansergh, Sir, d. 1798

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Jackson, Mrs., recipient.

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Warner, John, 1736-1800

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Clarke-Whitfeld, John, 1770-1836

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English organist and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 28 February 1829, to Mr. [Christopher] Lonsdale, 1829 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564462 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], 11 July [n.y.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.y.] July 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564467 ...

Sir Walter Scott

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Hayley, William, 1745-1820

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English poet and biographer of Cowper. From the description of Transcript of William Cowper's poem To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa, undated [ca. 1803?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 750522032 From the description of From manuscripts in Cowper's hand : transcripts of poems, undated [ca. 1798-1820]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 750468911 William Hayley was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper. Hayley won the fame...

Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821

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Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life. From the description of Autograph poem, unsigned, an adaptation of Francis Fawkes's "An Autumnal Ode, " no date [paper watermarked 1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864928 From the description of...

Fox, Charles James, 1798?-1874

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Epithet: of Add MS 12099 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00037f ...

William Pitt

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Seward, Thomas

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Epithet: Canon of Lichfield British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000800.0x0001f6 Epithet: the elder of Camerton Somerset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0002af Epithet: Commander of ship 'Galen.' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : a...

William Hayley

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Longsdon, William, recipient.

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Seward, Anna, 1742-1809

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English poet. From the description of Conclusion of an autograph letter signed with postscript : Lichfield, to Robert Fellowes, [1804] Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664731 Anna Seward was born in Eyam, Derbyshire, and resided in Lichfield, England from age thirteen until her death. In addition to her career as a poet, she carried on a voluminous correspondence with many literary figures. From the description of Papers, 1781-1807. (Harvard University)...

Polwhele, Richard, 1760-1838

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Epithet: Reverend; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x00002a ...

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...

Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838

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Author. From the description of Letter, 1830 October 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407785 Scottish writer who spent some of childhood living in the United States. From the description of Letters of Anne Grant, 1822-1836. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 35035731 Scottish writer who spent some of her childhood living in the United States. From the description of Letters of Anne Grant [manuscript], 1822-1836. (University of...