J. A. Hessey manuscript material : 1 item, 1818

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J. A. Hessey manuscript material : 1 item, 1818

ยท To John Taylor, publisher and writer (his business partner) : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Mar 1818 : (H'ANA 0091) : relating to the copyright and profits of Leigh Hunt's Story or Rimini; Hunt's money had been sent via Bessie Kent, who explained that Shelley had neglected to tell Hunt the money was due immediately. With a copied extract of a letter from Shelley to Hunt relating to the situation. Filed with (LH 0076), along with other letters relating to Hunt's business with Taylor and Hessey.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7344383

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Kent, Elizabeth

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Sister-in-law of Leigh Hunt. From the description of Letter, [ca. Oct. 1823] : to "My Dear Marian" [Marianne Kent Hunt]. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 24831364 ...

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...

Taylor, John, 1781-1864

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Keat's publisher. From the description of Autograph letter unsigned (a retained draft) : London, to J.A. Hessey, 1820 Aug. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270579213 John Taylor, publisher, joined the firm of Taylor and Hessey in 1813, and soon after published The Identity of Junius, an attempt to identify Junius as Sir William Francis. He edited the London Magazine from 1821 to 1824, appointing Thomas Hood his replacement; his contributors and literary friends included Ho...

Hessey, J. A. (James Augustus), 1785-1870

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James Augustus Hessey, English bookseller and printer. In partnership with John Taylor at 93 Fleet Street, Hessey published early work by Keats and owned the London Magazine (1821-5). From the description of J. A. Hessey manuscript material : 1 item, 1818 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 326879010 ...

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...

Taylor and Hessey

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