Copy of a letter (incomplete) from Davies to Lady E. Butler, 1804 August 24 [manuscript], 1804?

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Copy of a letter (incomplete) from Davies to Lady E. Butler, 1804 August 24 [manuscript], 1804?

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Speaks of Mrs. Margaret Collier and her home at Ryde, [Isle of Wight]. Accompanied by a pencil sketch of the house and a note of H. M. B[owdler].

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Collier, Margaret, 1719-1794

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Butler, Eleanor, Lady, 1738 or 1739-1829

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Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the British couple known as the Ladies of Llangollen. They set up home in 1780 in Plas Newydd, Wales, and over their fifty years together hosted some of the most celebrated literary figures of the day, including Robert Southey, Wordsworth, Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. From the description of Ladies of Llangollen manuscript material : 5 items, ca. 1790-1825. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 77743699 Lady Elean...

Davies, fl. 1804,

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Bowdler, H. M. (Henrietta Maria), Mrs., 1754-1830

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Henrietta Maria [Harriet] Bowdler, English writer and literary editor. She is best known for her Family Shakespeare, a collection of Shakespeare's plays with scenes and references cut out that she found morally offensive. Her brother Thomas was credited with The Family Shakespeare for many years, and it was their surname that inspired the coinage of the verb "bowdlerize.". From the guide to the H. M. Bowdler manuscript material : 1 item, 1815, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pf...