John Horseman manuscript material : 1 item, 1821

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John Horseman manuscript material : 1 item, 1821

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697312936

ยท To Samuel Parr, schoolmaster : 1 [autograph?] letter (copy) signed : 20 Aug 1821 : (BLES 3.231) : from Heydon, Royston : begins, "In a shameful and shameless newspaper, misnamed John Bull, there appeared last Monday a miserable attack upon a Character held in the highest estimation by the wisest and best of mankind [i.e., Dr. Parr]; includes a copy of Horseman's reply-in-verse to the newspaper, as well as a copy of Parr's reply to Horseman. The manuscript was sent to the writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington by Parr's biographer, Emily Calcraft [see (BLES 1.070), the letter to Blessington in which Calcraft originally enclosed this manuscript]. -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Horseman, John, 1775-1844.

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The Reverend John Horseman, rector of Heydon and Little Chishall, and vicar of Great Chishall. From the description of John Horseman manuscript material : 1 item, 1821 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 697312936 ...

Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825

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Samuel Parr was a Latin scholar and schoolmaster, educated at Cambridge. He served as perpetual curate in Warwickshire and during that time established a school in Stanmore, served as headmaster of Colchester and Norwich Schools, wrote essays and sermons with strong and often controversial leanings, and amassed a library of more than 10,000 books. He was a friend of Joseph Priestley and wrote the Latin epitaph for Samuel Johnson in St. Paul's. From the description of Samuel Parr lett...

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

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Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born British writer. Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, she was active in British literary circles of the first half of the 19th century. From the guide to the Lady Blessington manuscript material : 92 items, 1820-1849, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Irish writer and wife of the Earl of Blessington. From the description of L...

Calcraft, Emily

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Emily Calcraft, British writer. She wrote memoirs of Samuel Parr and Lord Erskine. From the description of Emily Calcraft manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1830's-1840's (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 607563823 From the guide to the Emily Calcraft manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1830's-1840's, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...