George Payne Rainsford James manuscript material : 2 items, 1840-1853

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George Payne Rainsford James manuscript material : 2 items, 1840-1853

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· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Jun 1840 : (BLES 3.232) : from 2 Verulam Place, Hastings : begins, "I have just received your letter, and yesterday got the packet and proof to which you allude ..." Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Mar 1853 : (BLES 3.233) : from British Consulate, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. : begins, "You must have been misinformed in regard to my acquaintance with the late Countess of Blessington, which was extremely slight ..."; refers Madden to his "admirable friend" Walter Savage Landor. 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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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...

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886

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James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860

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British novelist. Note included states that James was "led to an appointment about 1850 as consul to Massachusetts, where the present story must have been written." From the description of Christian Lacy : tale of the Salem witchcraft, [ca. 1850]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29353551 English novelist and historian G. P. R. James wrote nearly a hundred novels, such as RICHELIEU (1825), THE GYPSY (1835), ATTILA (1837), and THE MYSTERIOUS CHEVALIER (1843), as w...