Chandos Leigh manuscript material : 4 items, 1824-1835

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Chandos Leigh manuscript material : 4 items, 1824-1835

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· Holograph emendations and additions to page proofs of his Tracts : [ca. 1828-1832] : (MISC 4133) : 1 vol., variously paged. Occasional printed paragraphs break off in mid-sentence and are completed in manuscript. With two loose manuscript leaves laid in at end of text, numbered "45" and "46." The title is provided in manuscript, probably in another hand. Leigh's Tracts were privately printed in 1832. · To Bernard Barton, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun 1824 : (MISC 4035) : from London, Palman Square : begins, "I return you my sincerest thanks for the delightful & head-soothing little volume ..." · To Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist, and literary critic : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Aug 1835 : (H'ANA 0067) : from Stoneleigh Abbey : begins, "Will you forgive my apparent neglect in not having before acknowledged your very acceptable presents ..." · To Thomas W. Kelly, poet and author : 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Jun 1824 : (S'ANA 0664) : from Liphook : begins, "I know not how sufficiently to apologize for not having before acknowledged the receipt of your elegant little volume of poems, and the honour you did me in dedicating them to me." Also including, "I only wish you had selected for the subject of your dedication, one of our first poets, Byron (alas! no more) or Moore, a kinderd genius, or Southey, Crabbe, Campbell, or the refined Rogers ..."

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Kelly, T. W. (Thomas W.), approximately 1800-

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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...

Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849

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Quaker poet. From the description of Letter : Woodbridge, to Robert Baldwin, London, 1820 Apr. 18. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28303417 Bernard Barton was born in Carlisle in 1784 and attended a Quaker school in Ipswich, before being apprenticed to a shopkeeper at Halstead in Essex in 1798. In 1806 he moved to Woodbridge in Suffolk and went into business with his brother. Apart from a short time spent in Liverpool following the death of his wife, Barton remained...

Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850

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Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh, English poet and literary patron. From the description of Chandos Leigh manuscript material : 4 items, 1824-1835 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 708384092 Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh pri...