Capel Lofft manuscript material : 6 items, 1799-1811

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Capel Lofft manuscript material : 6 items, 1799-1811

· To Thomas Hill, book collector : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Feb 1800 : (MISC 0389) : from Norton : begins, "I know not how it happened but I have again not received the New London Review ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1800 : (MISC 0390) : from Norton : begins, "I hope I am in time to [?] the [--tion?] in the Monthly Mirror of what relates to the fate of [Farah Floyd?] ..."; also including, "Mr. Robert Bloomfield & his mother Mrs. Glover are with us ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Dec 1800 : (MISC 0388) : begins, "I have great satisfaction in what you tell me of the recovery of Mrs. Siddons ..."; including discussion relating to the copyright of Robert Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. · To "The Right Hon.ble The Sect: at War" [i.e., Lord Palmerston] : 1 autograph address panel (excised) : 7 Aug 1811 : (MISC 0984) : docketed in an unidentified hand ("Capel Lofft"). · To Vernor and Hood, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed : [17 Jan 1799] : (MISC 0982) : from Troston-Hall near Bury : begins, "I send you the following observations [cancelled lines] respecting the occultation of Jupiter by the Moon ..."

6 items

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SNAC Resource ID: 8087517

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Vernor and Hood

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Lofft, Capel, 1751-1824

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Capel Lofft, English radical editor and writer. From the description of Capel Lofft manuscript material : 6 items, 1799-1811 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 720407149 From the guide to the Capel Lofft manuscript material : 6 items, 1799-1811, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865

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English statesman. From the description of Printed letter signed : London, to Clinton G. Dawkins, H.M. Consul General at Trieste, 1849 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612596 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stanhope St., to Dr. Budd, 1837 Apr. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610835 From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Foreign Office [London], to M. Arichini, 1834 Aug. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 27060970...

Hill, Thomas, 1760-1840

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Thomas Hill was a book collector described as "a lover of English literature who possessed one of the most copious collections of English poetry in existence." From the description of Letter, Covent Garden, to Rev. Thomas Maurice, 1799 February 13. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34072970 John Taylor was the editor of the newspaper The Sun, and author of a memoir titled Records of my life. Thomas Hill was the editor of the Monthly Mirror. The t...

Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823

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Robert Bloomfield, minor English poet, best known for his long poem The Farmer's Boy. His poetry was championed by Robert Southey, and his themes of nature and the common man initially won the approval of Wordsworth and Coleridge -- but Lord Byron and Charles Lamb were less than charitable in their assessments of his poetic worth. From the description of Robert Bloomfield manuscript material : 4 items, 1802-1808 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76944990 From th...