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John Bowring manuscript material : 7 items
- Title
- John Bowring manuscript material : 7 items, 1822-1868
- Author
- Bowring, John, 1792-1872.
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Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 7 items
- Subjects
- English poetry > 19th century > Manuscripts > Specimens
- Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869
- Diplomats > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
- Bowring, John, 1792-1872 > Correspondence
- Authors, English > 19th century > Correspondence
- Politicians > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
- Note
- Also held is a copy of Jeremy Bentham's Chrestomathia, bearing Bowring's ink presentation inscription. Shelved with books under "Bentham."
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 76945368
- Author
- Bowring, John, 1792-1872.
- Title
- John Bowring manuscript material : 7 items, 1822-1868
- Summary
- · Holograph poem, "Buddhist Beatification" : no date : (MISC 4023.04b) : begins, "Abstraction from all cares, all thought, all love ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript material.· Holograph memorandum, "List of books to be specially kept" : [no date] : (BRNG 0066) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : attribution to Bowring not without doubt; a numbered list including several Bibles and classical works; concludes with the notice, "Note the MSS Letters & pedigrees are in my tin box at the office." Along with (probably unrelated) newspaper clipping re: rental at Ravensbury Park. -- Both items formerly laid in to the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring.· To Maria Gisborne, friend of Godwin and the Shelleys : 1 letter (transcript) : 21 Aug 1832 : (S'ANA 0545E) : in the hand of John Gisborne; refering to a letter recently received by Mary Shelley, on the subject of Jeremy Bentham. In the Gisborne Letterbook, filed under Gisborne.· To Sir George Grey, politician : 1 autograph letter (draft) unsigned : 28 May 1847 : (BRNG 0044) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 1 Queen Square, West. : begins, "I have again most respectfully, but most casually to impart your early & serious attention to the state of affairs in the Isle of Man ..." -- Mounted in the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring. -- Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.· To Mary Lewin, née Peene, his sister-in-law : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1868 : (BRNG 0065) : 1 page (single sheet) : on embossed stationery of The Athenæum : begins, "I am here for a few days on diplomatic business ..." Formerly laid in to the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring.· To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov 1822 (MISC 2097), in French, indirectly mentioning his recent prison experience in France.· To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1828 : (P'ANA 0023) : enclosing to his correspondent a letter from John Cam Hobhouse, politician -- (enclosed letter no longer present).
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836, addressee.Grey, George, Sir, 1799-1882, recpient.Lewin, Mary, 1798-1873, addressee.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS