Research Catalog

Title

John Bowring manuscript material : 7 items, 1822-1868

Author

Bowring, John, 1792-1872.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836
• Grey, George, Sir, 1799-1882
• Lewin, Mary, 1798-1873

Found In

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.

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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