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Title

John Wilson Croker manuscript material : 1 linear foot, 1802-1849

Author

Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857.

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Additional Authors

• Barrowby, John, Junior
• Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849
• Gwatkin, R. L.
• Jesse, Edward, 1780-1868
• Shee, Martin Archer, 1769-1850

Found In

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

1 linear foot

Summary

• · To John Barrowby, Junior, in [Se---?] : 1 autograph address panel signed : [no date] : (SHEE 0019c) : clipped and mounted within the Martin Archer Shee Autograph Album. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "Shee."
• · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Apr 1820 : (BLES 2.096) : begins, "I do myself the honor of obeying your Ladyship's wishes to have four lines of my writing ..." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes.
• · To a Mr. Cooke, from "AB.G." : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Sep 1849 : (MISC 2380).
• · To an R. L. Gwatkin : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Dec 1829 : (MISC 2379).
• · To Edward Jesse, writer on natural history : 2 autograph letters signed : 12 Jan [1802] - 15 Oct 1836 : (MISC 1994-1995).
• · To "Dear John" : 1 autograph letter signed : no date : (MISC 2378).
• · To Martin Archer Shee, portrait painter and writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1830 : (SHEE 0057c) : from [Se---?] : begins, "I have the pleasure to say that the Committee will have the greatest pleasure in unanimously adopting you for a Colleague ..." -- 1 autograph verse letter signed : 26 Sep 1838 : (SHEE 0064a) : [no place] : begins, "My dear Sir Martin / For sure & sartin ..." Both letters in the Martin Archer Shee Autograph Album. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "Shee."
• · To "My dear Wynne" : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Feb 1835 : (MISC 4170) : from West [?--bury] : begins, "You once, I remember, told me that you thought the Col. Cecil mentioned in my edition of Boswell's Johnson, vol. ii p. 178, might be our Jacobite friend ..."
• · Collection of papers relating to the life and reminiscences of Croker : (MISC 1957) : with holograph manuscripts, numerous letters written to him, copies of letters by him, with a biography of Croker annotated by him ; also, Croker's corrections to a Memoir of the Late Sir Robert Peel. Some of the material appears to be drafts for Louis J. Jennings's Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson Croker (1884).

Subjects

• Critics > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
• Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857 > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• John Wilson Croker, British politician and writer. As a literary critic, his harsh review of Keats's Endymion was blamed for causing the young poet's death -- as Byron put it in Don Juan, Keats was "killed off by one critique" ; "snuffed out by an Article."

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

153649801

Author

Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857.

Title

John Wilson Croker manuscript material : 1 linear foot, 1802-1849

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

John Wilson Croker, British politician and writer. As a literary critic, his harsh review of Keats's Endymion was blamed for causing the young poet's death -- as Byron put it in Don Juan, Keats was "killed off by one critique" ; "snuffed out by an Article."

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Added Author

Barrowby, John, Junior, recipient.

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, recipient.

Gwatkin, R. L., recipient.

Jesse, Edward, 1780-1868, recipient.

Shee, Martin Archer, 1769-1850, recipient

Found In:

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS