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Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 3 items
- Title
- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1820-1823
- Author
- Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 3 items
- Summary
- · Poems : [no date; ca. 1820's?] : (BLES 2.162a) : 2 p.; four short poems on one folded lettersheet, copied in an unidentified hand; apparently done for Lady Blessington; including "Extempore on a Yard of Flannel"; "On Walter Scott's Poem entitled The Field of Waterloo"; "On presenting Buonaparte's [spurs?] to the Prince Regent"; and "An Inscription for the Lap dog of the Countess of Blessington." Along with a copied address (in the same hand), "Conclusion of a Speech attributed by Lord Erskine to Lord Viscount Stafford" (BLES 2.162b). In v. 2 of the Blessington Papers.
- · To Lord Byron, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Apr 1823 : (B'ANA 0322) : from Buchan Hill, Sussex : on Lord Byron's decision to join the fight for Greek independence on Greek soil; begins, "I have asked our good friend Mr. Murray to convey to your Lordship a copy of a letter written last year to Lord Liverpool on the subject of the Greeks ..."
- · To an unidentified recipient : 1 autograph letter signed (fragment) to "Dear Captain" : [no date] : (SHEE 0117b) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : reads, "if this address is not enough, will you fill it up." With a line on the verso: "the sisters are better upon the whole." Mounted in the Martin Archer Shee Autograph Album. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Shee."
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Thomas Erskine, first Baron Erskine, British lord chancellor.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 185061676
- Author
- Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
- Title
- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1820-1823
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Thomas Erskine, first Baron Erskine, British lord chancellor.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, recipient.Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, recipient.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS