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Augusta Leigh commonplace book.
- Title
- Augusta Leigh commonplace book.
- Author
- Leigh, Augusta, 1784-1851.
- Publication
- 1802-1821.
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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 BT (Leigh, A. 04) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Description
- 1 volume (242 manuscript pages, 177 total leaves); 22 cm
- Summary
- Manuscript notebook recording prose extracts, poems, sermons, and other writings, all apparently in the hand of Augusta Leigh. "Augusta Byron / May 13th 1802" on [leaf 1] recto. Latest dated entry is from October 27, 1821. Entities largely taken from established 18th and 19th century British and Irish writers; a few works are possibly unpublished. Among the many writers included are: Hugh Blair, Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Thomas Campbell, Ann Radcliffe, George Canning, and Thomas Moore. Starting from the end of the notebook, reverso, are 43 pages of Biblical extracts and prayers in French, apparently not in the hand of Augusta Leigh.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Commonplace books.
- Poetry.
- Sermons.
- Note
- Pforzheimer Manuscript (B'ANA 0782).
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Augusta Leigh, née Byron, half sister of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.
- Binding (note)
- Green morocco, gilt spines with repeated urn motif in compartments, gilt cover border decorations, marbled endpapers.
- Call Number
- Pforz Acc 22-074
- OCLC
- 1398011512
- Author
- Leigh, Augusta, 1784-1851.
- Title
- Augusta Leigh commonplace book.
- Production
- 1802-1821.
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Binding
- Green morocco, gilt spines with repeated urn motif in compartments, gilt cover border decorations, marbled endpapers.
- Biography
- Augusta Leigh, née Byron, half sister of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.
- Added Author
- Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851.Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800.Campbell, Thomas, 1763-1854.Canning, George, 1770-1827.Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823.Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806.
- Research Call Number
- *Pforz BT (Leigh, A. 04)