Research Catalog

Title

James Hogg manuscript material : 5 items, 1815-1828

Author

Hogg, James, 1770-1835.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842
• Purdie, Robert, active 1804-approximately 1837
• Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
• Wilson, Jane, -1835
• Wilson, John, 1785-1854

Found In

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

Description

5 items.

Summary

• · To Allan Cunningham, poet and songwriter : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 March 1820 : (MISC 0261) : including a suggestion to meet the traveling Sir Walter Scott in London.
• · To Robert Purdie, music seller in Edinburgh : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 January 1828 : (MISC 1488) : begins, "I inclose you eight more songs [not present] for your correspondents ..."
• · To William Roscoe, historian and patron of the arts : 1 autograph address panel : 17 Oct 1814 : (MISC 4023) 24d : reads, "William Roscoe Esq. / Allerton / Liverpool." With a note in an unknown hand attesting that the hand is Hogg's.
• · To Jane Wilson, elder sister of writer John Wilson and zoologist James Wilson : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 January 1815 : (MISC 1489) : thanking her for the medicine she sent; begins, "I never got so sweet a drug all the days of my life ..."
• · To John Wilson [pseud. Christopher North], author and journalist : 1 autograph letter (fragment) : 10 Mar 1832 : (MISC 4047) : begins, "The Walton and Cotton Club gave me a public dinner yesterday at which you and I were admitted honourary members ..."

Subjects

• Poets, Scottish > 19th century > Correspondence
• Hogg, James, 1770-1835 > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• The Scottish poet and novelist known as "The Ettrick Shepherd," best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824).

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

NYPG05-A10036

Author

Hogg, James, 1770-1835.

Title

James Hogg manuscript material : 5 items, 1815-1828

Restricted Access

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

Biography

The Scottish poet and novelist known as "The Ettrick Shepherd," best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824).

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Added Author

Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842, addressee.

Purdie, Robert, active 1804-approximately 1837, addressee.

Roscoe, William, 1753-1831, addressee.

Wilson, Jane, -1835, addressee.

Wilson, John, 1785-1854, addressee.

Found In:

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

Research Call Number

Pforz MS