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Author Atkyns, Clarinda Knowles, b. 1797.
Uniform Title Atkyns, Clarinda Knowles : manuscript material
Title Clarinda Knowles Atkyns manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1850
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Description 1 item
Summary · To Thomas Love Peacock : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Apr. [ca. 1850] : (P'ANA 0022) : begins, "I was so glad to see your letters yesterday -- I did not like the last one I wrote after it was done ..."
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Biography Clarinda Atkyns, née Knowles, lifelong friend of Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock declared his love for the fifteen year old beauty in an 1812 letter to his friend Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (cf. Joukovsky, N. Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, 47). She eventually married the Revd. John Atkyns (1802 or 1803-1875).
Subject Atkyns, Clarinda Knowles, b. 1797 -- Correspondence.
Added Author Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866, Recipient.
In: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
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Research Call Number Pforz MS