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William Beattie manuscript material : 31 items
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- William Beattie manuscript material : 31 items, ca. 1837-1862
- Author
- Beattie, William, 1793-1875.
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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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- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 31 items
- Summary
- · Holograph poem, "Planting the acorns" : 15 Jan 1853 : (MISC 1478a) : begins: "Acorns! by the Poet planted!"
- · Holograph annotations to printed poem, "On the death of the late Samuel Rogers, Esq." : [ca. 30 Dec 1855] : (MISC 1478b) : noted in ink at the top of p. 1 of the four-page verse pamphlet, "12 Copies Printed" and "Miss Martha Rogers," prehaps a relative of the late poet.
- · Holograph poem, "The closing Tear" : 30 Dec 1840 : (BLES 1.060) : 3 p.; in ink, with a post-script to Lady Blessington; begins, "Could Time contract the heart / As Time contracts our years ..." Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
- · Holograph poem, "To the Countess of Blessington, on perusing 'The Book of Beauty' for 1839" : 7 Nov 1838 : (BLES 1.061) : 1 p.; in ink; begins, "As Dian, mid you [Isles?] of light ..."
- · To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 25 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Nov [1837] : (BLES 1.056b) : [no place] : begins, "I have again to return you my best acknowledgements for the Book of Beauty, which is certainly in your hands becoming every year more beautiful." With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday Morning" : (BLES 1.051a) : from 6 Park Square : begins, "The sudden death of a much valued friend, which too place on Friday morning, has prevented me replying to yr obliging communication." With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [1838] : (BLES 1.051b) : [no place] : begins, "I beg to leave for yr gracious acceptance the accompanying book…" -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" : (BLES 1.052b) : begins, "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of yr obliging packet …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday 8 pm" : (BLES 1.053b) : [no place] : begins, "Many and most cordial thanks, my dear Lady BLESsington, for the beautiful and highly-prized souvenir which you have just sent to Mrs. Beattie …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.053c) : [no place] : begins, "Nothing could have been more agreeable to Mrs. Beattie and myself than to have availed ourselves of yr truly obliging offer for to-morrow evening …" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [8 Sep 1839] : (BLES 1.057a) : [no place] : begins, "I have just sketched -- roughly sketched -- the enclosed …" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 [Sep 1839] : (BLES 1.057b) : from Alton Lodge, Richmond : begins, "Your most obliging letter from St. Leonards I should have acknowledged in person ere this …" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [7 Dec 1839] : (BLES 1.062) : [no place] : begins, "My fair friends here have been so monopolizing in their devotions to the 'Belle of the Season,' that it was only last night that I was permitted to look upon her in the silence of my own study." With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday night" [1839] : (BLES 1.056a) : [no place] : begins, "I beg to return you my grateful thanks for a very handsome and a very useful piece of furniture …" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [2 Jan 1840] : (BLES 1.063b) : [no place] : begins, "I beg to enclose a slightly altered version of the lines I sent on Thursday …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Dec 1840 : (BLES 1.063a) : [no place] : begins, "Allow me to offer you, in the united names of all at this fireside, the right cordial wishes of the season!" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Jan 1841 : (BLES 1.064) : from Park Square : begins, "Many, many thanks, my dear Lady BLESsington, for another [proof of your kind remembrance." With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Jul [1841?] : (BLES 1.053a) : from Park Sq. : begins, "I have to offer a thousand apologies for not sooner sending in my 'adhesion' to yr P.S. …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Oct 1841 : (BLES 1.065) : from Rose Villa, Hampstead : begins, "I am very sorry I was not at home to receive Dr. Mastalia …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Saturday" : (BLES 1.054a) : [no place] : begins, "I am truly honoured and obliged by your note and its accompaniment …" With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday 11 a.m." : (BLES 1.054b) : from Park Sq. : begins, "I have been prevented till this morning from executing yr gracious commands." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Nov [1841?] : (BLES 1.055b) : from Park Sq. : begins, "I beg yr gracious acceptance of the accompanying volume …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Saturday" [1841?] : (BLES 1.055a) : from Park Sq. : begins, "I have just time to forward the enclosed lines." With the excised address panel from a letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday 11 p.m." : (BLES 1.059b) : from Park Sq. : begins, "A thousand thanks for the vest in which I hope to be invested before the frost goes." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.058a) : [no place] : begins, "I have no words to thank you as I ought, for your very handsome present …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan [1842] : (BLES 1.059a) : [no place] : begins, "I pray you apologize to Mrs. fairlie for the very unfinished sketch I now enclose." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov [1842] : (BLES 1.052a) : from Park Square : begins, "Your beautiful book was put into my hands this morning, after I had the honour to forward mine …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Jan 1844 : (BLES 1.066) : from 6 Park Square : begins, "Your beautiful presents to my wife and myself were duly received at Hampstead last night …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.058b) : [no place] : begins, "My best services are at yr Command …" -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
- · To Archibald Campbell : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Apr [1854?] : (MISC 2264) : addressed to "My trusty Trojan." The letter is tipped in to a copy of Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (1849), which Beattie edited. Beattie inscribed the book to Archibald Campbell. Shelved under *R Pforz BIO (Campbell, T.).
- · To Thomas H. Cromek, painter : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 May 1862 : (MISC 2393) : regarding his revision of Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell.
- · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov 1854 : (BLES 5.455k) : from London : begins, "I have just had a note from Mr. N. P. Willis, rejoicing that Lady B's 'life' has fallen in your hands." Mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- William Beattie, Scottish physician and poet. Beattie counted many famous and influential people among his closest friends, including: Thomas Campbell, for whom he wrote a biography; Samuel Rogers, for whom he was executor; Lady Blessington, to whose Book of Beauty annual he often contributed; and Lady Byron, who reportedly "had imparted to him the true reason of her separation from her husband, and that it was not the one given by Mrs. Stowe."
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 75649226
- Author
- Beattie, William, 1793-1875.
- Title
- William Beattie manuscript material : 31 items, ca. 1837-1862
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- William Beattie, Scottish physician and poet. Beattie counted many famous and influential people among his closest friends, including: Thomas Campbell, for whom he wrote a biography; Samuel Rogers, for whom he was executor; Lady Blessington, to whose Book of Beauty annual he often contributed; and Lady Byron, who reportedly "had imparted to him the true reason of her separation from her husband, and that it was not the one given by Mrs. Stowe."
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, addressee.Campbell, Archibald, addressee.Cromek, Thomas Hartley, 1809-1873, addressee.Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886, addressee.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS