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Mary Ann Chaworth manuscript material : 4 items
- Title
- Mary Ann Chaworth manuscript material : 4 items, ca. 1791-1819
- Author
- Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1786-1832.
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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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- Additional Authors
- Coke, D'Ewes, 1774-1856.
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 4 items
- Summary
- · Autograph penmanship exercises signed : [ca. 1791?] : (B'ANA 0690) : 1 sheet, apparantly from a copy book, in her juvenile hand; "Try to write well and quickly" repeated 15 times on recto; an exercise using the word "Emolument" on the verso. Mounted between pp. 32-33 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.
- · To the Rev. D'Ewes Coke, barrister agent to the Duke of Rutland : 1 autograph letter signed : no date [watermark = 1819] : (B'ANA 0480) : responding to an invitation to see his daughters' dance recital.
- · To a Miss Sedley : 1 autograph letter : no date [ca. 1812?] : (B'ANA 0194) : referring to a reading of "Childe Harold."
- · To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed "M. A. Musters" : [no date] : (B'ANA 0689) : a small cut scrap, mentioning money and the Bank of England. Mounted opposite p. 31 in v. 1 of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Mary Ann Chaworth, distant relative of Lord Byron, and object of his adolescent affection. She married John Musters, of Colwick, in 1805. Chaworth is the subject of at least five of Byron's early poems, including "Hills of Annesley," and there are allusions to his love story in Childe Harold and in "The Dream" (1816).
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 85895018
- Author
- Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1786-1832.
- Title
- Mary Ann Chaworth manuscript material : 4 items, ca. 1791-1819
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Mary Ann Chaworth, distant relative of Lord Byron, and object of his adolescent affection. She married John Musters, of Colwick, in 1805. Chaworth is the subject of at least five of Byron's early poems, including "Hills of Annesley," and there are allusions to his love story in Childe Harold and in "The Dream" (1816).
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- Added Author
- Coke, D'Ewes, 1774-1856. Addressee
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS