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Lady Emilie B. Hornby manuscript material : 2 items
- Title
- Lady Emilie B. Hornby manuscript material : 2 items, 1862-1864.
- Author
- Hornby, Emilie B., Lady, . 1868.
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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 MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Additional Authors
- Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866.
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 2 items
- Summary
- · To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 2 letters -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [?May-Sep 1862] : (P'ANA 0054) : begins, "Sir Edmund leaves in a few days. have you forgotten your promise ..."; mentions Peacock's Gryll Grange. Published as Letter A13 in Joukovsky's edition of Peacock's letters. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Mar 1864 : (P'ANA 0055) : from "Bournalat, a mountain village in Asia Minor, about seven miles from Smyrna"; begins, "I can never forget people whom I like and admire ..."
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Emilie B. Hornby, wife of Sir Edmund Hornby (1825-1896), a colonial administrator and judge who had a house at Weybridge. George Meredith had lodged with her widowed mother at "The Limes," Weybridge, in 1849-1850; Hornby is said to have been Meredith's inspiration for the heroine in his Emilia in England (1864).
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 434502299
- Author
- Hornby, Emilie B., Lady, . 1868.
- Title
- Lady Emilie B. Hornby manuscript material : 2 items, 1862-1864.
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Emilie B. Hornby, wife of Sir Edmund Hornby (1825-1896), a colonial administrator and judge who had a house at Weybridge. George Meredith had lodged with her widowed mother at "The Limes," Weybridge, in 1849-1850; Hornby is said to have been Meredith's inspiration for the heroine in his Emilia in England (1864).
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- Added Author
- Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866. Addressee
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS