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John Horatio Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 2 items
- Title
- John Horatio Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 2 items, 1843-1839.
- Author
- Hunt, John Horatio Leigh, 1812-1846.
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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 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858.
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 2 items
- Summary
- · To Edward Moxon, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Dec 1839 : (H'ANA 0082) : from 5 Martlett's Court, Bow St, Covent Carden; begins, "I beg to apologize for the liberty I take in addressing you, aware that I cannot possibly have any claim upon your sympathy ... "
- · To "Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 May 1843 : (H'ANA 0033) : from 5 Martlett's Court, Bow St; writing "in domestic distress"; begins, "I hope you will kindly strive to pardon my addressing you, for I painfully feel my presumption."
- Subjects
- Note
- See also: Presentation copy of Prose Tales (London: Clements, 1835), inscribed by Horatio Hunt to his father; shelved as *Pforz BT (Hunt, L.) 12.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- John Horatio Leigh Hunt, son of the poet and critic Leigh Hunt. He made a precarious living by doing hack work as a clerk and a journalist, and by writing begging letters to literary men (cf. Shelley and his Circle vol. V, p. 260).
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 435496602
- Author
- Hunt, John Horatio Leigh, 1812-1846.
- Title
- John Horatio Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 2 items, 1843-1839.
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- John Horatio Leigh Hunt, son of the poet and critic Leigh Hunt. He made a precarious living by doing hack work as a clerk and a journalist, and by writing begging letters to literary men (cf. Shelley and his Circle vol. V, p. 260).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. Addressee
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS