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Count Joannes manuscript material : 1 item
- Title
- Count Joannes manuscript material : 1 item, 1869.
- Author
- Jones, George, 1810-1879.
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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
- Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873.
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 1 item
- Summary
- · To Teresa Guiccioli, Lord Byron's "last attachment" : 1 autograph letter signed "George, the Count Joannes" : 19 Sep 1869 : (B'ANA 0318) : from New York City, no. 39 Park Row; on the subject of the "great wrong and mercenary libel" of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated; also claiming the late Augusta Leigh as a "personal friend"; begins, "Health and Salutation! The Memoir by the Countess Guiccioli, in remembrance of the Poet of 'Childe Harold' has been received with pleasure ..." Mounted within the letter is a clipping from the 1 Sep 1869 issue of the New York Herald, a letter by Johannes to the editor, defending Byron against Stowe's accusations; also included are two contemporary newspaper clippings praising Johannes's defense of Byron.
- Subjects
- Actors > United States > 19th century > Correspondence
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Relations with women
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Lady Byron vindicated
- Leigh, Augusta, 1784-1851
- Historians > United States > 19th century > Correspondence
- Jones, George, 1810-1879 > Correspondence
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- George, the Count Joannes [né George Jones]; American actor and historian. Known on the stage for his flamboyance and eccentric behavior, he published his History of Ancient America under his given name in 1843.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 441969276
- Author
- Jones, George, 1810-1879.
- Title
- Count Joannes manuscript material : 1 item, 1869.
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- George, the Count Joannes [né George Jones]; American actor and historian. Known on the stage for his flamboyance and eccentric behavior, he published his History of Ancient America under his given name in 1843.
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- Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873. Addressee
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS