Research Catalog

Title

Joseph Jekyll manuscript material : 17 items, 1821-1835.

Author

Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849.

Found In

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

17 items

Summary

• · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 16 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jun [1821] : (BLES 3.236a) : from Spring Garden : begins, "Don't upbraid me, for I am so lame & so sensible that I have not inflicted two Morning Visits anywhere since I did Homage in Seymour Place." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Jun 1822 : (BLES 3.237b) : from Spring Garden : begins, "The horrible Extinguisher annihilated yesterday, & seeing no chance of survivorship I fled ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul 1822 : (BLES 3.236b) : from Spring Garden : begins, "Rogers tells me of 'Magic Lanthorns & Sketches' -- you are as false as fair, and send me no copy, though perhaps you think I died last spring ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Sunday" : (BLES 3.238a) : from Spring Garden : begins, "You would have seen me long before now but the horrible East Wind a fortnight ago encored an Interlude of the Gout..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec [1831] : (BLES 3.239a) : from Spring Garden : begins, "Don't think me a Barbarian because I have not fallen at your feet, but on my return to town the Gout amused me for a fortnight ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Jan 1832 : (BLES 3.240a) : from Spring Garden : begins, "In consequence of a discovery that I could hobble, I have been inundated these days by invitations to dinner ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jan [1832] : (BLES 3.240b) : from Spring Garden : begins, "Never did any Amphytrion of antient or modern times furnish so delicious a plate." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan 1832 : (BLES 3.239b) : from Spring Garden : reads in full, "The apparent guilt shall be expiated on Saturday next." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov [1832] : (BLES 3.243a) : from Spring Garden : begins, "I should have been at your Ladyship's feet before now if the rascally gout had not disable mine ..."; also includes, "Why is there no more Byron in the New Monthly?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday" : (BLES 3.241) : [no place] : begins, "I have not yet dined out though convalescent, but there is no resisting your invitation for Sunday ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" (BLES 3.241b) : from Spring Garden : begins, "No love lost between us. This cursed gout has vanished, but left me so lame ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Sep 1835 : (BLES 3.242a) : [no place] : begins, "My delightful friend, I thought, was as inveterate a metropolitan as myself, and it petrified me to read that she was betting at Doncaster ..."; with the excised envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" : (BLES 3.242b) : from Spring Garden : begins, "Colds, catarrhs, & the usual compliments of the seasons, in addition to my customary lame excuses, have prevented a morning visit ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" : (BLES 3.237a) : [no place] : begins, "Sincere thanks to my kind and good friend for her enquiries. The gout has confined me to my chamber for a week ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec [no year] : (BLES 3.238b) : from Spring Gardens : begins, "Thanks, my dear Friend, for your repeated Enquiries, the Attack was confined to my Hand, but I still keep my Chamber ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Saturday" : (BLES 3.243b) : [no place] : begins, "I forgot to send yesterday a little unpublished sketch ..." -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
• · To an unidentified recipient : 1 autograph letter signed (fragment) : "Monday" 26 Aug [no year] : (SHEE 0027d) : [no place] : begins, "Let me [ ] some other day perhaps may suit her bettter -- I do not say a _civil_ answer because you are grown a Courtier & can send no other --" Mounted in the Martin Archer Shee Autograph Album. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Shee."

Uniform Title

Jekyll, Joseph : manuscript material

Alternative Title

Jekyll, Joseph : manuscript material

Subjects

• Politicians > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
• Lawyers > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
• Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837 > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Joseph Jekyll, English lawyer and politician.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

697534356

Author

Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837.

Title

Joseph Jekyll manuscript material : 17 items, 1821-1835.

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Joseph Jekyll, English lawyer and politician.

Added Author

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849. Addressee

Found In:

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS