Research Catalog

Title

William Roscoe manuscript material.

Author

Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.

Publication

1799-1826

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cadell, Thomas, 1773-1836
• Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825
• Walker, Joseph C. (Joseph Cooper), 1761-1810

Description

4 items

Summary

• · Holograph verses, "Hymn" : 20 October 1819 : (MISC 4023.16b) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "What is the first and greatest command? / To love thy God above . . ."; with two emendations; Roscoe's autograph signature, apparently clipped from a letter, is mounted at the foot of the page. Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes.
• · To Thomas Cadell the younger, bookseller : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 March 1826 : (MISC 4476) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from Toxteth Park : begins, "My friend [John] McCreery having sent me in his account for printing the 3d part of my observations on criminal jurisprudence . . . ."
• · To Henry Fuseli, painter and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Jun 1804 : (MISC 3754) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Liverp[ool] : beginning with a quotation from Shenstone ("The charm dissolves, the aerial music's past, The banquet ceases, & the vision flies"), and continuing, "Such are the sensations, my dear Friend, with which I look back on the hours we lately passed together at Allerton . . . ."
• · To Joseph Cooper Walker, antiquarian : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 December 1799 : (MISC 4475) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Liverpool : begins, "I am greatly obliged by your kind communication informing me that the publication of Goetz of Berlingen in Dublin had done me the honour of attributing to me the translation . . . ."

Subjects

• Roscoe, William, > 1753-1831 > Correspondence
• Art patrons > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
• Historians > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• William Roscoe, English historian and patron of the arts.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

862231716

Author

Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.

Title

William Roscoe manuscript material.

Production

1799-1826

Access

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

Biography

William Roscoe, English historian and patron of the arts.

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Added Author

Cadell, Thomas, 1773-1836, addressee.

Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, addressee.

Walker, Joseph C. (Joseph Cooper), 1761-1810, addressee.

Research Call Number

Pforz MS