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Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea
- Title
- Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea [manuscript poem], 1780s?
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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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- Description
- 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet); 24 cm
- Summary
- Anonymous fair copy sixty-one line poem, apparently unpublished, about a young woman named Fanny, forced by her family to work as a servant and seamstress at a vicarage; begins, "As you my dear friends have oft said was a pity / That a Girl like your Fanny so lively & witty, / So form'd for to shine, at a Ball, or a Play, / By a Brother, and Aunt, shou'd be hurried away ...." The paper bears an armorial watermark of Britannia and a countermark of the letter "C" in a circle; paper with similar watermarks dates to the 1780's.
- Subjects
- Note
- Pforzheimer Manuscript (MISC 4291).
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 902941816
- Title
- Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea [manuscript poem], 1780s?
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Local Note
- Filed in MISC file under "Address'd."
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- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS