William and Richard Dry manuscript material : 4 items

Collection Data

Description
To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley : 1 itemized bill and letter signed "W & R Dry" : 23 Nov 1811 : (H'ANA 0002) : [no place] : letter begins, "Have herewith sent as a bove which we hope will meet your Approbation." Published in Shelley and his Circle, v. III, p. 60.
Names
William and Richard Dry (tailors) (Creator)
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Addressee)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Addressee)
Whitton, William (Addressee)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1811 - 1814
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Topics
Tailors -- England
Genres
Correspondence
bills
Notes
Biographical/historical: William and Richard Dry, tailors, of High Street, Oxford (cf. Pigot's directory).
Content: To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley : 1 itemized bill and letter signed "W & R Dry" : 23 Nov 1811 : (H'ANA 0002) : [no place] : letter begins, "Have herewith sent as a bove which we hope will meet your Approbation." Published in Shelley and his Circle, v. III, p. 60.|||To Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet : 2 items : -- 1 letter signed "W & R Dry" : 29 Dec 1813 : (S'ANA 0274) : from Oxford : begins, "We are much disappointed at your not having settled the above Account ..." Published in Shelley and his Circle v. III, p. 270. -- 1 itemized bill : 25 May 1811 : (S'ANA 0275) : listing sixteen items and services totaling £25.10.0; the first item listed is "A Superfine Olive Coat Gilt Buttns." Published in Shelley and his Circle, v. IV, p. 828.|||To William Whitton, Shelley's lawyer : 1 letter signed "W & R Dry" : 7 Jan 1814 : (S'ANA 0276) : from Oxford : begins, "We have this day receivd a Letter from T. Shelley Esqr, for us to direct our Correspondent in London to wait on you ..." Published in Shelley and His Circle, v. III, p. 271.
Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Physical Description
Extent: 4 items
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16689664
MSS Unit ID: 21921
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 001d4130-dca2-0133-6fdd-00505686d14e
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