archives.nypl.org -- Joel Barlow manuscript material (original) (raw)

Creator

Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812

Call number

Pforz MS

Physical description

1 item

Preferred Citation

Joel Barlow manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library

Repository

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

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Joel Barlow, American poet and diplomat. Famous for his Vision of Columbus, he spent many years in both England and France participating in the pamphlet debates surrounding the French Revolution. In France, he and his wife became close friends with Mary Wollstonecraft -- to whom they introduced Gilbert Imlay in 1793. In 1805 Barlow returned to the United States, where he would eventually work as an unofficial advisor to presidents Jefferson and Madison. To Thomas Clio Rickman, bookseller and reformer : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Jul 1803 : (MISC 3559) : begins: "I rec'd your note last evening ...".