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Creator: | Symington, John Alexander |
Title: | John Alexander Symington Collection: Introduction and Original Manuscripts |
Dates: | 1622-1937 |
Quantity: | 10.2 cubic feet (boxes 1 to 17) |
Abstract: | The Original Manuscripts section of the Symington Collection consists of original correspondence and other manuscripts focused on Algernon Charles Swinburne (English poet and literary critic), Theodore Watts-Dunton (Swinburne's lawyer and housemate) and Edmund Gosse (a literary critic and Swinburne's initial biographer). It also contains selected papers of George Borrow and others, including at least some material written by Alfred Austin, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Sidney Colvin, Walter de la Mare, Austin Dobson, John Drinkwater, André Gide, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Henry Harland, Henry Arthur Jones, Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, Walter Savage Landor, Paul Lemperly, Baron Lytton (Edward Bulwer Lytton), Harriet Martineau, Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton), Mary Ponsonby, Jane Porter, William M. Rossetti, John Ruskin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Wilson, Thomas J. Wise and Samuel Pickworth Woodward. In addition, this section of the Symington Collection incorporates an extensive autograph collection that pertains to artists, noblemen, politicians, authors, editors, businessmen and scientists, especially persons who lived in the British Isles. Persons or businesses to whom some of the letters in the Original Manuscripts section were sent (in addition to Swinburne, Watts-Dunton and Gosse) include Arthur St. John Adcock, Robert Browning, Cadell & Davies, Martin Conway (Baron Conway of Allington), Thomas Crofton Croker, William Thomas Freemantle, Frederick James Furnivall, Jabez Hogg, Violet Hunt, Sidney Thomas Irwin, Lady Sidney Morgan, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Caleb Burrell Rose, William M. Rossetti, George Augustus Sala, Clement K. Shorter, Robert Southey, Lord Sydney (Thomas Townshend), David Croal Thomson and Mr. Vulliamy. |
Collection No.: | MC 996 |
Language: | Bulk in English; some items in French and other European languages; one item in Hebrew. |
Repository: | Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives |
Acknowledgment: | The Symington Collection was arranged and described circa 1950 by (at least) Irving Blum; 1989-1990 by Peggy Sherry; and 2012-2013 by Sarah Rodgers. Additional contributions to the finding aid were made by Peter Caccavari and Albert C. King. |
The Inventory to the John Alexander Symington Collection has been divided into four sections. This first section describes the collection as a whole and also provides a container list for the Original Manuscripts (including the Supplement) that are housed in boxes 1 to 17. The second section provides more detail for the contents of the Theodore Watts-Dunton Letter Books. The third section lists the Thomas James Wise Correspondence. The fourth section details the subject headings used for the collection's Reference Materials. Click on one of the links below to go to another section.
Introduction and Original Manuscripts (including Supplement)
Theodore Watts-Dunton Letter Books
Thomas James Wise Correspondence
The Symington Collection consists of three groups of material of varying size and scope. The first and most important of these groups, at 10.2 cubic feet, is comprised of bound and unbound original manuscripts and autograph letters that are sometimes accompanied by transcripts, clippings, engravings, and bibliographical data. Most of this material dates from the 1850s to the 1920s and relates to the poet Swinburne and his circle. Because this group also includes an autograph collection of more general scope, however, the overall date span reaches back to the 1600s. The second group, of 2.66 cubic feet, consists of correspondence received between the 1880s and 1933 by the book collector, editor, bibliographer, and forger Thomas James Wise (1859-1937). The third group, of 14.8 cubic feet, contains Reference Materials, consisting mostly of transcripts made by John Alexander Symington (1887-1964) from original manuscripts located primarily at the Brontë Museum in Haworth, the Brotherton Collection of Leeds University and the Ashley Library of T.J. Wise at the British Museum, but also now at institutions in the United States such as the Huntington Library. (1)
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
There are manuscripts in this section of major interest because of their individual significance, such as the Branwell Brontë manuscript entitled "The History of Angria, I," and/or because they form distinct subsets, such as the forty Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscript fragments together with his ninety autograph letters to William Michael Rossetti, the one hundred and fifty manuscripts, manuscript fragments, and letters of the author and translator George Borrow, the fifty-one autograph letters from French novelist André Gide to Edmund Gosse, the seven volumes of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton letter books, and the T. Crofton Croker volume of papers of the poetess Laetitia Landon, as well as the smaller but still significant sequences such as the five Arthur O'Shaughnessy letters and two manuscript poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the ten letters by Charlotte Brontë's biographer Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell and her family, and the six letters of Harriet Martineau.
Patrick Branwell Brontë
The most significant item in the Original Manuscripts section is a bound nine-page manuscript by Patrick Branwell Brontë, known as "The History of Angria, I" (1836). (2) It appears to be an anomaly in a collection otherwise devoted to papers of Swinburne and his circle. However, Symington, who had earlier served as the bibliographic secretary of the Brontë Society, edited the Brontë juvenilia together with T.J. Wise for the Shakespeare Head edition of the Brontës' works in 1936 (cf. The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë in two volumes). His intense interest in the Brontës, particularly Branwell, led him to acquire, sometime before 1935, this manuscript from among the series of stories Branwell and Charlotte wrote together between 1829 and 1840 about the imaginary country of Angria. The events of Branwell's own life are documented at certain moments in this story, as Winifred Guerin has demonstrated in her biography of Branwell, but the plot also draws upon contemporary French and English history.
"The History of Angria, I" is the greatest gem of the Symington Collection. Its text averages a thousand words to the page in microscopic writing and relates the adventures of Captain Henry Hastings, narrated in the first person, including a dinner party at the Earl of Richton's palace, Northangerland's speech before the populace, advocating naval reform, a visit to the royal palace for tea with the Duchess of Zamorna, and a debate in the House of Commons on naval reform. The notes to the facsimile printing of 1936 indicate that a leaf of the manuscript is missing. The manuscript today consists of one less leaf than is shown in that facsimile. What is now missing excises the end of Northangerland's speech and the tea party with the Duchess of Zamorna. (3)
It is evident from clippings in the Brontëana folders of the Symington Collection's third section, the Reference Materials, that Symington regarded the publication of the juvenilia in facsimile in 1936 as the occasion for a Branwell Brontë revival. He felt that it would vindicate a scholar and a poet who had according to local legends been no more than a drunken failure. Among the copies of Brontë writings filed as "Selected works" in the Reference Materials section are several transcripts of the juvenilia, prepared by Symington for the 1936 edition, including "My Angria and the Angrians," "The Duke of Zamorna," "Fireside Tales: the Return of Zamorna," and "Mina Laury," all by Charlotte. With them is Symington's bound transcript of a story Branwell wrote at the age of fifteen in the first person about being abducted by pirates, published in facsimile in 1936 as "The Pirate by Everard Bellingham." (4)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The most significant Swinburne material in the Symington Collection is clearly the ninety letters to William Michael Rossetti, rich in allusions to their literary activities. Rossetti's replies are to be found as transcripts included in the Reference Materials section. These letters are especially interesting with regard to their work on Blake in the 1860s. In 1863 the Rossetti brothers completed and published Alexander Gilchrist's biography of Blake, the second volume of which contains a catalogue by William Michael Rossetti of Blake's art which is still respected by Blake scholars. It was also meant to include an essay by Swinburne on Blake's poetry, one which was eventually published, however, as an independent monograph of about three hundred pages (cf. Bonchurch edition, Prose Works, vol. 6), and comprises the first serious full length study of Blake's work in the history of literary criticism.
The date span of these letters is such, 1862-1906, that one has a view of Swinburne's Blake both early and late. He writes to Rossetti on 26 October 1906, for instance, "Have you tackled Vala yet? I might have tackled it in my twenties I don't think I shall at the close of my sixties, though I have not at all outgrown the fascination of Blake." Even today, despite the advent of the Blake industry in literary criticism, readers of every age group are reluctant to tackle Vala, or the Four Zoas. (5)
These letters also exhibit Swinburne's preoccupation with two other matters "exquisitely vexatious to the Christian Britannic mind" (cf. letter of 13 October 1866), the revolutionary politics in Europe, particularly Italy, and the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Swinburne began writing political poetry in earnest around 1867, when he met Mazzini. The Symington Collection includes manuscripts of two poems from Songs before Sunrise (1871), "The Ride to Milan" (bound in a volume entitled "Eyes") and "The Halt before Rome." Various other fragments suggest the same preoccupation, such as the 1889 fragment "Rome and Nola."
The letters to Rossetti are also full of references to the ideas of the Marquis de Sade. Interesting in this third context are Edmund Gosse's copies (in the Reference Materials) of Swinburne's letters, 1860-1902, to Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, the fifty-seven originals of which are owned by the Marchioness of Crewe in England. (Gosse and Wise edited excerpts of this correspondence for a private printing in 1915.) This series of letters helps to explain the untiring jokes about de Sade in the Rossetti letters. Milnes was famous for his library of erotic arcana, especially the works of Sade. As a poet and biographer in his own right who knew everyone in literary circles and had the wealth to entertain them at his estate at Fryston, Milnes was also, of course, a key figure in introducing Swinburne to the British literary "aristocracy" of the early 1860s. (Between 1959 and 1962 Cecil Lang brought out the six volume edition of Swinburne's letters, of which the Rossetti and the Milnes correspondences form the most substantial parts). (6)
The Original Manuscripts section contains about twenty letters from the art critic and scholar John Ruskin who championed the Pre-Raphaelite movement and admired Swinburne's early poetry. In a letter dated 12 September 1866, at the time of the publication of the first edition of Poems and Ballads, he writes to Hartley Coleridge, "[Swinburne] is so boundlessly beyond me in all power and knowledge." Swinburne's father, Sir John, on seeing the letter to Coleridge, writes back immediately thereafter, in a manner perhaps representative of the "Christian Britannic mind," with regard to his son's poetry, ". . . they contain passages that give us great pain and sorrow . . ." and goes on to wonder why the author could have developed that way: "in early life he was very reverent and intensely admired all things great and beautiful." Ruskin writes back, 18 September 1866, "You ought not to be pained . . . the more I read it, the nobler I think it."
In the context of Swinburne correspondence, mention should also be made of the thirty-eight letters, 1875 to 1898, from the Presbyterian minister A.B. Grosart to the poet, regarding Grosart's well known reprint editions of rare Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. That period of literary history amounted to a virtual obsession on Swinburne's part, beginning with his days at Eton. Indeed, the Symington Collection includes a bound volume, including leaves of a register from the Eton library, showing that Swinburne was already reading those playwrights as a school boy.
Swinburne did some editorial work of his own, among other things, by writing a preface to Charles Wells' play Joseph and his Brethren. Wells, a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge, was not popular in his day, but his play, revived by Swinburne and Rossetti, was much admired after its reprinting in the 1870s. Two letters in the collection relate to this work, one from W. Smith Williams to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, written in the 1860s, and one from F. Pollock, written to Swinburne in 1891.
Swinburne was a master at the imitation of poetic style, whether the satiric couplets of Dryden or the blank verse of the Elizabethan dramatists. The collection contains the manuscript of an early version of one of his Border Ballads (cf. Bonchurch edition, Poetical Works, vol. 3) entitled "Burd Margaret," which is said to have fooled Northumbrian townspeople most familiar with oral traditions into thinking it a genuinely ancient ballad.
Of the Swinburne manuscript fragments the most significant consists of one hundred sixty lines, or about one half, of an early draft of the fifth chapter of the nine chapter epic poem Tristram of Lyonesse (1882) and is entitled "Iseult at Tintagel." This fragment has been used by scholars to demonstrate how relentlessly Swinburne could revise his writing, countering complaints of posterity about redundancy, obscurity and contorted grammar in his poetry.
The collection also includes excerpts of drafts of Swinburne's unpublished translation of Euripides' Cyclops. Swinburne, well schooled in classical Greek, disliked Euripides but admired Shelley, to whom he is often compared, and it is against Shelley's translation, still the standard English version of the play, that his more daring version works and is of greatest interest.
Of similar interest, in the context of Swinburne's classical skills, is the fragment containing two stanzas, showing part of an exchange between Oeneus and the Chorus, from an early draft of Atalanta in Calydon (1865), the verse drama in the classical style which did more than any other publication to secure his fame as a poet. It is bound together with two other manuscript fragments in a volume entitled "Poems and Ballads--MSS--1866."
Swinburne's activity as a novelist has been relatively ignored by literary historians, but the Symington Collection contains some interesting evidence of it. There is, for instance, a two hundred twenty five line manuscript, undated, but probably dating back at least to the 1860s, entitled "Letters, a Novel in Verse." Of more particular note, however, are the proofs, at least one corrected in the author's hand, of the 1901 and 1905 editions of the epistolary novel, à la Laclos, Love's Cross Currents, originally published as A Year's Letters in 1877 under the pseudonym of "Mrs. Horace Manners" in order not to vex his father. With them is to be found a handwritten copy, not Swinburne's, of the final draft of the novel, but with corrections in the author's hand. Several leaves are missing.
The bound volume marked "'My Lady' and other Pre-Raphaelite Poems" provides evidence of the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite-style on Swinburne's art. Swinburne probably wrote these poems just after he had first met Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris when they were working on the Oxford Union murals in 1857. Swinburne championed their style with his review of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, published in the Spectator in 1862 and sometimes regarded as the first literary statement of "art for art's sake" in England. He broke with the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic as early as 1868, but remained close enough to its exponents to feel it necessary to make another break with a refutation of Whistler's art in 1888.
Partly French by extraction and fluent in that language, Swinburne was strongly influenced by French romanticism, particularly the works of Victor Hugo. He wrote almost four hundred pages of essays on Hugo's writings in the course of his career. Of special interest in this regard in the Symington Collection are the bound volume marked "Victor Hugo, MS" and the bound volume of two autograph letters to Swinburne of 1885 and of 1888, the first, from Henry Norman, requesting that he write something on the occasion of Hugo's death. The former volume contains a manuscript page of panegyric verses to Hugo, which begins "This, tho' our praise embalm thee," not the same poem, however, as the published eulogy "To Victor Hugo" in volume 3 of the Poetical Works in the Bonchurch edition. (7) Also in the "Victor Hugo" manuscript volume is a page of notes in French which may not have anything to do with Hugo because they deal simply with erotic freedom.
Other Swinburne fragments present in the Symington Collection reflect the poet's treatment of the imagery of Christianity after his fall from the church while a student at Oxford. Swinburne came from a Franco Catholic background and had been until that time an ardent Catholic. There is a volume of parodic manuscript verses about Christian discipline addressed to Bishop Jackson. Another volume contains an unsigned manuscript entitled "Life after Death." These may, in fact, have been undergraduate exercises, a situation which also suggests itself with regard to the manuscript of verses entitled "Epicurus" and the parody of Arnold's "Empedocles."
Another fragment, entitled "Song," is said to be an effort on Swinburne's part to write a conclusion to Keats' unfinished poem Hyperion. Special Collections and University Archives holds a copy of a rare edition of Swinburne's Hyperion by Swinburne's biographer Georges Lafourcade (X PR5506.H8 1927), containing an essay on Swinburne's relation to Keats. Compared with the fragments reproduced there, the one in the Symington Collection may show the influence of Baudelaire more strongly than the Miltonic strain of Keats' verse. The other pieces with "Song" read as though more directly influenced by Keats' diction. (8)
Yet another Swinburne fragment, beginning "Mother of life and love and death and fear," is strongly reminiscent of "Laus Veneris" (Poems and Ballads, 1866), exhibiting the same stanzaic design as that poem. It is to be found in the bound volume marked on the outside "Manuscripts," and inside "The Holograph Manuscripts of Miscellaneous Verses." (The title of "Miscellaneous Verses" as used here does not correspond to that title as used in the Bonchurch Edition.)
Also included among the Swinburne papers in the Symington Collection is "Notes on the Life of Mary Stuart," a twenty-eight-page notebook about the life of Mary Stuart who captured the poet's imagination in the works Chastelard, Bothwell and Mary Stuart. At the end of this notebook is to be found a fragment of the manuscript of an article Swinburne published on Mary Stuart in The Fortnightly Review in 1882. A fragment in the volume "Manuscripts," beginning "Pass north between the doors of lead and gold," makes mention of Bothwell in its concluding verse.
Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton
Swinburne's lifestyle with Watts-Dunton at the Pines between 1879 and 1909 is most notably captured in print by Max Beerbohm's essay "No. 2 The Pines" in his And Even Now (1920). Reading such an essay prepares one only for disappointment on approaching seven volumes of original letter books of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton in the Symington Collection, for, despite the fact that he describes himself in at least one letter here as "bohemian to the core," the solicitor's dignified restraint prevents Watts-Dunton from conveying any particularly striking impressions of daily intercourse with his famous companion in the circa 1800 pages (1889-1907) of outgoing letters which are copied into these volumes.
Watts-Dunton's friendship with Swinburne, of course, grew out of his capacity as a solicitor, when Ford Madox Brown recommended his services to the poet in the early 1870s, after Swinburne had become disillusioned with Charles Augustus Howell and also found himself in the process of trying to change publishers from Hotten to Chatto & Windus. The Reference Materials section contains a bound volume of typescripts of letters, marked "Watts-Dunton: Typescripts of letters to and from Swinburne and Chatto & Windus," which were exchanged between Watts-Dunton, Swinburne, and Chatto & Windus and illuminate this period.
The recipients of the letters represented in the Watts-Dunton letter books are indexed alphabetically at the front of each volume. Among those addressed are artists Ford Madox Brown, Edwin Abbey, and Max Beerbohm, authors Hall Caine, Edmund Gosse, Clement K. Shorter, Ernest Rhys and George Meredith, publishers of Harper's Monthly Magazine, editors of Oxford University Press and Dodd, Mead & Co., several typewriter manufacturers, and Swinburne family members (the poet's sisters Isabel and Alice, and his cousin Mrs. Disney Leith, nee Mary Gordon).
These letters touch upon such matters as the commissioning and composition of Shakespeare commentaries by Watts-Dunton and other literary notables of the time for Harper's (cf., for instance, Watts-Dunton's essay on Macbeth in Vol. CXII, no. DCLXXVIII, for November 1906, pp. 813-819); the publication, translation, and possible dramatization of his novel Aylwin, based upon the character of his close friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti (cf. the Rossetti transcripts in Reference Materials, as well as the original letter from D.G.R. to Watts-Dunton, undated, for further evidence of their intimacy); his research on Hungarian gypsies for his novel Carniola (cf. letters to James Webster, Dr. Andrew Moody, Margaret Fletcher, F.L. Liepnick, Andrew McCormick, Bradford Colt de Wolf, and Emil Reich, included here); his role as a solicitor; and Swinburne's attitudes and lifestyle (cf. letters to Arthur Waugh, Arthur Conan Doyle, Chatto & Windus, Henry Arthur Jones, Robertson Nicoll, and Isabel Swinburne).
George Borrow
George Borrow (1803-1881) enjoyed almost as great a popularity in his time as did Byron. This is in part related to his polyglot skills, his dashing appearance, and his love of travel, especially in association with gypsies. He is best known for his travel narratives, The Bible in Spain (1843) and Wild Wales (1862), and autobiographical writings, Lavengro (1851) and Romany Rye (1857). He also published many translations, including two collections of poems from the Danish, a Chinese version of the New Testament, and Targum (1835), a collection of pieces from thirty languages and dialects.
The Symington Collection includes sixty-six Borrow poems, poetic fragments, transcripts and translations of poems, including extracts in Persian, German, and French, of which three leaves are in another hand. It also contains seventy-one prose fragments, including portions of Lavengro and Wild Wales, extracts in Persian, translations from Welsh and Icelandic, and commentaries on religion, folklore, poetry, and philology, some accompanied by typed transcripts. Longer items include "Songs of Scandinavia," an eighty-five-page manuscript of poetic translations, published in 1826 as Romantic Ballads translated from the Danish, and a thirty-six-page manuscript fragment of Romany Rye. There are also letters from Borrow to his stepdaughter Henrietta MacOubrey, 1870s and undated, the draft of a letter from St. Petersburg, 1833, to an unknown recipient, an undated letter about pruning trees (Borrow gained an estate to care for when he married), and a one-page booklist.
Edmund Gosse
In the course of his life, 1849-1928, Sir Edmund Gosse wrote over thirty volumes of literary criticism. The Symington Collection contains undated manuscripts of his introductions to George Borrow's "The Gold Horns" and "Danish Ballads," striking for comments such as that in translating "The Gold Horns" Borrow was making available to the British reader a poem as significant as Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Here are also undated manuscript sketches by Gosse of John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, George Meredith, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others. Gosse was skilled in literary portraiture. The story of dining with Tennyson on 13 April 1877 is especially memorable. The passages on Swinburne were later incorporated into the 1917 biography. All these examples help to exemplify the eye for character which made possible his book-length lives of Gray, Congreve, Donne, Patmore, Sir Thomas Browne, Ibsen, and Swinburne, as well as many shorter sketches of contemporaries.
Gosse was also a popular columnist, essayist, and lecturer. The Symington Collection includes an undated draft of an essay on literary hoaxes, "The Oera Linda Book," eventually published in Cornhill Magazine. (Gosse also writes about this topic in his Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe, 1879). In addition there are lecture notes for "Reading as Recreation," dated 1894, but given often in the course of his career, and for an address to the Association of Library Assistants, delivered in 1906.
Gosse, always a Francophile, was fluent in French and visited the continent often. Also to be found in the collection is a 17-page manuscript from 1891, describing a trip to Alsace-Lorraine. Other travels are vividly recorded as well, as in the eight letters to his wife Nellie, 1881, describing a visit with Robert Louis Stevenson and his family in Scotland, bound in the volume marked "Robert Louis Stevenson." (The researcher will also in this context wish to consult the volume of six letters, with transcripts, from Mrs. R.L. Stevenson to Gosse, 1895-1907, expressing gratitude for his financial and emotional support after her husband's death.)
André Gide's Letters to Edmund Gosse
André Gide (1869-1951) first became aware of Gosse's literary acumen and Francophile tendencies at a public reception during one of Gosse's trips to France in 1904, the year Gosse was appointed Librarian of the House of Lords. Although Gide wrote to him in that year, their correspondence began in earnest in 1909, after Gosse had read Gide's novel La Porte Etroite. It reminded him keenly of his own struggles to liberate himself from a narrow Protestant upbringing, the theme of his 1907 work Father and Son (cf. the letter of 21 December 1870 from his father Philip Gosse). Liberation was to become the motif of a correspondence which lasted until Gosse's death in 1928. Although separated by practically a generation in age from his French counterpart, Gosse was not prevented by his Victorian upbringing from appreciating Gide's moral candour, in fact, supporting his coming out in his writings of the 1920s.
Gide and Gosse enjoyed their first extended visit together in 1911 in London. During that same year Gosse was invited to visit Gide for the first time at his house in Pontigny. They saw one another often after that, the last time being in Paris in April 1928, a month before Gosse's death. Gide was permanently grateful to Gosse for championing his work at a time when it was unknown and little received. Gosse first brought Gide to the attention of English readers in an article in the Contemporary Review in 1909, but enhanced his reputation especially in the famous concluding essay of Portraits and Sketches, published in 1912.
Their extent correspondence consists of 34 letters from Gosse, now in the Jacques Doucet Library collections in Paris, and fifty-four letters from Gide, three of which--20 September 1916, 15 January 1925 and 28 April 1928--are in the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University. Of the letters by Gide in the Symington Collection, twenty-two belong to the pre-war period, eighteen to the war years, and ten to the post-war era. The third group is evidence of the most searching exchange between the two friends. These letters were translated, edited, and published in 1959 by Linette F. Brugmans as The Correspondence of André Gide and Edmund Gosse, 1904-1928.
Other Original Letters to Gosse
The Symington Collection contains at least one hundred more letters to Gosse from friends and literary associates, spanning the years 1877-1927. Four are from American novelist William Dean Howells in 1883, 1884 and 1904. Howells encouraged Gosse to make a lecture tour of America in 1884 and 1885. That tour was so successful that Gosse was offered professorships at both Harvard and Johns Hopkins, although he refused both to accept a chair in English literature at Cambridge University which he held from 1885 until 1890.
Also in regard to his American lecture tour is a letter from Matthew Arnold of 9 February 1885. Another letter from Arnold, dated 3 March 1885, pertains to Gosse's Scandinavian research and scholar friends. Gosse learned Norwegian in order to read Ibsen, whom he introduced to the British public with a biography in 1907, but he also studied Danish.
Gosse and Henry James were good friends and corresponded enthusiastically about literary matters. The collection includes many transcripts of their correspondence (in print since 1988). One of the original letters pertains to the occasion of a Gosse lecture on the Brontës, a copy of which he sent to James as a present. James writes back on 12 June 1903, thanking him for the "bibliographic pearl" and quipping, "It was time the fatal sisters should have a smile play over them--sullen as I yet figure their 'psychic' response."
Many of the letters to Gosse in the Symington Collection pertain to his entry for Swinburne in the Dictionary of National Biography and to his full length biography, The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne, published by MacMillan in 1917. Gosse first made Swinburne's acquaintance in the late 1860s in London by submitting poems to him for approval. By 1875 he had established friendships with the entire Pre-Raphaelite circle. Two letters, both of 1917, exemplify the reception of his Swinburne biography, one from H.J. Grierson and another from W.P. Ker.
Other letters reflect Gosse's patient survey, while researching Swinburne, of the poet's surviving acquaintances. There are several letters from Lord Redesdale, all dated 1912, as well as a manuscript leaf recounting Redesdale's memories of the poet as he had known him as a school boy. (Gosse eventualy wrote a separate essay on Redesdale's memories of Swinburne.) One of two letters of July 1915 from R.W. Raper delightedly relates the details of one of Swinburne's visits to the noted Plato scholar and Oxford professor Benjamin Jowett. A letter from May Morris, also from this period, vividly recalls her childhood impressions of Swinburne lying in the grass in the orchard behind her father's house, his fiery hair spread out around him, laughing, as she and her sister sprinkled him with rose petals. Yet another letter, 17 April 1917, from Alice Bird, wife of Swinburne's doctor, relates Swinburne's wish to build himself an anti-Victorian tower seven stories high in which the seven deadly sins would be committed daily.
While writing his Swinburne biography Gosse, with Thomas J. Wise, was also preparing extracts from the Swinburne correspondence for publication. The Original Manuscripts section includes an autograph letter written by Stéphane Mallarmé's daughter Genevieve Bonniot to Edmund Gosse around the time, about her father's correspondence with Swinburne in 1875-1876, when the latter contributed his "Nocturne," an original poem in French, to La Republique des Lettres. (9)
Further evidence of Gosse's cosmopolitan role in international belles lettres is a letter of 12 September 1908 from Tolstoi's secretary V. Tchertkoff about a lecture Gosse gave as chairman of the British Tolstoi Celebration Committee, on the occasion of Tolstoi's 80th birthday.
Among the other autograph letters to Gosse in the collection are thirty-nine, 1894-1925, bound in one volume, from Maurice Baring, relating to his poetry and his travels. Baring was foreign correspondent for the Times in 1912 during the Balkan Wars, hence an accomplished observer of the world around him. Inserted occasionally with a letter is the manuscript of a poem just completed, one of which is apostrophizes Gosse.
Another writer represented among these original letters is poet and playwright John Drinkwater, four of whose letters to Gosse, all dated 1917, are bound together in a volume of yet more letters to Clement K. Shorter along with various reference materials. Drinkwater became famous in 1918 with the documentary drama Abe Lincoln, one of a series of historical plays which also included Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, and Robert E. Lee.
Gosse had notable political friends, especially Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), for whom Symington transcribed three volumes of his letters to Gosse, 1904-1928, included in the Reference Materials section. In addition to his work at the bar, twice serving as Lord Chancellor, Haldane was a published author of philosophical treatises and was well read in belles lettres. (Among the drafts of Gosse memoirs included in the collection is an account of Haldane's trip to Berlin in 1906.)
Also of interest in the context of Gosse's scholarly activity in the political sphere are the almost twenty original letters of Mary Ponsonby, 1901-1903, many describing Victoria's temperament and lifestyle, for an article Gosse prepared about the queen after her death.
In the Reference Materials section there are transcripts of Gosse letters to and from another fifty correspondents, including such names as the poet Robert Bridges, letters of 1877-1924, the painter Ford Madox Brown, 1877-1884, novelist Thomas Hardy, 1886-1918, novelist Henry James, 1894-1914, and Swinburne, 1871-1894, among others. Of special note here are the transcripts of letters, 1895-1927, exchanged with Thomas James Wise. Most of Gosse's original correspondence is to be found in the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University, where about a thousand correspondents are represented.
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon
L.E.L. (1802-1838), popular in England in the 1820s and 1830s, was a child prodigy who turned out verse from an early age. She first published her work in W. Jerdan's The Literary Gazette at the age of sixteen. Once affluent, her family was in dire straits after her father's death in 1820, depending upon her literary output for support. She became known for such long poems as "The Fate of Adelaide," 1821, "The Improvisatrice," 1824, and "The Golden Violet," 1827. She also wrote fiction such as Romance and Reality, 1831, and Francesco Carrara, 1834. She married George MacLean, governor of South Africa, and moved to Cape Coast Castle in 1838, where she died in the same year. (Landon's life is documented in the biography Letty Landon by Helen Ashton.)
The Landon papers in the Symington Collection originally belonged to T. Crofton Croker (1798-1854), an Irish antiquary, illustrator, and author who worked as a clerk at the admiralty in London during Landon's heyday. She regarded him as a literary advisor. He was also a personal friend of Sir Walter Scott, among others. The bound volume in which these papers survive contains annotations by Croker and others.
This volume includes eighty-three letters, 1827-1838, from Landon to Croker, which relate to her literary activity. Typescript copies are in an accompanying volume. Also to be found here are manuscripts of poems, some in Landon's hand, but unsigned and undated, as well as three manuscript pages of literary reviews by Landon, submitted to The Gentleman's Magazine when Croker became editor. They remained unpublished. There are also thirty-one pages of proofs, corrected in Landon's hand, of her poem "The Zenana," published posthumously in Robert Fisher's The Drawing Room Scrapbook. (10)
The Landon papers in the Symington Collection also include letters to Croker (undated) from W. Jerdan, from Robert Fisher (1832) and from Landon's brother Whittington (1837), as well as letters to both Croker (1839) and Landon (1829) from Mrs. A. Thomson, antiquary and friend of the Landon family. In addition there are letters from Landon to Croker's wife and to the Countess Blessington.
Among the reference materials bound in this volume are a transcript of a letter to Croker, 1839, from Cape Coast Castle, containing a water-color sketch of Landon's grave, press clippings about Landon's death, engravings of Landon and Croker, and a chronology by Symington of Landon's contributions to literary annuals.
Henry Arthur Jones
There are over five dozen original letters, 1884-1900 and undated, from British dramatist Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) to theatre critic Clement Scott in the Symington Collection. Although written early in Jones' career, which extended into the 1920s, they are interesting evidence of the theatre revival going on in England at the turn of the twentieth century. The critical consensus of his time was that his play The Liars (1897) was his best work, but he was also well known for The Tempter (1893), The Case of Rebellious Susan (1894), and Michael and his Lost Angel (1896). Jones created a stir among Victorian theatre-goers by attacking Victorian prudery, showing in one of his plays a clergyman guilty of adultery. Jones, once drawn to socialism by his early friendship with William Morris, drifted to the opposite extreme with material success and was often at odds with the more left-wing ideological goals of his Irish counterpart, George Bernard Shaw. There is included here a caricature of the two parrying with swords.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This American poetess (1855-1919) was the daughter of a Wisconsin music teacher turned farmer. She briefly attended the state university, but took up writing full-time at the age of eighteen to help support her family. She is said to have headed the "Milwaukee School of Poetry" from around 1880 and is associated with the "Erotic School" as of 1888. She published numerous poetry collections, including Maurine (1876), and Poems of Passion (1883), as well as an autobiography, The World and I (1918). Wilcox was compared to Swinburne and Whitman in her time, in what was regarded as her assault on Victorian reserve, an issue which seems especially dated when one discovers that she was lambasted for using the word "kiss" in her poetry.
The Wilcox papers in the Symington Collection include six letters to British poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), dated 30 January, 19 June, 5 October, and 14 November 1876, 15 November 1880 and 13 February 1881, describing her travels, her literary tastes, and her ambitions and struggles as a poet. Wilcox was so devoted to her husband's memory that she tried repeatedly to contact him through spiritualists after his death, and her autobiography deals almost exclusively with the period after their acquaintance began. Hence the letters to O'Shaughnessy, which pre-date that time, are a valuable addition to our knowledge of her career. Also included here are undated manuscripts of two poems, "Rain" and "A Dream," originally inserted into the O'Shaughnessy correspondence. Among the reference materials bound in the volume with the letters are first printed copies or extracts, in the form of clippings, of sixteen other poems, and the record of an undated journalistic debate of Wilcox with Harriet Monroe, reprinted from The National Magazine.
Harriet Martineau
This British writer (1802-1876) was the daughter of a Norwich manufacturer of Huguenot origin who raised her a Unitarian. She traveled extensively as an abolitionist in ante-bellum America, as well as in Egypt and the Middle East. She wrote on religion, political economy, social history, women, mesmerism, and education. Her published literary works include popular children's stories and an autobiography.
The bound volume of her papers in the Symington Collection contains an engraving of Miss Martineau, a caricature showing her with her cat, and five autograph letters and a fragment, including a letter to an unknown recipient (Mr. Rathbone of Liverpool?), dated only "Monday night," concerning her journalistic activities, a letter to Mr. Rathbone, dated only "Friday night," thanking him for several books, a lengthy postscript to a letter to Miss Mitchell, dated 1832, concerning subscriptions to a published lecture series, and two letters to Miss Hennell, 17 April and 23 June 1860, concerning her editorial activities and opinions of several books, as well as a note of 1863, ordering some fabric from Messrs. Wilson & Co.
Included in the Symington Collection Supplement is a letter from Martineau to Marianne Finch, 27 March 1853, concerning Finch's new book, An Englishwoman's Experience in America (1853), women's rights, and John Jane Smith Wharton's book, An Exposition of the Laws relating to the Women of England (1853).
Clement K. Shorter
British journalist and author Clement King Shorter (1857-1926), famous for his biographical work on the Brontës and his collaborative efforts with Thomas James Wise in collecting their papers, edited a portion of the Illustrated London News in the 1880s, the Sketch in the 1890s, and The Sphere, which he also founded, from 1900 until his death. The Original Manuscripts section includes almost forty letters, 1914-1925, from Paul Lemperly to Shorter about book-collecting, as well as a letter from Alice Meynell, undated, about his Brontë work. Transcripts of his correspondence with Watts-Dunton in the Reference Materials section also relate to the latter.
While associated with The Sphere, Shorter corresponded with poet Walter de la Mare. The collection contains eight letters from de la Mare, 1920-1923, relating to his literary activities, as well as to such matters as a visit with Thomas Hardy (cf. also a letter to Shorter from Hardy, dated "Good Friday, 1900"). Another contributor to The Sphere, John Drinkwater, is represented by over two dozen letters, 1914-1922, accompanied by transcripts. All relate to his poetic output, although none of the manuscripts originally inserted in these letters is present, only transcripts of them. One other letter in this group of interest, written to Shorter on 17 October 1892 by poet Robert Bridges, concerns the composition of a tribute to Tennyson.
Transcripts of letters to Shorter from Watts-Dunton, Thomas Hardy, and the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, are also to be found in the Reference Materials section.
Elizabeth "Guggum" Siddall (Mrs. D.G. Rossetti)
On 11 February 1862, Elizabeth Siddall, a strikingly beautiful woman and talented artist, died of an overdose of laudanum, possibly a suicide, after two years of marriage to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Swinburne testified at the inquest. During the funeral on February 17th in Highgate Cemetery, Rossetti laid a volume of manuscript poems into the open coffin. He was to have the coffin reopened seven years later in order to retrieve them for publication.
The Symington Collection includes about three dozen letters (plus draft responses) regarding Mrs. Rossetti, all sent to W.T. Freemantle, who, fascinated by the circumstances of her death and funeral, did genealogical research on her for a lecture in her hometown of Sheffield in 1912. Several letters, November-December 1911, from the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society cover the details of arranging for this lecture. These papers include the lecture notes (in various sizes). Some of the letters were exchanged in the course of his research. An example of this type of exchange is a letter from one Reverend Spink of a church in Sheffield where Freemantle hoped to find the baptismal records of Mrs. Rossetti's parents.
Yet others of these letters are filed under the name of Violet Hunt whose mother was a close friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Because of his lecture, Freemantle was locally acknowledged as the expert on Rossetti's wife, so Hunt was writing to him in the context of her book on the Pre-Raphaelites. Some of Hunt's letters are also inscribed with Freemantle's notes. At that time, in 1923, Mrs. Rossetti's own work was on exhibit at the Tate Gallery. There is also an exchange with William Michael Rossetti in 1911, relating to these drawings.
The Reference Materials section contains three folders of biographical materials collected by Freemantle in the course of his research.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (1774-1843) became poet laureate in 1813, thanks to the mediation of his friend Sir Walter Scott, after a prolific career as a poet and historian. He is best remembered for such poems as "The Curse of Kehama" (1810) and "Roderick, the Last of the Goths" (1814), on the positive side, as well as for the disastrous eulogy of George III, "The Vision of Judgment" (1821), on the less happy one. (It was notoriously parodied by Lord Byron.) Southey also knew Wordsworth from living as his neighbor in the Lake District, where he cared not only for his own family but for Coleridge's wife and children as well, after the latter poet abandoned them.
In addition to an undated draft of Robert Southey's delightful poem about Napolean's Russian campaign, entitled "The March to Moscow," there are twelve original letters, February 1798 to April 1799, from Robert Southey's good friend, Grosvenor Bedford, a writer and civil servant whom Southey met while a pupil at Westminster School, the most prestigious boy's school in England (along with Eton) at that time. Together they authored an article against flagellation in a school publication, an essay for which Southey was later expelled. The two friends corresponded for over forty years, and their letters are rich in allusions to the literary and social concerns of their time.
Single Manuscripts
There are about five hundred people represented in the collection by only one or two items, an autograph letter and/or a manuscript fragment. Unlike the larger groupings of original material, which are related in one way or another to nineteenth and early twentieth century literature, these items are eclectic in range both as to date and as to subject area. Included are letters and/or manuscripts by artists, noblemen, politicians, authors, editors, businessmen, and scientists, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Among the single items are a number of documents, both signed and unsigned. The researcher will find, for instance, two Commonwealth documents from 1654 and 1658 written on parchment and decorated in ink. A more unusual item from that century is a portion of a document dated 1668 regarding power of attorney for a women named Elizabeth Hobart. Also of interest are a promissory note, dated 13 December 1692, a copy of a certificate, dated 1783, signifying the end of Richard Woodhouse's apprenticeship to a London vintner, a copy of a will from 1780, an undated memo having to do with the duty upon tallow candles, a petition from 1743 having to do with landholders, and an 1847 military commission. There is also a section of a coroner's report from the year 1778 relating to an aging squire (Thomas Gerard) who shot one of his servants in the middle of the night, thinking that a robber was breaking into his bedroom.
Of interest in the context of military history is a letter from Theodore Gordon, dated 22 January 1823, regarding the auditing of public accounts for the British army which had "served in North America." There are also items relating to Guillaume Brune, a general in Napolean's army who was killed at Waterloo, Sir John Byng, Earl of Strafford, who served in Wellington's campaigns, and General Sir William Gomm, who fought against the French at Waterloo.
With regard to heads of state, there is a portion of a document in German containing an autograph of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great) of Prussia, undated, as well as an early copy of Queen Elizabeth's opinion about the keeping of treaties, undated, and letters from Jean Pierre Boyer, president of the Republic of Haiti, and Guy Carleton, governor of Quebec. There are also quite a few items relating to the British nobility, often accompanied by engravings of their mansions, as well as their autographs and portraits.
In the area of art and artists are to be found an undated letter from the French romantic painter Eugene Delacroix and an edifying letter from John Ruskin to George Boyce written in 1854, critiquing the use of light and shadow in Boyce's sketches of Venice. There is also a letter from F. Leyland, one of the principal customers for the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti during his lifetime. In addition there are sketches by one Richard R. Brown, as well as letters of Fred Barnard, an early Dickens illustrator, and of caricaturist Alfred Crowquill. The painters represented here are too numerous to list exhaustively, but include Lady Katherine Bell, Robert Anning Bell, Robert Beattie, John Boaden, Joseph Cartwright, W.T. Davey, and others. One real novelty is a letter from 1827 by architect Jeffry Wyattville regarding the design of the clocks in Windsor Castle.
The items relating to authorship are many and varied as well. There is, for instance, an undated portion of a letter of recommendation written by Victor Hugo. Also to be found here are the notes for a libel trial from the 1850s involving the poet Walter Savage Landor, famous for his literary and political quarrels. There is also a fragment of a note by Anne Thackeray, inscribed on the back of a portion of a letter. Of special interest for Bram Stoker devotees is a letter from a reviewer named Addison Bright in 1890 when Stoker was manager of the Lyceum Theater in London but had not yet written Dracula (1897).
On the business side there are items of great variety, including a letter from one Alfred Gibson about buying violas, a letter from Henry Fauntleroy about a banker just hanged for forgery, a letter from Elizabeth Eastlake about the Governesses' Benevolent Institution and a letter of 1773 from one J. Tempest to one Thomas Plumbe about the purchase and maintenance of phaetons. Among the businessmen of most relevance to the provenance of the collection are a number of antiquarians, including Humphry Rolleston, member of the Royal College of Medicine, who writes in a letter of 1924 about medical bibliophiles interested in diagnosing the ailments from which famous writers suffered.
There are scarcely enough items of interest to the religious historian for this category to be included here. Examples include letters from a curate of the Rugby School named E.M. Goulburn, a Bishop of Litchfield named Samuel Butler, and a biblical scholar named William Trollope.
Historians of science will find a surprising number of mid-nineteenth century items relating to geology and fossil hunting in the British Isles, most of which derive from the papers of Caleb Burrell Rose. The names include Thomas Amyot, John Brown, Henri Milne-Edwards, Edward Parry, Caleb Burrell Rose, Harry Seeley, Joshua Trimmer, Searles Valentine Wood, Henry Woodward, and Samuel Pilkworth Woodward. The Rose folder includes a broadside advertising his lecture of 1854 on "The Eye of Man and Animals," given at the Mechanics Institute in Downham.
Also relevant to the science category is a letter of Henry Oldham from 1843, for anyone interested in the early days of obstetrics, as well as an annotated portrait of Dr. Walter Charlton, physician to Charles II, a letter from Thomas Bryant, head of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a 1750s letter from Malcolm Flemyng about work on the anatomy of the horse. There is also an item written by William Cubitt, civil engineer and inventor of the treadmill. Other disciplines represented here include optics (John F. Goddard), ornithology (John Gould), farming (George Dempster), astronomy (William R. Hamilton), and botany (J. Stewart).
Supplement
In 1959 the Rutgers University Libraries purchased from Symington another group of materials, largely from the papers of Sir Edmund Gosse, now to be found in the Supplement to the Original Manuscripts. This material includes a set of photographs showing Gosse at home in his study in Regents Park, in a group portrait with Oliver Wendell Holmes, and on a visit to his friend André Gide in Pontigny.
The Gosse materials in the Symington Collection Supplement also include press releases by Gosse and galley proofs of essays with corrections in his handwriting, as well as reviews of some of his best known works, including his first book of poems, On Viol and Flute. Among the materials in the folders marked "Documentation" are to be found papers relating to his receipt of a French honorary degree at the Sorbonne in 1925, together with the transcripts of a diary kept by a friend who had accompanied him on that occasion. Although there is manuscript material in the other documentation folders, none of it is in Gosse's handwriting. The material in the folder marked "Miscellany" includes a tiny envelope containing testimony of the christening and the death of Gosse's favorite kitten Yoland.
Also to be found in the Symington Collection Supplement are three Gide letters to Gosse from the war years, as well as a letter from Harriet Martineau to Marianne Finch about feminism, dated 1853.
THOMAS JAMES WISE CORRESPONDENCE
The second group of material in the Symington Collection, letters received by Thomas J. Wise between 1886 and 1933, documents the influence of the greatest bibliographer and book-collector of his time in the English-speaking world. Most of this correspondence affords an overview of Wise's affairs in the 1920s and 1930s, although some material dates back to his earlier career.
There are, for instance, twenty letters, 1886-1912, from H. Buxton Forman, which date from the time when both Forman and Wise were active in the Shelley Society. (11) As members of that group they helped to edit Shelley's manuscripts. The letters from Forman are of special interest because Forman is suspected of collaborating with Wise on his forgeries. One from 17 February 1890, for instance, documents the locations of the three William Morris poems which Wise and Forman were to forge into a first edition pamphlet. There are other places in the letters which are more indirect but also suggestive, having to do with the technical problems of their printing projects. Barker and Collins in their sequel to the Carter and Pollard study An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934) have pointed out the main evidence in the Buxton Forman correspondence for his complicity with Wise.
Ironically, Wise was regarded as the authority on others' attempts to hoodwink the antiquarian consumer, as demonstrated here in letters such as one from Sydney Cockerell, 1931, regarding that role, from Edward B. Hall, 1930, concerning Swinburne forgeries in particular, from Constance K. Fletcher, 1932, about pirated editions, and, most notably, from Harriet Gaylord, 1933, requesting further information about the origins of the Reading edition, 1847, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets, the forgery upon which Carter and Pollard made their first breakthrough in their investigations of Wise.
The more typical correspondence ranges from simple invitations to requests to visit his library on the part of researchers from England, America, Europe and even India, working on topics to which the unpublished holdings of Wise's Ashley Library were necessary. Among these are to be found letters from such individuals as May Morris (1931) who was writing a book on her father, John Livingston Lowes (1929) when he was working on Coleridge, Arthur Waugh (1930) while writing his biography of Gosse, and John H. Ingram (1907 and 1910), noted for his research on Edgar Allen Poe. Many letters consist of descriptions of books for sale, requesting advice about their proper price. Some of these are from professional bookdealers, such as Chapman & Hall and Quaritch, but most are from private owners who need money. There are many examples of letters from libraries which are acknowledging receipt of Wise's catalogues on such figures as Pope, Byron, Dryden, the Brontës, Landor, Swinburne, and others. There is also a run of about ninety letters from the public library in Hampstead, where Wise lived, many of which pertain to materials borrowed from the Ashley Library for local exhibitions.
The Reference Materials section contains transcripts of Wise's correspondence with Gosse, about .33 cubic feet, 1893-1928. In addition to their wealth of information about the market for books and manuscripts, and about the activities of Swinburne's two editors, these letters illustrate the cultural prejudices and presuppositions of a successful literary critic and a top-ranking bibliographer in the first quarter of the century in England.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
The reference materials in the third group include copies of bibliographic catalogues and of title pages for writers ranging from the Brontës to Joseph Conrad. The copied Conrad title pages are of special interest because some show the author's signature, coming from presentation copies to Thomas J. Wise.
There is an abundance of newspaper clippings, especially relating to the Brontës. These tell of such things as the activities of the Brontë Society, especially the opening of the museum at Haworth and the placement of a memorial panel of stained glass for Charlotte Brontë in Haworth Chapel, but also document film and stage adaptations in the 1930s of the Brontës' lives and works.
Among the reference materials here are also nine folders on Sir Walter Scott, containing assorted clippings, pictures and caricatures, copies of illustrations to his novels, biographical and bibliographical data, facsimiles of several letters and manuscript pages, and copies of articles from The Border Magazine, Cornhill Magazine, and SMT Magazine devoted to Scott on the occasion of his centenary in 1932. Symington did original research and editorial work on the papers of Sir Walter Scott.
Another curiosity included here is a set of genealogical tables for Richard Monckton Milnes which demonstrate his distant relationship to Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë's biographer.
Much of the Reference Materials consist of transcripts, some handwritten, but most of them typed, of letters which were still largely unpublished in 1948 when Rutgers acquired the Symington Collection. Some of the most outstanding, such as a selection of Henry James' letters to Sir Edmund Gosse, have only been in print since 1988. Among the people whose correspondence is represented by these copies are George William Fairfax and his family (Yorkshire nobility who settled in Virginia in colonial times and repatriated to England around 1900), Edmund Gosse, Thomas J. Wise, George Gissing, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, A.E. Housman, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, George Meredith, John Singer Sargent (who did a portrait of Gosse), H.G. Wells, Arthur Symons, the Brontës, the Rossetti brothers and Christina Rossetti, Edward Clodd (a banker intimate with late nineteenth century London literary circles), John Addington Symonds, Bram Stoker, Mary Russell Mitford, John Ruskin, Robert Southey, and George Moore.
The transcripts are often in sets. In addition to the James letters to Gosse, mentioned above, which are in two folders, there are, for example, fifteen folders of letters in transcription from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, nine of them (including one volume) addressed to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton.
Some of the transcripts, such as those of Brontë correspondence, primarily letters from Charlotte written after the success of Jane Eyre had made her famous, still have research value. The thoroughness of Brontë scholarship has been such that even the essays in French which Charlotte Brontë wrote while in Belgium for M. Heger (included in this group as transcripts together with his corrections) have since been published and even translated. However, a complete edition of Brontë letters has yet to appear.
The Brontës' letters were slow to be unearthed. The collection contains a transcript of a letter from M. Heger to Ellen Nussey (7 September 1863) advising against the publication of Charlotte's letters. Ellen Nussey herself was resistant to the activities of dealers and collectors. There is a transcript of a letter dated 29 January 1894 which reads, "I am growing very angry with Mr. Shorter and his professed friend Mr. Wise -- If they do not mend their doings, it will be serious for them by and by. They are not shewing themselves gentlemen." Ellen Nussey sold Wise her Charlotte Brontë letters and then claimed that they had been stolen.
Especially interesting in the context of Brontë letters is a bound volume containing a copy of an essay by the Brontës' mother Maria on the subject of poverty, together with the transcript of a letter to their father beginning "My dear saucy Pat."
In addition to transcripts of Brontë letters, the Reference Materials contain copies of articles by Brontë Society members, scholars, and admirers from academic and popular sources. They range in style from the undocumented sentimental outpourings of T. Wemyss Reid, the veritable founder of the Brontë cult (copied from MacMillan's Magazine in September 1876), to an extract from the more serious study by C.P. Scott of the structure of Wuthering Heights, published by the Woolfs in 1926 at Hogarth Press.
There is also a bound volume of about eighty extracts from the letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Charlotte's first biographer. Their quantity suggests that Symington may have been working on her biography. Anyone interested in Mrs. Gaskell will also want to consult the two volumes in the Original Manuscripts section containing autograph letters by her, her husband, and her daughter, although there are none there to the Brontës. (Mrs. Gaskell knew Charlotte for only a short time before her death in 1855.) Two of the autograph letters, from Mrs. Gaskell to John Stuart Mill, relate to a controversy that arose between them over a reference in her biography of Charlotte.
Of particular interest outside Brontëana are sets of transcripts of letters by authors now considered too minor to be edited, such as the blind poet Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887), represented here by a bound volume of transcribed letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne which are full of enthusiastic impressions upon reading his poetry and of his aspirations in that medium. Swinburne's other correspondents are also well represented in these transcripts, including not just such important connections as John Nicoll, but also the more private Rabelaisian ones, such as Charles Augustus Howell and Michael Field, a friend who tried transvestism. There are also transcripts of many letters from Lady Jane Swinburne to Watts-Dunton, full of gratitude for Algernon's rescue.
Another example of unpublished but interesting material is the bound volume of transcripts of letters, 1880-1914, together with reference material relating to Hall Caine (1853-1931), a British novelist from the Isle of Man, popular in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, who befriended Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1881 to become his secretary until Rossetti's death in 1882.
Filed at the end of the Reference Materials are .8 cubic feet of transcripts of family papers of the Fairfax family. Symington did genealogical research for Lord Fairfax, who had returned to Britain to be naturalized as a British citizen around the year 1900. These transcripts show that Fairfax's ancestors include the famous Cromwellian General Sir Ferdinand Fairfax of the seventeenth century, as well as the Fairfaxes of Fairfax County, Virginia, who befriended the young surveyor George Washington in the early eighteenth century, only to become estranged again when Washington exhibited revolutionary tendencies against the British crown. The Fairfaxes had been long standing members of the Yorkshire nobility. Symington's research may have served to aid Fairfax in regaining his peerage after his return to England.
(1) This text was written in 1990, with only selected later changes.
(2) This story is the first of ten chapters. Manuscripts of the other chapters are in the Brotherton Library at Leeds University, the Brontë Museum in Haworth, and the Ashley Library Collection at the British Museum.
(3) Tradition holds that Wise tore up Branwell Brontë stories and scattered them all over the world. This may or may not explain the missing page.
(4) The Rutgers University Libraries own three private printings of Branwell Brontë manuscripts, all acquired with the Symington Collection: one, 1923, is John Drinkwater's edition of Branwell's translations of the first book of Horace's odes; the second, 1925, titled The Leyland Manuscripts (ALEX PR4168 .B76L4), consists of Branwell's letters to the sculptor Joseph B. Leyland, written between 1842 and 1848, one of which is signed with the name of Northangerland; and the third, 1924, is of his novel fragment "And the weary are at rest . . ." (X PR4174 .B2A7).
(5) Of particular interest in this context is a letter filed under the creator's name in the Original Manuscripts section, addressed to Edmund Gosse from the Shakespeare critic A.C. Bradley in 1917, written after reading Gosse's new life of Swinburne. In the letter Bradley remarks that although he usually finds Swinburne's effusions impenetrable, he is impressed with the intellectual acuteness and strength of the Blake commentary.
(6) In the context of Swinburne's friendship with Milnes, the researcher will want to consult the sixty-odd letters of Milnes, filed in the Original Manuscripts section, addressed to Robert Browning, Lady Sidney Morgan, and others.
(7) There is a volume of seventy Hugo illustrations, with duplicates, in the Reference Materials section. It is one of a limited edition published in London by Nichols in 1895.
(8) Swinburne is usually compared with Shelley, not Keats, as in Leslie Brisman's article "Of Lips Divine and Calm: Swinburne and the Language of Shelleyan Love," in Harold Bloom's anthology of critical essays, The Pre-Raphaelite Poets (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 205-218.
(9) Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers owns a copy of a private printing by Thomas J. Wise in 1913 of Swinburne's letters to Stéphane Mallarmé (X PR5513 .A34). In these letters there is also mention of the possibility of Swinburne's contributing something about Blake. Nothing under Swinburne's name ever appeared, but Lafourcade speculates (p. 240 of his 1932 biography of Swinburne) that Swinburne's French poem "Nocturne" was not actually the only work by that poet to appear in Mallarmé's journal. There is an article on "des artistes estranges" (meaning Blake and Swinburne) with a byline of "Herbert Harvey" which he thinks may have been a pseudonym for Swinburne himself.
(10) Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers holds an example of this series with "poetical illustrations by L.E.L." (X AY11 .F533D3 1840).
(11) The researcher will not want to overlook the volume of William Michael Rossetti's letters in the Original Manuscripts section which contains a draft of a letter to Percy Florence Shelley from the year 1889 requesting a loan to keep the Shelley Society afloat, accompanied by a note to Thomas J. Wise, the Shelley Society secretary, instructing him to copy, sign and send it.
Box 1 : Abbot, Charles [Baron Colchester]-Beresford, Elizabeth | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | Abbot, Charles [Baron Colchester] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to John T. Abbott, 5 June 1861 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for account of arms of Suffolk branch of Abbots; enclosing impressions of two old family seals. Enclosures not present. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 2 | Abel, Frederick Augustus | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Mr. Hogg, 18 April 1866 | |||||||||||
Subject: Hogg's letter; "not in possession of data which would be of any service"; gun cotton. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 25 August 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Ansell's instruments. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: F.A. Abel. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 3 | Abercromby, Ralph | |||||||||
DS [in German], 14 March 1794 | |||||||||||
Receipt approved by Abercromby. Form of signature used: Ra: Abercomby. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 4 | Achilli, Giacinto | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to "Secretary of the General Post Office," 20 May 1850 | |||||||||||
Subject: change of address. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page) [in Italian; signed by Achilli], 13 April 1853 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G. Achilli. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
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1 | 5 | Adair, Alexander | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Sir Robert Harland, 27 May 1826 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Alex Adair. | |||||||||||
View of Flixton Hall in Suffolk, the Seat of Alexander Adair Esqr., 1787 | |||||||||||
Note in pencil on verso: This print added since. Wm H B [i.e., William H. Booth?]. | |||||||||||
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1 | 6 | Adair, Hugh Edward | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 15? October 1848 | |||||||||||
Subject: clerkships in Public Offices; Mr. Dickerson. Accompanied by a biographical clipping. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to William Alexander, 26 December 1861 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 18 February 1862 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending copy of Revised Minute. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 21 December 1865 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointments to rural post offices made on recommendation of Adair's brother. | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait [of unidentified man], undated | |||||||||||
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1 | 7 | Adair, Robert Alexander Shafto [Robert Adair, Baron Waveney] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J? B. Ross, 10 January 1855 | |||||||||||
Subject: possibility of leasing adjacent properties for a hospital. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. Shafto Adair. | |||||||||||
AN? (1 page), to [D.H.] Booth, [June 1880] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Col: Lord Waveney. | |||||||||||
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1 | 8 | Aikin, John | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Cadell & Davies, 25 February [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: criticisms of manuscript probably sent to him by publishers for reading to see if worth publishing -- history of the English constitution. | |||||||||||
Enclosure (manuscript) not present. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J. Aikin. | |||||||||||
Portrait of John Aikin, M.D., 1823 | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 9 | Aikin, Lucy | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Mrs. Fletcher [i.e., Eliza Fletcher?], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: sending cap for expected "stranger." Accompanied by a modern transcript. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 10 | Aitken, George Atherton | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 18 August 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne; The Hind and the Panther. Text of letter from Henry Kingsley regarding Swinburne included. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G A Aitken. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 11 | Alexander, Michael Solomon | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Henry -----, [November 1841] | |||||||||||
Text: "With Mr. Alexander's kind Regards. / We have engaged a Governess." | |||||||||||
Written inside a prepaid postal envelope (addressed to someone at the Admiralty, Somerset House) that includes red sealing wax bearing these initials: MSA. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 12 | Alexander, William | |||||||||
LS (1 page) [in French], from unknown sender, 23 June 1863 | |||||||||||
Envelope included, either for this letter or the next one. | |||||||||||
LS (2 pages) [in French], from unknown sender, 28 June 1863 | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), from Sir Charles Dalrymple, 11 March 1898? | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 13 | Allan, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Thomas Thomson, 20 December 1824 | |||||||||||
Subject: autographs. | |||||||||||
Enclosures (three autographs) not present. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 14 | Allen, Miles Button | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Lord Sydney [Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Envelope, undated | |||||||||||
Folded sheet of paper, formerly sealed, bearing Allen's name or signature. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 15 | Allen, Nathaniel | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to William Travis, 24 December 1813 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 16 | Allen, William | |||||||||
Pencil sketch (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 17 | Alley, Jerome | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Thomas Cadell, 11 December 1825 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 18 | Allnutt family | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from M. Allnutt to his daughters [Jane and Ellen?], 3? February 1837 | |||||||||||
Subject: Horsley's picture; London so dark in the middle of the day that shops had gaslighted. Carte-de-visite of M. Allnutt pasted into letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Eleonora Allnut to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 19 January [18]58 | |||||||||||
Subject: granddaughter has been severely burnt so must postpone seeing them. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 19 | American Microscopical Society | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to the President of the Royal Microscopial Society, 17 February 1871 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 20 | Amyot, Thomas Edward | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 12 March 1853? | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Thomas Edwd. Amyot. | |||||||||||
Autograph or clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Thomas Amyot. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 21 | Anderson, John Ford | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to H. R? Custance? [Curtance?], 20 January 1874 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Ford Anderson. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to H. R? Custance [Curtance?], 23 January 1874 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Ford Anderson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 22 | Anderson, John Robertson. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Miss Drummond, 16 June 1843 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JR Anderson. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J. Cooper, 3 September 1849 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JR Anderson. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Mr. Anderson in Hu[r]on, 1840 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 23 | Anderson, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J. Tayleum?, 21 April 1840 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 24 | Andre, D. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Mr. Booth], undated | |||||||||||
A note on the item identifies Booth as a bookseller. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 25 | Anstey, Christopher | |||||||||
AL (2 pages), to Cadell & Davies, 10 May 1821 | |||||||||||
Subject: wants balance due on account of his father's publications, The Pleader's Guide, and works of his grandfather. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 26 | Anstey, John | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Cadell & Davies, 18 June [1796] | |||||||||||
Subject: returning proofs; corrections. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 27 | Anstice, Mr. | |||||||||
AL (1 page), to [Hans Bush], 21 May [no year] | |||||||||||
The first initial in the wax seal on the integral address leaf is an "E." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 28 | Anstruther, William | |||||||||
Clipped signature, 8 January 1629 | |||||||||||
Fragment of a printed leaf. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 29 | Appleby, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Messrs. Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 17 May 1811 | |||||||||||
On paper reproducing the title page of Memoirs of the Principal Events in the Life of Henry Taylor. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 30 | Archer, William | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 30 November 1861 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 21 December 1861 | |||||||||||
Clippings pasted inside. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 19 February 1868 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 31 | Arenas, Baron de | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Marquess de la Cruz, 15 May 1824 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 32 | Armfield, George [George Armfield Smith] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Royal Academy porter, 30 July 1840 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G. Armfield. | |||||||||||
Exhibitor's ticket, 1841, for Royal Academy exhibition | |||||||||||
Issued to Mr. G. Armfield. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 33 | Armstrong, William George [Baron Armstrong] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Addison Potter, 16 March 1861 | |||||||||||
Subject: arrangements for borrowing a model gun. | |||||||||||
Form of name used: W.G. Armstrong. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), 7 April 1867 | |||||||||||
Subject: addition of his name to a committee for a testimonial. | |||||||||||
Form of name used in text: Sir W Armstrong. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 34 | Arnold, George Benjamin | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: George B. Arnold. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W. H. Turk?, 9 August 1875 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Cummings, 29 April 1881 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 21 July 1884 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Cummings, 20 May 1896 | |||||||||||
Subject: "little hesitation in proposing Mr. Prendergast as a Member"; living "a quiet life at Winchester"; feels he has not "been altogether fairly treated as a Composer"; [Wilhelm] Langhans' opinion of his music. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 35 | Arnold, Matthew [bound volume] | |||||||||
Portrait of Matthew Arnold, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Cooke, 31 March 1879 | |||||||||||
Subject: vote, lecture. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [Edmund] Gosse, 9 February 1885 | |||||||||||
Subject: meeting with Mr. Carnegie, American lectures, Scandinavian friend. | |||||||||||
Envelope, to Edmund Gosse, [3 March 1885] | |||||||||||
Laid in volume. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), Mr. [Edmund] Gosse, 3 March [1885] | |||||||||||
Subject: Sir George Dasent has read Dr. Ipsen's translation of "Balder Dead"; would like to master Danish when he retires; thank Mr. Ipsen and ask if he will allow Arnold to send him complete edition of his poems then being printed. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Tuckerman, 28 October 1887 | |||||||||||
Subject: have read your lines and see no objection to your reprinting them. | |||||||||||
Caricature [of Matthew Arnold], undated | |||||||||||
Broadside, announcing lectures on Matthew Arnold by Edmund Gosse, 1896 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Matthew Arnold? | |||||||||||
Lecture ticket [of "Mr. T. J. Wise"], for lecture on Matthew Arnold by Edmund Chambers, 1931 | |||||||||||
Reference materials--typed transcripts of 16 letters, 1861-1889, sent by Arnold to Robert Browning, undated | |||||||||||
Reference materials--clippings, 1888 and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 36 | Asquith, H.H. [Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith] | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Dolly [Dorothy Mary Gladstone, Viscountess Gladstone], 21 November 1907 | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation for herself and Herbert to come for dinner and bridge playing. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H.H.A. | |||||||||||
A stamped envelope, also initialed by Asquith, accompanies the note. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 37 | Atkinson, William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 25 January 1883 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 38 | Audley?, Thomas | |||||||||
DS (1 page), 17 July 1646 | |||||||||||
Signed as a witness. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Tho: Audeley? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 39 | Aumonier, Stacy | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Shorter, 5 July [1923] | |||||||||||
Subject: copy of Odd Fish enclosed per Shorter's request; a story, for submission to Shorter, that is finished and being typed. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into a copy of Odd Fish, Being a Casual Selection of London Residents / Described & Drawn by Stacy Aumonier & George Belcher ([London]: Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1923) that is inscribed by Aumonier to Shorter. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 40 | Austen, John | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Dr. [sic] [W.T.] Freemantle, 31 October 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: forwarding Freemantle's note to Mr. Robinson of Scarborough elicited the enclosed response; two books sent by Robinson available for Freemantle to pick up. Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a draft reply, 1 November [19]21, by Freemantle. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Wm. Robinson to Mr. Austen, 22 October [19]21 | |||||||||||
Enclosure in previous item. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 41 | Austin, Alfred | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Mr. Chapman?], 1 October 1878 | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied an offprint filed in Reference Materials section. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, one biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 42 | Austin, Gilbert | |||||||||
ALS (3 page), to [William Bulmer], 11 November 1805 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G. Austin. | |||||||||||
Includes a notation by the recipient regarding his answer. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 43 | Aylesford, Earl of [Heneage Finch] | |||||||||
Bookplate, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 44 | Ayrton, William | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W. Ayrton. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Carlisle," 19 April [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: introduces M. Alexandre Vattemare, who comes highly recommended; has proposal of importance for literary and scientific world. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [John Crosse, Jr.], 2 November 1817 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulations on marriage. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 45 | B. | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Charade" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Signed "B." Beneath a crossed out, initialed note ("Bronté" so my father told me) is written: Browning? / Benson? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 46 | B., J? | |||||||||
AL (2 pages), to [Sidney Thomas Irwin], undated | |||||||||||
Signed with the sender's initials only. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 47 | Bader, Charles | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Hogg, 28 March 1855 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 48 | Baillie, Herbert? | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 17 May 1876 | |||||||||||
Subject: attendance of Hogg at a dinner to honor Sir Joseph Fayrer. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H? Baillie. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 49 | Baillie, Joanna | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Madam," 23 October [no year] | |||||||||||
The recipient is either a Mrs. Alderson or, at least, the sister-in-law of a Mr. Alderson. Miss F[anny?] Head, a houseguest, is mentioned in the letter, which was sent from Hollybush Hill. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Baillie. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 50 | Baker, Hatty | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Madam" [Sala?], 11 December 1895 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 51 | Baker, William | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to C.J? Fox, 27 May 1782 | |||||||||||
Receipt, from Corns. Willson, 28 May 1782 | |||||||||||
Relates to subject of letter. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 52 | Ball, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 12 February 1851 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R. Ball. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 53 | Barber?, Samuell? | |||||||||
DS (1 page), December 1646 | |||||||||||
Includes further notation, with signature, of William Tey. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 54 | Baring, Maurice [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (82 pages), Das Weisse Gepäck, undated | |||||||||||
Typed note at front of volume: The original manuscript of the quotations used in Have You Anything to Declare? | |||||||||||
Holograph note by J. Alex. Symington at front of volume: "This vol. was, I think, given to Sir E. Gosse. T.J.W. gave it to me." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 55 | Baring, Maurice | |||||||||
Printed poem with edition statement (1 page + 1 page), "Tristam and Iseult," undated [but 1904?] | |||||||||||
The edition statement is a signed, handwritten note by Baring: Of this edition four copies only were printed on white paper. This is no. 3. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [initialed by author; in French], untitled [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original included in volume of transcribed Baring letters in Reference Materials section. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure), to [Edmund Gosse?], 2[9?] April [1904] | |||||||||||
Subject: sending John envelopes in Russian; enclosing sonnet Gosse has already revised [printed copy of "Tristram and Iseult" with emendations]. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: M. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original included in volume of transcribed Baring letters in Reference Materials section. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Beloved Cherub [?]" [i.e., Edmund Gosse?], 2 or 7 November [19]06 | |||||||||||
Subject: response to a published review. | |||||||||||
Most of the letter, which is written in red ink, is in verse. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: MB. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into a copy of Baring's Poems: 1914-1917 (London: Martin Seckler, 1918). | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure), to [Edmund Gosse?], 21 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses copy of poem "In Memoriam A. H." [with author's corrections in ink] from The New Statesman of 7 April 1917; glad Gosse liked it; prize at Eton. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: M. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 56 | Barlow, George Hilaro (physician) | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 7 September 1844 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G.H. Barlow. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 57 | Barnard, Frederick | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to George Dalziel, 3 March 1878 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Messrs. Dalziel, 19 September 1881 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Messrs. Dalziel, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edward Dalziel, undated | |||||||||||
Print [a proof based on a drawing by Barnard], undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items, some biographical), 3 October 1896 and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 58 | Barnes, Lewis | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to W.T. Freemantle, 31 October 1913 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 59 | Barney, Danford | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient [a periodical editor], circa 1918 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Men and Stars" [poem], circa 1918 | |||||||||||
Fair copy, signed; probably an enclosure in accompanying letter. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 60 | Barrett, Frank | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to W? [i.e., William] Tinsley, 18? March 1882 | |||||||||||
Subject: terms for copyright (for 12 months) to his three volume novel For Love and Honour to be issued under the name of Francis Addison. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 61 | Barrow, John | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to unknown recipient [but likely Henry Ellis, whose annotation is at the top], 16 November 1830 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sir John Barrow, 1847 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 62 | Barrymore, A. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [not stated, but the sender's mother], 20 May [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 63 | Bastian, Henry Charlton | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 15 September 1867 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H. Charlton Bastian. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 64 | Bateson, Vaugh [bound volume] | |||||||||
Typescript (circa 80 leaves), "Something More of Kipling" [edited by J.A. Symington], undated | |||||||||||
Typescript (1 leaf + 21 leaves), "Kipling and the Doctors," undated | |||||||||||
Typescript (26 leaves), "Masonry and Magic of Rudyard Kipling," undated | |||||||||||
Reference materials--inserted photographs, clippings, copies of letters and ephemera | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 65 | Bathurst, Henry [Bishop of Norwich] | |||||||||
ALS, to "Dear Elwin," 4 May 1820 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H: Norwich. | |||||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), 1810 | |||||||||||
Franked item postmarked 4 June. Form of signature used: H: Norwich. | |||||||||||
Adhered to an address leaf fragment dated 1829. | |||||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), 1829 | |||||||||||
Franked item postmarked 8 July. Form of signature used: H: Norwich. | |||||||||||
Adhered to an address leaf fragment dated 1810. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Bathurst, 1830 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Bathurst, undated | |||||||||||
View of the City of Norwich [including cathedral], 1827 | |||||||||||
View of Norwich Cathedral, undated | |||||||||||
A small broadside that includes descriptive text. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 66 | Bayley, John | |||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to Mr. Mutlow, 8 June 1821 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 67 | Beatson, William | |||||||||
ADS (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of General Beatson, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 68 | Beattie, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Mr.] Crouchley [i.e., John Barber Crouchley?], [1842?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Rob Beattie. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope fragment. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Mr.] Crouchley [i.e., John Barber Crouchley?], [1843] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R Beattie. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 69 | Beaumont, John | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Major Blaquiere?, 14 November 1815? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Thomas Wilkinson, 20 October 1817 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Thomas Wilkinson, 6 November 1817 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 70 | Beaumont, Thomas Wentworth | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Ch. Lupin" [?], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: TW Beaumont. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 71 | Beaumont, William Spencer | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Sala, 11 January 1890 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W. Spencer Beaumont. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 72 | Beckett, Edmund [1st Baron Grimthorpe] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Vulliamy [Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy], 2 May 1838 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E. Beckett Denison. | |||||||||||
Biographical notes written in pencil on integral address leaf are by William H. Booth? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 73 | Beckford, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to James Christie, 10 October 1822 | |||||||||||
Subject: Messrs? Nieuwenhuys?; his recent conduct; congratulations accepted; will now "pursue [his] love of art with redoubled ardour." | |||||||||||
Formerly attributed to William Godwin. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 74 | Beckwith, Henry | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Josiah French], [1841] | |||||||||||
Subject: apology for not replying sooner; "you shall very shortly receive your Picture." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: HS Beckwith. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Josiah] French, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: not able to come to Windsor just to see the picture, but can look at it some other time when in Windsor; can likely come to an agreement for finishing the plate. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H Beckwith. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 75 | Beddoes, T.P. | |||||||||
These items accompanied by Edmund Gosse's note: Papers referring to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 13 May 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment for dinner or lunch with Beddoes and his older brother, to include the showing of letters that might be of interest. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 16 May 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment to call upon Gosse. | |||||||||||
Business card, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 76 | Bedford, Grosvenor Charles | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: G.C.B | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Robert] Southey, 9 February 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: apartment for Southey. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert] Southey, 5 March 1798 and 7 March 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: "of all the dear bargains that one makes surely Experience is the dearest purchase of all. . . . Happiness & Virtue are but synonyms. . . ."; Sundays schools useless and frivolous. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Robert] Southey, 14 April 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: Carlisle says the story of the Parsnips is all nonsense; working hard on a Committee of Finance; swears; admires Philosophers in easy chairs; sonnets. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert] Southey, 11 May 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for book, two pages written by William Wynn; Lewis wishes to publish "The Maid of the Inn," "Rudiger," and "Lord William." He doesn't like "Jaspar"; sends Romance by Florian for translation; Chapelain; Land tax; pagination of Southey's book not good; bad grammar discreditable for author; defection of Burgundy. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert Southey], 29 May 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: love for Mary not reciprocated; in depths of despair; wants a letter from Southey. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert Southey], 31 July 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter of Anthony Carlisle; his love life; Wynn; concern for Edith (Southey's wife). | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert] Southey, 21 August 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: reverie; Leopold Count Berchtold gave book for Southey "Descrizione del nuovo Rimedio contro la Peste"; Roscoe's address spoken by Holman on Liverpool stage. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Robert Southey], 4 October 1798 | |||||||||||
Subject: illness; celebration of Nelson's victory; Bonaparte and the war. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Robert Southey], 4 January 1799 | |||||||||||
Subject: friendship; at 26 he has no one to fix his attentions on; Lovers' Vow; old woman of Berkeley. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert Southey], 6 March 1799 and 11 March 1799 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for book; "Jaspar" and "Lord William"; convinced that he could write a good drama; Eclogues; his own Odes; life of Empress Catharine in three volumes very entertaining; suicide of a mutual friend. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert Southey], 6 April 1799 and 21 April 1799 | |||||||||||
Subject: thoughts on dramatizing; looking forward to few days' trip with Southey. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert Southey], 26 April 1799 | |||||||||||
Subject: Friend Smith has given him a share in a merchant ship; ambitions. | |||||||||||
Bookplate? of Grosvenor Bedford, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 77 | Beffin, Sarah | |||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Adhered to the following item. | |||||||||||
Broadside, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: "The celebrated Miss Beffin, miniature painter, who was born without hands and arms! is now exhibiting during the fair. . . . Each visitor will be entitled to a specimen of her writing." | |||||||||||
Imprint: T. Romney, Printer, Bridge-road, Lambeth. | |||||||||||
Trimmed at edges and adhered to blue paper. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 78 | Begbie, Harold | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [signed by Begbie], "Racing Sun" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, some biographical), 8 October 1929 and 9 October 1929 | |||||||||||
Reference Material -- Bibliographical data | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 79 | Bell, George Joseph | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Cadel[l] & Davies, April 1797 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 80 | Bell, John Zephaniah | |||||||||
Form of signature used in most of the letters: Jno. Zephaniah Bell. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Henry Howard [of Royal Academy], April 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, April 1836 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to H[enry] Howard, 17 August 1841 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Henry Mogford, June 1857 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 81 | Bell, Jonathan | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 4 January 1828 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to A. Cooper, 9 January 1828 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 82 | Bell, Lady Katherine | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to William Carrol, [1819] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 83 | Bell, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Benjamin Webster], 26 August 1847 | |||||||||||
Written at Milan. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R. Bell. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, 1 June 1864 and 18 June [1864] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Benjamin Webster, 4 April [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 84 | Bell, Robert Anning | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Dear Sir" [William H. Booth], 26 November 1897 [i.e., 1896?] | |||||||||||
Subject: designing a bookplate for the recipient; Lord Leighton's bookplate; enclosed samples [not present]. | |||||||||||
With added note: Ackd. / Decr. 1st 1896. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Dear Sir" [William H. Booth], 2 December 1896 | |||||||||||
Subject: glad that a bookplate design is wanted; making a bookplate for the recipient, including printing options; has never had a [bookplate] drawing engraved "& should rather like to." | |||||||||||
With added note: Ackd. / 5.12.96 / to me Wm. HB? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [William H. Booth], 29 April 1897 | |||||||||||
Subject: likes the copperplate prints; they reproduce the drawing well; his thanks for same. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 85 | Bell, Robert Charles | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to T.F. Dibdin [Thomas Frognall Dibdin], 1 April [year uncertain, but circa 1823?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Robt Bell. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to T.F. Dibdin [Thomas Frognall Dibdin], 18 December [year uncertain, but circa 1823?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Robt. Bell. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 86 | Bellamy, John | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [text from Bellamy's memorial monument], undated | |||||||||||
With added note: "Given to me by his widow--RW" | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 87 | Bellangé, Hippolyte | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to unknown recipient, 1? July? 1856 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Hte. Bellangé. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 88 | Bennett, John Hughes | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 13 February? 1866 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J. Hughes Bennett. | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait of Prof. Bennett, 1860s? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [excerpt], to Jabez Hogg, 1868 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 89 | Bennett, Philip, Jr. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient ["My dear Lord"], 21 July 1841 | |||||||||||
Subject: newspaper's incorrect report of offensive language used by Bennett in reference to the recipient. | |||||||||||
View of Rougham Hall, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 90 | Bennett, William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to H[enry] Mogford, 10 May 1856 | |||||||||||
Subject: two watercolors sent for Crystal Palace exhibition; title and price of each. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 91 | Benson, Arthur Christopher | |||||||||
Form of signature used: A. C. B. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 26 June 1910 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 23 March [19]12 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 26 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 92 | Beresford, Elizabeth | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mrs. Knox, 16 September 1824 |
Box 2 : Betham, Matilda-Borrow, George | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | Betham, Matilda [Mary Matilda Betham] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Miss Betham in Shipley, Derbyshire], 20 April 1832 | |||||||||||
Part of the letter is actually a poem that begins: The Rose too quickly snatch'd away. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | Bildt, Baron de [Carl Bildt] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Bildt. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 2 January 1907 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne proposed for Nobel Prize by Gosse and other members of Society of Authors; will do all he can as member of Academy. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 3 September [19]08 | |||||||||||
Subject: seeks assurance that Swinburne would not refuse the Nobel Prize (e.g., because Kipling received it before him), "if it was offered him." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 September 1908? | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's letter and its usefulness in convincing some of his colleagues regarding the Nobel Prize for S[winburne], although Bildt is "handicapped by not being on the spot when the decisive battle comes." | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 24 October [19]08 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund Gosse], 31 May [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 3 | Bird, Alice L. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 17 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks expressed for a copy of Swinburne's biography; admiration for Gosse's writings about Swinburne; Swinburne's wish regarding the seven deadly sins. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 4 | Birrell, Augustine | |||||||||
Transcript of letter by Algernon Charles Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Holograph copy of letter (2 pages), from A.C. Swinburne to Frederick Locker-Lampson, 17 May 1871 | |||||||||||
With pencil notation: from Augustine Birrell / Jan 24. 1919. Text of letter appears in Augustine Birrell, compiler and editor, Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch (London: Constable and Company, 1920), pages 134-135. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 5 | Black, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W. Theodore Watts [Theodore Watts-Dunton], 19 February [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to a small, private dinner Black is planning, if Gosse can come, to be held at the Reform Club. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 6 | Blanchard, Laman [Samuel Laman Blanchard] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 7 | Blessington, Lady [Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington] | |||||||||
AN (3 pages), to Mr. C[harles?] Martin, 14 February 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject: approval of a request from Martin to make a sketch. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 8 | Boaden, John [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph list (1 page) of Boaden paintings [for exhibition?], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph price list (1 page) of Boaden paintings [for exhibition?], 25 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: pictures entitled: The Little May Queen, A Blind Girl, Portrait of a Lady. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to R. B. Davis, circa 1830 | |||||||||||
Subject: Price list of pictures by John Boaden. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to P. Myall, circa 1830 | |||||||||||
Subject: requests ticket of admission for Lt. Col. Norcliffe to private exhibition of Society of British Artists. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature [from a letter?; includes 2 lines of text], undated | |||||||||||
Print, "The Village Queen" [after a J. Boaden painting], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 9 | Booth, William H. | |||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), "Index of autograph letters to Caleb B. Rose, Esq.," 1 October 1918 | |||||||||||
Next to four names in the list are notations stating "I have other letters in other vols" or "see other letters in vols" or "I have other letter or letters in another vol." which imply that Booth owned a larger autograph collection. Next to one other listing he indicates: "& portrait added since." As part of another entry: "Transferred to my bookplate Coll." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Wm. H. Booth. | |||||||||||
At least 41 of the letters and broadsides listed in this index are included in the Symington Collection; each of them includes a number in pencil that is referenced in this index. Because the typed headings on the inner folders containing these letters follow Booth's information (for each person's form of name, life dates and occupation) very closely, it appears that other autographs in the Symington Collection, housed in similar folders, might also have been owned at one time by Booth. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 10 | Borrow, Ann | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 26? May 1834 | |||||||||||
Subject: death of her (Ann Borrow, mother of George Borrow) son, John, and referring to arrears in pay due him; other son, George, at St. Petersburg. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 11 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
AL (2 pages), to "Reverend Sir" [Francis Cunningham], 18 [October 1833] | |||||||||||
Draft of a letter from St. Petersburg, Russia. | |||||||||||
Subject: transcribing a manuscript of the Old Testament belonging to Baron Schilling, for the Bible Society, details as to his progress, referring to Scotch missionary Mr. Swan, and to the Russian language and the Russian people. | |||||||||||
AL (2 pages), to [stepdaughter] Henrietta [MacOubrey], 6 March 1873 | |||||||||||
Subject: stepdaughter's illness; advises port wine. | |||||||||||
AL (1 page), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," 1870s? | |||||||||||
Subject: rent, and sending of check. | |||||||||||
AL (3 pages), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," undated | |||||||||||
Subject: documents. | |||||||||||
AL (1 page), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," undated | |||||||||||
Subject: informing her she may buy him a large silk handkerchief; to visit her. | |||||||||||
AL (4 pages), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," undated | |||||||||||
Subject: on expedition; one of farm cottages in ruins; visit to neighbors', brother's loss of money through failure of bank. | |||||||||||
AL (2 pages), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," undated | |||||||||||
Subject: tenant for farm. | |||||||||||
AL (1 page), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," undated | |||||||||||
AL (1 page), to [stepdaughter] "Henrietta," undated | |||||||||||
Envelope, to Mrs. [Henrietta] MacOubrey, 28 February [18]77 | |||||||||||
Addressed by Borrow. | |||||||||||
AL (1 page), "to the public," undated | |||||||||||
Subject: a letter depreciating close pruning as injurious to trees. | |||||||||||
Fragment of a draft. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 12 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Travel journal (32 pages), 14-16 October [1858] | |||||||||||
Pertains to Inverness-shire, Scotland. The October 14 entry (which makes up all but nine lines of the manuscript) describes a prodigious 46-mile walk from Loch Laggan, along the Spaen, Loch Lochy, and Loch Oich, to Fort Augustus, completed in a single day, nearly half of the distance in rain and darkness. The writer notes in detail his observations of local antiquities and scenery, conversations with persons encountered, etc. Text printed 1924 in Norwich Edition of Borrow's Works, volume 16 (pages 558-569). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 13 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Ad Patriam" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The Adventures of Twin Shon Catti" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. A criticism. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 14 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Athelstan" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Athelstan" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Athelstan" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 15 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Beowulf" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript and a typed note. Untitled prose on verso. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), untitled [prose], undated | |||||||||||
On verso of "Beowulf." Note with leaf identifies prose text as: referring to the Russian Story of "Ivanushka the Fool." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Berro Perdo Ireland. No. 1" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by holograph title leaf and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), "The Bible in Spain" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment of an essay. Pertains at least in part to Egypt? | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "But after long pain. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (1 page + 1 page; 2 pages), "The columns broke. . . ." [untitled poem] with "The elected angels and the happy souls" [untitled poem] on verso; also separate leaf for "The day my Lady into Heaven. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
The fragments "The elected angels and the happy souls" and "The day my Lady into Heaven did glide" are different versions of the same text. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 16 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Concerning the number of his Loves" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [Cumric legends] [prose], untitled | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), [Danish kings] [prose], untitled | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (1 page each), "The De la Bole" [short story] with "The Pisgey and Midwife" [short story] and ["Slaughter or Slovel bridge"] [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Three texts on one folded sheet. Accompanied by typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), "Diderik and Olger the Dane" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
At head of title: IV. | |||||||||||
Typescript (1 page), "Dirge on John the Thatcher" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Includes emendations in pencil. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 17 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Druidism, Ireland" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Includes integral title leaf. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [an encounter with a country surgeon] [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (4 pages + 2 pages + 5 pages), "The End of Sivard Snareswayne" [poem] with "Mimmering Pan" [poem] and "From the land now saileth Grimmer" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Three texts headed "X," "XI" and "XII." The first two poems end on the recto of a leaf that bears the first page of the next poem on the verso. The recto of the first leaf is blank, except for an added note: "Printed in the Grimmer & Kamper pamphlet." The spelling of "Snareswayne" is used consistently. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 18 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay concerning Hiberno, Spaniard], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (2 pages + 1 page + 1 page), [essay fragments], undated | |||||||||||
Fragments: Borrow's reflections whilst looking at a lake (2 pages); commentary on not comparing "walking on the level ground to mountain ranging"; and an account of the scenery, etc., on one of George Borrow's walks. The longest item is accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on Alonso, servant of many masters], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on an Irishman's lineage], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on ballad of "Buena Ventura"], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 19 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Ben Nevis], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (1 page + 1 page), [essay on Danish ballads] with "Men only [sought?] to know at first. . . ." [poem] on verso, undated | |||||||||||
Essay text is a fragment? | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (15 pages) [in German], [essay on "David Eldavid"], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment? Note by Symington: "a Jewish story of a False Messiah, evidently copied by Borrow out of some strange German-Jewish Rabbinical book, being an account of a certain false Messiah." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript of a letter (8 December 1913) from Edmund Gosse to [Thomas J.] Wise that relates in part to the text of this manuscript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 20 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on DeFoe's "Captain Singleton"], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Iolo Goch], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (13 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns legends of Finn, the Icelander, Finn Magnussen, Bran and the Black Dog, The Lay of the Chase, the Welsh story of Taliesin, etc. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Deals with poets mentioned in history of sons of Usmach, the Lay of the Chase, Dermod O'Connor, etc. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns Irish writers in English, Irish poetry in the 18th century, Irish alphabet, etc. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 21 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Deals with early Irish history, the Tuatha de Dannan, the Milesians, the Firbolg, Amerghia, Lughad, Roigne, Feircei. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (15 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Remarks on the Irish language, etc. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (15 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. [Symington's note: This MS. touches upon following points: Early Irish Missionaries, Early Irish Poets, The Point Spenser, Speculations on the names of O'Nial and O'Rourke, Elizabeth and her attempt to subdue Ireland. . . .] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 22 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns rhyme and alliteration in Irish poets, St. Columba, early Irish poets, Dallan and Seanchan. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns the legends of Finn. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns the Irish and Welsh language. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), [essay on Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns the king of Denmark. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on languages], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Concerns [Arabic language, etc.]. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 23 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), [essay on legends of Finn], undated | |||||||||||
Two prose fragments. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), [essay on literature of Europe, Manx people, etc.], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on Mrs. Townsley], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on one of the feats attributed to Klim (Russian folk story)], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on Peterbro Cathedral], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 24 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on Roman Catholicism in Ireland], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on St. Patrick], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (10 pages), [essay on Simon de Montford, the Pope, Catholicism, gypsies, etc.], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), [essay on the derivation of the name of Edna], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on the frog and the hero (a Russian tale)], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 25 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [essay on the Isle of Anglesey], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on the languages of Europe], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Original leaf, formerly in the Symington Collection, exchanged with Sir Angus Fraser in 1989. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on the origin of the Finns], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on the use of "Mac" and "O" in names], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [essay on Wales], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 26 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), [essay on Welsh and Sanskrit], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), [essay on youth], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), [essay regarding a certain man. . . ], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [untitled essay], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. A description of the animals called morses. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "Finn and the Damsel, or the Trial of Wits" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 27 | Borrow, George [bound volume with slipcase] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Frithiof Saga, from the Danish of Tegnér" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Bound with an added title leaf and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Addition to Symington Collection; acquired in 1961 (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Sale Number 2025). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 28 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MSS (1 page + 1 page), "From Petrarca" [poem] with "From Petrarca" [poem with same name], undated | |||||||||||
Two texts on one leaf. Accompanied by typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Gapla's steed stood. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "Great Women, bard of olden day. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Identified as a fragment of "The Pedigree of the Muse." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "He fills the wood where'er he hies. . . ." [first line] [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "He strives to imitate the strain. . . ." [first line] [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Identified as a fragment of "The Pedigree of the Muse." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 29 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), "O Abu Zeid. . . ." [first line] [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Written in the corner of what is apparently a set of notes in Persian. Includes an incomplete draft of a letter written on a separate sheet that contains Persian writing on the reverse side. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages) [in German], "Hürnen Seyfrid" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "I am an Englishman and naked I stand here. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "If with small things we Hu compare. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Image of God from the Zohar" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 30 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "In flames hence meander. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Perhaps a fragment from Faust. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Iolo Goch's Ode to Glendower" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment, perhaps from Wild Wales. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Ireland [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), "Ireland. The Story of the Sons of Usnead and Deirdre" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "V: King Diderik and the Lion's fight with the Dragon" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 31 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Land which proud of rocky mountains. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "My dainty dame, my heart's delight. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), notes on "The Tournament," a Danish ballad [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "O what joy and what grief Dionyssus bringeth to mortals" [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Ode to Summer" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 32 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (6 pages), "VI: Olger the Dane and Burman" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "On its bank. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Another poem (2 pages) included, which may be part of the first. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (23 pages), "The Origin of Names" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragments. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "A Persian MS. Book" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages) [in French], [untitled] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 33 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [in English, French, and Persian], [untitled poems], undated | |||||||||||
Fragments, including a Persian extract. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Poisoning of Alexander" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), [untitled] [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Regarding Angelsea. Perhaps related to Wild Wales. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Proud Ingeborg's Disguise" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Pyrrhonism of History" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 34 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (38 pages), Romany Rye [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), notes for Romany Rye [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (12 pages), The Saga of Nial [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 35 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "Sir Ribolt" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Sir Swerkel" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Sister and her Brother" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), "Skulodemos" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Songs of Iceland" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment consisting of a quotation by Oehlenschläger. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 36 | Borrow, George [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (85 pages), "Songs of Scandinavia" [prose and poems], undated | |||||||||||
Supposedly written in collaboration with Dr. Bowring. | |||||||||||
Fair copy with some emendations and text for a prospectus. | |||||||||||
Includes an added title leaf (none otherwise present) and a copy of an undated, printed prospectus (2 pages plus leaf for subscribers' names) that is different than the manuscript version. | |||||||||||
This text provides commentary on various poems and ballads not present, many of which appear, in Borrow's translation, in the Norwich Edition of his Works, where the text for the manuscript prospectus appears in volume 7 (pages v-xii). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 37 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Songs of Wales" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Songs relating to Marks Stig and his family" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "They the buckler wall have broken" [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Interior folder labled: The Battle of Brunanburk [sic]. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "To sing a song of joy and wonder" [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (12 pages), "To the Welsh" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
[A translation of the Welsh preface to Edwards Lloyd's Archaeologist Brittanica.] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 38 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The tree which is bitter by nature. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Turkish Hymn to Mahomet" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [untitled parable] [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), Vilkina Saga, Cap. XXX (translation) [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Wales" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. [Symington's note: part of this MS. will be found in Ch. 32 of Wild Wales.] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 39 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Notes on Welsh bards" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "What's the meaning of man" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Where shall I rest my head. . . ." [first line] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), Wild Wales [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), Wild Wales [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 40 | Borrow, George | |||||||||
Holograph MSS (3 pages total) [in Latin], "Mortui pro patria" [poem]; also "De poëtis latinus" [poem] above "In Mancinum" [poem] with (on verso) "Ad Nearam" [poem] above "de Venere et Vulcano" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Five poems on three leaves; three pages blank. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 41 | Borrow, George [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "It causes war to bellow. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "When for no victory yearneth. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The murky vapour's bosom booms. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Hologaph MS (1 page), "To see the ghastly form we look. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "a calm cool" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Meanwhile echo all doth render. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The fifteenth day of July" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The Songs of Suffolk" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Songs of Suffolk" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Their looks the De'il himself might scare. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Their looks the De'il himself might scare. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Another copy of the previous item, with identical text. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 42 | Borrow, George [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Where rain-clouds often break O. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Text related to final item in other bound volume of poems. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The Song" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Per Sir Angus Fraser in 1984: not in hand of Borrow, nor of his wife or daughter. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The Golden Hind holds on his course. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Per Sir Angus Fraser in 1984: not in hand of Borrow, nor of his wife or daughter. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The song and dance can drive, they say. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Myself. What is your father? . . ." [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [in Gaelic?], "Gaelic Inscription on the pillar over. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "On what account I endeavour to be. . . ." [poem?], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "And now has happened in our time. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The disappointed Husband" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
First published in the eighteenth century? | |||||||||||
Per Sir Angus Fraser in 1984: not in hand of Borrow, nor of his wife or daughter. | |||||||||||
List of books?, undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Where dragon and snake. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. In pencil. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "There's a dagger at your belt, John. . . ." [poem], undated |
Box 3 : Bouquier?, J?-Crowquill, Alfred [Alfred Henry Forrester] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | Bouquier?, J? | |||||||||
ALS? (2 pages) [in French], to unknown recipient, 29 July 1818 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 2 | Boutell, Charles | |||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to unknown recipient, 19 November 1851 | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | Bouton, Charles-Marie | |||||||||
ANS (1 page) [in French], to unknown recipient, 1836? | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to William Chamberlain, 4 September 1840 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 4 | Bowman, John Eddowes (1785-1841) | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages; fragment), to [Mrs. Stovin], [February 1839] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JE Bowman | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 5 | Boyer, Jean Pierre | |||||||||
LS? (1 page) [in French], to Madam Drury, 13 May 1818 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Boyer? | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 6 | Boyle family | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), from George Boyle [4th Earl of Glasgow] to unknown recipient, 26? July 1815 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Glasgow. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from [Lady Jane?] Boyle to her brother [Earl of Glasgow?], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from [Lady] Augusta Carr? Glasgow to unknown recipient, 18 July [no year] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from [Lady] Augusta FitzClarence to her father [Geroge Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from William Boyle to unknown recipient, 21 April 1819 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form letter, from Geroge Frederick [Boyle] Earl of Glasgow to the Surgical Aid Society, 27 November 1877 | |||||||||||
Appointment of proxy (signed "Glasgow") by the 6th Earl of Glasgow. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 7 | Brabrook, Edward William | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Edward Brabrook. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: delighted by The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; wishes he had sent Gosse his recollections of Swinburne and perhaps he still will. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 15 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 8 | Bradley, A.C. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, Easter Monday [1917?] | |||||||||||
Subject: [The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne]; Swinburne and his writings; no need to acknowledge his letter; notes sent; apologies for the letter's paper and handwriting; he can't get over his cold. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 9 | Braidwood, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 11 April 1787 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Thos. Braidwood. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 10 | Brand, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 21 April [1769] | |||||||||||
The recipient lived in or near Naples. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Tho: Brand. | |||||||||||
Note on item implies letter was written by John Brand; however, the signature used is not Jno: Brand. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 11 | Bray, Anna Eliza | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 23 January 1842 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. E. Bray. | |||||||||||
Reference Material -- Bibliographical data | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 12 | Brayley, Edward Wedlake | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [John Bowyer Nichols], 12 September 1810 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E.W. Brayley. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 13 | Brayley, Edward William | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: E.W. Brayley, Jun. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [John Bowyer Nichols], 10 December 1831 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Rob[er]t Baldwin, 6 July 1936 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W[illiam] T[homas] Brande, 24 March 1845 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols, 23? October 1852 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 14 | Bridges, Robert [portfolio] | |||||||||
Portfolio bears bookplate of Clement K. Shorter. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement K. Shorter, 17 October 1892 | |||||||||||
Subject: tribute to late Laureate. | |||||||||||
Typescript (17 pages), by Lorna Keeling Collard, "The Short Poems of Robert Bridges," undated | |||||||||||
Reference Material -- Bibliographical data | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 15 | Bridges, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Mr. Hornby" [i.e., Charles Harry St. John Hornby?], 26 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: has "dealt with the libraries" per enclosures [not present]; Jenkinson's letter indicating "that there was actually no legal claim on this book"; enjoyment of Hornby's visit; a thunderstorm. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Rob Bridges. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into volume one of Poetical Works of Robert Bridges (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1898). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 16 | Bright, Addison | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Bram Stoker, 23 December 1890 | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Bram Stoker, 2 May 1898 | |||||||||||
Includes a brief notation at top dated 3/5/98. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 17 | Brock, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Frederick George] Cotman, 20 January 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: recipient's "little oil sketch sent . . . in exchange for the bust of Leighton"; family well, but he is in need of a rest. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Thos. Brock. | |||||||||||
Includes a note regarding the probable location of the bust in Ipswich that is signed: Wm. H B? [i.e., William H. Booth?]. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, one biographical), 22 August 1922 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 18 | Brocky, Carl | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: C Brocky. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to H? [i.e., Henry?] Mogford, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Henry?] Mogford, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 19 | Brodie, Benjamin Collins (1783-1862) | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 2 August 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 30 October 1846 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 19 August 1847 | |||||||||||
The third page is a prescription. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Benjamin Collins Brodie, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 20 | Bromhead, Edward | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: items intended for Mr. "Herschell" [i.e., John Herschel?]. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Edward ffrench Bromhead. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 21 | Brontë, Branwell [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (9 pages + 1 page), ["The History of Angria.1"] [prose], June-July 1835 | |||||||||||
Includes an added title leaf which notes, in part: Symington / Collection / 1935. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 22 | Brougham, Henry Peter [1st Baron Brougham and Vaux] | |||||||||
LS? (2 pages), to Speaker of the House of Lords, 16 August [no year], | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H Brougham. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf, to Mr? Strington?, 22 February 1832 | |||||||||||
Franked item; the recipient was located at Ipswich. Includes notes on verso that are perhaps in part by William H. Booth. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Brougham, 1820 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Brougham, 1831 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Brougham, 1850 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Brougham, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Brougham, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Brougham, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 23 | Broughton, Rhoda | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Miss Betham Edwards [i.e., Matilda Betham-Edwards?], 1 July 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: requested autographs; pleased to have made her acquaintance; possibility that they might meet again. | |||||||||||
Enclosures (autographs) not present. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 24 | Brown, Alexander | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Monsieur Alexandre [i.e., Alexandre Vattemare?], 4 September 1824 | |||||||||||
Form of signature (and title) used: A.S? Brown, Provost & Chief Magistrate [of Aberdeen]. | |||||||||||
Enclosures (letters of introduction) not present. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 25 | Brown, George | |||||||||
Portrait of George Brown, undated | |||||||||||
ALS, to Sir Willoughby Gordon [i.e., James Willoughby Gordon], 15 January 1816 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G. Brown. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of George Brown, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 26 | Brown, J. Stevenson | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 8 December 1890 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter of introduction for Dr. McConnell. | |||||||||||
Card (handwritten), of J.B. McConnell, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 27 | Brown, John (1780-1859) | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [John Stevens] Henslow, 3 February 1859 | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait, undated | |||||||||||
Labeled on verso: Dr John Brown & Dr [Alexander?] Peddie & his dog Dandie. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 28 | Brown, Peter Hume | |||||||||
Form of signatures used in letters: P. Hume Brown. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 4 October 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: Owen Wisler's book; to be sent notes of impressions of Swinburne by a friend who was a contemporary of Swinburne at Oxford; Emerson's essay on The Poet, Swinburne; notes appended [possibly notes at the end of the folder?]. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 October 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: to read Chastelard; lecture by Gosse on the Wartons; interest in the beginnings of Romanticism. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 19 October 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: Chastelard; Swinburne; proofs of Gosse's new book. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 21 October 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's lecture; request return of proofs; to re-read Bothwell; Swinburne; Donald Crawford; Haldane. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 3 November 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's tragedies; Brande's book on Goethe in German. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 4 April 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS, to Edmund Gosse, 14 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: his admiration for Gosse's Swinburne . | |||||||||||
Holograph notes (2 pages), undated | |||||||||||
Subject: A.C. Swinburne's contribution to the study of Queen Mary. | |||||||||||
Includes a notation at the top in the handwriting of Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
Holograph notes (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Subject: a publication about A.C. Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 29 | Brown, Richard | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Clements, 6 May [18]44 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Richd? R Brown | |||||||||||
Includes drafts of (apparently unrelated) letters in pencil. Integral address leaf bears a postage stamp. | |||||||||||
Pen sketch (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Pen sketches (2 pages), undated | |||||||||||
Pencil sketches (2 pages), undated | |||||||||||
Pencil sketch (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Print ["R. Rushton Brown, Del."], undated | |||||||||||
Biographical note, 1847 | |||||||||||
Handwritten information about Brown. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 30 | Bruce, John (1802–1869) | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 14 March 1850 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Jno Bruce. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 31 | Brune, Guillaume Marie Anne | |||||||||
DS (1 page) [in French], [1 October 1797?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Brune. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 32 | Bryant, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Hogg, 9 March 1892 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T Bryant. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thomas Bryant, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 33 | Bryant, W.C. | |||||||||
Portion of address leaf of a letter [or an envelope?], to James E. Lewis, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used (lower left corner): W.C. Bryant; the handwriting for this signature and the address do not match. | |||||||||||
As the item specifies that Liverpool is in England, it was likely sent from elsewhere. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 34 | Bucke, Thomas George | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [----- Smith], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Tho Geo Bucke. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 35 | Buckinghamshire, Earl of | |||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), to Mr? Cropley?, 6? August [year illegible] | |||||||||||
Franked item with fragmentary text on verso. | |||||||||||
Signature used (Hampden --?--) not fully legible. Added pencil note: "Earl of Buckinghamshire." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 36 | Bullock, Thomas | |||||||||
Statement of account of Mrs. Danser with Thos. Bullock, 22 February 1814 | |||||||||||
Subject: purchases of iron bars and rods. | |||||||||||
With note in hand of a clerk: Jas. ----- . Portion torn away. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 37 | Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias [Freiherr von Bunsen] | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Mr. Doutty?, 4 October 1842 | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to [Mr.] Elliot, 23 August 1843 | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, one biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 38 | Burgen, C.J? | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Dr. Hogg [Jabez Hogg], 1 January 1872 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 39 | Burges?, --?-- | |||||||||
Receipt?, 12 May 1676 | |||||||||||
The name of Robt Howard also appears on the item. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 40 | Burgess, J.B. | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, 9 October 1851 | |||||||||||
Perhaps acquired by a collector because it was thought to have been written by John Bagnold Burgess, which seems unlikely, this letter was written at Brighton (from 50 Montpelier Road) by a person who had apparently previously lived in Hans Place, London. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 41 | Burgh, Ulysses [2nd Baron Downes] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Ensign Taylor, 22 August 1813 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: U Burgh. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 42 | Burritt, Elihu | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 9 October 185[4?] | |||||||||||
Includes a separate note by Wm. H B [William H. Booth] referring to "another autograph letter, in ‘Autograph letters, Eminent Men' -- fol. 26 -- in my possn." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 43 | Butler, Samuel [Bishop of Lichfield] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, 28 October 183[0] | |||||||||||
Subject: Aldine Press books not owned by Butler. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: S. Butler. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 44 | Butler, Weeden (1773-1831) | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 9 February 1830 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 45 | Butte, Guillaume | |||||||||
Holograph notes and poem [?] (3 pages) [in French], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature [?] used: Guil. Butte. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 46 | Butterworth, Joshua W. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to J[ohn] Gough Nichols, 6 January 1849 | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledges the review of Stephen's Commentaries in The Gentleman's Magazine and also notes that the [unnamed] woman author of Poems and Songs [also reviewed in the periodical] "accepts very cordially the hints offered her respecting the ‘Ars Poetica.'" | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 47 | Button, Maidie | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [W.T.] Freemantle, 3 May [19]12 | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. A note on the envelope, in Freemantle's handwriting, states in part: dau: of Mrs [?] Lydia Wheeler. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 48 | Byng, George | |||||||||
Circular letter (1 page), to J. Prosser, Esq., 5 July 1837 | |||||||||||
Subject: votes and contributions to a subscription in support of George Byng and Joseph Hume, candidates for Parliament. | |||||||||||
Printed text on one sheet, with an integral address leaf; stained. | |||||||||||
Circular letter (1 page), to John Prosser, 6 July 1837 | |||||||||||
Subject: support for Byng, a candidate for re-election to Parliament; the Established Church. | |||||||||||
Printed text on one sheet, with an integral address leaf; stained. | |||||||||||
Portrait of G. Byng "From a Painting by George Hayter," undated | |||||||||||
Stained; inlaid to a larger sheet; notes in pencil on verso. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 49 | Byng, John [1st Earl of Strafford] | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), 27 May 1816 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 50 | Cadell, Thomas (1773-1836) | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient [J. Nichols and Son?], 30 June 1825 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for a sample page, set in a more modern type, for a meeting to consider the reprinting of John Walker's Elements of Elocution; its cost per sheet for 1000 copies; "guaranteeing the Paper from loss in case of fire." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T. Cadell. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 51 | Caine, Hall | |||||||||
ALS (1 page; fragment), to Mr. ----- [surname illegible], [no year] | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original included in volume of transcribed letters in Reference Materials section. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 52 | Cambridge, Duke of [Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge] | |||||||||
Folded sheet of paper with a note regarding its former contents, undated | |||||||||||
Not written by the Duke, the note states: The late Duke of Cambridge to P. Mary of Gloucester (3 [items] and 2 env[elope]s). | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to "my Angel," 4 August 1843 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Dolly. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to "my Angel," 12 June 1847 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Dolly. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to "my Angel," 30 June 1847 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Dolly. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Madam," 5 July 1848 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Adolphus. | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope, to Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester, [26 September 1846] | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Cambridge. | |||||||||||
Envelope, to Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester, undated | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Cambridge. | |||||||||||
Portrait of The Princess Augusta of Hesse, Duchess of Cambridge, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 53 | Cambridge, Duke of [Prince George, Duke of Cambridge] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in German], to -----, 7 [June?] 1851 | |||||||||||
Possibly addressed to someone named Koller. Form of name used: Ge[o]rge? | |||||||||||
Portrait of H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, undated | |||||||||||
The image ("From a Photograph") depicts a standing man in military uniform in front of a fortification that includes Cannons. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 54 | Cameron, Elizabeth Hamilton de | |||||||||
DS (1 page) [in French], undated | |||||||||||
Printed form accomplished in ink. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 55 | Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) [bound volume] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: T. Campbell and Thomas Campbell. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thomas Campbell, 1848 | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Campbell, 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Madam" [H.M. Rathbone, i.e., Hannah Mary Rathbone?], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: cannot attend dinner because of cold. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [C. Ollier], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: article for W. Monthly on Miss Crumpe's romance; hopes his friend can do it; "The Maidenhead of Geraldine." Accompanied by a second typed transcript of previous letter. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thomas Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Clipped address of Mr. Campbell [handwritting not identified] | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thomas Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thomas Campbell, 1815 | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (5), undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [his cousin], 13 December 1841 | |||||||||||
Subject: sold cask of whiskey; does not drink himself; wants cask for Perrier, British Consul at Brest. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Campbell, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 56 | Candler, John | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to George Ransome?, 18 August 1833 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending five autographs; related biographical information; perhaps can obtain for him "some autographs of emiment men from some of my friends." | |||||||||||
Enclosures (autographs) not present. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page) [in Hebrew], [The Lord's Prayer], undated | |||||||||||
Identification from note on verso. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 57 | Canning, George | |||||||||
Address leaf, 3 May 1808 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Geo: Canning. | |||||||||||
Biographical sketch of Canning [handwriting not identified], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 58 | Canton, William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 15 August 1894 | |||||||||||
Subject: pleased to present Shorter with The Invisible Playmate; not able to send his book of verse, as he has none left. | |||||||||||
Enclosure (The Invisible Playmate) not present. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 1 May 1901 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 59 | Carey, Martha [Countess of Monmouth] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Earl of Middlesex [Lionel Cranfield], 15 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Mar: Cary. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 60 | Carleton, Guy [1st Baron Dorchester] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Lord Sydney [Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney], 18 July 1786 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter received concerning being raised to the Peerage as a Baron; gratitude to the monarch for the honor; suggested form of title. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sir Guy Carleton, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 61 | Carlyle, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mrs. Marshall [i.e., Mary Alice Marshall?], 15 April 1841 | |||||||||||
Subject: visit ("on Saturday . . . the day after tomorrow"); Richard [Monckton] Milnes. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T. Carlyle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 62 | Carpenter, Edward | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The People to their Land" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Note by Alf[red] Mattison, apparently dated December [18]96, identifies item as being in Carpenter's handwriting. | |||||||||||
Typescript (11 pages) [with editorial corrections], "The Satyr" [poem], circa 1920 | |||||||||||
Translation by Carpenter of a poem by Victor Hugo; appeared in the English Review in October 1920. | |||||||||||
Note on verso of final leaf: Typed copy given to me by Ed Carpenter (corrections by E.C.). | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (title page plus 15 pages), "Isis & Osiris" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Notes or excerpt from 1718 London edition of Plutarch's Morals in an unknown hand; labeled "MS. by Edward Carpenter" in pencil. The handwriting does not match that of "The People to their Land." | |||||||||||
Portrait of [Edward Carpenter], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 63 | Carpenter, William Benjamin | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to George Ransome, 9 September 1848 | |||||||||||
Subject: not possible at present to accept an invitation to lecture at Ransome's museum [Ipswich Museum]. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Willm. B. Carpenter. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a brief pencil note, identifying Carpenter, likely written by William H. Booth. | |||||||||||
Portrait of W.B. Carpenter, [1872] | |||||||||||
From the Illustrated London News, per pencil notation. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 64 | Carson, Edward [Baron Carson] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure), to [Edmund] Gosse, 1 August 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: sends his "'poetic' effusion—for private circulation only. . . ." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E. Carson. | |||||||||||
Title of enclosed, unsigned poem, apparently dated December [19]17, not legible. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
From a letter. Possibly not the signature of the same person as the 1918 letter. Form of signature used: Edward Carson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 65 | Carswell, Douglas [bound volume] | |||||||||
Typescript (2 pages), "A Birthday Ode: A Poetical Address to Charles, Algernon, Swinburne Esq." [poem], 4 April 1900 | |||||||||||
Signed and dated by Carswell. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 66 | Cartwright, Joseph | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to --?-- Cooper, 16 April 1824 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 7 April 1828 | |||||||||||
Subject: small painting sent for exhibition. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 67 | Cary Estates, St Marychurch, Devon | |||||||||
Particulars of intended building lease, to builder and intended lesse Wm. Parks Davey, 26 July 1856 | |||||||||||
Found with papers of Edmund Gosse; presumably relates in some way to his father, Philip Henry Gosse, a resident of St Marychurch. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 68 | Castellant, Auguste | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to unknown recipient, 21 February 1908 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Aug. Castellant. | |||||||||||
Circular letter (3 pages) [in French], [1908] | |||||||||||
Printed. Concerns a public subscription to build a monument to Rousseau. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), [1907] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 69 | Cattermole, Richard | |||||||||
LS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 5 February 1824 | |||||||||||
Trimmed printed form, accomplished in ink, with loss of some handwriting at bottom. | |||||||||||
Subject: election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; necessity of attending one of the next three meetings for admission. | |||||||||||
LS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 21 February 1825 | |||||||||||
Printed form accomplished in ink. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 70 | Caulfeild, James [1st Earl of Charlemont] | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to John Nesbitt, 14 November 1783? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Charlemont. | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Right Hon: James Earl of Charlemont, K.P., 1814 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 71 | Chamberlain, Joseph | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to G[eorge?] Stevenson, 21 Sept [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J. Chamberlain. | |||||||||||
Apparently sent to someone in Leicester. If sent to Leicester mayor George Stevenson while he was in office, the letter might date from about 1869, but it more likely dates from the period when Chamberlain was mayor of Birmingham. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 72 | Chambers, Ann | |||||||||
Will (2 pages), 19 October 1780 | |||||||||||
Endorsed: Copy of the Will of Mrs. Ann Chambers of Calcutta in Bengall [sic] in the East Indies formerly of Newcastle upon Tyne. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 73 | Chambers, John | |||||||||
LS (1 page), to Robt. Gorrill?, 14 November 1845 | |||||||||||
Subject: debt owed to the Ecclesall Funding Society. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 74 | Chambers, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 11 June? [18]63? | |||||||||||
Subject: illustrations for a periodical. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 75 | Champagny, Jean Baptiste Nompère de [Duc de Cadore] | |||||||||
DS (1 page) [in French], 30 Brumaire [November?] [18]14 | |||||||||||
Printed form accomplished in ink. Form of signature used: Champagny. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature, 6 March 1809 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Champagny. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 76 | Changarnier, Nicolas Anne Théodule | |||||||||
ANS (1 page) [in French], to de la Motte, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Changarnier. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 77 | Charpentier, U. | |||||||||
ANS (1 page) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 27 December [19]12 | |||||||||||
Possible alternate signature: V. Charpentier? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 78 | Charterhouse School (Smithfield, London, England) | |||||||||
Items found inserted in a copy of Lawrence Hendriks' The London Charterhouse. . . . (London: K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1889) acquired with the Symington Collection. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (6 pages), [observations relating to a new method of letting the farms of the hospital] [prose], 22 June 1784 | |||||||||||
Signed by the institution's registrar, Hen[ry] Sayer. | |||||||||||
Orders for letting the Charterhouse Farms (3 pages), undated | |||||||||||
Enclosure in previous document; reviews decisions made at intervals from 1629 to 1656. | |||||||||||
Case summary (1 page), 1784 | |||||||||||
Subject: rationale for Nath[anie]l Hulme, physician to the hospital, to receive an increased annual stipend. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 79 | Chatterton, John Balsir | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Madame" [unknown recipient], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: will arrive to give a lesson next Tuesday unless otherwise notified. Form of signature used: J Balsir Chatterton. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 80 | Chevalier, Michel | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to unknown recipient, March [1860] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 81 | Cheyne, William Watson | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 3 April 1884 | |||||||||||
Subject: photographs, not his, which the recipient may call to see. Form of signature used: W. Watson Cheyne. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 82 | Clanricarde, Marquess of [Ulick John de Burgh] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to G.F. Kempson, 21 February [18]50 | |||||||||||
Subject: his location the next day, if recipient wants "to serve me with a Subpena." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Clanricarde. | |||||||||||
View of "The Seat of the Marquis of Clanricarde," undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items; some biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 83 | Clarendon, Earl of [George William Frederick Villiers] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr? Wilson, 21 June 1847 | |||||||||||
Subject: introduction of a paper currency at the Cape of Good Hope as an experiment and an encouragement for a similar system at home. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Clarendon. | |||||||||||
Enclosure (pamphlet) not present. | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Earl of Clarendon, undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 84 | Clarke, Alured | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Mrs. Clarke], 19 December [1784] | |||||||||||
Subject: trade restrictions with America; House of Assembly wants King to appoint him Governor. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 85 | Clarke, Charles Mansfield | |||||||||
Forms of signature used in most letters: Charles M. Clarke. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 6 November 1827? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: C.M Clarke. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages + 1 page), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 15 November 1845 | |||||||||||
The sheet with the fifth page, intended as an enclosure, is attached to the letter; it is a prescription. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Caleb Burrell] Rose, 28 November 1845 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell] Rose, 29 January 1846 | |||||||||||
Includes an added, signed notation by C.B. Rose. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell] Rose, 5 April 1850? | |||||||||||
Portrait of Chas. Mansfield Clarke, 1846 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 86 | Clarke, Richard | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford], 3 February [17]97 | |||||||||||
Per The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, this letter was listed in an 1834 catalog of the dealer Thomas Thorpe. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 87 | Clive, Caroline | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Miss Boyle, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: C. Clive. | |||||||||||
Adhered to a larger piece of paper with a notation in ink: V—Mrs. Archer Clive. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 88 | Cloncurry, Lord [Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, [May 1833] | |||||||||||
Endorsed (in part): Carriages drawn on Railroads by machinery. . | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Cloncurry. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 89 | Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Gosse [Edmund Gosse], 22 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: glad to know Gosse is working on a Swinburne biography; accompanying copies [not present] of Swinburne letters; enclosed "memoranda answering your question[s] as far as I am able to do so" [also not present]. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Sydney C. Cockerell. | |||||||||||
AL (2 pages; fragment?), to Mr. Gosse [Edmund Gosse], 24 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 90 | Cole, Thomas Skelton | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to W.T. Freemantle, 6 January 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: desires a summary, of the paper given by Freemantle on Miss Siddall, for publication in the Literary and Philosophical Society's annual report. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 91 | Coleridge, William Hart | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W.H. Coleridge. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Edward," 20 September 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject: Willy's education; Torquay; Thorrenton party; Heath Court; Rector of Exeter; George Coveril; Mrs. Shore; Ridley. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to A.P. Thorn?, 11 August 1847 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 92 | Collett, Ebenezer John | |||||||||
Portion of address leaf, to James C.C. Bell, 2 September 1827 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: E. Jno. Collett. | |||||||||||
Stamped in ink on verso (in part): John Gray Bell, Dealer in Autographs. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Ebenr. John Collett, 18 July 1823 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 93 | Collett, John | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edward Webber, 15 December 1850 | |||||||||||
Subject: desires one of the impressions to evaluate; will then provide "an answer respecting the remaining 29." | |||||||||||
Portrait of John Collett, undated | |||||||||||
A clipping that also includes text. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 94 | Collins, Mrs. J. | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to W.T. Freemantle, 31 March 1914 | |||||||||||
With annotation in pencil by Freemantle. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS [draft], from W.T. Freemantle to Mrs. J. Collins, 12 May 1914 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W.T.F. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Mr. & Mrs. J. Collins to W.T. Freemantle, 14 May 1914 | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 95 | Collins, Samuel | |||||||||
Ticket, undated | |||||||||||
Apparently an unused press pass, signed by Collins: "The London Weekly Telegraph. Admit two to the boxes [blank line] Theatre. [blank line]." Text in small type beneath signature: "N.B. This Ticket will not be admitted on Benefit Nights." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 96 | Compton-Rickett, Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund Gosse], 27? March 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: reaction to Gosse's review [of Thomas Hake and Compton-Rickett's Swinburne book] in The Observer. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 97 | Conolly, Luke Aylmer | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Cadell & Davies?, 14 May 1805 | |||||||||||
Subject: wants 20 copies of book [Friar's Tale], one to be sent to the Rev. Prior of Trinity College, Dublin, who was its patron. Reply, dated 12 June 1805, on integral leaf. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: LA Conolly. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from C & D [Cadell & Davies] to [Luke Aylmer Connolly], 12 June 1805 | |||||||||||
Subject: Friar's Tale has been published; 19 copies sent to him; one is being bound to be sent to Provost of Trinity College; too early to give opinion of probable success of book. On same folded sheet as letter to Connolly, dated 14 May 1805. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 98 | Cooke, Edward William | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: fundraising to benefit the family of John Quekett; possible placement of a portrait of Quekett at the Linnean Society; an abscess between his shoulders will likely prevent him from returning home for some time. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E.W. Cooke. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 99 | Cooke, Thomas Simpson | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: T. Cooke. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Henry Edger?, 25 November 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject: cost per lesson; "intends being in town during the week before Christmas." | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Brother Joseph," 16 December 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject: plans for dining together on 21 January. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 100 | Crane, Walter | |||||||||
Pencil sketch, "Statue of Liberty / New York Harbor," 23 May 1892 | |||||||||||
Mounted to folded sheet. Drawing includes artist's symbol [composed of a "C" as part of an image of a bird?] under the written identification. | |||||||||||
Ink sketch, of Charles Keene, undated | |||||||||||
Full inscription: Charles Keene. / 1859 / memory / sketch / [artist's symbol]. Mounted, on a larger sheet, with pencil notation ("Walter Crane") at bottom. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 101 | Crawford, Donald | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), [untitled recollections of Swinburne], 13 December 1915 | |||||||||||
Prepared for use by Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: D. Crawford. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 102 | Crowquill, Alfred [Alfred Henry Forrester] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 2 June 1859 |
Box 4 : Cubitt, William-Fielding family | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 1 | Cubitt, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to George Ransome?, 28 November 1857 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W Cubitt. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a brief pencil note, identifying Cubitt, likely written by William H. Booth. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 2 | Cuninghame, Robert [1st Baron Rossmore] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Tho[ma]s Townshend [1st Viscount Sydney], 20 January 1783 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | Cunningham, Allan, and John Cunningham [bound volume] | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), from Allan Cunningham to Tho[ma]s Sopwith, 27 March 1834 | |||||||||||
Text: I shall have great pleasure in seeing you at Mr. [Francis] Chantreys any day between the hours of ten and twelve. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages; fragment: ends with catchword), "Day" [poem by John Cunningham], undated | |||||||||||
Actually headed "Day by Cunningham"; handwriting not identified. Accompanied by a typed transcript (in which the verse is attributed to Allan Cunningham). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 4 | Curling, Thomas Blizard | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: T B Curling. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 5 April 1882 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [Hogg?], 16 May [no year] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [Hogg?], 9 June [no year] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Hogg [Jabez Hogg], 16 June [no year] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [Hogg?], 1 July [no year] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to J[abez] Hogg, 21 August [no year] | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait of Curling, 1860s? | |||||||||||
Full plate image. Copy at National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) dated 1855. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), 10 March 1888 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 5 | Dacre, Lord [Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre] | |||||||||
Notes (2 pages), "From Lord Dacre," [1772] | |||||||||||
Fragment beginning: "Vol 1st p. 297. The print of Sir Walter Raleigh." Sent to James Granger, as text included in Letters between the Rev. James Granger, M.A., and the Most Eminent Literary Men of his Time (London, 1805), pages 182-183. With added notes by J.P. M[alcolm], the editor of the 1805 publication. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 6 | Dacre, Lord [Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre] | |||||||||
Address leaf, to Thos. Stapleton, 13 May 1831 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Dacre. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 7 | Davey, William Turner | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W? Cooper, 8 January [18]49 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: WT Davey. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 8 | Dawson, John William | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Canon Tristram [i.e., Henry Baker Tristram?], 11 June [18]97 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Wm Dawson. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Bookplate, of Henry Baker Tristram, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 9 | Delacroix, Eugène | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to "Madam" [unknown recipient], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 10 | de la Mare, Walter [bound volume] | |||||||||
Note on front flyleaf: Collected by J. Alex. Symington. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Walter de la Mare, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 16 November [19]20 | |||||||||||
Subject: cannot write poem requested by Shorter; would like to see proofs of Pinker's sketches. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 26 November 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: Come Hither; poems by Dora Sigerson and Emily Brontë included through Shorter's kindness. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: will send poem or short story for Christmas number; Hardys. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 5 December 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: Dora Sigerson; Come Hither, Christmas poem. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: not at home; will still look for a suitable poem; very busy; had hoped "to be able to write some verses." | |||||||||||
ALS ("1½ pages"), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 6 December [19]20 | |||||||||||
Typescript copy. Original not in volume. | |||||||||||
ALS ("1 page"), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 11 February 1921 | |||||||||||
Typescript copy. Original not in volume. | |||||||||||
ALS ("4 pages"), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 15 May 1921 | |||||||||||
Typescript copy. Original not in volume. | |||||||||||
Broadside, "The Old Men" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Colophon begins: Printed by A.T. Stevens. This copy colored. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), [10 May 1931] and undated | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 24 April 1922 | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 17 July 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: form letter with handwritten notes at end; asks permission to include poems by Emily Brontë in his forthcoming book of collected poems for children. A second form letter of same date (also 2 pages) concerning The Comforters. | |||||||||||
Clippings and reference material (10 items), 17 May 1930 and undated | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Mr. Shorter [Clement K. Shorter], 18 July 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: Johnson sent from America; suitable poem. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 11 | De la Rue, Warren | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 9 February 1858 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 14? June 1861 | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), 19 April 1889 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 12 | Delepierre, Joseph Octave | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Blewitt, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: requires his books back from Blewitt's binder, regardless of the state they are in. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 13 | Dempster, George | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lyon & Jobson, 28 July 1803 | |||||||||||
Portrait of George Dempster, 1793 | |||||||||||
Portrait of George Dempster, 1808 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 14 | Denman, Thomas | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 15 | Derby, ----- | |||||||||
DS (1 page), 9 March 1651 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 16 | Dibdin, Thomas Frognall | |||||||||
Signed receipt, to Dawson Turner, 2 June 1837 | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 17 | Dicksee, Frank | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 March 1914 | |||||||||||
Enclosure: ALS (2 pages), from Arts Club to F. Dicksee, 12 March 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: Charles Swinburne in the Club's record books. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 18 | Dictionary of National Biography | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Sidney Lee to [Edmund] Gosse, 20 July 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: entry for Swinburne; Lee's labors. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 19 | D'Israeli, Isaac | |||||||||
AL [draft], to Mr. Urban, 4 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: Curiosities of Literature. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Isaac D'Israeli, 1797 | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 20 | Dixon, Annie | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 9 May 1850 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 21 | Dixon, F.A. | |||||||||
Signed receipt, 11 May 1850 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 22 | Dobson, Austin | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Irwin [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 27 May 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lucian; doesn't care for subject of book he is writing; Ballast is a charming book--wishes he would expand it. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Irwin [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 5 June 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: Richardson; Lucian; Lyle Irwin's "Ode to the Desert." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Irwin [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 17 July 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: Thanks for verses; Fielding's Tomb. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Irwin [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 22 July 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for Cicero quotation; refers to passages in another book. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [Sidney Thomas Irwin?], 7 November 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: would like to know "how it [?] strikes a contemporary." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Irwin [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 17 November 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: criticism of Dobson's biography of Richardson in Times; Leslie Stephen speaks highly of it; hostility to Lovelace. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 6 December 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: folio Rasselas an invention of Hugh Thomson; Paladin of Philanthropy; Abraham Raimbach a good engraver of Wilkie; Smithe illustrated Don Quixote and Gil Blas; to do Miss Burney for Men of Letters; will be seventh biography but still doesn't know how to do it; always believes the bad reviews; asks Irwin if he has seen any defects in his writing. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Sidney Thomas] Irwin, 26 December 1902 | |||||||||||
Subject: Shakespeare's characters; editing Essays of Goldsmith for Temple Classics. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 9 January 1903 | |||||||||||
Subject: Seneca; Ovid; Richardson; Lucian; "The Bee"; Johnson; Lamb; Coleridge. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 14 January 1903 | |||||||||||
Subject: book-binding; Birker-Foster, an illustrator; The Task; Stock's facsimile Rasselas; Coopwer; Views in Weston-Underwood. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 1 January 1904 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for excellent review of his book. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 24 May 1904 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for pamphlet; Goldsmith; Vicar; Good Natured Man; editing Burney Diary. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 23 | Dobson, Austin | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 23 June 1905 | |||||||||||
Subject: Frankfort Moore; Esmond; Steele; Burney diary. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Sidney T. Irwin], [31 July 1905] | |||||||||||
Subject: John Bunyan; Spinoza. | |||||||||||
Postcard. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 26 August 1905 | |||||||||||
Subject: Irwin's paper will do for preliminary essay for Ballast; Thomas Cogan; Omar; Nicholas Nickleby; asks him to give exact sources for extracts. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 17 October 1905 | |||||||||||
Subject: Prior; Cowley; Dryden; John Evelyn; Times; Epicurus; Scott;Waverley. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 18 November 1905 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending illustrated Esmond; Themistocles. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 23 December 1905 | |||||||||||
Subject: Speaker papers; Parasite; singer on Queen's Carol. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 13 January 1906 | |||||||||||
Subject: Hazlitt and Lamb. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 13 August 1906 | |||||||||||
Subject: busy with proofs; thanks for pasticcio. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 7 November 1906 | |||||||||||
Subject: Evelyn's Diary; verses in Daily Mail ; sending him proofs for advice; Goldsmith's complete poems; Lamb & Hazlitt. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Sidney Thomas] Irwin, 27 November 1906 | |||||||||||
Subject: Reviews of his edition of Evelyn's diary; bad review in the Illustrated; Goldsmith; Lives of the Novelists; sixpenny selection of Addison's essays; suggestions for improving sonnet. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 11 March 1907 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 7 May 1907 | |||||||||||
Subject: dictionary article on Fielding; proofs of Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon; Hogarth; Goldsmith. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 28 September 1907 | |||||||||||
Subject: review of The Town; Thackeray; sends his work because Irwin shows sympathetic and friendly interest. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Sidney T. Irwin], [16 May 1908] | |||||||||||
Subject: Ballast; Lyles Irwin; Globe reprint of Evelyn's Diary. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 12 October 1908 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending his latest work. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 5 December 1908 | |||||||||||
Subject: "Parchment Library" Vicar of 1883; revised reprint; Caldecott's frontispiece. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Sidney Thomas] Irwin, 9 August 1909 | |||||||||||
Subject: Tennyson article by Irwin; National Review; Percy and Goldsmith; paper on Kensington Palace; Pepys. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 12 August 1909 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 23 August 1909 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending promised paper; Pepys article; bought new life by Magdalen curator; Douglas's Watts-Dunton; Aylwin; has bought Gassendi's book of 1657. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 20 January 1910 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending rondeau for criticism. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 22 January 1910 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for book and inkpot; rondeau form. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Irwin" [Sidney Thomas Irwin], 25 January 1910 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter of thanks to well-wishers in Times; rondeau. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Sidney Thomas] Irwin, 1 March 1911 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Who can live with greatness? . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy signed by Dobson. Text varies slightly from version in Dobson's Collected Poems (1902 edition). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 24 | Dobson, Austin [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "The Happy Printer" [poem], [January 1908] | |||||||||||
Unsigned. Marked "First draft" and "Jan. 1908," apparently in the handwriting of Edmund Gosse. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Rondel" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
"A copy of a poem by Charles of Orleans . . . in the British Museum." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Had I but Walpole's wit. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Unsigned. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 25 | Dodd?, --?-- | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [biographical notes concerning amateur artwork by Mr. and Mrs. James Petitt Andrews], undated | |||||||||||
If not Dodd, then the writer's name might be: Hodd (without initials). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 26 | Doré, Louis Auguste Gustave | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 16? August 1880 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G. Doré. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 27 | Drinkwater, John | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 9 December 1921 | |||||||||||
Printed Christmas card with poem "Christmas Eve" by John Drinkwater (4 pages), 1922 | |||||||||||
From colophon: This card is designed by Albert Rutherston, printed by Oliver Simon, and published by them. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page: postcard), to [Clement K. Shorter], 1924 | |||||||||||
Text: "Just on the way to Missolonghi--note date & postmark." | |||||||||||
Sent from Greece using, in part, a stamp depicting Lord Byron. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: John. D. | |||||||||||
Removed from Clement Shorter's copy (number 34) of The Odes of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Book I / Translated by Patrick Branwell Brontë, With an Introduction by John Drinkwater (London: 1923). | |||||||||||
Portrait of John Drinkwater (reproduced from a photograph), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 28 | Drinkwater, John [bound volume] | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 29 August 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending another poem, "England to Belgium"; his war poems in one place; to make a point of them in the Sphere; the printing of Wordsworth sonnets. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 1 September 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: poem "Nocturne"; inquires if Shorter would ask Pryse to do a drawing for the poem. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 24 September 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses a new poem, "Of The Dead." Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 1 December 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: poem "Eclipse"; request for proof of anything Shorter may use as error appeared in last one printed. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 14 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: new book Swords and Ploughshares to be published; book contains poems that Shorter had used in The Sphere; encloses last poem in the book. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 2 May 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: to follow Shorter's suggestion as to sale; Mrs. Shorter's book; sends Shorter his new volume, which contains many poems already treated by Shorter. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 1 September 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses poem. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 5 May 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: Harper's Weekly to publish enclosed poem, "Clouds" [not in volume]. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 18 July 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: memorial. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 13 November 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: lists names which he is to do in connection with Ward's Poets; de Selincourt receives promise from Gosse to open session with lecture; exhibition of William Rothenstein's drawings, including one of Gosse. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 18 January 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: Drinkwater's illness; anxious to have Gosse's opinion of his new book; book favorably commented upon by William Watson and Gilbert Murray; invitation to Drinkwater to join the Royal Society of Literature; Gosse's book The Unknown Lover, with an Essay; working on Ward's Poets. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 27 May 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: "Cotswold Love"; suggests that it should be printed before the spring is gone; Abercrombie's poem. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 12 August 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: apology for not noticing request at foot of cheque and asks for another. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 21 August 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses a poem, not precisely a war poem but close to one; this poem to appear in a limited edition of his new book Tides; new press started by Beaumont of Charing Cross Road. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 16 October 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: sends four poems as follows: "The Hours," "Foundations," "Out of the Moon," and "Elizabeth Ann," to appear in book Tides; in his Prose Papers, published by Elkin Matthews, there is an essay on the Brontë poetry. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 26 December 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: describes his work in reading poems to hundreds of men while he is with the Y.M.C.A., in their work with troops in France. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 28 March 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses poem "Character"; inquires if he ever received letter he wrote to him in France. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 3 April 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses poem for publication; Shorter may pay a visit to Birmingham. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 29 May 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: sending two other poems; Francis Ledwidge poem; Drinkwater to write a short article on Ledwidge for the next Edinburgh. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 9 June 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: refers to Ledwidge poem; mentions that Shorter still has an unused poem, "Character." Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 29 September 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for copy of "Sad Tears"; sends short poem, to produce a new play on Abraham Lincoln. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 7 September 1919 | |||||||||||
Subject: to visit America; sends poem. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement K. Shorter, 16 April 1920 | |||||||||||
Subject: sends photograph; Rothenstein and family; Simmonds, a wood carver, and wife do performances with marionettes; mentions that Mrs. Drinkwater is former Kathleen Orford of the Repertory Theatre; note on letter written by Mrs. Drinkwater inviting Shorter to their country house. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 29 October 1920 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulates Shorter on his marriage; poem for Sphere. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 4 November 1920 | |||||||||||
Subject: could not write poem requested, but will send others. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 24 April 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: will help with the Boswell. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 11 November 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses proof and sends copy of new book. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 7 June 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment; refers to pamphlet, which he sent for his amusement. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 12 June 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 19 June 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: postpones appointment; makes another. | |||||||||||
Typescript copy (1 page), "The Years" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Typescript copy (1 page), "From Generation to Generation" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Christmas card [printed], 1922 | |||||||||||
Contains a poem by Drinkwater. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), [3 September 1931] and undated | |||||||||||
Pamphlet (19 pages), "Catalogue of the John Drinkwater Collection. . . .," 1937 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 29 | Drinkwater, John [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [fair copy signed by Drinkwater], "The Hours" [poem], [1917] | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Typescript (1 page) [signed by Drinkwater], "From Generation to Generation" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [fair copy signed by Drinkwater], "The Years" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Typescript copy (1 page), "R.B." [poem], April 1918 | |||||||||||
Newspaper photographic portrait, 12 November 1930 | |||||||||||
Lecture ticket, [to lecture by John Drinkwater on Martin Tupper], 1930 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page) [fair copy signed by Drinkwater], "Foundations" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Prospectus, for Inheritance by John Drinkwater, undated | |||||||||||
Typescript copy (1 page), "Out of the Moon" [poem], [October 1917] | |||||||||||
Caricature of Drinkwater, 7 October 1922 | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items), undated | |||||||||||
Newspaper photographic portrait, [9 October 1928] | |||||||||||
Clipping, [11 November 1928] | |||||||||||
Newspaper photographic portrait, [14 May 1929] | |||||||||||
Clippings (9 items), [28 October 1937], [14 April 1927], [13 September 1928] and undated | |||||||||||
Title leaf?, for Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater, 1918 | |||||||||||
Possibly a reproduction. | |||||||||||
Broadside, advertising Summer Harvest by John Drinkwater, circa 1933 | |||||||||||
Clippings (5 items, some biographical), 30 May 1921, [11 February 1932] and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 30 | Dundonald, Earl of [Cochrane, Archibald] | |||||||||
AL (1 page), to Mr. Hall, 20 June 1801 | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, biographical) undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 31 | Duppa, Richard | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Turner" [Sharon Turner], 27 November 1810 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R. Duppa. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 32 | Durham, J.G. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to ----- Nichols, 24 January 1822 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 33 | Dutt, Govin Chunder | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund W. Gosse, 9 May 1878 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund W. Gosse, 22 July 1878 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 34 | Eastlake, Elizabeth | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Robert, 3 January 1863 | |||||||||||
Subject: dinner appointment. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Eliz Eastlake. | |||||||||||
LS (1 page), to Governesses' Benevolent Institution, 25 February 1875 | |||||||||||
A printed form accomplished in ink. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Eliz: Eastlake. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 35 | Edwards, H.S. [i.e., Henry Sutherland Edwards?] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Sala" [George Augustus Sala], 26 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 36 | Edwards, Joel | |||||||||
Form of signature used in all items: J. Edwards | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to K.C.L. [i.e., King's College London?], 8 April 1832 | |||||||||||
Subject: recommendation of Mr. G? Evans of Manchester "with a view to the exhibition of a picture of his." | |||||||||||
Signed receipt, 1838 | |||||||||||
Adhered, together with the next item, to a larger sheet. | |||||||||||
Signed receipt, 1841 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 37 | Edwards, R. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 17 February 1812 | |||||||||||
Subject: payment of timber merchant's bill. | |||||||||||
Portion of envelope?, undated | |||||||||||
This item might instead be a label, as "A. Sketch" appears above Edwards' name and address. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 38 | Edwards, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Sala, 27 August 1894 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 39 | Egerton, Daniel Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [J.W. Allen], 25 October 1838, | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: D.T. Egerton. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 40 | Elizabeth I [Queen of England] | |||||||||
Holograph MS, [untitled; docketed: Opinion of Q. Elizabeth about keeping of Treaty], undated | |||||||||||
Actual author or scribe unknown. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 41 | Ellis, Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Forbes, 3 December [year illegible] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Sala, 29 [no month or year] | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Mr. Sala, 7 July 1892 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 42 | Ellis, Marie | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Sala, 19 September 1895 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Marie Mercy Ellis, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 43 | Ellis, Sarah Stickney | |||||||||
ALS, to "Madam"[unknown recipient], 8 April [no year] | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sarah S. Ellis, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sarah S. Ellis, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 44 | Elmsley, Peter | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Johann Jakob Griesbach], 16 January 1795 | |||||||||||
Subject: inquiry concerning Griesbach's "new edition of the Greek Testament." | |||||||||||
Includes biographical clipping pasted to letter. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 31 October [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 45 | Elstob, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Linnecar, 15 December 1834 | |||||||||||
Subject: the development of "young Marshall, the native of Liverpool," as a painter and his need for continued financial support. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Linnecar, 21 March 1835 | |||||||||||
Subject: the continued development of Thomas Falcon Marshall as an artist; Marshall's need for financial support "during the necessary period of his probation." | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 46 | Englefield, Henry Charles | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: HCEnglefield. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy], [1817] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy], 1 December [1821] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy], [1821] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, [1817?] | |||||||||||
The recipient is alluded to in the text as "your Royal Highness." | |||||||||||
Portrait of H.C. Englefield, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Henry Charles Englefield, 1812 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 47 | Epps, John | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [fragment and/or draft], to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 48 | Errere, Leo | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: L. Errere. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to Jabez Hogg, 9 January 1883 | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 9 March 1883 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 49 | Erskine, David Steuart [Earl of Buchan] | |||||||||
Retained copy of a letter [in Erskine's handwriting], to the Duke of Kent, 8 February 1809 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Dr. Erskine, 1805 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 50 | Eton College. Library [bound volume] | |||||||||
Record book (18 pages; fragment), [1850]-1860? | |||||||||||
Subject: books loaned (columns for "Name," "Date," "Book" and "When returned"); includes A.C. Swinburne's name eight times. | |||||||||||
Pasted to an added flyleaf is a description, by a U.K. dealer or auction house, of this fragment as item or lot 18. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 51 | Etty, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Henry Burton, 11? December 1847? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 52 | Evans, Arthur J. | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "The Fortnum Collection [& the?] University of Oxford," undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (11 pages), "Explorations in Eastern Crete," 1 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (10 pages), "Explorations in Eastern Crete" [Part II?], 11 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 53 | Exeter, --?-- | |||||||||
Envelope fragment, to the Rev. C.G. Newcomb, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 54 | Eyken, Roger | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in Spanish], to ----- Salaverrio, 14 January 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: G.A. Sala. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 55 | Eyre, Vincent | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to George Markham, 13 June 1753 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 56 | Fairbairn, Andrew | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to R. V. Taylor, 25 May 1881 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to R. V. Taylor, 30 May 1881 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 8 October 1888 | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Portrait of A.M. Fairbairn, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sir Andrew Fairbairn, undated | |||||||||||
View of a coach [with Fairbairn seated in driver's area?], undated | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 57 | Fairbairn, William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mrs. Pender, [1861?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W Fairbairn. Portion of stamped envelope attached. | |||||||||||
Portrait of William Fairbairn, 1862 | |||||||||||
Portrait of William Fairbairn, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 58 | Falconer, William (1732–1769) | |||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Note (in different handwriting) under Falconer's name: Author of the Shipwreck. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 59 | Farrer, Edmund | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: E. Farrer. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Booth [William H. Booth], 21 October 1923 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a carbon copy of Booth's reply and its enclosure, a typed transcript of a 19 August 1852 letter written by Robert Mendham that was likely sent to Caleb B. Rose, the father of Dr. Caleb Rose who resided in Ipswich. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Booth [William H. Booth], 25 October 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: whereabouts of a painting by Mendham; the Rose family. Accompanied by a carbon copy of Booth's reply in which he states, in part, that he knew Caleb B. Rose's son, Dr. Caleb Rose, and also Mrs. Sherrington, later Mrs. C. Rose. Booth also mentions his collecting, noting that he has lately acquired some porcelain and pottery. At the top of Booth's response is written, in ink: "Chiltern" [?] / Ipswich. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 60 | Fauntleroy, Henry | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H Fauntleroy. | |||||||||||
Includes an attached note in the handwriting of William H. Booth. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 61 | Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- [Archbishop of Cambrai] | |||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 62 | Ferguson, Ronald Crawford | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 11? February [18]18 | |||||||||||
The recipient was apparently a physician. | |||||||||||
Form of signatured used: R.C Ferguson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 63 | Fielding, Charles [Vicar of Headcorn] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Gentlemen" [unknown recipients], 14 February 1850 | |||||||||||
Subject: children of William Fielding. Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 64 | Fielding, Copley | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Sir Charles Doyle, 5 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: "happy to give [Doyle's] daughter a lesson"; but one time is available next Tuesday; lessons for two are only different in their length. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 65 | Fielding family | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Pedigree for Printing," 1840s? | |||||||||||
Annotated by a Fielding family member. | |||||||||||
Crest?, of "Fielding Earl of Denbigh," undated | |||||||||||
Printed item. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf, to Mrs. Harrison, 30 January 1824 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Denbigh. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Sir John Fielding" [acrostic poem], undated | |||||||||||
Envelope, 8 July 1836 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Denbigh. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Basil Fielding, Earle of Denbigh, 1811 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Basil Fielding, Earle of Denbigh, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of William Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, 1833 | |||||||||||
View of Denbigh Castle, 1808 | |||||||||||
View of Denbigh Castle, 1830 | |||||||||||
Also includes a separate view of Denbigh on same sheet. | |||||||||||
View of Denbigh Castle, undated | |||||||||||
Bookplate?, of Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (7 items, some biographical), [10 September 1850], [21 May 1853] and undated |
Box 5 : Fife, Lord-Gide, André | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 1 | Fife, Lord [i.e., James Duff, Baron Fife?] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [William] Jerdan, undated | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 2 | FitzGerald, Edward | |||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to unknown recipient, 13 December [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: an American edition of Winthrop Mackworth Praed's poems. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: EM FitzGerald? | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 3 | Fitzgerald, M. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Bradburn, 6 June 1787 | |||||||||||
Docketed by recipient as having been sent by Lady Mary Fitzgerald. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 4 | Fitzgerald, P. | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Walls, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Walls, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 5 | Fitzgerald, Robert Uniacke | |||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), 22 July 1806 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Robt U F.Gerald. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 6 | Fitzgerald, William Thomas | |||||||||
Holograph MS, "On my first Visit to Stoke Park" [poem], 1826 | |||||||||||
A fair copy within quotation marks, with Fitzgerald's name appended, but not necessarily in his handwriting. | |||||||||||
Form of name used: Wm. Thos Fitz Gerald. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 7 | Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 28 June 1898 | |||||||||||
Subject: pamphlet on Don Quixote. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Jas. Fitzmaurice-Kelly. | |||||||||||
This letter pasted within the enclosure, a copy of Don Quixote: English Introduction. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 2 July 1898 | |||||||||||
Subject: final details for completion of a book [A History of Spanish Literature]; Gosse's mention of Don Quixote in the Saturday Review [?]; Fitzmaurice-Kelly's address after July 11th; gratitude for Gosse's assistance; Gosse's projected holiday. | |||||||||||
Enclosure (proofs) not in folder. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Jas. Fitzmaurice-Kelly. | |||||||||||
This letter pasted following the previous letter. | |||||||||||
Pamphlet, Don Quixote: English Introduction (46 pages + page with colophon), [1898] | |||||||||||
Enclosure in letter of 28 June 1898. With an inscription to Edmund Gosse from Fitzmaurice-Kelly, dated 28 June 1898, that is present but torn off. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 8 | Flemyng, Malcolm | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Mr. Nourse], 29 July 1758 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [John Nourse], 30 June 1759 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 9 | Forbes, Duncan | |||||||||
DS (2 pages), January 1743 | |||||||||||
Document apparently also signed by Lord Leven [Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven]. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Duncan Forbes, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 10 | Forbes, Edward | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 27? April 1850 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a handwritten note supplying biographical information. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Caleb Rose, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 11 | Ford, Richard | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Thomas Poyser, 23 August 1847 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Dear Sterling," 26 October 1850 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 12 | Forman, Alma [Alma Murray] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Dr. [Frederick James] Furnivall, 12 December 1886 | |||||||||||
Subject: due to illness, Alma Forman to give up acting in Lady Carlisle; expresses her regret. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 13 | Forman, H. Buxton | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to John W. Hales, 21 July 1877 | |||||||||||
Subject: Shelley; "Hymn to Mercury"; Adonaïs. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to W. H. Parks, 24 February 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: Our Living Poets; booksellers. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 26 August 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: Notes on Sculptures; Shelley; reviews for Academy and Saturday; various tasks involved in getting book into print. | |||||||||||
ALS (14 pages), to Dr. [Frederick James] Furnivall, 24 April 1886 | |||||||||||
Subject: Shelley Society; book collectors; Wise; Cenci Dinner; Buckle (biographer of Walt Whitman). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 14 | Forster, John | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to George Cattermole, 24 September 1836 | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Sir Charles [Morgan], 16 June 1840 | |||||||||||
Subject: a petition. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to C & H [i.e., Chapman and Hall?], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: an edition of Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 15 | Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Madam [Madme. Kerrison Harvey], 16 October 1838 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T. Forster. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Nicholls & Sons, 26 November 1852 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T. Forster MD. | |||||||||||
Item includes blue postage stamps depicting Leopold I of Belgium. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 16 | Forster, William Edward | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to R.J? Simpson, 6 July 1882 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W.E. Forster. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W.E. Forster. | |||||||||||
Portrait of W. E. Forster, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 17 | Forth, Frederick | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Mr.] W. Clements, 22 April 1848 | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 18 | Fosbroke, John Baldwin | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Shirley Brooks, 23 April 1873 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 19 | Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipients [publishers or booksellers?], 24 May 1809 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, [January 1827] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 20 | Foulis, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 3 March 1752 | |||||||||||
Subject: Plato; Apollo; manuscripts in the Vatican; Phaedrus, etc. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 21 | Fowle, Thomas Welbank | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages with enclosed note), to "My dear Fremantle," 16 March 1879 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T W Fowle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 22 | Fox, Stephen [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Richard Bulstrode, 13 May 1687 | |||||||||||
Subject: son's trip to Brussels. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to William Blathwayt, September 1693 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Cornnellis in Holland; asks him to give him advice and assistance. | |||||||||||
Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 27 November 1694 | |||||||||||
Subject: welfare of his grandson. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to William Blathwayt, 8 October 1697 | |||||||||||
Subject: expenses of King. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 23 | Francillon, Robert Edward | |||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
From a letter? Form of signature used: R: E: Francillon. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 24 | Franks, Augustus W. | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, 10 December 1861 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 25 | Frederick II of Prussia | |||||||||
DS (1 page) [in German], undated | |||||||||||
Signature not legible. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 26 | Frederick, Duke of York [Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany] | |||||||||
LS, to George Cayley, 13 February 1815 | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Duke of York, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Duke of York, 1827 | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Duke of York, 1827 | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Duke of York, 1847 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 27 | Freeman, J. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Lord" [Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: politics. | |||||||||||
Endorsed: The Revd Mr Freeman. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 28 | Freemantle, William Thomas | |||||||||
Holograph copy of indenture, undated | |||||||||||
Pertains to the Siddall family. | |||||||||||
Holograph copy of indenture, undated | |||||||||||
Pertains to the Siddall family. | |||||||||||
Genealogical notes and compilations (5 items), undated | |||||||||||
Pertain to Siddall and Rossetti families. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 29 | Freemantle, William Thomas | |||||||||
Holograph lecture notes, untitled, circa 1912 | |||||||||||
For illustrated lecture on Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 30 | Freemantle, William Thomas | |||||||||
Holograph lecture notes, "Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal . . .," 1912-1913 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 31 | Freemantle, William Thomas | |||||||||
Holograph notes, mostly undated | |||||||||||
Concern Elizabeth E. Siddal; some items belong (once belonged?) with lecture notes in previous folders. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 32 | Freemantle, William Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [draft], to W. M. Rossetti, 23 September 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to W. M. Rossetti, 25 November 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to "Sir" [unknown recipient], 23 August 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 9 May 1923 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 22? May 1923 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 22 May 1923 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 15 September | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 19 September 1923 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 20? October 1923 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 27 November 1923 | |||||||||||
Invoice (1 page), from William George's Sons, 3 January 1924 | |||||||||||
Annotated by Freemantle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 33 | Freemantle, William Thomas | |||||||||
Clippings (26 items), [1911-1913] and 1919 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by photocopies of the clippings. | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope, 7? January 1913 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 34 | Froude, James Anthony | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: J A Froude. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 26 April [1889] | |||||||||||
Subject: not aware that Carlyle wrote about Burns, even in private letters, "beyond the famous review." | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, 5 March [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 35 | Galton, Francis | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to E.D. Girdlestone [Edward Deacon Girdlestone], 19 August 1884 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 36 | Gambier, Lord [James Gambier, Baron Gambier] | |||||||||
[A?]LS, to Mrs. Brightwen, 22 May [no year] | |||||||||||
Portrait of James Gambier, 1847 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 37 | Garnett, Robert Singleton | |||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 19? April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; St. James Street; books in Swinburne's library; Theodore Watts-Dunton. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R.S. Garnett. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 38 | Garrod, Alfred B. | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: A.B. Garrod. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [Jabez] Hogg, 24 December 1856 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment sought by Dr. Buchanan. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 9 January 1860 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 15 February 1867 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 39 | Gaskell, [Mrs.] Elizabeth C. [bound volume] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: E.C. Gaskell. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages + 1 page), to [John Stuart Mill], 14 July 1859 | |||||||||||
Subject: writes letter to express sorrow at having given him pain not to clear herself in his opinion; Essay on Liberty; Miss Brontë; last page of letter has copy of Mill's reply in which he speaks of Miss Brontë's letter to him. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to [John Stuart Mill], 11 August 1859 | |||||||||||
Subject: disputed passage in life of Miss Brontë; believes now that she should have left part of it out, but not all; thinks Mill should not have been offended by the rest. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Thurstan [Holland], 5 February [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: Charles Bosanquet. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Thurstan [Holland], 25 October [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to "The Lawn." Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Proby, 7 July [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for recommendation of Signor Barbesi's Palazzo Zucchelli, Venice. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 40 | Gaskell family [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), from W[illia]m Gaskell to Miss [Ellen] Nussey, 15 April 1857 | |||||||||||
Subject: personal. Includes postage stamp. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), from Meta Gaskell to Miss Nussey, 22 January [1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: describes death of her mother (Mrs. Gaskell). Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from W[illia]m Gaskell to "Lily" [Mrs. E.C. Gaskell], 25 July 1860 | |||||||||||
Subject: items of family and local interest. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from W[illia]m Gaskell to Polly [Marianne Gaskell], [March 1866] | |||||||||||
Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 41 | Gaylord, Harriet | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Symington [John Alexander Symington], 30 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 42 | Geoghegan, E. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Mr. Highly], 22 July 1834 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 43 | George III [King of Great Britain and Ireland] | |||||||||
DS [fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Portion of document, signed in upper left corner, with one line of text present: Whereas by Letters Patent under Our Great Seal of. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: George R. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 44 | George, Henry [bound volume] | |||||||||
Pamphlet, "Land and People," [1884] | |||||||||||
Pamphlet, "The Rights of Man," [1884] | |||||||||||
Reference materials--41 typed transcripts of letters from Henry George, Annie George, Jenny George, Henry George Jr., and Harold Rylett to Father Dawson, 10 February 1882-22 July 1901 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from M. Bernard to Father Dawson, 2 April 1892 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Father [Dawson], [30 December 1892] | |||||||||||
Subject: Dr. McGlynn controversy. Accompanied by two typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
Pamphlet, "Herbert Spencer vs. Henry George," The Sterling Library, 26 November 1894 | |||||||||||
Annontation on final left concerning Spencer and George signed "T.D." and dated 17 May 1913. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 45 | Gibney, John | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Dear William Swift, my swiftest thoughts. . . ." [untitled poem], March 1833 or earlier | |||||||||||
Handwriting not identified. Form of signature used: Sappho. | |||||||||||
Footnotes, in a different hand and apparently dated March 1833, identify the location of a "fleeting scene" as Brighton, locate the Boyne, and identify "Sappho" as Sir John Gibney. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 46 | Gibson, Alfred | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Miss Lewis, 18 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 47 | Gibson, Thomas Milner | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Thos. Milner Gibson. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 13 November 1864 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Mr.?] Barley? [or Burley?], 1 May 1876 | |||||||||||
On paper with initials "TMG" in a monogram. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from S.A. Milner Gibson to "Dear Madam" [unknown recipient], 2 December [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: spiritualism. | |||||||||||
On paper with initials "AMG" in a monogram. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), 17 December 1847 | |||||||||||
Print of Theberton House, undated | |||||||||||
Biographical notation concerning Gibson, undated | |||||||||||
In the handwriting of William H. Booth. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 48 | Gide, André | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 14 July [1909] | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse his only correspondent in England; Gide's books read in Germany; Porte Etroite; Father and Son. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 9 September [19]09 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks Gosse for his rare comprehension of his writing; Shorthouse; Pates. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 10 March [19]10 | |||||||||||
Subject: not yet in receipt of book sent by Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, [4 April 1910] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for book which has arrived. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 10 April [19]10 | |||||||||||
Subject: comments on Gosse's book; English language. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, [21 July 1911] | |||||||||||
Subject: happy that he will see Gosse soon. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 26 July [1911] | |||||||||||
Subject: Desjardins glad that Gosse is coming. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 11 August [19]11 | |||||||||||
Subject: looking forward to visit from Gosse in Paris. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 4 September [19]11 | |||||||||||
Subject: sent him two books; hopes to see him in London in the Spring. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 31 December 1911 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for his book of poems; Father and Son; writes a few lines in English. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 11 January [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: Athenaeum. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 11 June [1912] | |||||||||||
Subject: accepts invitation to dine with Gosse at l'hotel de France; translation of Father and Son. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 12 August [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: Father and Son. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 28 November [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: etymological dictionary of Skeat; Hero and Leander of Marlowe; Faerie Queene; Chaucer; Shelley; photo of Poutigny. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 25 December 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: accepts invitation. Card with note enclosed. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 10 February [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: Bonniot; Swinburne. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages plus enclosure) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 25 April [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: Madame Bonniot sends text of Swinburne letters; Nouvelle Revue Française; letters of S. a Heredia; letters of Mallarmé to Swinburne. Enclosure: ALS (3 pages) [in French], 10 April 1913, from Geneviève Bonniot to Gide. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages plus enclosure) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 4 May [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: letters of Swinburne; Nouvelle Revue Française; Bonniot. Enclosure: ALS (2 pages) [in French], from G. Bonniot to Gide, 30 April 1913. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 18 May 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne letter; Bonniot. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 20 May 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: directions to reach Gide's house. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 29 June [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: literary controversy; Mallarmé; Gide just finishing book; Father and Son; l'Academie Française. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 8 January [1914] | |||||||||||
Subject: apologizes for not having written sooner; Balkan difficulties. |
Box 6 : Gide, André-Grosart, Alexander Balloch | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 1 | Gide, André | |||||||||
Photostatic copies of letters, to Edmund Gosse, 14 July [1909]-8 January [1914] | |||||||||||
Reproductions of the original letters included in the preceding folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 2 | Gide, André | |||||||||
Three additional letters, 1916-1917, from this sequence are included in the Symington Collection Supplement. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 10 November [1914] | |||||||||||
Subject: has read some of Gosse's verses in Times; Copeau; Gheon; Jacques Rivière. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 29 December [1914] | |||||||||||
Subject: letter written by Gallinard [?] to Gosse; Critical Kit-Kats; Paradise Lost; Gheon; Jean Schlumberger. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 5 June 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: having difficulty writing article; separations caused by the war; Rupert Brooke; Van Rysselberghe; Jacques Raverot. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 7 July 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: translations of Brooke's sonnets. | |||||||||||
Clipping and card [perhaps enclosures in a letter?], [8 July 1915] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], [19 July 1915] | |||||||||||
Subject: should thanks for book go to Gosse or Marsh?; the war. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 6 February [1916] | |||||||||||
Subject: translation of Gosse's article in Mercure; Rutherford; Edinburgh Review; effect of war on France; Petit Journal illustré . | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 23 January 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mark Rutherford; White Hall; Charles Solomon. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 3 July 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: France and the war; Jacques Rivière; Drouin. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 27 July [1916] | |||||||||||
Subject: writing during the war. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 10 June 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: hopes to come to England to bring his nephew, Marc Allégret, and could use a letter from Gosse to help him get his papers; Father and Son. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 31 July 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: La Rochefoucauld; Rupert Brooke; John Donne. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], [9 August 1918] | |||||||||||
Subject: death of Michel Desjardins; Marcel Drouin. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 25 August 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: Marc Allégret; working on a new book. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 30 August 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter from Sir M. B. C.; Marc Allégret; hopes to see Gosse in London. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 4 September 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: Marc Allégret; Lycée Victor Drury. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | Gide, André | |||||||||
Photostatic copies of letters, to Edmund Gosse, 10 November [1914]-4 September 1918 | |||||||||||
Reproductions of the original letters included in the preceding folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 4 | Gide, André | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 23 August 1920 | |||||||||||
Subject: contemplates trip to London. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 16 January 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for permission for Dr. Neel, translator of Conrad's Under Western Eyes, to make a French version of Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge; Gosse is asked to intercede with Hardy. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 8 October [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: Sir Thomas Browne; Mayor of Casterbridge; End of the Tether by Conrad; Religio medici; texts of Webster and Fielding; admiration for Gosse's writing; wishes to see Gosse; has been reading correspondence of Stevenson; Schwob; Weis of Hermiston. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 12 September 1924 | |||||||||||
Subject: Incidences; Corydon; Gide was asked by Dent to write preface for Tom Jones but translation was so bad that the project had to be abandoned. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 26 October 1924 | |||||||||||
Subject: biography of Congreve; Si le grain ne meurt; Gide object of attack; Copeau; after he finishes his book hopes to take a long trip to Africa. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 25 October 1925 | |||||||||||
Subject: writes from Africa to wish him merry Christmas and happy New Year. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 27 July 1926 | |||||||||||
Subject: returned to France; speaks of his stay in Africa; long time since he has written to Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 22 December 1926 | |||||||||||
Subject: Si le grain ne meurt; Journal des Monnayeurs. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], [to Edmund Gosse], 30 December 1926 | |||||||||||
Subject: Father and Son; Si le grain ne meurt. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to Edmund Gosse, 16 January 1927 | |||||||||||
Subject: reasons for writing book [probably Si le grain ne meurt]. | |||||||||||
Clipping, March 1931 | |||||||||||
Envelopes (5 items) | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 5 | Gide, André | |||||||||
Photostatic copies of letters, to Edmund Gosse, 23 August 1920-16 January 1927 | |||||||||||
Reproductions of the original letters included in the preceding folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 6 | Glover, Stephen | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Nichols & Son, 2 May 1828 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 7 | Goddard, John Frederick | |||||||||
Form of signatue used in letters: Jno. F. Goddard. | |||||||||||
LS (1 page), from Society of Arts, etc. [per W.A. Graham, secretary] to Goddard, 4 August 1840 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from John H[enry] Pepper to Goddard, 15 July [18]43 | |||||||||||
Subject: return of loaned equipment. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 27 December? [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: in hospital; desires to see Dr. Hogg immediately. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Jabez] Hogg, 10 February 1858 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 7 January 1859 | |||||||||||
Broadsheet, circa 1863 | |||||||||||
Subject: Goddard's role in the history of photography; an appeal to fund an annuity for Goddard. | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items), [9 May 1840], [10 September 1881] and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 8 | Gomm, William Maynard | |||||||||
LS (1 page), to "The Quarter Master General," 2 December 1834 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Jones, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 9 | Goodall, Alice | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [George Augustus] Sala, 17 May 1893 | |||||||||||
Subject: publicity for an auction at Christie's. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 10 | Goodwin, Albert | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Leggatt?, 11 May [1898] | |||||||||||
Subject: possible publisher for his two daughters' "illustrated fairy story." | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Leggatt?, 11 May 1898 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 11 | Gordon, Duchess of [Jane Gordon] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: J Gordon. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Mr. Thompson], November 1808 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Mr. Thompson], 1 May 1810 | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 12 | Gordon, James Willoughby | |||||||||
NS (1 page), to "the Quarter Master General," 20 September 1808 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J W Gordon. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 13 | Gordon, Theodore | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "The Secretary to the Commissioners for Auditing the Public accounts," 22 January 1823 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Theod Gordon. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 14 | Gorham, John | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, [10 November 1884] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 14 November 1884 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 28 November 1884 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 2 September 1888 | |||||||||||
Broadside, "Gorham's Pupil-Photometer," November 1884 | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait of John Gorham [carte-de-visite format], 1867 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 15 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Transcripts of letters by or relating to Algernon Charles Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Holograph copy of portion of letter (1 page), from "Redgie" [A.C. Swinburne] to Mr. Milnes [Richard Monckton Milnes, later Baron Houghton], 13 November [1861] | |||||||||||
Transcript in Edmund Gosse's handwriting; assigned year of 1862 crossed out in favor of 1861; includes a note regarding the location from which the letter was sent. Text of full letter appears in Cecil Y. Lang, editor, The Swinburne Letters, Volume 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), page 62. | |||||||||||
Holograph copy of conclusion of letter (1 page), from C.H. Swinburne [to Lord Houghton], undated [but 26 July 1867] | |||||||||||
Transcript in Edmund Gosse's handwriting; first page of transcript not present. Text of full letter appears in Cecil Y. Lang, editor, The Swinburne Letters, Volume 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), page 255. | |||||||||||
Holograph copy of letter (2 pages), from [A.C. Swinburne] to Seymour Kirkup, 28 March [1868] | |||||||||||
Transcript (of letter fragment) in Edmund Gosse's handwriting; includes footnotes, one of which is initialed by Gosse. Text of letter appears in Cecil Y. Lang, editor, The Swinburne Letters, Volume 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), pages 294-295. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 16 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph transcripts of letters (27 pages + cover), from John Addington Symonds to Edmund Gosse, August 1875-July 1878 | |||||||||||
Certain letters not fully transcribed, per use of ellipses. | |||||||||||
Initialed note by Gosse included on first letter: This opened my acquaintance with J.A.S. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 17 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph transcripts of letters (35 pages), from John Addington Symonds to Edmund Gosse, October 1878-June 1890 | |||||||||||
Certain letters not fully transcribed, per use of ellipses. | |||||||||||
Some of the transcripts are obviously in Gosse's handwriting. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 18 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph transcripts of letters (32 pages), from John Addington Symonds to Edmund Gosse, July 1890-Decmeber 1892 | |||||||||||
Certain letters not fully transcribed, per use of ellipses. | |||||||||||
Some of the transcripts are obviously in Gosse's handwriting. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 19 | Gosse, Edmund [bound volume] | |||||||||
Title on spine: Sir E. Gosse and R.L. Stevenson. 1881-1907. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Nellie [Gosse], 26 August [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: description of trip; sea sickness; Stevenson family. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My darling" [Ellen Gosse], 27 August [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: love for wife; description of Stevenson family; description of mountains; weather. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Nellie [Gosse], 28 August [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: bad weather; Stevenson spitting blood. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Nellie [Gosse], 30 August [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: weather; description of mountains; Louis's health; Louis's father quite a conversationalist; takes long walks with him; Mrs. Louis sweet and quiet. Accompanied by an envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Nellie [Gosse], 2 September [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: alarmed at her silence; weather improved but still cold; saw the gathering of the Clans for Highland Games; Herbert Spencer & Bishop of Winchester present; walk to Loch Callater; Louis in poor health; Hamo; Mrs. Wallace. Accompanied by an envelope fragment and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Nellie [Gosse], 3 September [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: drive to Spittal of Glen Shee; to leave with Hamo for Orkney; American business; Robert Louis seems better and is writing a novel of pirates and hidden treasure; will be sad to leave Stevenson household. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to Nellie [Gosse], 4 September [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: admonishes her to decline meetings; personal items; Mrs. Stevenson. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "my Darling Sposa" [Ellen Gosse], 5 September [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: leaving Stevenson household with regret, but glad to leave climate; Louis spiting blood and wife sick. Accompanied by an envelope fragment and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference materials -- typed transcripts of five letters, 1883-1886, sent by Robert Louis Stevenson to Gosse, undated | |||||||||||
Reference materials -- typed transcript of a letter, [1890], sent by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson to Gosse, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Lloyd Osbourne to [Edmund] Gosse, 11 August 1907 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference materials -- clipping | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 20 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Correspondence relating to a possible job for Gosse at the British Museum. | |||||||||||
AL (4 pages), to Thomas Farrer, undated | |||||||||||
Draft? | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), from R.R. W--?-- to [Thomas] Farrer, 12 September [18]84 | |||||||||||
Letterpress copy of letter, from T.H. Farrer to the Trustees of the British Museum, 29 September 1884 | |||||||||||
Letterpress copy of a letter, from Edw. A. Bond to Thos. H. Farrer, 13 October 1884 | |||||||||||
Letterpress copy of a letter, from T.H. Farrer to the Treasury Secretary, 27 October 1884 | |||||||||||
Envelope, undated | |||||||||||
Includes notation: Proposed transference to the British Museum, Autumn 1884. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 21 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Notes, often in the form of diary entries, relating to authors and other notable figures that Gosse met or heard stories about. The notes are written on unnumbered, loose leaves of blue, lined paper removed, most likely, from the same notebook. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Lord & Lady Antrim [in 1903]," undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "A Lunch with Robert Browning and Locker," 25 July 1876 | |||||||||||
Locker is presumably Frederick Locker-Lampson. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Robert Buchanan," 30 June-July 1876 and 30 March 1878 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Charles Doughty," 25 June 1914 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Froude and Carlyle [in 1881]," undated | |||||||||||
Concerns James Anthony Froude and Thomas Carlyle. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Richard Hengist Horne," June 1876-14 January 1877 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "A Visit from R. H. Horne," 15 February 1877 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Henry Kingsley [in about 1873 and 1874]," undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Pierre Loti," 8 July 1909 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Meredith and Tennyson," 13 October 1912 | |||||||||||
In part, concerns George Meredith. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "George Moore," 5 March 1928 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The Sultan of Perak," 23 June 1902 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Lord Rosebery," 17 November 1903 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Christina G. Rossetti [in the 1870s]," undated and 6 July 1876 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by notation on a separate leaf: These notes were incorporated in the Essay on "C.G.R." in Gosse's Critical Kit-Kats. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (1 page + 1 page), "Maria Francesca Rossetti" [and on verso] "Henry James," 25 November [18]76 and undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by notation on a separate leaf: Part of this appears in the Essay on "Christina Rossetti" [in Critical Kit Kats]. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Duke of Rutland," 6 July 1903 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (6 pages), "Algernon Charles Swinburne," July 1876, 17 August 1876, 14 May 1877, 11 June 1877 and 10 September [1877] | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Swinburne," 4 January 1878 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "Alfred Tennyson," 13 April 1877 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Tennyson," 10 January 1895 and undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Charles Wells," 30 November 1877 and undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Lord Wemyss," 4 August 1909 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 22 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Notes and poems relating to authors and other notable figures that Gosse met or heard stories about. Some of the notes are written on unnumbered, loose leaves of blue, lined paper. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), ["This afternoon . . . I met Carlyle walking down Regent Street"], 25 October 1876 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by the next item. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "On Meeting Carlyle in Regent Street" [poem], 25 October 1876 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), ["Haldane recounted to me . . . an episode of his visit to Berlin in 1906"], 1 May 1922 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Weep, weep! For Mrs. Cashel Hoey. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Concerns Frances Cashel Hoey. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), ["Things? overheard? . . . Sept? 10. . . ."], 10 September 1877? | |||||||||||
Portions of leaf torn away at top and bottom. In part, concerns Mrs. Miles [i.e., Kate Munroe?]. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), ["I saw Ruskin once"], undated | |||||||||||
Concerns John Ruskin in about 1871. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "The Duke of Rutland [in 1903 and 1904]," undated | |||||||||||
Signed by Gosse at the end. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Tourgenieff [in 1871]," undated | |||||||||||
Concerns Ivan Turgenev. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 23 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph MS (17 pages), "A Letter from Lorraine," May 1891 | |||||||||||
The text of six [?] letters; signed by Gosse once at the end. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Verona: Note of what sights seen October 1901" [and note regarding 1907], 21 October 1901 and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 24 | Gosse, Edmund [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "The Church by the Sea" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy signed by Gosse. Includes an added title leaf. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 25 | Gosse, Edmund [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (53 pages), "The Oera Linda Book," undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy with occasional corrections indicated. Includes an added title leaf. | |||||||||||
Presumably the text that appeared in Cornhill Magazine in 1876. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 26 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph MS (7 pages), The Gold Horns (London, 1913), 1913 | |||||||||||
Title page, editor's introduction (signed by Gosse) and one other page, all in Gosse's handwriting; lacks most of the text of the poem. Pertains to a pamphlet that was privately-printed by Thomas J. Wise. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (12 pages), "Borrow and the Kjaempeviser," undated | |||||||||||
Introduction to George Borrow's Grimhild's Vengeance: Three Ballads (London, 1913) that was privately-printed by Thomas J. Wise. Signed by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 27 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Printed menu (1 page plus 1 page of signatures), 29 December 1884 | |||||||||||
Menu for a breakfast for Gosse, held at the University Club in New York City, that was apparently hosted by J.W. Harper, Jr. Signed by various persons, presumably attendees, on the verso. Among the persons represented by signatures are members of the Harper & Brothers firm and Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
Attached to a large paper stub, as if intended for binding. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 28 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), [schedule of] "Lectures," 1890/91-1895/96 and 1898/99-1899/00 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an undated typed page headed: Schedule of lecturers' royalties. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 29 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Holograph MS (6 pages), [prefatory note and prose remarks in English delivered at an October session of the French Professors in England], 1896 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 30 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Materials relating to a speech delivered to library assistants. | |||||||||||
Holograph notes (4 pages), undated | |||||||||||
Printed text from an edition of H.G. Wells' In the Days of the Comet (1 leaf), undated | |||||||||||
Includes a selection marked off in ink. | |||||||||||
Typescript (4 leaves), ["Mr. Gosse, in congratulating the librarians. . . ."] [untitled prose], undated | |||||||||||
Partial copy of text (see next item) that appeared in The Times. | |||||||||||
Clipping, 11 October 1906 | |||||||||||
Pertains to an address by Gosse to the Library Assistant's Association. | |||||||||||
Envelope, undated | |||||||||||
Includes notation: Address to the Association of Library Assistants, Oct. 10. 1906. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 31 | Gosse, Edmund [bound volume] | |||||||||
Lecture program (4 pages), 1894 | |||||||||||
For "Reading as a Recreation," to be delivered by Gosse on 7 March 1894 at the Storey Institute, Lancaster. | |||||||||||
Reference materials -- clippings | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (51 pages), [notes and substantial lecture fragment, all concerning poetry], 1922 and undated | |||||||||||
Material relating, at least in part, to an address given by Gosse before the Manchester Luncheon Club, 6 November 1922. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 32 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Author's marked proof (40 pages), The Life of Swinburne (London, 1912), 1912 | |||||||||||
The privately printed version of Gosse's essay for the Dictionary of National Biography. Unbound. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 33 | Gosse, Edmund [bound volume] | |||||||||
Editor's marked proof (96 pages only), Les Fleurs du Mal and Other Studies by Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, 1913), 1913 | |||||||||||
One of Thomas J. Wise's privately-printed efforts. Interleaved. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 34 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Author's marked galley proof (1 page), "Swinburne at Putney" [prose], March [1918] | |||||||||||
The text of Gosse's review ("personal statement") concerning Thomas Hake and Arthur Compton-Rickett's The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1918) that appeared in The Observer. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 35 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
Photographs, taken in Spain, 10 April 1912 | |||||||||||
Four images: two of Gosse at San Sebastián, one of a related street scene and one of W[illiam] Heinemann. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope, addressed to Gosse, and an unsigned transmittal note: Recuerdos de España. The stationery, evidently that of William Heinemann, bears the intials "wh" within a circle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 36 | Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
States in part that the accompanying printed copy of the 1893 Marriage Address was that of the Archbishop of Canterbury and that Gosse received it after his death from Arthur C. Benson, the Archbishop's son. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E.G. | |||||||||||
Address delivered in St. James Chapel Royal at the Marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York, K.G., and H.S.H. the Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (7 pages), by Edward White [Benson], Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 6 July 1893 | |||||||||||
"Printed by Command of Her Majesty." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a fragment of an envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 37 | Gosse, Philip Henry | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Mr. Hogg, 22 November 1861 | |||||||||||
Affixed to the note is a clipping of a newspaper death notice for Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My beloved Son" [Edmund Gosse], 21 December 1870 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: P. H. Gosse. | |||||||||||
Envelope, to Mr. Gosse, [1856] | |||||||||||
Includes a postage stamp and the embossed initials "PHG." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 38 | Goulburn, Edward Meyrick | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Henry Elliot, 31 March 1866 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E.M. Goulburn. | |||||||||||
"Form [letter] of Reply," to [Herbert C. Saunders], 5 February 1879 | |||||||||||
Includes pre-printed address and canceled postage stamp on verso. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), [3 May 1897] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 39 | Gould, John | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Richard Owens, 6 January [18]44? | |||||||||||
Subject: duplicates of specimens from western Australia. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 40 | Grafton, Duke of [George Henry Fitzroy] | |||||||||
DS (3 pages), 30 December 1822 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Grafton. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Grafton, 1827 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 41 | Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: M.E. Grant Duff. | |||||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 22 December 1888 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 4 January 1896 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 42 | Gresham?, James? | |||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JaGresham? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 43 | Grey, Charles | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: C Grey. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to J.B? Alexander, 24 October 1851 | |||||||||||
Subject: possible removal of model cottages in Hyde Park to the Ipswich Arboretum. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to J.B? Alexander, 30 January 1852 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 44 | Grierson, Herbert John Clifford | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 21 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: finished Swinburne biography; Swinburne's poetry. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H.J.C. Grierson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 45 | Groome, William Wollaston | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund Gosse], 13 August 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: minor corrections to essay on Swinburne in Portraits and Sketches; incident recounted by his brother, F.H. Groome, concerning Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W. Wollaston Groome. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 46 | Grosart, Alexander Balloch | |||||||||
Letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed by Grosart in various ways. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 23 June 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: the Sydney and Douve books; bibliographical information. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 26 June 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: Aubrey de Vere; Cyril Townsend's proof-sheets. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 17 November 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: "Scourge of Venus"; C. Townsend. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 17 March 1876 | |||||||||||
Subject: Chatto and Windus; Spencer; list of writers. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. S., 16 July 1876 | |||||||||||
Subject: illness; review in Athenaeum of Silas Fletcher; Bamfield. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 26 September 1876 | |||||||||||
Subject: health; closing poem of Parkes' Curtain-drawer. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 13 September 1879 | |||||||||||
Subject: requests copy of book; life of Henry, Earl of Southampton. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. S., 3 October 1879 | |||||||||||
Subject: Beaumond-Hawkins; Willabe's Avisa perfect copy. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 12 November 1879 | |||||||||||
Subject: Alaha; Avisa; John Heywood. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 17 December 1879 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for compliments on Alaha; Shakespeare; search for various poems. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 47 | Grosart, Alexander Balloch | |||||||||
Letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed by Grosart in various ways. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 3 January 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: enjoying Swinburne's new book; Avisa. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 14 February 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's Shakespeare volume read; Willabe's Avisa introduction; Beaumont. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. S., 20 April 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: payment of books; Avisa; thanks to Swinburne for his notes on Avisa. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 30 May 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for Swinburne's new volume of poems; advises Swinburne to guard his health; Swinburne's "Birthday Ode"; Mrs. Barrett Browning's poem. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. S., 17 June [18]80? | |||||||||||
Subject: poem in honor of Landor. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 11 August 1880 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for check in payment of Arwin; Mr. Collier. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 3 February 1881 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for Swinburne's new volume; sea-poems. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 12 April 1881 | |||||||||||
Subject: John [Maytay?] Dramatic Works; received payment for books. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. S., 24 June 1881 | |||||||||||
Subject: received payment; new Landor book | |||||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 14 August 1882 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for volume of Poems; considers Swinburne's child-poems priceless; Thomas Carlyle; biographic-dramatic sonnets. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 48 | Grosart, Alexander Balloch | |||||||||
Letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed by Grosart in various ways. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. S., 28 April 1883 | |||||||||||
Subject: poems. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 18 August 1884 | |||||||||||
Subject: Chatto and Windus; reading books. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 22 June 1885 | |||||||||||
Subject: bibliographical information. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 17 April 1886 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's new book on Victor Hugo. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 20 April 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: gift of Swinburne's new series of Poems and Ballads; death of brother-in-law; Swinburne's "Armada." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 8 May 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's books. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 18 May 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: receives book Marino Faliero to add to his set of Swinburne's books; Poems and Ballads; "Armada" ballad; Swinburne's poems. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 14 December 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: requests a study of Montaigne and of Cervantes; Swinburne's Ben [Jonas]. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 15 March 1895 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for first letter received in a number of years from Swinburne; his illness. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 49 | Grosart, Alexander Balloch | |||||||||
Letters to Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed by Grosart in various ways. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 18 June 1898 | |||||||||||
Subject: his 64th birthday; his joy at receiving a letter from Swinburne after a lapse of a few years; Watts-Dunton's volume of poems; Titus Andronicus. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Swinburne, 5 July 1898 | |||||||||||
Subject: Titus Andronicus. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 13 July 1898 | |||||||||||
Subject: Titus Andronicus; Gabriel Haney; letters of Henry Vaughan. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, 31 July 1898 | |||||||||||
Subject: Daniel volumes; Abraham Frances rare Rhetoric (1588). | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Algernon Charles Swinburne, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: Cyril Townsend. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Swinburne, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: bibliographical information. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to A.C. Swinburne, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: poems. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. S., undated |
Box 7 : Grosvenor, Robert-Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 1 | Grosvenor, Robert [Marquess of Westminster] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Robert Peel, 18 November 1823 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Grosvenor [as his title in 1823 was Earl of Grosvenor]. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf [signed by Grosvenor], to the Revd. R. Davies, 4 August 1814 | |||||||||||
View of Eaton Hall (West Front), undated | |||||||||||
View of Eaton Hall (East Front), undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 2 | Gudbrand Vigfusson | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [Edmund] Gosse, 16 May [18]79 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G. Vigfusson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 3 | Guthrie, George James | |||||||||
Form of signate used in letters: GJ Guthrie. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 14 [no month or year] | |||||||||||
Adhered to next item. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J. Hogg, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 4 | Haldane, Lord [Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 26 April [19]15 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lord Redesdale. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to "My dear G." [Edmund Gosse], 4 April [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: has read more than one-third of Gosse's Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; Hume Brown; the war; a talk with Margot; busy reading, walking and "working at philosophy." | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 11? April [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; when he expects to be in London; a "British victory in France." | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement K. Shorter, 13 January 1924 | |||||||||||
Subject: an appointment to meet at the Devonshire Club. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 17? January [19]24 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 5 | Hamilton, A. [i.e., Archibald Hamilton, later the 9th Duke of Hamilton?] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Anthony Atkinson], 28 October 1787? | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 6 | Hamilton, Elizabeth | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient [Mrs. Greg?], 11 December 1811 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E. Hamilton. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 7 | Hamilton?, Lord? | |||||||||
Clipped signature? and wax seal, 24 December 1788 | |||||||||||
Although possibly a receipt, this item remains unidentified; it might have been cut from a larger document. Includes the word "Hamilton." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 8 | Hamilton, William (1788-1856) | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William Shaen], 25 September 1841 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W. Hamilton. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 9 | Hamilton, William Rowan | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to John Finlay, Esq., L.L.D., 3 December 1835 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for present of book; his reaction to Finlay's Miscellanies. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: William R. Hamilton. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 10 | Hampden, Richard | |||||||||
DS (1 page), April 1692 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R. Hampden. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 11 | Hannay, James | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to S. Lucas, 15 March [1859] | |||||||||||
Subject: applying for Inspectorship of Schools in Scotland; wants Lucas to speak to Disraeli about him. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 12 | Harcourt, Countess of [Elizabeth Harcourt] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My Lord" [Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney], undated | |||||||||||
Written, as a lady-in-waiting, on behalf of Queen Charlotte. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E. Harcourt. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 13 | Harcourt, Countess of [Mary Harcourt] | |||||||||
AL (2 pages), to Mr. Alexander, 2? July [1821] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mrs. Marlow, 7 September 1821 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Alexander, the ventriloquist. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Mary Harcourt. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 14 | Harcourt, Lord [Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 4 April [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: has read half of Gosse's Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne; Swinburne. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 9 April [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's poem on the assassination of Alexander III; Faustine; Erotion; "The Ballad of Truthful Charles"; "Ode on Eton"; immortal phrases of Gosse. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 15 | Harcourt, William [3rd Earl Harcourt] | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to [Thomas] Cadell, undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf, to Mathw. Wyatt [Matthew Cotes Wyatt], 21 March 1814 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Harcourt. Includes a wax seal. | |||||||||||
Clipping, [6 July 1830] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 16 | Hardinge, George | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dr Lord" [Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney], 25 December 1783 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: GHardinge. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 17 | Hardinge, Lord [Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Lord John Russell, 11 May 1855 | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 18 | Hardy, Thomas | |||||||||
For the texts of the letters to Clodd, and contextual information, consult: Carl J. Weber, "Some Letters on Hardy's 'Tess'," Journal of the Rutgers University Library XIII:1 (December 1949), pages 1-6. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edward] Clodd, 4 February 1892 | |||||||||||
Subject: Andrew Lang's article on Tess in the New Review; sales of the book; "odd that nearly every adverse criticism [of Tess] is written by a fellow-Savilian. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into a copy of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892). | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, Good Friday 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: painting of Hardy by Winifred Thomson. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edward Clodd], 10 December 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: has not seen the play as he was ill during its run; might see the play at Weymouth; the film version of Tess by an American company. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T.H. | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into a copy of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 19 | Hardy, Thomas Duffus | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T.E.P. Lepey?, 3 February 1870 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: T. Duffus Hardy. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 20 | Harland, Robert | |||||||||
Bill, 1835 | |||||||||||
Subject: conveyance of property at Levington? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 21 | Harley, Henrietta [Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer] | |||||||||
Ownership inscription, 1720? | |||||||||||
Flyleaf from a book. Although the fancy penmanship of the owner's name ("Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley") may be that of a scrivener, the notation beneath it (Given by my Lord / May 1720) is perhaps in Harley's own handwriting. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 22 | Harris, James | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [Francis] Wingrave, 16 September 1780 | |||||||||||
Subject: not sending proofs until next Wednesday; desires a bound set of his works to be sent to Bath immediately; inquiry concerning best manner to send books to Geneva. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 23 | Harrison, W. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages; retained copy), to [Mr. Grosvenor], 9 March 1650/51 | |||||||||||
Paper loss at one edge affects text. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 24 | Harrison, William Henry (1795-1878) | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Jerdan" [William Jerdan], undated? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W. H. Harrison. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 25 | Hatfied, C.W. [bound volume] | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to [Joseph Hambley Rowe], 18 July 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: possible errors in Rowe's article on the maternal relatives of the Brontës | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to [Joseph Hambley] Rowe, 14 August 1923 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 26 | Hayden, F.V. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 24 January 1879 | |||||||||||
Photograph of group camped in the Rocky Mountains, 1878 or 1879 | |||||||||||
With a separate caption. Includes Joseph Dalton Hooker, hence actually from 1877? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 27 | Hayman, [Mrs.] A. | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Dear Madam" [Elizabeth Croft], 11 February [1830] | |||||||||||
Subject: Thomas Lawrence; sources for proposed biography of Lawrence by Thomas Campbell; Mrs. Hughes; unpublished poems by Lawrence; Mrs. [Isabella] Wolff; engravings; Mr. Lake. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 28 | Heathcote, Ralph | |||||||||
DS (1 page), 5 January 1792 | |||||||||||
Subject: Elisabeth Henriette Catherina Cressener is living in Bonn. | |||||||||||
Includes a wax seal by Heathcote's signature. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 29 | Heber, Reginald [Bishop of Calcutta] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Hodsall? & Stirling, 4 January [1821] | |||||||||||
Subject: annual payment on an insurance policy. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Regd. Heber. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 30 | Heber, Reginald [Bishop of Calcutta] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), ["Beneath her chaste and happy bones recline. . . ."] [untitled poem], [1817] | |||||||||||
Translation of a Petrarchan sonnet. | |||||||||||
Unsigned, but attributed, in notations on and with the item, to the Rev. R. Heber and Bishop Heber. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 31 | Heber, Richard | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 3 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: two favors involving [Thomas?] Amyot. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 32 | Henderson, John | |||||||||
Receipts (2 items), for money received from George Pratt Webb, 1730-1731 | |||||||||||
Pertain to money from the estate of Dame Margaret Pratt that was signed over to Henderson by Margaret Salkeld (formerly widow of Ralph Anderson), the spouse of Roger Salkeld. The receipts are included on oaths declaring that Mrs. Salkeld was then alive. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 33 | Henning, John (1801-1857) | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Sir" [Abraham Cooper], circa 22 February 1830 | |||||||||||
Subject: met while Henning studying the Elgin Marbles; desires Cooper to view two current works: a small equestrian statue of the King plus a representation of King Lear and Edgar. | |||||||||||
Date from postmark. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Henning Junr. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 34 | Herbert, Edward [2nd Earl of Powis] | |||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), 2 May 1820 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Clive [as his title in 1820 was Viscount Clive]. | |||||||||||
Adhered to same sheet as next item. | |||||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), 21? October 1833 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Clive. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 35 | Hill, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund Gosse], 30 December 1877 | |||||||||||
Subject: his brother-in-law Mr. Wells [Charles Jeremiah Wells]. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 36 | Hobart, Elizabeth | |||||||||
DS (1 page), 13 April 1668 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Eliz. Hobart. | |||||||||||
Endorsed: Power of Atty to enter on Lands. | |||||||||||
On parchment. Accompanied by a partial typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 37 | Hodges, Charles Howard | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Mr. Lupton [i.e., Thomas Goff Lupton?], 21 August 1827 | |||||||||||
Subject: orders from late Mr. Yates concerning number of copies of the Rosel. Signed by Hodges with his initials only. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 38 | Hodges, William | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W. Hodges. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Thomas Maurice?], [1793?] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment to see the Rev. [Maurice] and a Mr. Barbon; symbolic figures. Paper cut and item is nearly in two pieces. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William Hayley], 22 July [17]93 | |||||||||||
Subject: birth of Serena; Gilpin on landscape painting. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William Hayley], 4 October 1794 | |||||||||||
Subject: nearing completion of new picture, the subject War; will start one, the subject Peace. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Ozias] Humphrey, 7 January 1797 | |||||||||||
Subject: unable to keep appointment; Gilpin; will make future appointment. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Wm. Hodges, 1792 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Wm. Hodges, 1810 | |||||||||||
View of Banyan Tree, 1793 | |||||||||||
"Engraved . . . from a Picture Painted by W. Hodges RA." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 39 | Hodgkin, Thomas (1798-1866) | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Respected Friend" [Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach], 17 October 1840 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter of introduction for Joseph Travers; Dieffenbach's cousin in New Zealand. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 40 | Hodgson, N.M. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Mr.] ----- Méquignon, 9 February 1846 | |||||||||||
Subject: misdirected books; a bill. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 41 | Hogg, James | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Anna Maria Hall [Mrs. S.C. Hall], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: missed social engagement involving the Halls. | |||||||||||
Portrait of James Hogg, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of James Hogg, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of James Hogg, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of "The Ettrick Shepherd," undated | |||||||||||
View of St. Mary's Loch ["Hogg Monument in the distance"], undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 42 | Holland, Francis | |||||||||
Legal document, 20 November 1658 | |||||||||||
Concerns a land dispute with Thomas Norris that was settled in favor of Francis Holland. | |||||||||||
Text appearing prominently at top of document: Richard Lord Protector. Mentioned elsewhere in the text is Justice Oliver St. John. | |||||||||||
On parchment; folded; seal missing. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 43 | Holland, Henry Scott | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: H.S. Holland. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [the Rev. R.B.] Rackham, undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope with an embossed stamp, likely for this letter or the next one, postmarked 19 July [18]99. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [the Rev. R.B.] Rackham, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 44 | Holland, Lady [Elizabeth Vassall Fox] | |||||||||
AN (2 pages), from Lord Holland to Mr. Bandinel [or Baudinel?], 1823 | |||||||||||
Subject: a porter for Holland House; Lord Holland's gout. | |||||||||||
Written by Lady Holland on behalf of Lord Holland. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Vassall Holland [Henry Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland], undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Vassall Holland [Henry Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 45 | Hook, Theodore | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edward?] Dubois, undated | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Theodore E. Hook, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 46 | Hooker, Joseph Dalton | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Jos D Hooker. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Capt. [John] Washington, 19 April 1861 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to John --?--, Jr., 27 May 1861 | |||||||||||
Subject: regrets inaccurate account of [Hooker's father-in-law] John Stevens Henslow in the Athenaeum; encourages the recipient to submit his own account of Henslow to the London Review. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [George] Brightwen, 16 September [18]74 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Pamphlet (12 pages), "Lecture on Insular Floras," 1866 | |||||||||||
Attached to a stamped address leaf sent to Jabez Hogg. | |||||||||||
Clipping (1 item), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 47 | Hooker, William Jackson | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W. J. Hooker. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Thomas Brightwen], 27 June 1835 | |||||||||||
Subject: advice for Brightwen's town of Scotland. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), November 1837 | |||||||||||
Subject: price increase for Botanical Magazine. | |||||||||||
Signature in pencil. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Sir" [unknown recipient], 3 May 1842 | |||||||||||
Portrait of W.J. Hooker, 1813 | |||||||||||
Portrait of W.J. Hooker, 1834 | |||||||||||
Portrait of W.J. Hooker, 1847 | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait of William Hooker, 1860s? | |||||||||||
Full pate image of seated man. Copy held by Royal Society (Great Britain) dated circa 1857-1859. | |||||||||||
Clippings (4 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 48 | Hope, John [5th Earl of Hopetoun] | |||||||||
Portion of address leaf, to Earl of Euston [Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton], 21? February 1825 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Hopetoun. | |||||||||||
Adhered to same sheet as next item. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf, to Captain M.C. Johnstone, 24 April 1833 | |||||||||||
Franked item with portion of letter on verso. Form of signature used: Hopetoun. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 49 | Howard, Edward | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Aylmer Haly], 23? June 1837 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Miss Mary Ann [Haly], [January 1838] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 50 | Howe, M.L. | |||||||||
TLS (1 page plus enclosure), to unknown recipient, 4 March 1933 | |||||||||||
Subject: D.G. Rossetti letters. | |||||||||||
Name of addressee possibly torn from top; it was apparently someone who knew Thomas J. Wise, but not actually Wise himself. | |||||||||||
Enclosure: 1933 article by Howe, on unpublished stanzas by Rossetti, that appeared in Modern Language Notes. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 51 | Howells, William Dean | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W. D. Howells. | |||||||||||
For the texts of these letters, and contextual information, consult: Clara and Rudolf Kirk, "Letters to an 'Enchanted Guest': W. D. Howells to Edmund Gosse," Journal of the Rutgers University Library XXII:2 (June 1959), pages 1-25. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 9 September 1883 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (10 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 2 January 188[4?] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 14 April 1904 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 15 April 1904 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 52 | Hugo, Victor | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to Edouard -----, 18 January [no year] | |||||||||||
Portrait [of Victor Hugo], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 53 | Hume, Joseph | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Joseph Noble, 8 July 1832 | |||||||||||
Subject: corporal punishment (flogging) in the military. | |||||||||||
Circular letter (2 pages), to S. Naylor, 20 February 1835 | |||||||||||
Subject: politics. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to William Newton [William John Newton], 10 July 1843 | |||||||||||
Clipping (1 item), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 54 | Hunt, Violet ["Mrs. Ford Madox Hueffer"] | |||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [W. T. Freemantle], 7 May 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: search for information for book on the life of Miss Siddall, who was D.G. Rossetti's wife; Miss Siddall's pictures at the Tate Gallery; aided by Robert Browning, W. B. Scott, and Theodore Watts [Dunton]; her husband's book Ancient Lights. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [W. T. Freemantle], 16 May 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for any information Mr. Freemantle may have on the life of Elizabeth Siddall, wife of Rossetti; copy of Ancient Lights. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
TLS (5 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, 26 May 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: Ford Madox Hueffer's book Ancient Lights; thanks for marriage certificate she requested of Elizabeth Siddall's mother and father; details of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti's life and of her brothers and sisters. Annotated by Freemantle. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages + 1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, 15 June [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Freemantle's illness; information concerning Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti's life. Includes draft response from Freemantle. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, circa 21 June 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: offer to take collection on the Rossetti family; information on Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti's family. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from W. T. Freemantle to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 22 June [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: information on Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti's life and that of her brothers and sisters. [Draft response.] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, 13 September [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: information on Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from I[rene] Cochrane, Hunt's secretary, to W. T. Freemantle, 17 September [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mrs. Hueffer to visit; arrangement for trains. | |||||||||||
Telegraph (1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, 20 September [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: arrangement for appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, [20? September 1923] | |||||||||||
Subject: unable to get in touch by telephone; request for appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, 21 September [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Freemantle's illness; arrangements for her visit to see the Rossetti papers in Freemantle's possession. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), from I[rene] Cochrane, Hunt's secretary, to W. T. Freemantle, 25 September [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: photo of Charles Siddall; return of photo after negative is made; sending one negative to Mr. Freemantle and keeping one for herself. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, 10 October [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: photo of Charles Siddall; returns photo to Freemantle. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from W. T. Freemantle to Violet Hunt Hueffer, 11 October [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: photo of Charles Siddall; to request of Mr. Fleming at British Museum a copy of a business plate. [Draft of response.] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, circa 19 October 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: certificate of death of mother of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti; details of Mrs. Rossetti's life and of her family. Stamped envelope included that bears annotations regarding its several contents. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, circa 28 November 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: information of the lives of the Siddalls and especially Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
TLS (3 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, circa 1 January 1924 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mrs. George Porter Higgins; diary of William Allingham who was acquainted with Mrs. Rossetti; refers to remarks made by William Rossetti; other details in search for information on the Siddall family. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 55 | Huskisson, William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Mr. Robins], 10 January 1813 | |||||||||||
Subject: rental of house owned by Huskisson. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W. Huskisson. | |||||||||||
Portrait of William Huskisson [a proof], 1831 | |||||||||||
View of "Huskisson Memorial Window, in Chichester Cathedral," undated | |||||||||||
Affixed to endorsement leaf for an item (not present) written by Huskisson in 1804. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 56 | Ingpen & Co., London | |||||||||
TLS (1 page plus enclosure), to The Librarian (Brotherton Library) [John Alexander Symington], 9 February 1933 | |||||||||||
The enclosure describes Swinburne manuscripts being offered for sale on behalf of a relative of William Minto. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a transmittal letter from the Librarian at the University of Leeds and by an unsigned carbon copy of a TL, 12 February 1933, declining to purchase the items. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 57 | James, Henry [Baron James of Hereford] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Boehm [i.e., Joseph Edgar Boehm?], 10 March 1885 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Photographic copy included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 58 | James, Henry (1843-1916) [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 June 1903 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for booklet [The Challenge of the Brontës]; France; Sylvia; Byzantine Belgrade. Stamped envelope included. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 59 | James, Henry (1843-1916) | |||||||||
For the texts of these letters and the 1903 letter to Gosse, with contextual information, consult: Rudolf Kirk, "Five Letters of Henry James," Journal of the Rutgers University Library XII:2 (June 1949), pages 54-58. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W[illiam] Barclay Squire, 26 November [1893] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
TLS (3 pages), to Miss [Matilda] Betham-Edwards, 9 October 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. James' illness preventing him from keeping appointment; will make future appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Miss [Matilda] Betham-Edwards, 26 September 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for note of appreciation. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 60 | Jefferies, Richard | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 6 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: Jefferies' willingness to write an article for Scribner's Monthly. | |||||||||||
Year of 1891 added in pencil is too late to be correct. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Richard Jefferies [from an 1879 photograph], undated | |||||||||||
Brochure promoting books about the English countryside [including Jefferies' England], 1930s or 1940s | |||||||||||
Clipping (1 item), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 61 | Jeffries, Benjamin Joy | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [Jabez] Hogg, 20 November [year not legible] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for periodical with article. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: B. Joy Jeffries. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 62 | Jenkins, Leoline | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Earl of Conway [Edward Conway], 15 September [16]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: possible message to the Portuguese ambassador. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 63 | Jerrold, Blanchard | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 8 September? 1869 | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to [Jabez] Hogg, [May 1882] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for sympathy and kindness; have written to the person suggested. | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 64 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, 28 August [18]84 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for Scott's presence at dinner at Blanchard's. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, 3 May [18]85 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for Scott's presence at dinner at Blanchard's. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 9 January [18]86 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulates Scott on article by him in Illustrated London News; requests him to hear, with others, his play which was refused by the licenser. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Clement Scott, 25 October [18]87 | |||||||||||
Subject: items for Scott's weekly column in the Telegraph; Jones' new play Heart of Hearts; lectures. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to Clement Scott, 17 November [18]87 | |||||||||||
Subject: arrangements for the American rights of the play Heart of Hearts; claim against him by Mr. Paul Meritt as to the similarity of his play and Meritt's; Jones' claim that his play is original and offer to submit the play to a jury of critics. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, [1887?] | |||||||||||
Subject: lecture. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, 28 August 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: Willard's changing of scenes back to original reading, in accordance with Scott's ideas. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, 24 September 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: [Edward Smith] Willard to produce The Middleman in New York; offers to write Scott a little sketch or story for his Annual. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: HAJ. |
Box 8 : Jones, Henry Arthur-Lever, Charles | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 1 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement] Scott, 7 May 1890 | |||||||||||
Subject: titles of Jones' new play to be "Judah." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, [25 July 1890] | |||||||||||
Subject: Jones' plays. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to Clement Scott, 22 September 1890 | |||||||||||
Subject: Scott's reply to George Moore in the Illustrated London News; comparison of lines in Shakespeare to modern talk; Jones' play Judah. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 20 October 1890 | |||||||||||
Typed transcript only. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 10 December 1890 | |||||||||||
Subject: Jones' new Haymarket play; also play Called Back; visit to Antwerp for production of The Middleman; Scott's recent bereavement. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 19 December [18]90 | |||||||||||
Subject: The Dancing Girl; scenery and production. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 7 March [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment to take a chair at meeting and invitation to dinner. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages plus enclosure), to Clement Scott, 21 July [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: enclosed papers containing description and maps of the route from Exeter to Clovelly--to send more later. (Map fragment and six pages of route details enclosed.) Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure), to [Clement] Scott, 24 July [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: remainder of route from Exeter to Clovelly. (Map fragment and six pages of route details enclosed.) Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 2 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 11 September [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: George Moore's damaging criticisms of Jones' works after Jones refused to collaborate with him on a story. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, 30 September [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: rehearsals for play; requests Scott to take the chair at meeting of National Sunday League. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, 14 October [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: first programme of The Crusaders; a comedy, The Dancing Girl. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement] Scott, 12 November [18]91 | |||||||||||
Subject: the press; first night audience; Clyde Fitch; Pamela's Prodigy; requests Scott to see play again when Miss Maude Millett plays Cynthia; Miss Emery. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 10 January 1892 | |||||||||||
Subject: plays; The Crusaders; Judah; illness. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement Scott, 6 July 1892 | |||||||||||
Subject: new play; asks Scott to contradict rumors concerning new play as these statements were not given by him. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, 12 October 1893 | |||||||||||
Subject: Jones in Paris; the play called The Tempter. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 3 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, 22 November [18]94 | |||||||||||
Subject: the play The Masqueraders; Miss Beerbohm; Miss Hall Caine and Mr. Otho Stuart very good as Dulcie and David Remon. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, [1897] | |||||||||||
Subject: The Physician; annoyance by fact that paragraphs on plot have appeared as such information was not to have been known as yet; Willard; The Rogue's Comedy at Chicago. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 14 September [18]99 | |||||||||||
Subject: generous account in the New York Herald. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, 6 March 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: his girls playing in The Dancing Girl and receiving good notices. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Major Griffiths, 5 June 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: short pieces in little demand; the British play. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 4 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: enclosure; seeing Scott at The Adelphi. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [untitled prose], circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lecture to be given by Henry A. Jones on the modern drama; "Gargantua's Livery" to be title of discourse. Enclosure in previous letter. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: proofs corrected; Drury Lane piece. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to [Clement] Scott, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment at Blanchards. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Clement] Scott, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: requesting Scott to look in tomorrow's Era and the Bat (publications). Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment at Blanchard's. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment; talk with Brereton concerning scheme to make the Theatre Weekly. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulations on Sister Mary. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 5 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement] Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: piece for America; Thomas McKnight; Saints and Sinners. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: the play Wealth; burlesque; serious plays. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: critics; his opinion of critics' system; Heart of Hearts; Wealth. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: play Wealth; requests Scott to see it again; will be played in America by Mr. Wilson Barrett. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: text for use in Scott's Friday column; play Wealth at the Haymarket. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: play Judah; two-act comedy to play for first time at the Marline benefit; actor Willard. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: The Deacon. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: a strange letter; a new play. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: sends copy of play; Wyndham. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 6 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement] Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: Wyndham's next production to be Jones' new play; asks Scott to make the announcement. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: unauthorized paragraphs published about new play; change in title from The Triflers to The Liars. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement] Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: Haymarket piece to be called Matt Ruddock; motto of play is lyric (praised by Swinburne) by Thomas Dekker; cast to inclined Mr. Beerbohm Tree and Mrs. Tree. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: enclosed book. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: similarity in plot between The Age of Love and A Clerical Error. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: title of play; Harrison; W. S. Lilly. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: postponed appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: Scott's illness; encloses piece for Friday's column. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement] Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: notes; autograph letters of the deceased; to attend funeral. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 7 | Jones, Henry Arthur | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: first night of play. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: HAJ. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: unable to hear Scott's lecture; Jones at work on new play. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mrs. Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledges receipt of two volumes with Scott's inscription; sends remittance for same. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: lecture at the Lambeth Polytechnic; music halls; arranges for Middleman and Wealth to be done at the leading German theatres. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: in future will not write to exact requirements of any theatre but will, when done, take the play to the theatre and company most likely to suit it. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: Miss Laura Johnson recital--to play role of Julia in The Hunchback; plays Wealth and Middleman to be produced in New York. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement] Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: asked to protest against the importation of French drama; Middleman to be done in French by M. Pierre Berton, who will play Willard's part. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 page), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: small understudy part to be filled by a Miss Callon; last act of The Dancing Girl; Miss Emery ill for a short time. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Clement Scott, circa 1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: Sydney Grundy; dinner of the Dramatic and Musical Sick Fund; English stage and French adaptations. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 8 | Jones, W? | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to "the Vice Principal," 10 February 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: "begs to be allowed to dine in his room . . . owing to indisposition." Also includes three pages of Latin notations (concerning the Battle of Marston Moor) in pencil. | |||||||||||
On stationery of Jesus College, Oxford. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 9 | Kaye, William | |||||||||
Bond (2 pages), to John Mellish and John Underwood, 7 November 1639 | |||||||||||
On parchment. | |||||||||||
Partial transcript included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 10 | Kelly, Fitzroy | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to ----- Pollock, 8 May 1856 | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to dine with Kelly, Bramwell, Martin and others. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J.B. Alexander, [24 December] 1856 | |||||||||||
Subject: will subscribe £10 to cause supported by Alexander. | |||||||||||
Portrait of [Fitzroy Kelly], undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, undated | |||||||||||
Image "from a photograph by Mayall." | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 11 | Kent and Strathearn, Duke of [Prince Edward] | |||||||||
AN (2 pages) [in French], to Comte d'Autraignes, 20 October 1809 | |||||||||||
DS (2 pages), 24 December 1797-2 February 1798 | |||||||||||
Signed twice. Form of signature used: Edward. | |||||||||||
DS (1 page), 22 January 1798 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Edward. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
DS (2 pages), 24 May-10 June 1800 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Edward. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf, 1 October 1814 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Kent and Strathearn. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 12 | Ker, William Paton | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W P Ker. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, Good Friday 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks; Christian Year; Mr. S; Keble. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 14 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: T. Watts [Dunton]; Byron; Vision of Judgment; Don Juan; Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 13 | Kernahan, Coulson | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Vaughan Bateson, undated | |||||||||||
Removed from a copy of Kernahan's The Child, the Wise Man and the Devil (1896). | |||||||||||
TL (2 pages), to J. Alex. Symington, [1937] | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne "souvenirs"; Thomas James Wise; death of friends. | |||||||||||
Written on Kenahan's behalf (per "E.G?"). Accompanied by a carbon copy of Symington's TLS, 4 March 1937, to which it relates. | |||||||||||
TL (1 page; incomplete?), to A. Edward Newton, 29 May 1929 | |||||||||||
Subject: book sold by Gabriel Wells to Newton that the latter is offering to trade with Thomas James Wise. | |||||||||||
Unsigned carbon copy. Attribution to Kernahan based on penciled notation and on statement in letter that Hastings is "four miles from here." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 14 | Kimberley, Lord [John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from a secretary on behalf of Lord Kimberley [Robert Bickerstalls?] to Jabez Hogg, 30 January 1884 | |||||||||||
Envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from a secretary on behalf of Lord Kimberley [Armine Wodehouse?] to Jabez Hogg, 29 April 1884 | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledges receipt of Hogg's letter "enclosing a . . . pamphlet by Mr. Jardine." | |||||||||||
Envelope included. | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Earl of Kimberley, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 15 | Kitto, John | |||||||||
ALS? (4 pages) [fragment?], to unknown recipient, 27 April 1837 | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 13 August 1850 | |||||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of John Kitto, 1856 | |||||||||||
Clipping, [May 1897] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 16 | Knight?, ----- | |||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in English], to Monsieur B----?, 25? December 1648? | |||||||||||
The recipient was located in Brussels. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 17 | Koch, Albert | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 3 March 1842 | |||||||||||
Subject: when the "Missourium" may be visited [at Egyptian Hall]; fossil collections in America. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 18 | Labouchere, Henry [Baron Taunton] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to J. S. Buckingham [James Silk Buckingham], 3 March 1842 | |||||||||||
Subject: subscription for copy of Buckingham's work on the slave states of North America. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H. Labouchere. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 19 | Laing, David | |||||||||
Form of signature used in most letters: D.L. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Charles K.] Sharpe, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: D. Laing. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Charles K. Sharpe], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Charles K. Sharpe], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Charles K.] Sharpe, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Charles K.] Sharpe, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [Charles K. Sharpe?], undated | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Perhaps an enclosure in one of the letters. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 20 | Laing, Malcolm | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to A. Strahan?, undated | |||||||||||
Year of postmark unclear; it might be 1801. | |||||||||||
Letter later forwarded to Messrs. Cadell & Davies? | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Messrs. Cadell & Davies, 27 June 1802 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 21 | Lamartine, Alphonse de | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page) [not signed?; in French], [type uncertain], undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Lamartine, undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items, one biographical), 23 July 1930 and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 22 | Lambe, John Lawrence | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement King] Shorter, 25 November 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: Shorter's article on Theodore Watts-Dunton; arrangement of "poetry essays" in a book with a preface by Hake. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J. Lawrence Lamb. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 23 | Landon, Letitia Elizabeth [bound volume] | |||||||||
Assembled for T. Crofton Croker. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L., undated | |||||||||||
Reference materials – biographical materials | |||||||||||
Inserted here and elsewhere in volume. | |||||||||||
View of "Miss Landon's residence in Hans Place," undated | |||||||||||
Affixed to title leaf added to volume by Symington. | |||||||||||
Drawing in ink [of Landon's residence], undated | |||||||||||
View of [Landon's residence], undated | |||||||||||
View of room interior [top floor of Landon residence?], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [T. Crofton Croker], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied, as are selected other items in the volume, by added commentary, in this case by Croker. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1827] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Whittington [Landon], [December 1827] | |||||||||||
Written on the back of a visiting card of: Mr. T. Crofton Croker. | |||||||||||
Drawing in pencil of [L.E. Landon?], undated | |||||||||||
Drawing in ink of [L.E. Landon?], undated | |||||||||||
Drawing in ink of a person, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [T. Crofton Croker], undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), "The Serenade" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Note of T. Crofton Croker: This poem of ‘The Serenade' was given to me by the late Mr. Dagley [?] a year or two before he died. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [December 1829] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by two envelopes. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), from Mrs. [Anthony Todd] Thomson to Letitia [Landon], December [1829] | |||||||||||
An enclosure in Landon's letter to Croker of [December 1829]. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1830] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [T. Crofton Croker], [1830?] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [T. Crofton Croker], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by two envelopes. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [T. Crofton Croker], [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. C. Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [September 1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [T.C.] Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by what is presumably an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. [T. Crofton] Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Lines under my portrait" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Affixed to this item: clipped signature of Robert Montgomery, the author of the poem. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [22? September 1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [10 October 1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, 1831? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
Signature cut away. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. [T. Crofton] Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Giant's Causeway" [prose], [1831] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [25 February 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [March 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [March 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [April 1832] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [10 April 1832] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [T. Crofton Croker], undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [28? June 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Robert Fisher to [T. Crofton Croker], 5 July 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [T. Crofton Croker], [1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, [24? September 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [T. Crofton Croker], [1832] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an address leaf, likely detached from this letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [October 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [December 1832] | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [21 May 1833] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T.C. [sic] Crofton Croker, [1833] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [26 August 1833] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Crofton Croker, [October? 1833] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an 1833 envelope, unrelated to this letter, that includes on its face a drawing in ink [of L.E. Landon?]. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [31 October 1833] | |||||||||||
Reference materials – bibliographical data | |||||||||||
Inserted here and elsewhere in volume. At this location, the data is in the form of clipped advertisements (1832 and undated) for Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap Book, etc., with poems by L.E. L[andon]. | |||||||||||
Proof (31 pages), with emendations, for "The Zenana" [poem], 1833? | |||||||||||
Paginated as 3-33, with each page on a separate leaf. Above poem title on first page: Drawing-Room Scrap Book. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Crofton Croker, [8 August 1834] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [16 September 1834] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [12 September 1834] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [13 September 1834] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Crofton Croker, [18 December 1834] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to W[illiam] Jerdan, undated | |||||||||||
Enclosure in next letter? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from W[illiam] Jerdan to [T. Crofton] Croker, 8 December [no year] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [T. Crofton Croker], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "He sleeps within his lonely grave. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Enclosure in preceding letter? | |||||||||||
Published in Croker's Landscape Illustrations of Moore's Irish Melodies [part 1] (1835), pages 52-53, as "The Golden Grave." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1835] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope; postmark dated 28 April 1835? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, 2 May [1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [1834] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [June 1835?] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an 1835 envelope, unrelated to this letter, which has its own envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Crofton Croker, [6 July 1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [8 July 1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [4 August 1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [8 August 1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Robert Fisher to Miss Landon, [14 August 1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [25 August 1835] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T. Crofton Croker, [March 1836] | |||||||||||
Visiting card of "Miss Landon," undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [April 1836] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, 1837 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, 1836? | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope postmarked 1 November 1836. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [February 1837] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [2 March 1837] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an apparently unrelated envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from W[illiam] Jerdan to T. Crofton Croker, [March 1837] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [9 March 1837] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [1837] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope postmarked 14 April 1837. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to T. Crofton Croker, 10 April [1837] | |||||||||||
Printed circular letter (2 pages), from Whittington H. Landon to T. Crofton Croker, 6 April 1837 | |||||||||||
Signed in ink by Whittington H. Landon. | |||||||||||
Printed circular letter (3 pages), from Octavian Blewitt to C[usack?] P[atrick?] Roney, 15 April 1837 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Whittington H. Landon to T. Crofton Croker, 14 April 1837 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Crofton Croker, [1837] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [1837] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Crofton Croker, [1837] | |||||||||||
Visiting card of Mrs. George Maclean, [1838] | |||||||||||
Visiting card of Mr. Geo. Maclean, [1838] | |||||||||||
Place card [?] for Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Envelopes (2 items) addressed to Crofton Croker | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [T. Crofton] Croker, [June? 1838] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: L.E. Maclean. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L., undated | |||||||||||
Laid in volume. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, 1839 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Robert Fisher to T.C. Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L., undated | |||||||||||
Depicted at the age of 25. Detached from volume. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Contrast. By the author of ‘Yes and No.'" [prose], 1830s | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Souvenirs de [sic] Mirabeau by Etienne Dumont" [prose], 1830s | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "(Cabinet Cyclopedia [sic] No. 29) The History of Spain and Portugal [prose], 1830s | |||||||||||
The same page also includes text relating to [Willliam Edmondstoune Aytoun's] Poland and Other Poems [sic]. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from H. --?-- to Mr. [Crofton] Croker, [1841] | |||||||||||
Item loose in volume. | |||||||||||
Watercolor depicting courtyard of Cape Coast Castle, undated | |||||||||||
Receipt, from Thomas Thorpe to T. Crofton Croker, 1839 | |||||||||||
Pertains in part to binding the present volume. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L., 1826 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 24 | Landon, Letitia Elizabeth [bound volume with typed transcripts] | |||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L., undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Countess of Blessington [Marguerite Gardiner], [8 October 1835] | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, undated | |||||||||||
Reference materials -– bibliographical data | |||||||||||
Inserted here and elsewhere in volume. At this location, the data includes a clipping from a publication (dealer or auction house catalog?) that describes the previous volume—which once was accompanied by a lock of hair allegedly belonging to Landon. | |||||||||||
Typed transcripts of original letters in, and other contents of, previous volume, undated | |||||||||||
Also typed transcripts of two letters and the MS in the next folder, as well as of a copy of a letter, sent by Landon to Mrs. Croker, that was given away to an autograph collector (per note also transcribed) by [T.F. Dillon Croker] in 1871. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L., 1848 | |||||||||||
This item and the following images are interspersed within the transcripts. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E.L. [loose], undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Miss L.E. Landon, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 25 | Landon, Letitia Elizabeth | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "From the Literary Gazzette [sic] March 31. 1827 / Poetry & poets by Rich[ar]d Ryan, L.E.L." [prose, but partly quoting a poem], 1827 | |||||||||||
Text in which the author, apparently T. Crofton Croker, complains about an image--represented to be L.E. L[andon]--used as the frontispiece for a book. | |||||||||||
AL (4 pages), from Mrs. A[nthony] T[odd] Thomson to Crofton Croker, 27 February 1840 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope and also by a draft reply (28 February) written by Croker. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from C? Labupiere? to [T.F. Dillon Croker], 9 May 1871 | |||||||||||
Subject: autograph of L.E. Landon. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from C? Labupiere? to [T.F. Dillon Croker], 11 May 1871 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for L.E. Landon's autograph. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of T. Crofton Croker, undated | |||||||||||
Another copy of the same image of Croker, issued at a different time, which is adhered to an undated portrait of L.E.L. Removed from a bound volume. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 26 | Landon, Letitia Elizabeth | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "CANTO 2" [beginning "List ye to Revelry and Rout . . ."] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Found with the Landon material, but not obviously in her handwriting. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "In clustering lightness from its base. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Found with the Landon material, but not obviously in her handwriting. | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, 1837 | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, 1839 | |||||||||||
Portrait of L.E. Landon, undated | |||||||||||
Two copies of the same undated image, but issued at different times. | |||||||||||
Reference materials -- Bibliographical data | |||||||||||
Typed list: Contributions of L.E.L. to the Annuals. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), [13 October 1938] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 27 | Landor, Walter Savage | |||||||||
ANS, to [W.C. Bennett], 4 August 1857 | |||||||||||
Date from postmark. | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledgment of poems received; Beranger's poetry; La Fontaine; Burns. Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W.S. Landor. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 28 | Landor, Walter Savage | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "Agatha and Theodore" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Signed by Landor. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (2 pages total), "The Confession of a Pythagorean" [poem] with "Hymn of Eusebiades to Cybele" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Two texts on one leaf. Accompanied by typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Macaulay" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Notes on Macaulay, etc. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MSS (2 pages total), "To Filangiari" [poem] with "An Italian girl to her Uncle Louis" [poem] and ["How many weary days remain. . . .]" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Three texts on one leaf. Final poem not titled. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "To the Princess Belgioioso" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Trial of Walter Savage Landor for libel" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Account of evidence from Landor's point of view; in Landor's handwriting, per a University of Michigan scholar. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 29 | Lang, Andrew | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: A Lang. | |||||||||||
For the texts of these letters, and contextual information, consult: Carl J. Weber, "Some Letters on Hardy's 'Tess'," Journal of the Rutgers University Library XIII:1 (December 1949), pages 1-6. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edward] Clodd, 1 May 1892 | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into a copy of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892). | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edward] Clodd, 2 May 1892 | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is tipped into a copy of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 30 | Lansdowne, Lord [Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne?] | |||||||||
TLS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 December 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lady Dorothy Nevill; Gosse's sketch of Lady Dorothy. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Lansdowne. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 31 | Lawrence, Trevor | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Hogg, 15 July [18]85 | |||||||||||
Partial text: "Many thanks for your pamphlet. I can hardly imagine that the Board of Trade are not fully alive to the importance of this question. But it is astonishing how long it takes for facts of vital significance to permeate a governmental department." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 32 | Lawrence, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Jabez Hogg, 19 November 185[8?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Wm. Lawrence. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 33 | Le Grice, Charles Valentine | |||||||||
ALS? [fragment], to unknown recipient, 14 February 1855 | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Sonnet / To the Memory of Coleridge, and Charles Lamb," 14 February [1855?] | |||||||||||
Fair copy; signed. | |||||||||||
Proof copy, "Sonnet to the Memory of Coleridge and Charles Lamb," [1855?] | |||||||||||
Adhered to same sheet as letter fragment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 34 | Le James, Henry | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to L. Young, 19 June [18]83 | |||||||||||
Subject: not able to be present at dinner of the Artists' Benevolent Fund. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 35 | Lee, John (1783-1866) | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [Benjamin Lewis] Vulliamy, 28 November 1829 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
Pencil note on letter written by William H. Booth? | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 23 April 184[1?] | |||||||||||
Pencil note on letter written by William H. Booth? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 27 November 1861 | |||||||||||
Subject: willing to subscribe to memorial for a deceased professor [John Thomas Quekett?], but not to serve on the committee. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J. Lee. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 36 | Leith, John | |||||||||
Ownership inscription, 1710 or later | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: John Leith of Whythaugh. Inscribed on the title page of the second edition of Richard Lucas' Twenty Four Sermons Preached on Several Occasions (London: MDCCX). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 37 | Lemperly, Paul | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 30 November 1914 | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to Clement K. Shorter, 14 April 1915 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement K. Shorter, 15 May 1915 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, [1?] July 1915 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 6 November 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for Lang booklet; still maintains an interest in Lang books; two other privately-printed items mentioned in Shorter's letter, not received, were perhaps lost when the Arabic was sunk. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 25 November 1915 | |||||||||||
TLS? (1 page; fragment?), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 20 March 1916 | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 25 April 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Clement K. Shorter, 18 May 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 11 June 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 21 June 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 21 June 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 14 July 1916 | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Clement Shorter, 20 July 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 18 August 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages plus enclosure), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 21 August 1916 | |||||||||||
Enclosure: label designed to accompany mounted bookplates being donated to Western Reserve University. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 12 November 1916 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 1 December 1916 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 38 | Lemperly, Paul | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 26 January 1917 | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to Clement Shorter, 9 March 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 11 March 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 19 March 1917 | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 16 April 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 16 April 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 24 April 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 16 May 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 9 June 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 4 July 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 27 August 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 14 September 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 12 October 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 13 October 1917 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 19 October 1917 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 39 | Lemperly, Paul | |||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 24 December 1920 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 24 March 1921 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 17 May 1921 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 5 August 1924 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 11 February 1925 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Clement K.] Shorter, 16 July 1925 | |||||||||||
Enclosure (a photograph) not in folder. | |||||||||||
Envelope, undated | |||||||||||
States "Paul Lemperly" in ink, with additional notations (by two others?) in pencil. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 40 | Lenox, Lord [Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox?] | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Lord Cranfield [Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex], 12 August 1622 | |||||||||||
Clipping (biography of Margaret, countess of Lenox), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 41 | Lettsom, W.G. [i.e., William Garrow Lettsom?] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages plus enclosure), to Jabez Hogg, 26 October 1868 | |||||||||||
Subject: "object-glasses for microscopes" available from Mr. Merz of Munich. | |||||||||||
With enclosed broadside price list in German. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 42 | Lever, Charles | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W? G----?, 20 May 1843 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Samuel] Ferguson, [3 May 1871] | |||||||||||
Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Clippings (3 items), undated |
Box 9 : Lever, John C.W.-Pollock, Frederick | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 1 | Lever, John C.W. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 15? December 1846 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 2 | Lewis, John (1675-1747) | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Joseph Ames], 11 March [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Lewis. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 3 | Leyland, Frederick Richards | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Theodore Watts [Theodore Watts-Dunton], 20 February? 1878? | |||||||||||
Subject: will not consent to exhibition of portraits; if Whistler persists, will apply to Court of Chancery for injunction to restrain him. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Fred. R. Leyland. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 4 | Lincoln, Edmund | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney], 25 January 1786 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Edmd. Lincoln. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 5 | Lincoln family | |||||||||
Clipped or traced signature of R. Lincoln, 1614? | |||||||||||
Adhered to same sheet as following two items. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature of Tho: Lincoln, 1715? | |||||||||||
On parchment. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature of John Lincoln, undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a wax seal pasted beneath the name. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 6 | Lindsay, Lord [Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford] | |||||||||
AN (3 pages), to the editors of Lodge's Peerage, 9 October [18]48 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 7 | Linton, Eliza Lynn | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: E. Lynn Linton. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Whistler, 23 November [18]87 | |||||||||||
Subject: her illness. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 19 May [1895] | |||||||||||
Subject: English illustration; writing of papers; Mrs. Ward; Leek Library. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 10 October [18]97 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Landor; Mr. Wheeler's book. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 20 May [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: Omar Khayyám; Queen Anne's Mansions. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 28? August [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 8 | Llandaff, Bishop of [Richard Watson] | |||||||||
ANS (1 page), to "Sir" [unknown recipient], 4 August? 1813 | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 9 | Louis Philippe [King of the French] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [in French], "Liste des Tableaux, Portraits et Vues contenns dans l'histoire du Palais Royal," undated [but circa 1835] | |||||||||||
A list of 41 paintings, dated as late as 1834, that, while not compiled by the King, does include his added, handwritten order of 14 May 1836 regarding the printing of the list. | |||||||||||
Descriptions of this catalog appear on two accompanying sheets and, in printed form, adhered to the document itself. On a sheet with one of the descriptions is the added notation: From M [Jean?] Vatout's collection. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 10 | Lover, Samuel [bound volume] | |||||||||
Photographic portrait, 1860s? | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mrs. [S.C.] Hall, 25 December [18]66 | |||||||||||
Subject: Christmas greetings. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Wm? --?--, 24 July [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Lover. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to David Roberts, 5 May [18]62 | |||||||||||
Subject: did not see you today because of illness. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. E.L. Hime [Edward Laurence Hime], 9 April [18]68 | |||||||||||
Subject: address of Mr. Fielding and Mr. Winn. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Samuel Lover, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping, February 1842 | |||||||||||
Print signed S. Lover, undated | |||||||||||
Print signed S. Lover, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Samuel Lover, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Title leaf for sheet music? (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Written and composed by Samuel Lover. | |||||||||||
Title leaf for sheet music? (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Written and composed by Samuel Lover. | |||||||||||
Print signed Samuel Lover, undated | |||||||||||
Print signed Samuel Lover, undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 11 | Lyttleton, Lord [George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton] | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to unknown recipient, 9 March [1874] | |||||||||||
Paper cut into from both sides. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William Shaen], 13 March 1875 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Lyttleton. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 12 | Lytton, Lord [Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton] [bound volume] | |||||||||
Portrait of Edward G.E.L. Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping (essay by Edmund Gosse), [December 1913] | |||||||||||
Occasioned by the publication of the 1913 biography of Bulwer-Lytton. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Parallel text in English and French; includes the reproduction of a letter. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Edward Lytton Bulwer, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, not before 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject declines to write to Blackwood's Magazine on the recipient's behalf; suggests that he submit his poetry directly. | |||||||||||
Notation immediately under text at left margin apparently an abbreviation for "James Street," not the recipient's name. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E B Lytton. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Henry Chorley], 30 July 1836? | |||||||||||
Subject: Miss Mitford; etc. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E L Bulwer. | |||||||||||
Portrait of E.L. Bulwer, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, not before 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject: seeks copy of engraving from Turner's picture of Rouen. | |||||||||||
The recipient was the publisher of an edition of The Rivers of France. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used E-B-Lytton. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Chorley, 18 November 1856 | |||||||||||
Subject: signs enclosed memorial but would not like to head the list; perhaps Dickens would. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: EB Lytton. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Lord Lytton, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], not after 1844 | |||||||||||
Subject: biographical data; when certain books were written; method of writing. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: ELB. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Richard Bentley], 15 August [1834] | |||||||||||
Subject: proofs of Book 1; would like them to work with greater dispatch; wants three revises of the proofs. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E L Bulwer. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Edward Bulwer Lytton ["when an infant"], undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Rosina Lytton, [after 1851] | |||||||||||
Portrait of Bulwer, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 21 May 1832 | |||||||||||
Subject: Literary Union; Literary Incognito of recipient; Mr. Callwin; The Earthquake [William Bridges Adams]. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E L Bulwer. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), from R? Lytton [Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton] to Mr. Chorley, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels. | |||||||||||
ALS? (4 pages; fragment), from [Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton] to Mr. Chorley, 24 October 1860 | |||||||||||
Last page or pages missing; no signature. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Bulwer [Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer] to unknown recipient, 2 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: Papers of Lord Palmerston. | |||||||||||
The recipient was associated with a magazine. | |||||||||||
On paper with initials "HLB" in a monogram. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Elizabeth Lytton and her mother, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Richard Warburton Lytton, et. al., undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (several items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 13 | McCarthy, Justin | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Finlay, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: dinner for Mr. Sala. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 14 | Macmillan & Co. | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), from Frederick Macmillan to Edmund Gosse, 13 December 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: terms offered for publication of Gosse's Swinburne biography, which is not to be part of the publisher's "English Men of Letters" series. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page plus enclosure), from Frederick Macmillan to Edmund Gosse, 15 December 1915 | |||||||||||
Memorandum of agreement with Edmund Gosse, dated 15 December 1915, enclosed. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), from Frederick Macmillan to Edmund Gosse, 17 December 1915 | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), from Frederick Macmillan to Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: final textual corrections received; list of illustrations is to be added; book very good and likely to sell well. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), from Frederick Macmillan to Edmund Gosse, 21 March 1917 | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), from Frederick Macmillan to Edmund Gosse, 1 May 1917 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 15 | Maartens, Maarten [Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "E.E." (in quotes) [Edmund Gosse], 9 June 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for gift (identified in Gosse's added note as his pamphlet "The Life of Swinburne"); how Gosse "handled all the difficult subjects"; last night very pleasant. | |||||||||||
Written on stationery of the Grosvenor Court Hotel and signed "M.M." (in quotes and preceded by "quondam"). Maartens was in London at the time of this letter and is thus likely its author. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 16 | Maconochie, Alex. [Alexander Maconochie-Welwood, Lord Meadowbank] | |||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to ----- Loch, 29? October 1802 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [James] Loch, 14 January 1804 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 17 | Manners, Lord John [7th Duke of Rutland] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Charles Martin], 1844? | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment to sit for Martin [an artist]. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: John Manners. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 18 | Marks, Henry Stacy | |||||||||
Clipped signature [from a letter], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H.S. Marks. | |||||||||||
Reference material--typed transcript of item not present, 12 November 1873 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 19 | Marras, Signor [i.e., Giacinto Marras?] | |||||||||
AN (1 page) [in French], to Captain Bagot, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 20 | Martineau, Harriet [bound volume] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in most letters: H. Martineau. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Harriet Martineau, 1833 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Mr.] R[athbone?], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: good health; D. P. V. societies; literary labours; "workies"; The People's Journal; Mesmerism; Rathbones. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page; fragment), to [Miss Mitchell and Miss Hollands], [January 1832] | |||||||||||
Subject: plan to publish whole series by obtaining private subscriptions in advance. Postscript only; first part of letter missing. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Harriet Martineau. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Miss Hennell [Sara Sophia Hennell], 17 April [18]60 | |||||||||||
Subject: sheets arrived safe; Mrs. Bray's sanitary book; Mr. Atkinson. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Harriet Martineau, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Miss Hennell [Sara Sophia Hennell], 23 June [18]60 | |||||||||||
Subject: criticism of Miss Hennell's book; Mr. Atkinson. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Rathbone, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: Thanks for books, Ly. Willoughby. This letter was apparently sent to a relative of Hannah Mary Rathbone, the author of The Diary of Lady Willoughby. The accompanying, incomplete stamped envelope, addressed to "Miss Rathbone," bears a cancelation date in 1849. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Wilson & Co., 1863? | |||||||||||
Subject: order, by a Miss Martineau [not Harriet?], for gingham to be sent to Basing Park. With stamped envelope fragment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 21 | Martyn, Thomas | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Mr. Baker, i.e., George Baker?], 20 February 1795 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Thos. Martyn. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thomas Martyn, 1795 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 22 | [Massey], Lily | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Uncle" [W.T. Freemantle], 18 September [19]11 | |||||||||||
Subject: works by [Dante G.] Rossetti in the [Birmingham] Art Gallery. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 23 | Meredith, George [bound volume] | |||||||||
Reference materials--four typed transcripts of letters from Meredith to Edmund Gosse, 15 February 1888-4 July 1890 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 3 April 1891 | |||||||||||
Subject: revised proofs; reviews want any verses he can spare; the Illustrated. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference materials--six typed transcripts of letters from Meredith to Clement K. Shorter, 17 May 1891-26 December 1892 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 2 March 1905 | |||||||||||
Subject: Greenwood a great journalist; John Morley. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference material--typed transcript of letter from Meredith to Clement K. Shorter, 19 March 1905 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 7 July [19]05 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mrs. Shorter's writing; The Invisible Clothes. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Clipping, St. Valentine, 1906 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 23 May 1906 | |||||||||||
Subject: L. A. Austin; Mrs. Shorter's book; Sphere article on Meredith. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference materials--four typed transcripts and reproductions of letters from Meredith to Clement K. Shorter, Edmund Gosse, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas J. Wise, 13 November 1908-23 April 1909 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Marie Sturgis to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 21 October [no year] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Marie Sturgis to Mrs. [Clement K.] Shorter, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: her father's health after breaking two bones. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Wm? Klein to C.K. Shorter, 7 August 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: letter in the Sphere from Meredith that was printed with an uncorrected mistake. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference material--reproduction of letter from George Meredith to Swinburne, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 24 | Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Henri | |||||||||
ANS (1 page) [in French], undated? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Merle d'Aubigné. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 25 | Meynell, Alice | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 25 August [no year] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Clement K.] Shorter, 4 November [1899 or later] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for gift of his book; Shorter's Charlotte Brontë publications; invitation for Shorter and his wife to visit. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Reference material--typed transcript of a letter from Meynell to Clement K. Shorter, 24 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 26 | Middleton, M.G. [Mrs. Middleton] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [W.T.] Freemantle, 1 May 1912 | |||||||||||
Draft reply of 2 May 1912, initialed by Freemantle, written on letter. Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], from W.T. Freemantle to Mrs. M.G. Middleton, 7 February 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [W.T.] Freemantle, 9 February 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal enclosed as gift; appreciated lecture invitation; train schedules prevented attendance. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a draft reply, 12 February 1913, initialed by Freemantle. | |||||||||||
Visiting card [inset into slits in a larger piece of paper], of Miss Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, 1856? | |||||||||||
Enclosure in previous item. Written beneath card: (Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti). Mounting paper also annotated, by Freemantle, with date of receipt. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 27 | Milnes, Richard Monckton [Baron Houghton] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "An arm of aid to the weak. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
Includes an applied wax seal. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Richd. M. Milnes, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 28 | Milnes, Richard Monckton [Baron Houghton] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters varies, but all signed with an abbreviated form of Richard Monckton Milnes. | |||||||||||
Portion of address leaf or envelope, to Lady Milnes, 28 March 1839 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: RM Milnes. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Dear Madam" [Mary Howitt], 27 August [1846] | |||||||||||
Subject: suggestions as to ways of helping M. Freilgnutt [?]. | |||||||||||
References, as an enclosure, a translation by Milnes that is not in the folder. Red-brown postage stamps affixed. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 2 March [1853?] | |||||||||||
Subject: so busy that he can't find time to assist others. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Sir" [i.e., Philip Francis?], 19 January [1858?] | |||||||||||
Subject: book on Boswell issued by Bentley. Accompanied by a typed transcript that, incorrectly, suggests 1874 as the year. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to "Sir" [unknown recipient], [28 February 1859] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Francis Turner] Palgrave, 4 October 1862 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Messrs? Jeffs, 6 August [before 1863] | |||||||||||
Subject: asks for a statement of his account. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 29 | Milnes, Richard Monckton [Baron Houghton] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Houghton. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to the editor of Lodge's Peerage, 1? January [18]64 | |||||||||||
Subject: Houghton's armorial bearings. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Mr. Beli?, 10 February [1865] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Cooke?, 12 December [18]74 | |||||||||||
Subject: possible loan of oil painting, depicting Blake, for a Blake exhibit. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 3 May [1884] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope, possibly belonging with the next item, postmarked 5 May [18]84. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund Gosse], 5 May [1884?] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund Gosse], 11 May [1884] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a stamped envelope | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to L[or]d Auckland, 21 May [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Dear Poet" [i.e., Algernon Charles Swinburne?], 25 [no month or year] [after 1871] | |||||||||||
Subject: Tennyson's "Becket." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Mr. Whistler" [i.e., James Abbott McNeill Whistler?], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: breakfast appointment. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 27 February? [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Sir" [Mr. Tuckerman?], 16 October [no year] | |||||||||||
Apparently mentions a Mrs. Tuckerman in connection with the recipient. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 16? October? [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: sale of book. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Robert Crewe Milnes [Baron Houghton and Marquess of Crewe, Lord Houghton's son] to F.W.H. Cavendish, 2 September 1885 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 30 | Milnes, Richard Monckton [Baron Houghton] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in all letters except two: Houghton. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Robert] Browning, [1852] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R.M. Milnes. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope (without a postmark) and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert] Browning, 17 November [1862] | |||||||||||
Subject: invites him for a visit. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Ric[har]d M. Milnes. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope (with an embossed stamp) and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to [Robert Browning], [21 March 1865] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert] Browning, 18 December [1865] | |||||||||||
Subject: invites him and his son to visit for a week. Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Transmittal slip? (1 page), to [Robert Browning], [2 August 1866] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. Note in pencil on envelope: Letter from Lord Houghton to Victor Hugo--never used. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to Victor Hugo, 1? August 1866 | |||||||||||
Subject: Browning and Swinburne. | |||||||||||
This item and its envelope (addressed to Hugo and without a postmark) were presumably sent (as enclosures in the previous item) to Robert Browning, who is mentioned in the text. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Robert] Browning, [25 May 1870] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Robert] Browning, [7 December 1870] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Robert] Browning, 8 [December 1870] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Robert] Browning, 18 December [1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: alternate dates for the visit of Browning's son to commence. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Robert] Browning, 10 March [1874] | |||||||||||
Subject: death of Houghton's wife. Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Robert] Browning, 25 July [1878] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Robert] Browning, 15 January [1879] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope and an incomplete typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 31 | Milnes, Richard Monckton [Baron Houghton] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters varies, but all signed with an abbreviated form of Richard Monckton Milnes. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1831] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Lady Sidney Morgan], [29 September 1831] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages; fragment), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, not after 1834? | |||||||||||
Subject: request for letter of introduction to the Rev. Docktor Doyle. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [15? June? 1839] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Sir Charles and Lady Morgan, [1840] | |||||||||||
An accomplished form. | |||||||||||
Subject: accepts invitation. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1840] | |||||||||||
Subject: his father in serious accident so cannot accept invitation. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1841] | |||||||||||
Subject: hopes to see her during her illness. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1842] | |||||||||||
Subject: reason for not keeping appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [23 May 1844] | |||||||||||
Subject: Lady Essex's play. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (3 pages), to unknown recipient [i.e., Lady Sidney Morgan?], [1844] | |||||||||||
Subject: is engaged; trying to work; "the real union of England and Ireland." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1844] | |||||||||||
Subject: debate. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1848] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [June? 1849] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Lady [Sidney Morgan], 2 [August 1849] | |||||||||||
Subject: Reverberations. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [10? May? 1857] | |||||||||||
Subject: print of "Calas" family of Voltarian fame; original documents of the affair. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [1857] | |||||||||||
Subject: accepts invitation. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, 19 [no month] [1857] | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, 18 December [1858] | |||||||||||
Subject: his father; the name of Monckton. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Lady [Sidney] Morgan, [7? April? 18]59 | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to "coffee." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 32 | Milnes, Richard Monckton [Baron Houghton] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in all letters except one: an abbreviated form of Richard Monckton Milnes. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [F.O.] Ward, 6 August [1845?] | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. Pertains to the Hood Memorial Fund, to support Thomas Hood's family, and not to the subscription to erect a monument to Hood? | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [F.O.] Ward, 6 September [1845?] | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [F.O.] Ward, 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
The letter begins: Ld. John Manners will . . . . | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [F.O.] Ward, 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
The letter begins: I enclose you . . . . | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [F.O.] Ward, 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: Dickens; Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [F.O.] Ward, 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: the Dilkes angry at being omitted from Hood list. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [F.O. Ward], 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
The letter begins: If the "James" is the novelist, I think he spoke to me . . . . | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [F.O. Ward], 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [F.O. Ward], 1845? | |||||||||||
Subject: Hood Fund. | |||||||||||
Filing notation: "Milnes / Hood Fund." | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [F?O?] Ward, 20 October [1848?] | |||||||||||
Subject: lithographs that he wishes the recipient to purchase for him; events in France? | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [F?O?] Ward, 24? May? [1874?] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Houghton. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 33 | Milne-Edwards, Henri | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Milne Edwards. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], to Mr. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 5 June 1862 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], to Mr. Gauning?, 10 June [18]63 | |||||||||||
Adhered to the next letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages + 2 pages), to B? Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 25 August 1863 | |||||||||||
Includes, on the same sheet, the transcript of a note, in French, sent by Milne-Edwards to Rose on a previous occasion. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 34 | Moir, James Reid | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letter and note: J. Reid Moir. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to [Willam H.] Booth, [October 1918] | |||||||||||
Subject: information about various persons [represented in the correspondence of Caleb B. Rose]. In addition to providing other information, Reid lists the ten men he describes as geologists, paleontologists and an archaeologist. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [William H.] Booth, 30 October 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: return of Booth's collection of interesting autograph letters; Moir's head cold and concern over influenza as the reasons he will not be seeing Booth that evening. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 35 | Mond, Alfred [1st Baron Melchett] | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 29 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: contribution for the Arthur Symons Fund; method by which others, ready to contribute, may do so. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 36 | Moore, George | |||||||||
Page proof (16 pages), front matter for The Untilled Field [1914 edition], 1914 | |||||||||||
With emendations in unidentified handwriting. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 37 | Morgan, Lady [Sidney Morgan] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Mr. Phillips], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: S. Owenson. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Henry Colburn?, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: returns volume sent by mistake. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page) [reproduction], to Charles Monlin?, 10 June 1844 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Lady Morgan, 1818 | |||||||||||
Portrait [of Morgan?], 1844 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Lady Morgan, 1844 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sidney Morgan, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of S: Morgan, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 38 | Morley, Lord [John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Algernon Charles] Swinburne, 11 January 1881 | |||||||||||
With unrelated notes in Swinburne's handwriting. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J. Morley. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 12 March [19]14 | |||||||||||
Enclosures (letters being returned) not present. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: M. | |||||||||||
Envelope fragment, to Edmund Gosse, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Morley. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 39 | Morris, May | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [Edmund] Gosse, 9 February 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne letters that she owns; her father's stories of Swinburne; her recollection of "scattering rose leaves over him" while Swinburne was "lying on the grass in the orchard" at Red House. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 40 | Mostyn-Champneys, Thomas Swymmer | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [James Scott], 13 December 1838 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mostyn-Champneys' medical condition; related supplies that he is ordering. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Th. S. Mostyn Champneys. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 41 | Mountnorris, Lord [George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Messrs. Vulliamy, 7 October 1832 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Mountnorris. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Lord Valentia [Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris?], 1810 | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 42 | Murray, Lady Augusta ["Duchess of Sussex"] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [T. Hughes, i.e., Thomas Smart Hughes], circa 1810 | |||||||||||
Includes a July 1824 note by D.T. [Dawson Turner], to whom the letter was given by the Rev. T.S. Hughes. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: --- Augusta. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 43 | Murray, George Herbert | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 20 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: the possible appointment of Swinburne as Poet Laureate by Gladstone; would have followed Tennyson; Swinburne's religious views made him repellent to Gladstone; offensive remarks against the Roman Church. Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G.H. Murray. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 44 | Newbolt, William Charles Edmund | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [the Rev. R.] Rackham, 10? August 1900? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: WNewbolt. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 45 | Newcastle, Lord [Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [the Rev.] Hawley, 4 August [18]69 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Newcastle. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature of Lord Newcastle [Henry Pelham Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle?], 1781? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Newcastle. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature of an Earl of Lincoln, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Lincoln. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 46 | Nichols, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (30 pages), to Mr. [Edmund] Gosse, 18-19 September 1923 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 47 | Norfolk, Lord [Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Sir John" [unknown recipient], 13 January? 1887 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Norfolk. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 48 | Norman, Henry [bound volume] | |||||||||
LS (3 pages), to A.C. Swinburne, 23 May 1885 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for copy of any proposed epitaph for Victor Hugo. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Frederick H. Whymper to [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 6 July 1888 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Fredk. H. Whymper. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 49 | Oldham, Henry | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 11 February 1843 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 50 | Ollivant, Alfred [Bishop of Llandaff] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to G.W. Hastings [i.e., George W. Hastings?], 6 January 1862 | |||||||||||
Subject: declines invitation to serve on the "General Reception Committee of the National Association" [for the Promotion of Social Science?]. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. Llandaff. | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 51 | Orkney, Lord [Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney] | |||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), to Mr. Philpotts, 15 May 1839 | |||||||||||
Franked item; verso blank. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Orkney. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 52 | Osborne, Peregrine Hyde [3rd Duke of Leeds] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Henry Watkins], 12 May 1714 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Carmarthen [as his title in 1714 was Marquess of Carmarthen]. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 53 | Palmer, Henry | |||||||||
Clipped signature, undated | |||||||||||
Handwriting fragment with a signature. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 54 | Parker, G.W. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [W.T.] Freemantle, 12 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Includes unsigned draft reply. Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 55 | Parry, Edward | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to Walter Brooke, 7 October 1895 | |||||||||||
Subject: thinks it unlikely that many fossils will be found on the Northern Division [of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's extension], although "some Roman and other remains" might well turn up in Nottingham and Leicester. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Edw. Parry. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 56 | Penrose, Charles Vinicombe | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to J[ohn] Parke, 21 February 1820 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: C V Penrose. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 57 | Pinckney, Frederick George Augustus | |||||||||
Military commission (1 page), 14 January 1847 | |||||||||||
On parchment. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 58 | Pitt, William (1759-1806) | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Philip] Yorke [3rd Earl of Hardwicke], 1780s? | |||||||||||
Subject: request for an appointment. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W Pitt. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of William Pitt, 1815 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 59 | Polignac, Duchess of [Yolande de Polastron] | |||||||||
AN (1 page) [in French], to unknown recipient, 19 July [17]86 | |||||||||||
Probably addressed to Madame Eden, who is mentioned twice in the text. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 60 | Pollard, ----- | |||||||||
Clipped signature and prose fragment (1 page), 1665 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 61 | Pollock, Frederick | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 27 December 1891 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: F. Pollock. Letter torn at fold. Accompanied by a typed transcript. |
Box 10 : Ponsonby, Mary-Swinburne, Algernon Charles | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 1 | Ponsonby, Mary | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 11 February 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: suggestion that she write for the Quarterly; obstacles that prevent her; her suggestion that Mr. Gosse write article using her material. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 12 February 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: changes opinion on her notes for article for Quarterly. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages plus attachment), to Edmund Gosse, 4 March 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: memos on court circular; arrangements for meeting. Memos on court circular on separate paper attached. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 7 March 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: Queen; Gladstone; Prothero; Queen's friendships. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 9 March 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: must attend Queen's nurses meeting at Londonderry House and this will change plans for appointment with Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 17 March [1901] | |||||||||||
Subject: telegram from Sechendorff inviting her to be received by Empress Frederick at Friedrichokof; notes with reference to Mr. Prothero's suggestion. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 31 March 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: proof sent by Mr. Prothero; very pleased by Gosse's writing in which he used her information. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 2 April 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: correction of proof; appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 18 April 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: Mr. Prothero; feels that most of the labor of writing the book falls on Gosse and that he deserves the money in question; reasons for her declining the fee and for wanting Gosse to be the one to accept it. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 23 April 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: question of the fee for book; to whom it will go; rumors of the writer of the book, none of which are correct. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 30 [April] 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: questioned by the King if she were the author of the book; denied it; many discussions and rumors as to the author's identity; request that this letter be burned; request for appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 5 May 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's acknowledgment of the authorship of the article; request that her secret as to her part in it be kept; the Quarterly; B. Montgomery. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 30 May 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: various opinions concerning the author of the book; Mr. Prothero's part in the book; request for secrecy as to this letter or to burn it. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 31 May 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: request for return of a letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 6 June [1901] | |||||||||||
Subject: sister-in-law, Mrs. Baring, informed by some indisputable authority that Lady Ponsonby and Mr. Gosse had met frequently, that she gave him her notes, and that she accepted half the fee; Lady Ponsonby now desires to give her share of the fee to the Memorial Fund for Queen's Jubilee. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 14 July 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: more questions concerning whether or not she received any fee; refers to a play by Maurice [Baring?]. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 17 February 1903 | |||||||||||
Subject: concerned about Maurice [Baring?]; his diplomatic work; his last play Dusk read and enjoyed; the Eugenie story out of Max Müller. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page plus attachment), to Edmund Gosse, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: notes on the Queen, Prince Consort. Notes attached on separate paper. | |||||||||||
ALS [fragment], to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 2 | Porter, Jane | |||||||||
Diary (34 pages, excluding printed pages), 1 January-3 December 1845 | |||||||||||
The diary, which contains brief, irregular entries, is written in a copy of Marshall's Commercial Pocket Book for 1845. The writer of the diary entries: received a shawl as a present on the same day that she received a letter from George Virtue (4 January); unsuccessfully sought a pension (entry written beginning in the space for 24 March); and acknowledged her birthday (3 December). | |||||||||||
Front cover damaged and detached. | |||||||||||
Miscellany [found inserted in the diary], 1844-1845 and undated | |||||||||||
Among these items are: notations, December 1844, regarding an agreement with Mr. Virtue (on the verso of a broadside of G. Wood, of Bristol); notations, January 1845, regarding press notices (on part of an address leaf sent to: Miss Jane Porter / Dr. Porter / Bristol); a clipping of a portrait of Miss A. M. Porter; a portion of an address leaf or envelope addressed in part to: Miss Porter / [at] Dr. Porter's; and a prescription, signed W. P.,"For Miss Porter." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 3 | Porter-Higgins, Sheila Siddal | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unknown recipient ["Lady"], 15 March 1912 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages plus envelope), from [his mother] Elizabeth Eleanor Higgins to G[eorge] Porter-Higgins, 19 March 1912 | |||||||||||
With annotations by W.T. Freemantle. Includes stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait, Christmas 1911 | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait, Christmas 1911 | |||||||||||
One of the photographic portraits enclosed in letter of 15 March 1912. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 4 | Prickett, F[rancis?] F[enton?] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 20 February [no year] | |||||||||||
Includes an added note in different handwritting. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 5 | Pye, Henry James [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lord -----, 20 May 1804 | |||||||||||
Subject: "Ode on His Majesty's Birthday." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS, "ODE For His Majesty's Birth Day 1804" [poem], 1804? | |||||||||||
Subject: Birthday of George III, 1804. Enclosure in the letter; fair copy signed by Pye. | |||||||||||
Clipping, "Ode for His Majesty's Birthday 1804" Pye | |||||||||||
Portrait of Henry James Pye, 1796 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 6 | Pye, Henry James | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Epigram on the Canal at Southampton" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Lower portion of one leaf. | |||||||||||
Presumably a copy, not in Pye's handwriting, as it is identified as "by Mr. Pye." The text varies from the version of the poem published in The Oxford Book of Local Verses (1987). | |||||||||||
Six additional lines, part of a longer, unidentified text, appear on the verso in the same handwriting. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 7 | Radnor, Lord [Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lord Sidmouth [Henry Addington], 13? May 1825 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Radnor. | |||||||||||
Includes Lord Sidmouth's signed notation of 16 May 1825: [request] To be complied with. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 8 | Radnor, Lord [William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Radnor. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 26 July? 1840 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, 15 October 1840 | |||||||||||
Subject: in some manner seeks an account of a meeting referred to in the Corn Laws article appearing in the recipient's paper of the 14th, especially the Rev. Mr. Cox's speech. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 9 | Ranfurly, Earl of [Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly] | |||||||||
Circular letter [contemporary reproduction of an ALS] (1 page plus enclosure), 17 May 1886 | |||||||||||
Broadside enclosure headed "Ulster Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union," 1886? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 10 | Raper, Miss | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to unknown recipient, 8? December 1915? | |||||||||||
Miss Raper was a sister or other relative of R.W. Raper, who died earlier in 1915. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 11 | Raper, Robert William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure), to Edmund Gosse, 9 July? 1915 | |||||||||||
Cover letter for next item. | |||||||||||
Form of Signature used: R.W. Raper. | |||||||||||
TL (6 pages), to Edmund Gosse, July 1915 | |||||||||||
Conveyed as an enclosure in the preceding letter. Unsigned. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 12 | Redesdale, Lord [Algernon Freeman Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 11 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: whereabouts of Lady Airlie; Swinburne; courage with horses. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 23 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: Redesdale writing to Eton for particulars about Brown; Provost remembers Swinburne at Eton and amusing incident concerning him in schoolroom; Lord Redesdale's mother's birthday. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 8 May 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: enclosed note [not present] on Swinburne at Eton, describing his voice, complexion, hair, and his courage. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 9 May 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: requests return of letter which he will use in writing, and return of a Browning letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 10 May 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: transcript of letter from the Times; Swinburne and punctuality; Browning. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 21 June 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: Tragedy in Stone; Browning's new book. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 24 July 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for copy of Swinburne book, of which there were only 50 copies printed; George Young; incorrect statement about Swinburne; article for the dictionary. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), 28 April 1912 | |||||||||||
Concerns recollections of A.C. Swinburne occasioned by a letter of Oscar Browning in the Times. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Attached to Redesdale's recollections. | |||||||||||
AN (2 pages) [fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Concerns relatives of A.C. Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 13 | Reid, Thomas Wemyss | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages plus stamped envelope), to [Robert Browning], 25 May 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: requests interview to get material for his "Life" of Houghton; also to get permission to use letters he sent to and received from Houghton. Form of signature used: T. Wemyss Reid. Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 14 | Reynolds, Frederic? | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient [the creator of a "Work on Kent"], 25 September? 1811 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: F. Reynolds. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 15 | Reynolds, George William MacArthur | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Friend?, 23 April [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G.W.M. Reynolds. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 16 | Rhodes, Ebenezer | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to J[ames?] Brotherston, 7 May 1821 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: E. Rhodes. | |||||||||||
Broadside, February 1823 | |||||||||||
Publisher's announcement for Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire by E. Rhodes. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 17 | Richardson, W. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmond Malone], 3 February [1804 or later] | |||||||||||
Subject: papers he does not want published without alteration; epitome facts; Swift's poems. Enclosures not in folder. Year derived from paper's watermark. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 18 | Ritchie, Anne Thackeray | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to --?-- [not deciphered], undated | |||||||||||
Written on a fragment of a letter to Mrs. Ritchie from M?J? Jackson. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: AIR or ATR. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an autograph collector's or dealer's folder (that includes minimal biographical data) and by an incomplete modern transcript of Ritchie's text. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 19 | Rivière, Briton | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Frank Kerstette?, 14 July 1889 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 20 | Roberts, Elizabeth | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Miss Margaret Bramall?, 3? March? [or November?] [no year] | |||||||||||
Annotated by W.T. Freemantle? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 21 | Robinson, Frederick John [1st Earl of Ripon] | |||||||||
Address leaf (fragment), 30 September 1831 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Goderich. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 22 | Robinson, William | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [W.T.] Freemantle, 22 October [19]21 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 23 | Rolleston, Humphry | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 2 February 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lloyd-Roberts Lecture; Dr. Lloyd-Roberts; requests Mr. Gosse to give this lecture. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 21 November 1923 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lloyd-Roberts' Lectureship; Royal College of Physicians. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 13 July 1924 | |||||||||||
Subject: article in the Sunday Times; Johnson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 24 | Rose, Caleb Burrell | |||||||||
Broadside, 1854 | |||||||||||
Announcement for lecture by C. B. Rose. | |||||||||||
Broadside, 1854 | |||||||||||
Announcement for lecture by C. B. Rose. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 25 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to W.T. Watts [Theodore Watts-Dunton], [16 December 1875] | |||||||||||
Subject: Wishes to discuss matter of house with him; expecting mother, sister, two aunts, Dr. Hake, Edmund, and Henry for Christmas; hopes Watts can come too. Form of signature used: D.G.R. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 26 | Rossetti, William Michael [bound volume] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W.M. Rossetti. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to [Charles Augustus] Howell, 15 June 1882 | |||||||||||
Subject: disposal of D. G. Rossetti's property after his death. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to Mr. [Leonard Rowe] Valpy, 5 April 1883 | |||||||||||
Subject: disposal of D. G. Rossetti's property after his death. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Walter Theodore] Watts [i.e., Theodore Watts-Dunton], 10 August 1886 | |||||||||||
Subject: Waddington's sonnet-book and French translation; American Copyright on Collected Works. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Frederick James] Furnivall, 15 March 1887 | |||||||||||
Subject: Aveling. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 2 May 1889 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS, to [Thomas James] Wise, 20 January 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: draft of letter to Sir Percy Shelley in re: Shelley society. [On draft of a letter, by Rossetti, from the Shelley Society to Percy Shelley.] Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages; fragment), to unknown recipient [Thomas James Wise?], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: Catalogue of manuscripts, books, etc., of D. G. Rossetti; made by his brother but still incomplete. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 27 | Rossetti, William Michael | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: Wm. M. Rossetti and W.M. Rossetti. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W. T. Freemantle, 22 September 1911 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for book on Sheffield; information in answer to questions concerning the family of Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, 25 September 1911 | |||||||||||
Subject: original drawings by Elizabeth Siddall; none possessed by W. M. Rossetti but did have photographs of some and if found will send them. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, 24 November 1911 | |||||||||||
Subject: photographs of Lizzie Siddall's drawings. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from W. T. Freemantle to W. M. Rossetti, [September 1911?] | |||||||||||
Draft. | |||||||||||
Transmittal slip?, with signature of W.M. Rossetti, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 28 | Rowley, Charles | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to W.T. Freemantle, 3 May 1912 | |||||||||||
With draft of Freemantle's response, 4 May 1912. | |||||||||||
Envelope, to W.T. Freemantle, 3 May 1912 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 29 | Ruskin, John | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: J Ruskin or JR. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Charles Lock Eastlake, 6 July [1847?] | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledgment of receipt of book; compares book with Sir Charles Grandison. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [Copley] Fielding, 9 April [1851] | |||||||||||
Subject: to see Fielding's pictures. Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to George Price Boyce, 31 July [1854] | |||||||||||
Subject: discusses drawings and the use of lights and shadows in drawings; Italy and France. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from J[ohn] J[ames] Ruskin to unknown recipient, 18 May 1855 | |||||||||||
Subject: son's illness; returns enclosed proof. Written on behalf of John Ruskin by his father. Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Lady Naesmith [sic], circa 1860 | |||||||||||
Subject: unable to leave parents due to their ill health; invitation to visit them. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Sir John [Naesmyth], 16? January [circa 1861] | |||||||||||
Subject: letter from Lady Naesmyth; appointment. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. --?-- Hunt, 1864? | |||||||||||
Subject: request to aid him in having a line put in paper. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmonston & Douglas, 24 August 1865 | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledgment of two pamphlets from them on prisons and reformatories. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. [Edward] Coleridge, 12 September 1866 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne; death of Lady Trevelyan; his advice to soothe and trust Swinburne at the present time and to advise his family same. | |||||||||||
ALS, from C[harles] H[enry] S[winburne] to [John Ruskin], 17 September 1866 | |||||||||||
Possibly a draft copy? | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Charles Henry Swinburne], 18 September 1866 | |||||||||||
Subject: discusses A.C. Swinburne and the world's opinions of him; happy that Admiral Swinburne still trusts in his son and his work; other works and his opinion of them. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Constance [Hilliard? or Oldham?], 13 June [18]67 | |||||||||||
Subject: wishing her happiness. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mrs? Cameron, 1868? | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment with Mr. Cameron and Mr. Taylor. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. McKay?, [13 May 1871] | |||||||||||
Subject: editions of Holbein; prices for books. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JR. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. [S? or P?] Blackburn, 24 November [18]78 | |||||||||||
Subject: enjoyed book. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Frederick] Crawley, 1882 | |||||||||||
Subject: inquiry concerning carts he had from Venice. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JR. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), mentioning Mr. Redmague?, 28 May 1883 | |||||||||||
Includes a note from Redmague [?] forwarding the item to someone else, presumably an autograph collector. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Dearest" Boehm, 10 June [18]86 | |||||||||||
Subject: photographs; A Knight's Faith; Stoddart. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JR. | |||||||||||
ANS (4 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of John James Ruskin, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of John Ruskin, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 30 | S | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: have written to you in Paris, but presumably not in time; won't write to Vienna today. | |||||||||||
Signed: S. | |||||||||||
Found in Symington Collection circa 1989 with letters of Richard Monckton Milnes, who might or might not have been the recipient. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 31 | St. Vincent, Lord [John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent] | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 29 September 180[0?] | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My Dear Godson," 21 December 1816 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Sir John Jervis, 1797 | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Earl of St. Vincent, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of the Earl of St. Vincent, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 32 | Sala, George Augustus | |||||||||
Envelope, to Bram Stoker, undated [but 1884?] | |||||||||||
Labeled: Favoured by Mr. Fank Bowden. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: G.A. Sala. | |||||||||||
Per the transcript of a letter filed in the Reference Materials section, this item might have accompanied a letter of introduction for Frank Bowden (as Sala's agent) dated 21 November 1884. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 33 | Sanford, John Lowry | |||||||||
Printed Christmas card, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 34 | Sarawak, Ranee of [Margaret Brooke] | |||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 5 November 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: her son; Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Margaret Sarawak. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 35 | Scott-Moncrieff, Charles | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages plus stamped envelope), to Edmund Gosse, 26 June [1917] | |||||||||||
Subject: Robbie Ross; corrections over Acolus; Poems and Ballads; Moncrieff editing Gavin Douglas' Vergil; Swinburne's prose. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 36 | Seed, Thomas Alexander | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: T.A. Seed. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, 10 March 1912 | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to W. T. Freemantle, 12 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 37 | Seeley, Harry | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to C[aleb] B[urrell] Rose, 13 July 1860 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 38 | Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages plus stamped envelope), from Thomas P. Lockwood to W. T. Freemantle, 4 November 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], from W. T. Freemantle to Thomas P. Lockwood, 7 November 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages plus stamped envelope), from Thomas P. Lockwood to W. T. Freemantle, 12 November 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages plus stamped envelope), from Thomas P. Lockwood to W. T. Freemantle, 26 November 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft], from W. T. Freemantle to Thomas P. Lockwood, 29 November 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Thomas P. Lockwood to W. T. Freemantle, 4 December 1911 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [draft?], from W. T. Freemantle to Thomas P. Lockwood, 2 March 1912 | |||||||||||
Printed lecture invitation, 1912 | |||||||||||
For an illustrated lecture by Freemantle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 39 | Shelley, Lady [Frances Shelley] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Lady Morgan [Sidney Morgan?], [1839] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 40 | Shelley, Percy F. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Sir" [Dr. Frederick James Furnivall?], 3 March 1886 | |||||||||||
Includes a one-page letter, from "F.J.F." [Frederick James Furnivall] to Mr. [Thomas J.] Wise, 5 March 1886, on verso. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Sir" [Dr. Frederick James Furnivall?], 12 September 1886 | |||||||||||
Includes an undated note, presumably to Thomas J. Wise, in Furnivall's handwriting. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Dr. [Frederick James] Furnivall, 18 January 1887 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 41 | Sherrington, James Norton | |||||||||
Sherrington was the first husband of Caleb Rose's second wife; Caleb Burrell Rose was Caleb Rose's father. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to J. French [Josiah French], 31 August [18]46 | |||||||||||
Includes the text of a response on the integral address leaf. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JN Sherrington. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to J. French [Josiah French], 8 September [18]46 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JN Sherrington. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Josiah French, 12 September [posted 14 September] [18]46 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: JNS. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 42 | Shorter, Clement King | |||||||||
TLS (4 pages), to Paul Lemperly, [early 1917] | |||||||||||
Apparently a carbon copy, retained by Shorter, of text intended for inclusion in Lemperly's publication Jude the Obscure, a Letter and a Foreward. Includes minor emendations in colored pencil. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: CKS. | |||||||||||
Bookplate, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 43 | Siddall, Charles Crooke | |||||||||
Marriage certificate [extract from the Register Book of the Parish of Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex], 13 December 1824 | |||||||||||
Signed annotation on verso by W.T. Freemantle: This document was given to me by Mr. James Siddal, brother of Miss Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) November 1911. | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait, undated | |||||||||||
Initialed note by W.T. Freemantle on verso: Enlarged from old Photo on glass (in possession of his son James Siddall, & lent for the purpose) & given to me. Nov. 1911. Another note in Freemantle's hand indicates that he lent the photograph to Mrs. V. Hueffer in October 1923 for her to get it copied. | |||||||||||
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10 | 44 | Simeon, Charles | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: C Simeon. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 25 March [17]88 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 17 February 1824 | |||||||||||
Verso bears copy of a 16 June 1819 letter to the unknown recipient from ----- Brougham. | |||||||||||
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10 | 45 | Sinclair, John | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William] Jerdan, 30 September [1830s?] | |||||||||||
A letter of introduction for [James Henry] Hackett. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
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10 | 46 | Skipsey, Joseph | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Shield, 14 May 1889 | |||||||||||
Enclosure not present. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [fragment: page 4 only], to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
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10 | 47 | Smedley, Henry | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to T[homas] Haviland Burke, 3 April 1828 | |||||||||||
Subject: portrait of Mr. Richard Burke received from Mr. Dom. Colnaghi for his portfolio. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Henry Smedley, undated | |||||||||||
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10 | 48 | Smersall, Samuel | |||||||||
Ownership inscription, 1700 or later | |||||||||||
Inscribed on the title page of the Lord Arch-Bishop of York's Fifteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions (London: 1700). | |||||||||||
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10 | 49 | Smith, Elder & Co. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page plus enclosure), to Algernon Charles Swinburne, 17 May 1898 | |||||||||||
Sending copy of letter from Ruskin to Browning on Aurora Leigh. | |||||||||||
Enclosure: copy of letter, from J[ohn] Ruskin to Robert Browning, 27 November 1856. | |||||||||||
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10 | 50 | Southey, Robert | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "The March to Moscow" [poem], [1813?] | |||||||||||
Fair copy; signed "R.S." | |||||||||||
Portrait of Robert Southey, undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of Robert Southey, undated | |||||||||||
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10 | 51 | Southey, Robert [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to James Ballantyne, 20 May 1815 | |||||||||||
Subject: new editions of Madoc and Roderick. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [signature cut off], to John Kenyon, 11 September 1831 | |||||||||||
Subject: Kenyon chosen to enjoy his fortune rather than advance it; Poole; Duppa; Colloquies; Peninsular War; History of Portugal; abuse of free government. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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10 | 52 | Stanhope, John? | |||||||||
DS (2 pages + integral docketed leaf), 26 June 1767 | |||||||||||
Subject: case summary, and decision rendered by Stanhope, involving Sir Thomas Gerard (of near Warrington in Lancashire) who murdered a servant while deranged. In addition to the signature and date, one paragraph is in Stanhope's hand. | |||||||||||
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10 | 53 | Stevenson, H.S. [Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson] [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 20 July 1895 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 17 December [1906] | |||||||||||
Subject: asks for recommendation of bookseller to buy first editions of Louis. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages plus enclosure), to Edmund Gosse, 23 December [1906] | |||||||||||
Subject: sale of books which belonged to her husband; money needed for cancer operation; thanks Gosse for his offer to act as salesman. List of books enclosed and included. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 26 December [1906] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for advice and help about sale of books; wishes to sell also small Classen and small altar frame. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 31 December [1906] | |||||||||||
Subject: sale of books. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 7 January [1907] | |||||||||||
Subject: sale of books; Louis's letters; operation not necessary at present. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edmund Gosse, 17 January [1907] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for money realized by sale of books--greater than she expected. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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10 | 54 | Stewart, J[ohn?] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William Jackson Hooker], 10 February 1820 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 55 | Swettenham, Frank | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 23 December 1918 | |||||||||||
Subject: Paul Swinburne; an enclosure that "is no doubt his [Paul Swinburne's] production." | |||||||||||
Photocopy of original, which is folded twice and tipped into a small volume [presumably the enclosure mentioned in the letter]: Shakhs, Fulana, Esq., 'Multa Oraculis Declarantur.' : Five Fragments of the Future Chipped Off at Random ([Delhi?]: Reprinted from the Delhi Gazette, [1881?]). This pamphlet, later bound in cloth, bears the signature of Paul Swinburne. | |||||||||||
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10 | 56 | Swift, Jonathan | |||||||||
Holograph MS [a copy], "A Humorious [sic] Description of Mortality Supposed to be Written by Dean Swift in a Letter to a Friend," undated | |||||||||||
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10 | 57 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MSS (5 of 7 pages), untitled [poems and prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title on binding: "Bishop Jackson." | |||||||||||
Draft. Last page on face of envelope addressed to A.C. Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Described in unsigned note [by Thomas J. Wise] included in volume: These attacks by Swinburne upon Bishop Jackson, though highly amusing, are of course unprintable. | |||||||||||
One leaf, included in description when catalogue cards made circa 1950, now detached and missing. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by typed transcripts that include the text from all seven pages. | |||||||||||
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10 | 58 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (12 pages), "Burd Margaret" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). | |||||||||||
Added leaf at front with two notes (one by Symington and one by Wise?) serves as title page. | |||||||||||
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10 | 59 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), untitled [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Title on binding: "The Cyclops. Ms." | |||||||||||
Fragment of draft of dramatic poem. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
See Algernon Charles Swinburne letter to William M. Rossetti, dated 2 December 1869, in first bound volume of Swinburne letters to Rossetti. | |||||||||||
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10 | 60 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (4 pages), "Epicurus" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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10 | 61 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (6 pages), "Eyes" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. With added title leaf. | |||||||||||
Signed note by T.J.Wise: This is the first draft of the poem afterwards entitled, in its re-written form, "The Ride from Milan." |
Box 11 : Swinburne, Algernon Charles | |||||||||||
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11 | 1 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Portrait, undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages; 46 verses), "The Halt Before Rome" [poem], September 1867 | |||||||||||
Fair copy signed by Swinburne. | |||||||||||
From added title leaf: This manuscript is the one sent to the Fortnightly Review in 1867. First printed there in November 1867. | |||||||||||
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11 | 2 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (16 pages), "Letters" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). | |||||||||||
With added title leaf. Subtitle "A Story in Verse" not on manuscript. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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11 | 3 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Life after death" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Caption title added in pencil. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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11 | 4 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (28 pages), untitled [prose], [1881?] | |||||||||||
Title on binding: "Note on the Character of Mary Queen of Scots." | |||||||||||
Described in signed note by Thomas J. Wise as "made as a preparation for Swinburne's drama Mary Stuart, published in 1881. Many passages in it correspond with speeches introduced into the play." | |||||||||||
Published in the Fortnightly Review, January 1882. | |||||||||||
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11 | 5 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), untitled [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Title on binding: "Tristram of Lyonesse. 1st Draft Ms." | |||||||||||
Fragments of draft. | |||||||||||
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11 | 6 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (153 pages), "A Year's Letters" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Interleaved fair copy written on one side of each sheet. | |||||||||||
Includes emendations by Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Later title ("Love's Cross Currents") acknowledged on added title leaf and binding only. | |||||||||||
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11 | 7 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Includes added title leaf for entire volume. Note signed T.J.W[ise]: "‘My Lady' and other Preraphaelite Poems. Written at Oxford 1857-1858." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "She seemeth to me fairer much. . . ." [incomplete poem], [1857-1858] | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). Explained in another note by T.J.W[ise]: The first page of this poem is written upon the reverse of the last page of the manuscript of the Sonnets. Typed transcript at end of volume. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (6 pages; begins on verso of last leaf of "She seemeth to me fairer much. . . ."), "My Lady" [poem], [1857-1858] | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). Typed transcript at end of volume. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Cino (painting, speaks at intervals). . . ." [poem fragment], [1857-1858] | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). On identical paper to "She seemeth" and "My Lady." Typed transcript at end of volume. | |||||||||||
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11 | 8 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [from Atalanta in Calydon beginning: "What thing wilt thou leave me"] [poem fragment], [1866] | |||||||||||
First draft. Published in Poems and Ballads. Accompanied by a loose modern transcript comparing it to a published version. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [from Atalanta in Calydon beginning: "When thou dravest the men"] [poem fragment], [1866] | |||||||||||
Draft. Text does not begin where previous manuscript fragment leaves off. Published in Poems and Ballads. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "What to yours is May's. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy. Published in Poems and Ballads. | |||||||||||
Printed leaf (2 pages), "By the North Sea" [poem fragment], 1880? | |||||||||||
Apparently from Swinburne's Studies in Song (London, 1880): pages 211-212. Bears the imprint of Spottiswoode & Co., printers. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Babe, if rhyme be none. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. Leaf includes other poetry fragments. "By Twilight" fragment beginning "If we dream, Night sinks on the soul" on verso. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), from "By Twilight" beginning: "If we dream, Night sinks on the soul" [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. On verso of "Babe, if rhyme be none. . . ." Leaf includes other poetry fragments. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [from "A Riever's Neck-Verse" beginning: Some die singing & some die swinging] [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
First draft. Leaf includes other poetry fragments. | |||||||||||
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11 | 9 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Song" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Unrelated manuscript, "O thou all-bearing mother," on verso of first leaf. Accompanied by a typed typescript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page; on verso of first leaf of "Song"), "O thou all-bearing mother. . . ." [untitled poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript with an unsigned note by Thomas J. Wise: A fragment, or trial bit, of Swinburne's attempt to complete Keat's Hyperion. | |||||||||||
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11 | 10 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "This, tho' our [?] praise embalm thee. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft; possibly a fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. A note added to the transcript reads: To Hugo. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages) [partly in French], "Si le ‘tas de critique' pouvait. . . ." [untitled] [prose notes], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: insults of critics, Victor Hugo, Truth, and a list of bibliographical items that are checked off. Written on back of telegram, 22 May [18]85, from a Mr. Knowles to Theodore Watts [Theodore Watts-Dunton] that concerns a potential article on Victor Hugo by Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Circular letter (1 page) [in French], from the organizing committee of a "fête de Victor Hugo" to Swinburne, February 1881 | |||||||||||
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11 | 11 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "There's a fellow his comrades call ‘Al'. . . ." [poems], undated | |||||||||||
Preceded by an explanatory note in the hand of Thomas J. Wise: Three limericks about the birching of Swinburne and a friend. Drafts. Accompanied by a typed transcript. On verso: fragment of a letter, 1890s?, signed by Bertram Brooke that in part alludes to Mr. Watts [Theodore Watts-Dunton]: "I hope Mr Watts is well." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Villon" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy. Accompanied by a typed transcript. Note by Thomas J. Wise (no longer present except as a typed transcript): A poem translated from [François] Villon. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from E[dmund] G[osse] to [T.J.] Wise, 10 November [19]23 | |||||||||||
Subject: dating manuscripts. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS [1 page], "(Picquart studying Dante in prison)" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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11 | 12 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Portrait [of Swinburne], undated | |||||||||||
Envelope addressed to Swinburne, postmarked from Blackburn, 20 April [18]80 | |||||||||||
The envelope includes a lock of hair. Accompanied by a note signed by Thomas J. Wise: "This is a portion of the Lock of the Hair of Algernon Charles Swinburne. It was cut from the poet's head on the day after his death in April, 1907 [sic], by . . . Watts-Dunton's sister." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "This, when our souls are drowning. . . ." [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Draft, with verses reversed. Accompanied by a typed transcript. Note on transcript identifies poem as: "Parody of Empedocles." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Mother of life & love & death & fear. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy. "When Fate gave proof that laureates too must die. . . ." on verso. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "When Fate gave proof that laureates too must die. . . ." [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy. On verso of "Mother of life & love & death & fear. . . ." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), untitled [prose], undated | |||||||||||
First line begins: This Dama [?] had the fierce narrow mouth. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), ["To General Gordon"] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. Probable first line (at top of page [2]): "Beloved & blest of children, heaven-born head." Of the two accompanying copies (handwritten, but not by Swinburne), one is headed "To General Gordon." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "My treason was hardly so rank or so crude as. . . ." [poem], [1886?] | |||||||||||
Draft. Preceded by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Their country's lovers chuckle. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. Written on part of an envelope. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "The flower that has left us behind it. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Lincoln and Garfield die by murderous hands. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment of three lines. Attached to typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "A mateless heifer magnificent-browed. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fragment of four lines. Attached to typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "So that the water touching her cool side. . . ." [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Draft (fair copy with emendations?). Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Underneath these stones. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Fair copy. Accompanied by a typed transcript. Transcript headed: "Epitaph." | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Fast locked around heaving sides & hips. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "St. Paul" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Draft; consists of four lines. Attached to a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [from "Vos Deos Laudamus" beginning: III. O Lords our Gods, the times] [poem fragment; fair copy], undated | |||||||||||
On blue paper. With "Half a hundred times. . . ." [crossed-out poem fragment; draft] and "A friendship over four years old" [poem or poem fragment] on verso. Accompanied by related sheet of notes and by typed transcripts of the poems not crossed out. With reference to first text, sheet described in repository as "Torn, last two lines incomplete" when catalogue cards made circa 1950; however, portion of leaf at right (with at least the four lines beginning "A friendship over four years old" on verso) now also missing. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "A friendship over four years old. . . ." [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Probably a fragment. On the reverse side of "Twilight of the Lords" fragment. Page also contains another fragment listed separately. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Half a hundred times. . . ." [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Crossed out. On reverse of "Twilight of the Lords" fragment. Other fragment on page listed separately. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "And there is nothing good but it shall end. . . ." [poem fragment], [1863?] | |||||||||||
Draft. Accompanied by a typed transcript. The transcript suggests a date of 1863. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "(Aytoun with posterior puff no less. . . ." [poem fragment], undated | |||||||||||
Draft. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page) [in French], "Metempsychose" [poem], undated. | |||||||||||
Attached to a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Rome and Nola, June 9th 1889" [poem], 1889? | |||||||||||
Fair copy with emendations? Formerly torn into four pieces. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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11 | 13 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Roundel" [A Roundel of Ravelais] [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Copy, not in Swinburne's hand, of item signed: A.C. Swinburne. First line: Theleme is afar on the waters, adrift and afar. Marked or signed in pencil under Swinburne's copied signature at bottom: T. W D [i.e., Theodore Watts-Dunton?]. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "My lady has a casket cut / In scarlet coral crimson red. . . ." [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
With pencil note: "By A. C. Swinburne / Unpublished, but not holograph." This item has appeared in print credited to Theo Marzials. | |||||||||||
Preceded by six additional lines of unattributed verse. |
Box 12 : Swinburne, Algernon Charles | |||||||||||
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12 | 1 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Author's [?] proof (8 pages), "An Unknown Poet" [prose fragment], [1875?] | |||||||||||
Pages 9-16. Apparently the text for the Fortnightly Review, but paginated differently. With note by [Thomas J. Wise]: Corrected Proof of a portion of Swinburne's article on Charles Wells. | |||||||||||
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12 | 2 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
A Year's Letters (Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher), 1901 | |||||||||||
Interleaved copy used as a proof, apparently in preparing a later edition. Work subsequently known as: Love's Cross Currents. | |||||||||||
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12 | 3 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Copy-edited page proofs, Love's Cross Currents (London: Chatto & Windus), 1905 | |||||||||||
Interleaved copy. Differs from 1905 first edition in leading, pagination and (some) front matter. | |||||||||||
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12 | 4 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to E?W. Adams, 4 January 1867 | |||||||||||
Subject: Moxon & Co.'s breach of faith, which caused him to withdraw all of his books from them; will have no communication with them. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Clement K. Shorter, 19 October [18]96 | |||||||||||
Portion of stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Removed from a copy of Shorter's Charlotte Brontë and her Circle (1896), to which the letter pertains. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [The Athenæum], [1877] | |||||||||||
Fragment (lacking page 2) of a draft copy. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an unsigned note written by Thomas J. Wise. | |||||||||||
Subject: denies changes in text of Poems and Ballads. | |||||||||||
Statement of account (1 page), from A[lexander] B[alloch] Grosart to Swinburne, undated | |||||||||||
A printed form accomplished in ink. | |||||||||||
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12 | 5 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
First bound volume of letters to William Michael Rossetti. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [6 October 1862] | |||||||||||
Subject: William Blake. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 3 November [1862] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's work; Rossetti not to review Blake work. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [25 November 1862] | |||||||||||
Subject: a letter of the Marquis de Sade. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
AL (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 8 August [1863] | |||||||||||
Subject: books about the Borgias; Ruskin; matters relating to the William Blake work, "A Plain Sportsman's Vindication of His Attacks on Bishop Colenso." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to William [Rossetti], 11 October [1863] | |||||||||||
Subject: Chinese interior decoration; the Blake work; Landor's Heroic Idylls. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 15 December [1863] | |||||||||||
Subject: William Blake. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 31 January [1864] | |||||||||||
Subject: the Blake essay; Palgrave. | |||||||||||
Signed by Swinburne with his initials only. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [26 March 1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: trouble at a club. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [3 October 1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: Palgrave. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [13 October 1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: Victorian sex convention. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 2 November [1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's illness; Palgrave's defense of Swinburne. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 12 November [1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: Carleton; Hotten; bad reviews. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 26 December [1866] | |||||||||||
Subject: Hotten; pirated Swinburne work; poem in praise of Milano; Orsini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 4 January [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti art essays; Voltaire. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 22 February [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: William Blake; "troubles in the South"; Italian poem. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 28 February [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Bendyshe; proofs of Blake book. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [29 April 1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's illness; Mazzini; Scott; Brown; Howell; living biographies. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
AL (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 17 September [18]67 | |||||||||||
Subject: Whitman; German translation of Swinburne; Bothwell; Furnival. Signature cut out, damaging one line of text. Typescript copy appended. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 11 October [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Whitman; Arnold. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 28 November [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Broadway letter; verses in the Star; Whitman. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [William M.] Rossetti, [12 December 1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Mazzini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 20 December [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Whitman; Blake; Mazzini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 24 December [1867] | |||||||||||
Subject: Mazzini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 1 January [1868] | |||||||||||
Subject: Mazzini; Blake; Whitman. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 1 February [1868] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's "Mrs. Holmes Gray"; Whitman's Democracy. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [3 May 1868] | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's accident; Tennyson's Lucretius. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [18 May 1868] | |||||||||||
Subject: notes on Florentine drawings. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [15 July 1868] | |||||||||||
Subject: trouble with Hotten. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 15 March [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Amphiaraus; Shelley. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 31 March [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's notes on Charles the First; Shelley; Mazzini; Browning; Landor; Palgrave; Forster. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 6 May [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Locker; Mazzini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [26 September 1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's "Mrs. Holmes Gray"; Balzac; Flaubert. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 9 October [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Anti-Catholic council of Naples. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 15 October [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's political philosophy; Whitman. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages) [including copy in Italian], from Swinburne and William M. Rossetti to the Anti-Catholic Congress at Naples, October 1869 | |||||||||||
Signed by Rossetti and Swinburne. | |||||||||||
Enclosure in following letter. Accompanied by a typed transcript of the English version. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 10 November [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: letter to Naples; Mazzini; Venturi; Orsini; Bonaparte; Victor Hugo. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [25 November 1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Karl Blind; Barbes; Flaubert; Michelet; "Before a Crucifix." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [30 November 1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: calendar reform; Hotten. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 2 December 1869 | |||||||||||
Subject: Hotten; "The Cyclops"; Songs Before Sunrise. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 5 December [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Shelley; "Ode to Naples." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 28 December [1869] | |||||||||||
Subject: Shelley; Republicanism; Swinburne's mother; Christmas hymn; Tristram. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
12 | 6 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Second bound volume of letters to William Michael Rossetti. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [21 April 1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: "Eve of the Revolution"; "Antiphones"; favorite alexandrine. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [22 May 1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: "Moonstones"; Mazzini; "Appeal." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [23 June 1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: trouble with Hotten; ill health. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 4 August [1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: trouble with Hotten; tales by Rossetti's sister; Mathilde Blind. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 6 August [1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: Hotten; Rossetti's notices; Shelley; Victor Hugo. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 19 August [1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: Hotten; sonnets. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 30 August [1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: Hotten; Mazzini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (12 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 14 June [1871] | |||||||||||
Subject: illness; original Hogarth ink sketch; Victor Hugo; the British press; Shelley; de Sade; Mazzini; anti-monarchial views. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (10 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 1 March [1874] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's approaching marriage; Rossetti's Blake work; Bothwell. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 15 July [1874] | |||||||||||
Subject: Blake's water colors for Young's Night Thoughts. Accompained by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (10 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 17 July [1874] | |||||||||||
Subject: Blake; Chatto; Shelley; Bothwell. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 20 October [1874] | |||||||||||
Subject: Blake; Chapman; Browning. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (12 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 30 October [18]74 | |||||||||||
Subject: Tiriel and Blake's madness; Joseph and His Brethren. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 4 January 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: Academy pamphlet of '68; essays; volume of political and national poems; Milton; Areopagitica. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 9 January [1875] | |||||||||||
Subject: title for the political poems; Essay and Studies; Shelley; Craik; Fleay. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 26 February [1875] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's daughter; "a place that would have delighted Shelley"; Wainwright. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 19 October [1875] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's baby; immortality of the soul. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 17 March [1876] | |||||||||||
Subject: Trelawney; Godwin; Beaumont and Fletcher; Scotus. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 4 April [18]76 | |||||||||||
Subject: Whitman; Landor; Leconte; de Lisle (his poetry and religious views). Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 8 October [1876] | |||||||||||
Subject: a Bulgarian atrocity; Wordsworth; Shelley. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 23 February [1880] | |||||||||||
Subject: the Pall Mall; ode for for the birthday of Hugo. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ANS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [4 February 1880] | |||||||||||
Autograph note on the flag of the Pall Mall Gazette; also a later clipping from the Gazette containing a letter dated February 16 and signed Fr. Jourde, referred to in the preceding letter [subject: responsibility for the fire at the Ministère des Finances]. Accompanied by a typed transcript of the note. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [23 April 1880] | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to Swinburne poetry reading on Easter. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 3 January 1881 | |||||||||||
Subject: a poetry reading; Wordsworth; poem on Landor. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 14? March [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: republicanism. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 17 March [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: Bulgarian atrocities; republicanism. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, [23 September 1881] | |||||||||||
Subject: the Rossetti children; Watts-Dunton. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 24 May 1882 | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's gout; Tristram. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 1 November [18]83 | |||||||||||
Subject: Chiarini. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 13 November [18]83 | |||||||||||
Subject: de Lisle; Gosse. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 3 June 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: memorial for Mrs. Hueffer; badly printed first edition. Written in white ink on colored paper. Accompanied by a typed transcript. |
Box 13 : Swinburne, Algernon Charles-Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 1 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles [bound volume] | |||||||||
Third bound volume of letters to William Michael Rossetti and others. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 16 June [18]95 | |||||||||||
Subject: a chivalric romance; a lyric poem on the religions of the world; Dutch novelist Maarten Maartens; Coleridge's letters. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 4 October [18]95 | |||||||||||
Subject: portraits of the Rossetti family. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 20 January [18]96 | |||||||||||
Subject: volume of Rossetti poems; Professor Sully's Studies of Childhood. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 19 January [190]2 | |||||||||||
Subject: autobiography of Rossetti's father; Italian Renaissance books; Caesar Borgia; Watts-Dunton. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 10 November [190]2 | |||||||||||
Subject: a Burchard; a new Swinburne play. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 2 July 1903 | |||||||||||
Subject: annotated edition of Blake. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 12 February [190]4 | |||||||||||
Subject: poems of Rossetti's sister; Russian politics. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 22 February [1904] | |||||||||||
Subject: Rossetti's and Swinburne's sisters; the "present laureate." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 7 July 1904 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 14 September 1904 | |||||||||||
Subject: new volume of Swinburne's; Mrs. Sartoris; Swinburne translated into Italian; Rossetti's sister's poems. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 27 October [190]4 | |||||||||||
Subject: list of poems preferred by Rossetti. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 21 August [190]5 | |||||||||||
Subject: Teza; l'Isurrezione; Algie Harewood; Redgie Swinburne. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 10 September [190]6 | |||||||||||
Subject: catalogue of G. D. Rossetti's writings; "Chief carver to the Duchess of Urbino." Refers to the subsequent clipping. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Enclosed in preceding letter, dated 10 September 1906. Accompanied by a partial typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 16 September [190]6 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 16 October [190]6 | |||||||||||
Subject: book on Sienese art; Ruskin. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 29 October [190]6 | |||||||||||
Subject: Ruskin; Blake; "God, Jr." Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [William M.] Rossetti, 14 April [190]7 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's pleasure at the recognition received on his birthday. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 28 September [190]8 | |||||||||||
Subject: The Duke of Gandia; Marlowe; Shelley. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [William M.] Rossetti, 2 October [190]8 | |||||||||||
Subject: "a backseat behind Mr. Rudyard Kipling"; Spenser; Tennyson. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Alice Bird], 25 September [18]82 | |||||||||||
Subject: Shelley relics. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Francis Howard], 20 October [18]96 | |||||||||||
Subject: proposed demolition of the Chelsea Hospital. Accompanied by a stamped envelope and a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to J[ohn] C[amden] Hotten, 10 April [1873] | |||||||||||
Subject: unauthorized advertisement of Bothwell. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
AL (2 pages; fragment) [in French], to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for a monograph; Landor. Accompanied by typed transcripts in French and English. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: publication in a French paper; Landor; poem about the town of Dunwich. Accompanied by typed transcripts in French and English. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 2 | Symington, John Alexander [bound volume] | |||||||||
For examples of other compilations by Symington, look in the Reference Materials section under the headings for "Brontë family -- Bibliographical Data" and "Swinburne, Algernon Charles -- Bibliographical Data." | |||||||||||
Typescript (unpaginated; exceeds 640 typed leaves), "The Bonnell Catalogue: Brontëana Collected by the Late Mr. H. H. Bonnell of Philadelphia, Given to the Brontë Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire, by Mrs. H.H. Bonnell / Catalogued and Arranged by J. Alex. Symington, with a Few Notes by C.W. Hatfield," 1929 | |||||||||||
Carbon copy with an added frontispiece (depicting Bonnell?); covers detached. Includes emendations in pencil, as well as a note on Bonnell's acquisition sources that is initialed by Symington. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 3 | Symington, John Alexander | |||||||||
Typescript (1 page), "The Funeral of Mr. T. J. Wise" [prose], 1937? | |||||||||||
A carbon copy. Unsigned, but references the author as "J.A.S." in the text. | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait, by Lafayette, Ltd., undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by two photomechanical reproductions of the same image. | |||||||||||
Photograph, undated | |||||||||||
An image depicting Symington seated at a messy table in front of full bookcases. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 4 | Tchertkoff, Vladimir | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Edmund Gosse, 12 September 1908 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: V. Tchertkoff. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 5 | Tempest, J. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Thomas] Plumbe, 12 January 1773 | |||||||||||
Drawing of a colored phaeton enclosed. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Clipped signature? of "Cpt. T. Plumbe," undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 6 | Tennyson, Frederick | |||||||||
Holograph MS, "To a Summer fly" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Signed by Tennyson. Typed copy of poem attached. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 7 | Thiers, Adolphe | |||||||||
LS or ALS (2 pages) [in French], to G. Daelli and Co., 19 July 1864 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. Thiers. | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait [of Adolphe Thiers], undated | |||||||||||
Portion of envelope, from Thiers to "James Edward Lewis," [January 1869] | |||||||||||
Portion of envelope, from Thiers to "Edward Lewis," [February 1869] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 8 | Thomas, Emanuell, and William Johnson | |||||||||
Legal document, 18? May 1654 | |||||||||||
Concerns a land dispute that was settled in favor of Thomas and Johnson. | |||||||||||
Text appearing prominently at top of document: Oliver Lord Protector. . . . | |||||||||||
Folded; seal deteriorated. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 9 | Thornton, Edward | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to A[lexander] Graham Dunlop, 26 February 1871 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 10 | Thynne, C --?-- | |||||||||
ALS (1 page; fragment), to Mrs? Jervis, [4 September 1824? or 1829?] | |||||||||||
Printed poem to "Honorable Miss Thynne," undated | |||||||||||
Removed from an unidentified source (not The London Magazine of 1780). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 11 | Tietjens, Thérèse | |||||||||
Clipped signature [from a letter], 31 March 1869 | |||||||||||
In part, glued to another piece of paper; only portions of the text on the verso are visible. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 12 | Tindal, Nicholas Conyngham | |||||||||
DS (1 page), 18 July 1834 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: N.C. Tindal. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 13 | Trimmer, Joshua | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: J. Trimmer. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 31 March 1849 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 17 May 1849 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 4 April 1850 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 14 [January?] 1853 | |||||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 6 March 1857 | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 24 November 1857 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 7 June 1857 | |||||||||||
Annotated by [C.B. Rose]: Trimmer's last letter to me. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 14 | Trollope, William | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Thomas Cadell], 22 March 1830 | |||||||||||
Includes an added notation in a different handwriting. Form of signature used: W. Trollope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 15 | Twiss, Horace | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
Oversize | Unidentified Author -- Genealogy | ||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 charts), "Brontë Pedigree," [before 1915?]-1927 | |||||||||||
Includes integral sections for "Maternal Collaterals" and "Paternal Collaterals," plus separate sheets for "Branwell-Brontë Chart" and "Branwell of Penwith Pedigree Chart." | |||||||||||
One notation dates from 1927 and serveral others were apparently added in 1915. | |||||||||||
Found enclosed in paper, signed by Symington, labeled "The Pedigree of the Brontë Family and connections" and "Unpublished." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 16 | Unidentified Authors -- Letters | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from [name illegible] to "My dear [Brightwen?]," [1827] | |||||||||||
Subject: "Canning is first Lord of the Treasury The Chanceller Ld Bathhurst Peel . . . & the D of Wellington have resigned. . . ." | |||||||||||
The writer's signature somewhat resembles that of Lord John Russell. | |||||||||||
ALS (11 pages), from [name illegible] to R.S? Simpson, 24? May [18]99 | |||||||||||
Written at Worthing by an individual who had been sick since the beginning of the year. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from [name illegible] to R. Rackham, 11 October 1900 | |||||||||||
Written by a minister staying temporarily at the St. Elwyn vicarage, Hayle, Cornwall. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from [name illegible] to "Dear Booth" [i.e., William H. Booth?], 10 March [1914] | |||||||||||
Subject: slow drying varnish used on his paintings, including the one that Booth has; his wife lunching in Ipswich; etc. | |||||||||||
Written from "Langer Ridge / Felixstowe" (per embossed stationery) by an individual whose surname might begin with "Th." Year added to letter in different handwriting. | |||||||||||
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13 | 17 | Unidentified Author -- Poems | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Seas" [?] [poem], 26 April [no year] | |||||||||||
First line: "[W]hen Jesus shall from Heav'n descend." | |||||||||||
The name Samuel Stevens appears at the top. | |||||||||||
Verso: undated portrait of Dr. [Walter] Charlton. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 18 | Unidentified Author -- Poems | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), ["When Mansfield of late, by Fair Liberty's Train. . . ."] [untitled poem], undated | |||||||||||
Per accompanying note, apparently mentions, as "Jeffries," Judge George Jeffreys (1648-1689) and, as "Thurlow," John Thurloe (1616-1668). | |||||||||||
Portrait of Thurloe Secretary to Cromwell, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical; concerns Thurloe) [in English and French], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 19 | Unidentified Author -- Prose | |||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), "Conservative Women & the Vote" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Draft speech or essay concerning women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. Written by a woman, the text makes reference to "a large W.S. meeting held about 18 years ago in the S. James hall for men & women of both political parties," decries the partisan tone of the women's suffrage issue, and asserts that it should be independent of the issue of (universal) adult suffrage. | |||||||||||
Item formerly listed as an article on Mary Russell Mitford, based upon a crossed out heading on the first page that appears above the heading "Conservative Women & the Vote." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 20 | Unidentified Author -- Prose | |||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "The Duty on Candles. . . ." [untitled prose], undated | |||||||||||
Endorsed: Memo upon the Duty upon Tallow Candles. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 21 | Unidentified Author -- Prose | |||||||||
Transmittal note, undated | |||||||||||
Text: For the Principal of St. Mary Hall with [two initials]'s very kind regards. | |||||||||||
Written on a print, now cut away, for which only the printed identification remains: JOHN INETT, D.D., Author of Origines Anglicanæ, from an Original Picture in the possession of Mr. Inett of Asfordby. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 22 | Unidentified Author -- Prose | |||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "I have been. . . ." [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Five thoughts, some in the form of aphorisms. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 23 | Unidentified Author -- Prose | |||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), Household Words [prose], undated | |||||||||||
"Meredith" written at upper left on first page. A list of 21 dates, from 1850 through 1858, that appear to be publication dates for poems by George Meredith. Each entry also includes at least Meredith's surname, a title and a monetary figure, although sometimes the payment date or method of payment is also noted. Per M. Buxton Forman's 1922 bibliography, this item apparently pertains, at least in part, to poems that were collected in Twenty Poems (1909), but it is unclear if Forman's book was the source of the information in this manuscript. | |||||||||||
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13 | 24 | Vane, Henry [2nd Duke of Cleveland] | |||||||||
Portion of address leaf, 5 April 1827 | |||||||||||
Franked item. Form of signature used: Barnard [as his title in April 1827 was Viscount Barnard]. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 25 | Wagstaff, W.H. | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 10 April 1924 | |||||||||||
Subject: new fellows for the Royal Society of Literature; names listed of those to be asked; two essays for Transactions. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 26 | Walmisley, Thomas Attwood | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to N[icolas] Mori, 19 October 1838 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: TA Walmisley. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 27 | Warburton, Eliot | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Messrs. Stultz, 26 January [1845] | |||||||||||
Clipping, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 28 | Ward, William | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to John Fryer, 4 September 1824 | |||||||||||
Written on behalf of the Bishop of Chester. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 29 | Watson, John | |||||||||
ALS (1 page plus stamped envelope), to Dr. [Charles Albert] Berry, 18 December 1894 | |||||||||||
LS or ALS (2 pages plus stamped envelope), to [William L. Fleming], 4 November 1895 | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 30 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Form of signature used in these letters varies; however, most employ the surname Watts. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Father" [John King Watts], [1862] | |||||||||||
Subject: tells of his travels. Accompanied by two typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Father" [John King Watts], [1862] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by two typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Father" [John King Watts], 29 September [18]62 | |||||||||||
Subject: to travel to Holyhead and catch Irish train to London; visit to North Wales. Accompanied by two typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Alfred [Hake], 20 February [18]77 | |||||||||||
Subject: French newspapers containing notices of Victor Hugo's Legende des Siecles and where to obtain them. Accompanied by two typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
AL (5 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, [circa 1880?] | |||||||||||
Unsigned but possibly complete. Draft version? | |||||||||||
Final page, on separate leaf, is a postscript that might belong to another letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Hall] Caine, 20 December [18]82 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 21 October [18]86 | |||||||||||
Subject: read Gosse's letter in Times; J. C. Collins' attack in article in the Quarterly. Annotated at top of first page by Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Dear Sir," 10 November [18]86 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 2 May [18]88 | |||||||||||
Subject: appointment to see Watts and Swinburne. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Rossetti [i.e., William Michael Rossetti?], undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W.T.W. Accompanied by two typed transcripts. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 17 May [18]93 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 29 June [18]94 | |||||||||||
Subject: reason why, unlike Watts himself, Swinburne will not be back by the 16th to join Gosse and his American visitors; Lady Mary Gordon's home on the Isle of Wight; Swinburne's intention to write to Gosse separately; Watt's sonnet in the Athenaeum. Annotated at top of first page by Gosse, indicating to whom he gave the related letter that Swinburne wrote. | |||||||||||
Holiday card (1 page), from Theodore and Clara Watts-Dunton to unknown recipient, 1908 | |||||||||||
A Christmas and New Year's greeting, dated 1908 on the card, which is entirely printed. | |||||||||||
LS (5 pages), to Mrs. Havelock [Edith] Ellis, [1910s] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Theodore Watts-Dunton. Accompanied by a typed transcript. |
Box 14 : Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
14 | 1 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
For detailed contents of this book and the subsequent six volumes, consult the Symington Collection's Theodore Watts-Dunton Letter Books section. | |||||||||||
Letter book, January 1889-September 1898 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
14 | 2 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
Letter book, 3 September 1898-15 November 1901 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
14 | 3 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
Letter book, 13 November 1901-24 March 1903 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
14 | 4 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
Letter book, 24 March 1903-2 April 1904 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
14 | 5 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
Letter book, 2 April 1904-24 January 1905 |
Box 15 : Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore-Wilson, Guy Fleetwood | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 1 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
Letter book, 24 January 1905-7 May 1906 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 2 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [bound volume] | |||||||||
Letter book, 8 May 1906-28 August 1907 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 3 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 77 pages), "Myndon Hall" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title from front wrapper of notebook. | |||||||||||
Characters mentioned include Sir Archibald and reference is made to Gabrielle. | |||||||||||
Some page headings are: "Beginning of Nortons Narrative" and "Norton's Narrative continued & Rances introduction." | |||||||||||
Note at end of text: (next book). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 4 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 54 pages), "Rance's Narrative" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title from front wrapper. | |||||||||||
Characters mentioned include Sir Archibald and Gabrielle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 5 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 66 pages), "Gabrielle Vierges" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title is from first page, which states at top: Gabrielle Vierges B Chapter 1. | |||||||||||
Title on front wrapper: 1. | |||||||||||
Includes a note to add something from: Part 2 of M.S. | |||||||||||
Notes on last page mention Norton. | |||||||||||
At the bottom of one page is a set of initials: W.T.W. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 6 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 59 pages), [untitled prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title on front wrapper: 2. | |||||||||||
Some page headings are: "Chapter 2" and "Chapter 3." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 7 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 65 pages), [untitled prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title on front wrapper: 3. | |||||||||||
First leaf (not entirely blank) no longer present. | |||||||||||
Among the characters mentioned is Gabrielle. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 8 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 86 pages), [untitled prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title on front wrapper: 4. | |||||||||||
Among the characters mentioned is Gabrielle. | |||||||||||
Includes pages headed: "Norton narrates this" and "Norton on good & bad luck." | |||||||||||
Lacks back wrapper. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 9 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (circa 67 pages), [untitled prose], undated | |||||||||||
Title on front wrapper: 5. | |||||||||||
First and last leaves, possibly blank, no longer present. | |||||||||||
Includes page headed: After death of Gabrielle. | |||||||||||
Some page headings at back of notebook are: "Plot" and "Norton on lust." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 10 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), [untitled essay on poetry], undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 11 | Wells, Charles Jeremiah | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Algernon Charles] Swinburne, 25 July [18]75 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Joseph. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Algernon Charles] Swinburne, 17 August [1875] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Joseph. Stamped envelope included. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Theodore Watts-Dunton?], 22? April [18]76 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: C.J? Wells. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
AL (3 pages), to H., undated | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 12 | West, Benjamin | |||||||||
Receipt, from J[ohn] Britton, undated | |||||||||||
Pertains to The Beauties of England and Wales. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 13 | Wheeler, Ella [Ella Wheeler Wilcox] [bound volume] | |||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 30 January [18]76 | |||||||||||
Subject: problems of publishing; Music and Moonlight; likes his poetry very much; hopes to make a lot on her book so she can stop writing for mercenary reasons; women are young such a short time; personal description of herself; encloses photograph [not in volume]. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Clippings (7 items), undated | |||||||||||
Wheeler's poetry. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 19 June and 18 July [18]76 | |||||||||||
Subject: reviews of her book; compared to Swinburne; some shocked that a girl could write such lines; intends to learn German; effort to meet his brother failed; Decoration Day poem; his wife; continues to turn out a lot of poetry because she must have the money; financial troubles about her books. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Clippings (8 items), undated and 25 June 1876 | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 5 October [18]76 | |||||||||||
Subject: has severe spell of the "blues"; difficulty of getting her book into print; own business manager; what little she can write is trash because she cannot polish it; liked his criticism of her book; some of her poems have been set to music; reading a lot; Joaquin Miller; thinking of writing a serial story for a trashy New York paper. | |||||||||||
ALS (9 pages), to Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 14 November 1876 | |||||||||||
Subject: description of a trip to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia; return trip by way of Hudson River, Niagara Falls, and Chicago; met two nice English men; went with a lady companion; returned alone; hopes now to be able to write. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 13 February [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: gaining ground in the East but still can't secure hearing in Scribner's or Harper's Magazine; trip to Chicago; saw Bernhart; five feet of snow; thanks for the cards of introduction; intends to revise "Maurine"; his brother. Following poems enclosed. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Winter Rain" [sonnet], undated | |||||||||||
Signed "Ella Wheeler"; enclosure in letter of 13 February 1881. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "I dream" [poem], undated | |||||||||||
Enclosure in letter of 13 February 1881. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 15 November [18]80 | |||||||||||
Subject: The Land of Content; hopes to go East and meet some poets; encloses some of her poems. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Clippings (4 items), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 14 | Whitbread, Samuel Charles | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Jabez Hogg, 22 February 1867 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: S.C. Whitbread. | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items), [1879] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 15 | Wilberforce, William [bound volume] | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: W Wilberforce. | |||||||||||
Portrait of [William Wilberforce?], undated | |||||||||||
Portrait of W. Wilberforce, undated | |||||||||||
View of Wilberforce House, undated | |||||||||||
Portion of envelope, to Mrs. Pinder, 25 October 1821 | |||||||||||
With Wilberforce's frank. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), from "Ashley" to Cadell & Davies, 24 July 1797 | |||||||||||
Subject: Wilberforce, 4th edition of "Prac[tica]l View." Written by Ashley [secretary?]. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to W[illia]m Huskisson, 6 April [1813] | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for sending copy of speech. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Max[wel?]l Fischer, 17 September [no year] | |||||||||||
Subject: his wife; appointment. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page), from L.H. to Mr. [William?] Davies, 30 January [no year] | |||||||||||
Relates to a Wilberforce publication. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Rich[ar]d Warburton to the editors of the Constitution[n]el, 4 August 1830 | |||||||||||
Subject: wishes to make contribution towards relief of victims of oppression; amazed and pleased at triumph of liberty-loving people of France in recent struggle. Note on letter: the friend of Wilberforce. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Tho[ma]s Moore, 18 December 1800 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for letter; obliged to anyone who gives information or suggestions to help him in discharge of his duties. Addressed to Moore at Pontefract. | |||||||||||
View of Wilberforce House [folded], undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, biographical), [4 or 7 June 1879] | |||||||||||
Ticket?, 1883 | |||||||||||
Pertains to an exhibition at the jubilee celebration of the Yorkshire School for the Blind. | |||||||||||
Portrait of William Wilberforce, 1792 | |||||||||||
Laid in volume. | |||||||||||
Potrait of William Wilberforce, 1838 | |||||||||||
Laid in volume. | |||||||||||
Bookplate of William Wilberforce, undated | |||||||||||
Pamphlet, "Medals, Tokens, etc., Issued in Connection with William Wilberforce and the Abolition of Slavery" by Thomas Sheppard, August 1916 | |||||||||||
Pamphlet, "Wilberforce House Hull" by T. Sheppard, 1935 | |||||||||||
Clippings (2 items, biographical), 17 August 1929 and undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 16 | Wilkinson, M? | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Brother" [Thomas Wilkinson], 16 December 1817 | |||||||||||
Addressed to: Thomas Wilkinson, Esqre / Otley. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 17 | Williams, John | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Jabez Hogg, [1860 or later?] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 18 | Williams, William Smith | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Dante G. Rossetti, 24 April 1868 | |||||||||||
Concerns Charles Jeremiah Wells--Joseph and his Brethren. Form of signature used: W. Smith Williams. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Dante G. Rossetti, 20 May 1868 | |||||||||||
Concerns Charles Jeremiah Wells--Joseph and his Brethren. Form of signature used: W. Smith Williams. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 27 July 1875 | |||||||||||
Subject: "too unwell to write." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. Includes stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 19 | Williamson, William Crawford | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 14 February [18]67? | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: WC Williamson. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 20 | Wilson, Guy Fleetwood | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund] Gosse, 10 July 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for kindness. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Well beloved Sunny Jim" [Edmund Gosse?], 14 July 1921 | |||||||||||
Subsequent letter enclosed. | |||||||||||
ALS [copy], from Lord Haldane [Richard Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan] to Fleetwood Wilson, 13 July 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: comments very favorably on book Wilson had sent him. Enclosed in preceding letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Edmund Gosse?], 13 November 1921 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for book; touched him deeply. |
Box 16 : Wilson, John [Christopher North]-Supplement: Gosse, Edmund | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 1 | Wilson, John [Christopher North] [bound volume] | |||||||||
Portrait of John Wilson, undated | |||||||||||
Laid in volume; with several other printed leaves, all apparently removed from an edition of Some Portraits of the Lake Poets and their Homes. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [1812] | |||||||||||
Subject: Wordsworth; De Quincey; love for his wife. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [1 June 1815] | |||||||||||
Subject: description of journey. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [31 October 1815] | |||||||||||
Subject: description of trip to Elleray; de Quincey. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [3 January 1816] | |||||||||||
Subject: suffered bruises from fall; Coleridge; De Quincey; John Garrett; Elleray; Wordsworth. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 6 May [1816] | |||||||||||
Subject: good luck at fishing; Miss Campbell; love for wife and children. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [16 July 1816] | |||||||||||
Subject: description of trip; mole-catching; mails. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 22 July [1816] | |||||||||||
Subject: fishing; dined with Capt. A. Campbell; love for wife. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [29 September 1816] | |||||||||||
Subject: bad roads; De Quincey; William Garnet; tells her not to hire a servant without seeing and approving of her; love for wife. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [28 September 1816] | |||||||||||
Subject: wants inventory of everything at Elleray; love for wife. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [27 April 1817] | |||||||||||
Subject: fishing tripes; love for wife. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [4 May 1817] | |||||||||||
Subject: wants letter from her; tells her how and when to direct. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 13 August [1817] | |||||||||||
Subject: description of journey; feels badly about sickness of their children (chicken pox) and is anxious to hear about their condition. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [1817?] | |||||||||||
Subject: fishing; sending some fish to her. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [24 August 1826] | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [August 1826] | |||||||||||
Subject: trip to Elleray; dinner party at which he did some speechifying; love for wife; Gale found guilty--anti-Catholics. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [1827] | |||||||||||
Subject: Elleray; part of letter written by Mary Wilson to her mother. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [27 May 1828] | |||||||||||
Subject: attended a ball in a barn; visiting; went to church; renting of Elleray; part of letter written by Maggie to her mother. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [17 May 1828] | |||||||||||
Subject: daughters Mary and Maggie with him; visiting; Hartley Coleridge; Sammy Barton, etc.; love for wife. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson and John Wilson [his son], [3 June] 1828 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 4 June 1828 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson and Maggie Wilson [his daughter], 2 September [1828] | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 1830 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: part of letter written by Maggie to Mrs. John Wilson [her mother] requesting her to buy guitar strings. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [28] September 1830 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [5 October] 1830 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [7 October] 1836 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [26 September] 1831 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [28 September] 1831 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [5 July 1832] | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [11 July] 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 16 July 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [20 July] 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [14 August] 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 4 August 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 19 August 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 23 August 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 31 August 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 14 September 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [25 September] 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [21 July] 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [16 September] 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 1835 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 14 September 1832 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [22 July] 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, [16 September] 1834 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mrs. John Wilson, 1835 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Maggie Wilson [his daughter], [8 August] 1835 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to John Wilson [his son], 7 April 1844 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 2 | Wise, Thomas James | |||||||||
Forms of signature used: T.J. Wise and Thos. J. Wise. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Algernon Charles] Swinburne, 31 July 1888 | |||||||||||
Subject: permission to privately print "The Armada" in a fancy quarto volume for a small number of book collectors and for Swinburne; a copy of "Hottens print of . . . ‘Cleopatra'" for Swinburne to inscribe. | |||||||||||
Photocopies of original and typed transcript, which are included in a volume of selected works for Swinburne, in the Reference Materials section, that contains the Forthnightly Review's printing of "The Armada." | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 28 January 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 10 February 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 28 May 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 23 January 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: not at Gosse's City Temple lecture; two copies of "Letters to Houghton" sent with letter and more offered; Swinburne manuscript bought from Theodore Watts-Dunton that represents a pseudo-review; work on Swinburne's poem fragments; revision of a pamphlet based upon Gosse's observation; his anticipation of new chapters Gosse is writing. | |||||||||||
Removed from Edmund Gosse's copy (with his bookplate) of Wise's privately printed Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne to Richard Monckton Milnes (Afterwards Lord Houghton) and Other Correspondents (1915). | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 1 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: returning 8th chapter with sheets of comments; copyright of pamphlet ours so he can make whatever use he wishes of them. | |||||||||||
Enclosures: chapter not present; for Wise's comments, see next item. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (9 pages), [comments on a draft of chapter VIII of Edmund Gosse's The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1917)], undated | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton; Swinburne's siesta; his love of Dickens; Furnival; Tristram; Erectheus; "Hertha"; Victor Hugo; Whistler; Whitman; Duke of Gundia. The final page consists of suggestions for Gosse's "critical chapters." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 10 May 1915 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Edmund] Gosse, 16 June 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne letters to Thomas Purnell; three printed from copies, not holographs; changes may be necessary. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages plus stamped envelope), to [Paul] Lemperly, 27 June 1925 | |||||||||||
Removed from a Rutgers University Libraries copy of Wise's A Swinburne Library (1925). Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 3 | Wise, Thomas James | |||||||||
Forms of signature used: T.J. Wise and Thos. J. Wise. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), to [John Alexander] Symington, 27 June 1928 | |||||||||||
ALS (12 pages), to [John Alexander] Symington, 29 June 1928 | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to [John Alexander] Symington, 9 July [19]28 | |||||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to [John Alexander] Symington, 12 July 1928 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [John Alexander] Symington, 19 July 1928 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Edward Brotherton [Baron Brotherton], 30 July 1928 | |||||||||||
Enclosure (Lady Gosse's formal receipt) not present. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [John Alexander] Symington, 9 February [19]29 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 4 | Wise, Thomas James | |||||||||
Portrait (from a photograph), undated | |||||||||||
Signed; depicts Wise seated at a desk. | |||||||||||
Portrait (from a photograph), undated | |||||||||||
Includes a pasted-on slip, under the image, bearing the statements of responsibility and a facsimile of Wise's signature ("Thomas J. Wise"). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 5 | Wiseman, Cardinal [Nicholas Patrick Wiseman] | |||||||||
AN (1 page) [in French], to Mrs. Malray?, 19 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Photographic portrait [carte-de-visite format], undated | |||||||||||
Clippings (6 items, some biographical), undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 6 | Wood, Searles [Searles Valentine Wood] (1830-1884) | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to C[aleb] B[urrell] Rose, 10 April [18]57 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to C[aleb] B[urrell] Rose, 18 December [18]61 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 9 November 1864 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: SV Wood, Jr. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 7 | Woodhouse, Richard | |||||||||
Certificate, June 1812 | |||||||||||
Membership in Worshipful Company of Vintners, effective 1783. Printed and engraved parchment form, accomplished in ink. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 8 | Woodward, Henry | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to C[aleb] B[urrell] Rose, 7 March 1865 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to C[aleb] B[urrell] Rose, 10 April 1866 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to C[aleb] B[urrell] Rose, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 9 | Woodward, Samuel Pickworth | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: S.P. Woodward. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Tho[ma]s Davidson to [Caleb Burrell Rose], 1 July 1852 | |||||||||||
Adhered to letter from Woodward to Rose dated 6 July 1852. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to C.B. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 6 July 1852 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to C.B. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 29 May 1854 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages to C.B. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 20 August 1855 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to C.B. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 5 March 1860 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to C.B. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 7 November 1862 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to C.B. Rose [Caleb Burrell Rose], 23 December 1862 | |||||||||||
Portrait of Samuel Woodward, undated | |||||||||||
Clipping (biographical), [5 August 1865] | |||||||||||
The handwriting, identifying the source of the clipping, is apparently that of William H. Booth. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 10 | Wrangham, Archdeacon [Francis Wrangham] | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Professor [George?] Peacock, 12 October 1838 | |||||||||||
Written on a printed sheet with a Latin text signed in type by "F.W." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 11 | Wright, John Henry | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Professor [John Alexander] Stewart, 2 February 1908 | |||||||||||
Inscribed offprint, of an article by Wright from Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (Volume XVII), 1906 | |||||||||||
Enclosure in previous item. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 12 | Wyatville, Jeffry | |||||||||
AN (1 page), to Mr. [Benjamin Lewis?] Vulliamy, 30 November 1826 | |||||||||||
AN (1 page), to Mr. [Benjamin Lewis?] Vulliamy, 18 December 1827 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [Francis?] Chantrey, 8 June 1832 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J Wyatville. | |||||||||||
Portrait of Jeffry Wyatville, 1834 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 13 | Young, George | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. [Edmund] Gosse, 24 December [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's article on Swinburne; Greek literature at Eton. Stamped envelope included. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 14 | Arnstein, Frank | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 12 October [no year] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 15 | Bird, Alice L. | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Mr. Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 6 October 1878 | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to a dinner that will also include Captain [Richard Francis Burton] and Mrs. Burton; Mrs. Burton's attempts to contact Swinburne by letter; Captain Burton's learning of the dedication in the volume of poems; thanks from her brother for Swinburne's Second Series, which she has been reading with her brother. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 16 | Birrell, Augustine | |||||||||
ANS (1 page: postcard), to "The Editor -- The Bookman" [Arthur St. John Adcock?], 13 October 1920 | |||||||||||
Text: "No. Thank you." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. Birrell. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page: postcard), to "The Editor of the Bookman" [Arthur St. John Adcock?], 8 September 1921 | |||||||||||
Text: "If you send me the Book referred to I will do my best with it. When will you want the copy." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. Birrell. | |||||||||||
ANS (1 page: postcard), to [Arthur St. John Adcock?], 2 July 1923 | |||||||||||
Text: "I am afraid it would be no use sending him the book for mention." | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. Birrell. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 17 | Birrell, Augustine | |||||||||
Holograph MS (20 pages), "Miscellanies: Literary and Historical By Lord Rosebery" [prose], [1921] | |||||||||||
Book review with occasional editorial markings, including added information at top of first page: "Lord Rosebery as Essayist" and "By Augustus Birrel." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 18 | Birrell, Augustine | |||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to unknown recipient, 20 September 1928 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [W. B.] Slater, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to [W. B.] Slater, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [W. B.] Slater, undated | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [W. B.] Slater, undated | |||||||||||
AN, to unknown recipient, 10 October 1921 | |||||||||||
Transmittal slip for an unknown item. References a Mr. Birrell, but does not state his given name. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 19 | Bridges, Robert | |||||||||
ALS (1 page plus envelope), to [Godfrey] Arkwright, 17 May [18]92 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 16 May [no year] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to --?-- Holtzer, undated | |||||||||||
Holograph MS, "Yattendon Hymnal setting. . . ." [music], 1894 | |||||||||||
With note: Copied for GEP Arkwright by RB. November 1894. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 20 | Brigg, John J. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. [Butler?] Wood, 12 October [19]22 | |||||||||||
Written on the back of an undated broadside advertising "The Jane Austen & Charlotte Brontë Society." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 21 | Brightwen, George | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), received from F?T? Palgrave, 30 April [18]75 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), received by Mrs. [Eliza] Brightwen from Fred[erick] Sandys, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 22 | Colvin, Sidney | |||||||||
Letters sent to Arthur St. John Adcock. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 17 March 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: completing a book before August, hence cannot assist with a project for Adcock involving "selecting and introducing" poets, a project that he would like to talk about with Adcock over lunch. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 20 May 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: reaction to Adcock's list of poets, including his willingness to trade to secure Wordsworth; questions regarding delivery schedule and payment for his contributions. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Mr. Adcock," 8 July [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: date for a lunch meeting; ability to supply certain poets from his library. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 11 July [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: possibility of Adcock's joining him for lunch at his house, instead of at the Savile Club, so that the relevant books and his notes could be in hand when they talk. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 14 September [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: space allocations for certain of his contributions on poets; his projected books on Keats and Stevenson; ability to furnish samples of Stevenson's "different modes of handwriting"; when he will be "up for the day"; comments relating to Henry Beeching and Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 17 September [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: samples of Stevenson's "calligraphy" for Adcock to chose from for purposes of reproduction. | |||||||||||
The enclosures, at least five letters of Robert Louis Stevenson with covers, are not included. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 21 September 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: plea for inclusion of, especially, Thomas Flatman in the poetry anthology; necessity of transcribing certain extracts rather than submitting actual books; anticipation of a possibly delayed answer. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to "Mr. Adcock," 28 October 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: Stevenson letters received safely, together with a copy of the Bookman; observations on Stevenson material included in the Bookman; additional letter that is enclosed. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 28 October 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: details about materials ready to be transmitted ("remaining Elizabethans and Carolines") that he has prepared for the poetry anthology. | |||||||||||
Sent together with the previous letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Mr. Adcock," 11? November [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledgment for package picked up by Adcock's messenger; payment for work. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 2 December 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: forthcoming proofs of the poetry anthology and how certain editorial concerns might have been addressed; the payment that he received. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 23 | Colvin, Sidney | |||||||||
Letters sent to Arthur St. John Adcock. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 27 January 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: additional anthology material almost ready; possible lunch meeting to review related editorial questions. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 15 February [19]14 | |||||||||||
Subject: observations on the proofs being separately returned; payment received. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 9 February 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: anthology proofs, including a possible substitute text and also citations for original locations of extracts from long poems. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to "Mr. Adcock," 23 February 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: a volume, not sent by mistake, will accompany the proofs for Spenser, which have heavy corrections; material from later periods less prone to troublesome corrections. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 4 March 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: revises and a first proof received; several concerns regarding the Shakespeare revise, including its length. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 9 March 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: list of 15 revises about to be returned, with notes about those for Wyatt, Shakespeare, William Drummond and William Browne. | |||||||||||
Includes a handwritten postscript. Item stained and worn. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 7 April 1914 | |||||||||||
Subject: return of proofs in his possession and related comments; a desire to see the Marlowe biographical note again; a set of animal stories. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 25 April [19]14 | |||||||||||
Subject: treatment of George Meredith and comment on his son; possibility of the anthology not being issued until the war is over; promise of a separate set, in sheet, of his contributions. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 26 April [19]14 | |||||||||||
Subject: proof revises; another publisher's competing project that he is pledged to assist, if it should go forward; his inability to tell each of them about the other's project unless he has permission to do so. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 24 May [19]14 | |||||||||||
Subject: mixed up enclosures with Adcock's letter; minor changes to the Marlowe biographical note; authorship of item understood to be by Browne and his desire to discuss the attribution with George Saintsbury. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 6 January 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for poetry books; his attempt to contact Thomas B. Holman, who might be able to reconnect him with Louis Holman of Boston, in connection with his Keats work. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 6 April [19]15 | |||||||||||
Subject: two misprints in the poetry anthology that could possibly still be corrected. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 28 May [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: apology for his panic over anthology proofs and his relief at Adcock's response; one small error; his request for information about the work's general introduction, if any. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 24 | Colvin, Sidney | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 29 February [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: images of Robert Louis Stevenson; an unpublished lecture by Colvin [on Stevenson?]. Enclosure (lecture ticket) not in folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 25 | Cory, William Johnson | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, undated | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Wm Cory. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 26 | Dickens, Charles -- Reference Materials -- Transcripts of Letters | |||||||||
Handwritten transcripts, made by at least two different people, of letters written by Dickens. | |||||||||||
Letter, to "My dear Henry" [Henry Austin], 25 September [18]42 | |||||||||||
Letter, to R. H. Horne [Richard H. Horne], 13 July 1848 | |||||||||||
Letter, to "Dr. H. Horne" [Richard H. Horne?], 28 July 1849 | |||||||||||
Letter, to Henry Austin, 15 April 1851 | |||||||||||
Letter, to "My dear Henry" [Henry Austin], 7 September 1851 | |||||||||||
Letter, to R.H. Horne [Richard H. Horne], 20 May 1852 | |||||||||||
Letter, to R.H. Horne [Richard H. Horne], 2 June 1852 | |||||||||||
Letter, to Henry Chistopherson, 9 July 1852 | |||||||||||
Letter, to Henry Austin, 31 January 1857 | |||||||||||
Letter, to W.N. Wilkins [William Noy Wilkins], 29 January 1861 | |||||||||||
Letter, to "Letitia" [Letitia Austin?], 13 June 1865 | |||||||||||
Letter, to "Letitia" [Letitia Austin], 21 July 1868 | |||||||||||
Letter, to Henry Austin, undated | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 27 | Dobson, Austin | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [W.B. Slater], 26 January 1888 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 28 | Froude, James Anthony | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 6 June [no year] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J A Froude. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 29 | Garnett, Richard? | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), 23 May [no year], to [Frederick James] Furnivall | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: R. Garnett. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 30 | Gide, André | |||||||||
Addition to Symington Collection of three items; acquired in 1960 (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Sale Number 1991). | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 21 December [19]16 | |||||||||||
Subject: "the death of the Belgian poet Verheeren and . . . Gosse's ‘Reims revisited'"--Parke-Bernet catalog. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 23 December [19]16 | |||||||||||
Subject: "a speech by Lloyd George and a Christmas spent with Gosse and Henry James"--Parke-Bernet catalog. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], to [Edmund Gosse], 26 October [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: "his current writing . . . and . . . Gosse's preface to an edition of Swinburne"--Parke-Bernet catalog. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 31 | Gide, André | |||||||||
Photostatic copies of letters, to Edmund Gosse, 21 Decmeber [19]16-26 October [19]17 | |||||||||||
Reproductions of the original letters included in the preceding folder. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 32 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- Critical Kit-Kats | |||||||||
Press notices for Critical Kit-Kats (total of 11 pages) [in English and French], 1896 | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 33 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- Father and Son | |||||||||
Press notice for Father and Son (1 page) [in French], [1912?] | |||||||||||
Pertains to the French translation. | |||||||||||
Mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 34 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- King Erik | |||||||||
Press notices for King Erik (total of circa 28 pages) [in English, Danish and Dutch], 1876-1877 | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size; arranged in 3 gatherings. Accompanied by an annotated envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 35 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- Leaves and Fruit | |||||||||
Press notice for Leaves and Fruit (1 page), [1927?] | |||||||||||
Mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 36 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- Lectures, Etc. | |||||||||
Press notices for two lectures and for an article (total of 4 pages), [1874] and undated | |||||||||||
Lectures reviewed: "The Ethics of Biography" and "The Place of Sculpture in Modern Life." | |||||||||||
Mounted in part on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 37 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- Life of William Congreve | |||||||||
Press notice for Life of William Congreve (1 page), [1924?] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 38 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- New Poems | |||||||||
Press notices for New Poems (total of 15 pages), 1879-1880 | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size; arranged in 2 gatherings. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 39 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- On Viol and Flute | |||||||||
Press notices for On Viol and Flute (total of 11 ½ pages) [in English and (at least) Danish], [1873-1875] | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
AL (4 pages), from [Carel Vosmaer?] to "My dear friend" [Edmund Gosse], 24 October [18]77 | |||||||||||
Written at ‘s Gravenhage (The Hague) by a poet. | |||||||||||
Subject: in part, concerns translations of selected items of Gosse's poetry, including for publication in the Spectator [i.e., De Nederlandsche Spectator?]. Possibly incomplete. | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded paper with the press notices. | |||||||||||
Broadside advertising On Viol and Flute (½ page), 1874 | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded paper on a page that includes press notices. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 40 | Gosse, Edmund -- Critical Commentary -- Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe | |||||||||
Press notices for Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe (total of circa 32 pages) [in English, Danish, Dutch, French and German], 1879 | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size; arranged in 5 gatherings. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an annotated envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 41 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1867-1885 | |||||||||
Personal papers mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Form letter (2 pages), from the Civil Service Commission to E.W. Gosse, 17 January 1867 | |||||||||||
Accomplished in ink; includes a handwritten postscript. | |||||||||||
NS (1 page), from J. Winter Jones [John Winter Jones], 22 January 1867 | |||||||||||
Subject: provisional appointment of Edmund William Gosse to a position at the British Museum. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "Impromptu on reading some lines in On Viol & Flute," 4 April 1874 | |||||||||||
Author not identified. | |||||||||||
LS?, from Henry G. Calcraft of the Board of Trade to E.W. Gosse, 19 August 1875 | |||||||||||
Includes as an enclosure a copy of a minute by the Board recording Gosse's appointment as a translator. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Chunder the Baboo has written, he never was otherwise. . . ." [untitled poem], 10 October 1881 | |||||||||||
Likely written by C. Kegan Paul [Charles Kegan Paul], mentioned in the poem's last line. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (3 pages), "Tourist Notes" [poem], 10 April 1882 | |||||||||||
Written, by "C.K.P." [Charles Kegan Paul], "[b]etween Abbeville and Boulogne." | |||||||||||
Memorandum of agreement (1 page), between Edmund Gosse and the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge, 20 October 1885 | |||||||||||
Subject: terms governing publication of From Shakespeare to Pope. | |||||||||||
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16 | 42 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1886-1900 | |||||||||
Personal papers, mostly mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (2 pages), "At Compiègne Easter 1886" [poem], 1886 | |||||||||||
Written by [Charles Kegan Paul]. | |||||||||||
Ephemera [in English and French], 26 January 1885 and undated | |||||||||||
Trimmed ticket or announcement ("Complimentary breakfast to Mr. Edmund Gosse, at the Hotel Brunswick, New-York") and a printed menu, presumably for a dinner. | |||||||||||
Estate document for P.H. Gosse (1 page), May 1896 | |||||||||||
Subject: valuations for the estate in 1888 and in 1896. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), [schedule of lectures for] "Season 1896-7," 1896-1897 | |||||||||||
Printed announcement (1 page), October 1889 | |||||||||||
Subject: authors committed to contributing to the Associated Literary Press in 1889/1890. Loose item not mounted on paper. | |||||||||||
Play programs and other ephemera (total of 19 pages), 1896 and 1898-1900 | |||||||||||
Subject: The Elizabethan Stage Society. Loose items not mounted on paper. | |||||||||||
The program for The Broken Heart includes a three-paragraph note signed in type by Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
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16 | 43 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1903-1908 | |||||||||
Personal papers mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Broadside or clipping (1 page), [1903] | |||||||||||
Trimmed announcement of the Brontë Society's 28 March 1903 annual meeting featuring an address by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Menu (4 pages), 21 March 1904 | |||||||||||
Subject: National Club dinner for Edmund Gosse held "on the occasion of his appointment to be Librarian to the House of Lords." | |||||||||||
Broadside or letterhead [?] (1 page), [1908] | |||||||||||
Subject: Tolstoy Celebration committee members (Edmund Gosse, Chairman). | |||||||||||
Date written on item: 18 June 1908. | |||||||||||
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16 | 44 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1910-1913 | |||||||||
Personal papers, mostly mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Appointment document (3 pages), 14 April 1910 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's appointment, per endorsement, "to be a Commissioner under The Crown Estate Paving Act." Loose item not mounted on paper. | |||||||||||
TLS, form letter, envelope fragment, wax seal and documents (total of 6 or 7 pages) [in English, Danish and French], 1912 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's receipt of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page) [in French], from Paul Cambon, 18 December 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's selection as an officer of the Légion d'honneur by the French government. | |||||||||||
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16 | 45 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1922-1928 | |||||||||
Personal papers mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
TLS (2 pages) [in French], from Saint Aulaire [Auguste Félix Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire], 9 January 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: tercentenary of Molière's birth. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages) [in French], from H--?-- to Mr. W--?--, [1927?] | |||||||||||
Subject: an employee of the Ministry of the Interior, who accompanied Gosse to the Ministry and then to an event at the Sarbonne, thanks the recipient for facilitating Gosse's visit. | |||||||||||
Broadside, letterhead and press clipping (total of 3 pages) [in English and French], 1926-1928 | |||||||||||
Subject: the Anglo-French Luncheon Club (Edmund Gosse, President). | |||||||||||
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16 | 46 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1925-1926 | |||||||||
Personal papers mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Wm. Bellows [William Bellows], 3 February 1926 | |||||||||||
Subject: delay in completing a narrative of his visit to Paris with Gosse. | |||||||||||
Typescript (14 pages), "Our Visit to Paris" [prose], 3 February 1926 | |||||||||||
Signed in ink by Wm. Bellows at the end. Presumably an enclosure with his letter of the same date. | |||||||||||
Includes notations in pencil. | |||||||||||
Account of expenses (1 page), 2 December 1925 | |||||||||||
Signed by Wm. Bellows at the end. | |||||||||||
Subject: "Expenses, visit to Paris, November 25 to 30 - 1925 (Sir Edmund Gosse & Wm. Bellows)." | |||||||||||
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16 | 47 | Gosse, Edmund -- Documentation, 1925-1927 | |||||||||
Personal papers mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
TLS, partly-printed invitations and press clippings (total of 31 pages) [in English and French], 1925-1927 | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's receipt of an honorary degree from the University of Paris; announcement concerning the death of Paul Lapie. | |||||||||||
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16 | 48 | Gosse, Edmund -- Guest Book, 1875-1900 | |||||||||
Holograph MS (178 of 354 total pages), ["The Gosse Book"], 1875-10 January 1900 | |||||||||||
Lists of visitors as recorded by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Copy-flow printout from microfilm that reproduces a portion of MS Add 7034, Cambridge University Library. Acquired in 1961. |
Box 17 : Supplement: Gosse, Edmund-Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||||
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17 | 1 | Gosse, Edmund -- Guest Book, 1900-1920 | |||||||||
Holograph MS (176 of 354 total pages), ["The Gosse Book"], 14 January 1900-28 November 1920 | |||||||||||
Lists of visitors as recorded by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Copy-flow printout from microfilm that reproduces a portion of MS Add 7034, Cambridge University Library. Acquired in 1961. | |||||||||||
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17 | 2 | Gosse, Edmund -- Lectures [bound volume], 1900-1920 | |||||||||
Holograph lecture notes (circa 112 pages, excluding inserts), “Paradise Lost” [etc.], 1880's | |||||||||||
These notes pertain to English literature before the reign of Queen Victoria. They are grouped into eleven sequences, each of which is divided by Roman numerals into anywhere from two to eight parts. The notes are labeled in a few places within the volume as lectures. At least one sequence of them corresponds to lectures that Gosse delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1887 (six lectures on the poetry of the second quarter of the eighteenth century). | |||||||||||
Numerous loose papers, almost all in Gosse’s handwriting and some written on stationery of the Board of Trade, are laid in the volume. These papers consist of additional notes on literary topics, as well as passages from various texts. At least one of the inserted papers was added later. It is a note stating that one of the topics included (Pope’s The Rape of the Lock) was the subject of a lecture in 1888 that was delivered by Gosse at Trinity College as part of a lecture series. | |||||||||||
This volume was acquired as part of the original purchase from Symington; however, it was filed here to simplify changes in the box and folder numbering scheme occasioned by its turning up after the 2012-2013 rehousing of the collection. | |||||||||||
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17 | 3 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Received, 1883-1915 with gaps | |||||||||
Letters mounted on sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from John Tyndall, 26 February 1883 | |||||||||||
Subject: unable to furnish an article on Emerson as requested. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Bp. [?] Peterborough [Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterborough], 19 November 1894 | |||||||||||
Subject: Walter Pater. | |||||||||||
Gosse used information from this letter in his essay on Pater in Critical Kit Kats. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Lord Wolseley [Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley], 16 January 1902 | |||||||||||
Enclosure mentioned, but none present with the letter. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Philip Burne-Jones, 12 July 1915 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used [or supplied by Gosse]: P.B-J. | |||||||||||
Includes a poem as part of the letter. | |||||||||||
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17 | 4 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Received -- A-B | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Alfred Austin, 28 June [18]88 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: A. A. | |||||||||||
ALS (8 pages), from Alfred Austin, 4 January [18]96 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Alfred Austin, 27 November 1902 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Alfred Austin, 2 December 1902 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Alfred Austin, 5 May 1904 | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Richard Bagot, 2 March 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: autograph letters left to him by Isabel Swinburne. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Lord Beauchamp [William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp], 21 October [19]17 | |||||||||||
Subject: seeks Gosse's ideas on reform of the House of Lords; rejoices "in the clearer view . . . people now take" of Lord Haldane. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope with a wax seal. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from Ingram Bywater, 8 January 1895 | |||||||||||
Subject: essay societies in Oxford, including the "Old Mortality"; Walter Pater. | |||||||||||
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17 | 5 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Received -- C | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Arthur H. Church [Arthur Herbert Church], 4 November [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: delighted by Portraits and Sketches, meaning of the word "supercargo." | |||||||||||
Acquired in 1959 as the gift of Paul Mattheisen who had, in turn, received the item from Maurice Pariser. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), from Winston Churchill [American author], 19 December 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: regrets being unable to accept Gosse's invitation, as he returned to America; his possible return to England in a few months. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from Edward Clodd, 15 June [19]24 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from Sydney C. Cockerell, 19 July 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: Fitzwilliam Museum purchase of a Simeon Solomon drawing depicting Swinburne. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Sydney C. Cockerell, 2 February 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for returning a Swinburne ballad; William Morris and the selection of border ballads for a possible Kelmscott Press edition; why Morris did not want Swinburne to edit the ballads. | |||||||||||
Gosse used information from this letter in his preface to Swinburne's Posthumous Poems. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Sidney Colvin, 10 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: two Swinburne autograph letters he is placing in a charity auction. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Sidney Colvin, 11 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: copies of [Swinburne] letters sent to Gosse; Colvin's recently announced book. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from Sidney Colvin, 15 March 1915 | |||||||||||
Subject: comments related to contents of specific Swinburne letters, including one concerning Le Tombeau de Theophile Gautier. | |||||||||||
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17 | 6 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Received -- D-H | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from R. Langton Douglas, 7 March 1919 | |||||||||||
Subject: seeks the author's name for "Gentle Spring," a poem that Douglas states was known to have inspired the Frederick Sandys painting of the same name that he has purchased. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from George du Maurier, 8 July [1882] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages) [in French], from H. Du Pasquier, 21 April [19]12 | |||||||||||
Acquired in 1959 as the gift of Paul Mattheisen who had, in turn, received the item from Maurice Pariser. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from Hamlin Garland, [1922] | |||||||||||
On stationery with address: 60 Albert Hall Mansions, S.W. | |||||||||||
Includes as an enclosure an autographed, photographic portrait of Garland that is inscribed to Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from "Ye Bigge Beare" [i.e., Robert Chellas Graham?] to "little Bear" [Edmund Gosse], 10 May [1880?] | |||||||||||
Includes drawings integral to the text, including a drawing of three men fishing that has been annotated with the initials of two of the men: E.G. and W.H.P. [?]. | |||||||||||
Written on stationery headed: Skipness / Argyllshire. The added identification in pencil of the letter's author as "Graham" was expanded incorrectly by someone to include: Robert Bontine Cunninghame. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), from R.C. Graham [i.e., Robert Chellas Graham?], [1880 or later] | |||||||||||
Includes drawings integral to the text. | |||||||||||
Written on stationery headed: Skipness / Argyllshire. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Mary E. Haldane, 11 April 1924 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages) [in French], from L. Halévy, 29 June [19]23 | |||||||||||
Acquired in 1959 as the gift of Paul Mattheisen who had, in turn, received the item from Maurice Pariser. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), from A.E. Housman, 24 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a Latin text in Gosse's handwriting, presumably an enclosure being returned to Gosse. | |||||||||||
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17 | 7 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Received -- I-Z and Unknown | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), from R.C. Jebb [Richard Claverhouse Jebb], 21 May 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: the possibility of adding inset marginal analysis to his Encyclopedia Britannica article on Bacchylides and the returning of proofs. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Margaret of [?] Sarawak [Margaret Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak], 4 March 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks Gosse for his letter in the Times about Henry James. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from A.E.W. Mason, undated | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's speech at a fund raising event to benefit financially unfortunate men of letters. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Guido Puccio, 10 April 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: access to correspondence of A.C. Swinburne with Giuseppe Mazzini and Aurelio Saffi. | |||||||||||
Acquired in 1959 as the gift of Paul Mattheisen who had, in turn, received the item from Maurice Pariser. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Lord Redesdale [Algernon Freeman Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale], 28 [?] April [19]12 | |||||||||||
Subject: encloses "notes on Browning's most impudent letter"; begs forgiveness for the untidiness of his writing. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from C. Ricketts [Charles Ricketts], 5 December 1916 | |||||||||||
Subject: Lieutenant E.A. Cole [Ernest A. Cole], whom Ricketts considers to be a promising young sculptor whose death in the war would be a serious loss. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Robbie Ross, 17 August 1917 | |||||||||||
Subject: an attempt to ascertain the year of Simeon Solomon's criminal prosecution. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), from Charles Scott-Moncrieff, 23 June [1917?] | |||||||||||
Subject: reaction to, and commentary on, newly published Swinburne poems. | |||||||||||
AN (1 page: postcard), from unknown sender, [November 1883] | |||||||||||
Subject: number of volumes in editions of Moliere, including one cited incorrectly by Gosse [in Seventeenth Century Studies]. | |||||||||||
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17 | 8 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Sent -- To Various Individuals | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to St. Clair Baddeley [Welbore St. Clair Baddeley], 12 September [19]22 | |||||||||||
Subject: receipt of Baddeley's book of poems (From Cotteswold and Beyond) which he has sampled and will read more from after returning from France. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Baddeley" [Welbore St. Clair Baddeley], 27 July [19]27 | |||||||||||
Subject: preparing to welcome "the Dean of St. Paul's [William Inge] and Mrs. Inge." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Baddeley" [Welbore St. Clair Baddeley], Boxing Day 1927 | |||||||||||
Subject: appreciation for letter and volume received; snowfall in London. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [J. Hy. S. Jackson], 24 September 1904 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks Jackson for his letter of congratulation. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Dr. Nicoll [William Robertson Nicoll?] 13 May [19]09 | |||||||||||
Subject: solicited text about Algernon Charles Swinburne. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to The Editor of the Bookman [William Robertson Nicoll?], 26 February [19]13 | |||||||||||
Subject: declines to write about Austin Dobson, as he has nothing to add to the "admiration and affection for this beloved writer" that he has already "so often expressed." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Miss Schuster" [?], 4 February [18]97 | |||||||||||
Subject: clarity of a phrase that he used and will change, as well as his pleasure that the recipient likes something he wrote. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Stedman [Arthur Stedman], 5 June [18]99 | |||||||||||
Subject: declines to write on the subject requested; suggests an alternative topic. | |||||||||||
Acquired by purchase from Emily Driscoll in 1960. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [Arthur Stedman?], 21 September [19]27 | |||||||||||
Subject: not willing or able to review the recipient's manuscript. | |||||||||||
Acquired by purchase from Emily Driscoll in 1960 who listed the recipient as Arthur Stedman. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 15 April 1874 | |||||||||||
Subject: copy of Fuimus Troes left for Swinburne; letter from critic Georg Brandes relating to Swinburne and quotations from it; inquiry concerning a requested meeting. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 30 January [18]81 | |||||||||||
Subject: thankful for receipt of Studies in Song; his reaction, and that of his wife, to the book. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 3 July [18]94 | |||||||||||
Subject: Swinburne's letter, that "will gratify the Yanks very much." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
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17 | 9 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Sent -- To Arthur St. John Adcock | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 21 May 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Mr. Adcock," 24 May 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 7 June 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 10 June 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 14 June [19]13 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 27 June 1913 | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to "Mr. Adcock," 19 July 1913 | |||||||||||
Subject: confused about title of his work that Adcock wishes to use in connection with Robert Louis Stevenson; gives permission to use a quotation; notes that he included a study of a young Stevenson (as "Cynthius") in his poem "The Island of the Blest"; gives permission to reproduce an already published portrait used in Stevensoniana; expresses interest in Adcock's project and offers further assistance. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page: postcard), to "St. John Adcock," 30 September [19]21 | |||||||||||
Subject: acknowledges Adcock's kind comment; unable to carry out any additional work. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Mr. Adcock," 1 June 1927 | |||||||||||
Subject: his conviction, voiced in light of an "attack" on Edgar Allen Poe, regarding Poe's worth, including that Poe "was one of the greatest proficients in pure poetry." | |||||||||||
Includes penciled markings apparently intended to guide a typesetter for the Bookman. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 10 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Sent -- To Martin Conway, Baron Conway of Allington | |||||||||
Eleven items purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher in 1960. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Conway," 6 September [18]89 | |||||||||||
Subject: citation to find information "about Vondel's relation to Milton." | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to "My dear Conway," 13 July [18]93 | |||||||||||
Subject: a recommended itinerary for a three-day trip to Exmoor. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Conway," 31 October [18]94 | |||||||||||
Includes mention of the recipient as an art authority with the initials "W.M.C." | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Conway," 21 January [18]95 | |||||||||||
Subject: Conway's fitness for a post that he hopes Conway will obtain. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Conway," 25 May [18]95 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulates Conway upon the distinction paid to him [being knighted] and encourages Conway and Lady Conway to come to a reception. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Conway," 11 June [18]95 | |||||||||||
Subject: invitation to dine with him for lunch and to meet Horatio Brown of Venice. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Conway," 24 September 1896 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulations on Conway's return after a successful expedition and information about Gosse's son Philip, expected to accompany [Edward] FitzGerald's "Chilean expedition, as naturalist." | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Conway," 8 May [18]99 | |||||||||||
Subject: feelings occasioned by "the sad accident which has happened" to the recipient's "dear little girl." | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Conway," 27 November [18]99 | |||||||||||
Subject: thanks for pointing out a review related to FitzG [Edward FitzGerald] and gratitude for the recipient's "extraordinary kindness" regarding Philip [Philip Gosse, whom Conway had apparently assisted in securing a post with FitzGerald]. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Conway," 23 December [18]99 | |||||||||||
Subject: health of R.A.M. Stevenson [Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson]; Gosse's efforts to secure a grant for Stevenson from the Royal Literary Fund. | |||||||||||
Annotated with information about an award amount and the month and year of Stevenson's death. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Conway," 17 November [19]22 | |||||||||||
Subject: congratulations given (on Conway's reelection?); thanks conveyed for "the attractive record of your mountain experiences" and for Conway's letter. | |||||||||||
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17 | 11 | Gosse, Edmund -- Letters Sent -- To David Croal Thomson | |||||||||
Seventeen items purchased in 1960 from Paul Mattheisen; he had recently bought them from C. & I. K. Fletcher. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 20 December 188[2] | |||||||||||
Subject: proofs for Gosse's Cecil Lawson, A Memoir. | |||||||||||
Perhaps acquired as one of the seventeen letters to Thomson; however, they were recorded as beginning in 1883. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 20 December [18]82 | |||||||||||
Subject: contents of Gosse's Cecil Lawson, A Memoir. | |||||||||||
Perhaps acquired as one of the seventeen letters to Thomson; however, they were recorded as beginning in 1883. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to D.C. Thomson, 17 January [?] 1883 | |||||||||||
Subject: possible loan of Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema's "The Tea Party," so that it might be engraved. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to D.C. Thomson, 8 February [18]83 | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to D.C. Thomson, 13 April 1883 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir," 2 February 1889 | |||||||||||
Item includes date of receipt by Goupil & Company stamped in ink. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Dear Sir," 17 October [18]89 | |||||||||||
Item includes date of receipt by Goupil & Company stamped in ink. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to D.C. Thomson, 29 October [18]89 | |||||||||||
Item includes date of receipt by Goupil & Company stamped in ink. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to D.C. Thomson, 20 September [18]93 | |||||||||||
Subject: in response to Thomson's note, expresses a willingness "to write something for you in 1894 about modern English sculpture." | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to D.C. Thomson, 23 September [18]93 | |||||||||||
Subject: information about what he would write on the "New Sculpture in England," if encouraged to do so, and an inquiry about the payment rate for his proposed series of articles. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to D.C. Thomson, 18 October [18]93 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to D.C. Thomson, 23 October [18]93 | |||||||||||
With added notations in pencil, presumably by Conway. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to D.C. Thomson, 4 January [18]94 | |||||||||||
With added notation in pencil. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir," 7 July 1894 | |||||||||||
Subject: proof of third article on "The New Sculpture." | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir," 29 August [18]94 | |||||||||||
Subject: a proof, returned marked with numerous corrections, and his lack of a mailing address until September 10th. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Dear Sir," 3 February [18]99 | |||||||||||
Subject: his inability to accept the recipient's proposal [to write something?] regarding Goscombe John and Mr. Bates [Harry Bates]. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Croal Thomson, 21 September [1]900 | |||||||||||
Subject: regret over the impossibility of accepting Thomson's proposition. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 12 | Gosse, Edmund -- Miscellany | |||||||||
Statement (2 pages), ["Enrolment of Yoland"], 29 April [18]68 | |||||||||||
Signed by five people, including Edmund William Gosse. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope with an explanatory note regarding Yoland, a male kitten. | |||||||||||
Sketch (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Identified by Gosse as: "T---?---, from memory, by A.C.B." | |||||||||||
Drawn in pencil (possibly by Arthur Christopher Benson?) on paper bearing the embossed seal of the Board of Trade. | |||||||||||
Note (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Time line in Gosse's handwriting of three events in 1889 related to Henrik Ibsen. | |||||||||||
Note (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Quotation ("The fly that sips treach. . . .") followed by a notation ("Apply to S.'s metre."). Written by Gosse on a card bearing the embossed seal of the House of Lords Library. | |||||||||||
Seating arrangement (1 page), undated | |||||||||||
Crossed-out seating arrangement for eight (including "E.G.") in Gosse's handwriting. | |||||||||||
On verso of previous item. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "A New Volume of French Essays" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
A draft contents list, in Gosse's handwriting, of about a dozen items. | |||||||||||
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17 | 13 | Gosse, Edmund -- Photographs, Etc. | |||||||||
Image of Edmund Gosse, [1886?] | |||||||||||
Identified as: Sir Edmund Gosse C.B. by Sargent [John Singer Sargent]. | |||||||||||
Photograph, of a painting, mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Image of five men, [1907] | |||||||||||
The men are identified as Edmund Gosse, Evan Charteris, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Jr.], William Archer and Hugh Butler [Arthur Hugh Montagu Butler]. | |||||||||||
Photograph mounted on a folded sheet of paper. A copy of this print held by the National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) is attributed to photographer (John) Benjamin Stone. | |||||||||||
Images of four men, 19 August 1912 | |||||||||||
Two photographs depicting Jean Schlumberger, Jacques Copeau, Edmund Gosse and André Gide at Pontigny and at Pontigny Abbey, together with a postcard of the abbey; all items mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Image of Edmund Gosse, 1 February 1924 | |||||||||||
"From a drawing by Walter Tittle." | |||||||||||
Reproduced image mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Image of a room interior, probably a library, with a man seated at a desk, undated | |||||||||||
The man in the image is Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
Photograph mounted on brown paper. | |||||||||||
Image of a room interior with bookcases at one side, undated | |||||||||||
Photograph mounted on brown paper. | |||||||||||
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17 | 14 | Gosse, Edmund -- Reference Materials -- After His Death | |||||||||
Primarily press clippings that pertain to the sale of Gosse's library and to the 1931 biography of Gosse. | |||||||||||
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17 | 15 | Gosse, Edmund -- Reference Materials -- Bibliographical Data | |||||||||
A selected bibliography of Gosse's writings and clippings from dealer's catalogs. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 16 | Gosse, Edmund -- Reference Materials -- Book Jackets | |||||||||
Several items (not always complete) that appear to date from the 1920s. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 17 | Gosse, Edmund -- Reference Materials -- Collected Biographical Materials on Others | |||||||||
Press clippings that pertain to Georg Brandes, Jean Moréas, Yves Delage and Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, Comte d'Haussonville; also an apparently unrelated clipping. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 18 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Criticism | |||||||||
Articles written by Edmund Gosse that were published in periodicals. | |||||||||||
Book reviews and articles on literary topics (total of 15 pages), 1877-1880, 1886, [1901], [1911-1915] and [1918] | |||||||||||
The articles, most signed in type or initialed by Gosse, are listed as having appeared in the Athenæum, the Saturday Review, the Spectator, the Morning Post, The Times and the Observer. | |||||||||||
Clippings mounted in part on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 19 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Letters to the Editor | |||||||||
Letter to the editor (1 page), January [1902] | |||||||||||
Subject: letter to the Daily Chronicle protesting the exclusion of persons knowledgeable in the history of literature from the British Academy. | |||||||||||
Clipping mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 20 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Manuscripts | |||||||||
Holograph MS (8 pages), "Sir Henry Goodyear" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Note added in pencil: by Sir E. Gosse. | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (5 pages), "We paid a visit today to Coppet. . . ." [untitled prose], 19 September 1911 and later | |||||||||||
Subject: a visit to Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript with the annotation: copied by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 21 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Galley proof (in double columns on 3 leaves), "Allies Fairy Tales" Introduction, 1916 | |||||||||||
Author's proof pertaining to The Allies' Fairy Book with corrections and changes marked by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Folded twice and mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 22 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Galley proof (3 leaves), "Baudelaire," undated | |||||||||||
Author's proof with corrections and changes marked by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Folded once. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 23 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Galley proof (1 leaf cut into 2), "Coleridge as a Letter Writer," 20 May [no year] | |||||||||||
Author's proof with corrections and changes marked by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Mounted on a folded sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 24 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Galley proof [?] (on 2 leaves), Imagination and Fancy Introduction, [1907?] | |||||||||||
Apparently marked (by Gosse) as "revised." | |||||||||||
Cut apart, trimmed, and mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 25 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Page proof (11 pages on 11 leaves), "Lord Redesdale's Memories," [1915] | |||||||||||
Corrections and changes marked (at least in part) by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size that are grouped into 2 fascicles. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 26 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Galley proof (on 17 leaves), "The Place of Sculpture in Daily Life," [1895?] | |||||||||||
Four articles in a series, with corrections and changes marked (at least in part) by Gosse. | |||||||||||
Cut apart, sometimes trimmed, and mounted (in 2 columns if trimmed) on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size that are grouped into 3 fascicles. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 27 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Page proof [?] (7 pages on 7 leaves), [The Tavern of the Three Virtues introduction:] "Daniel Vierge," [1896?] | |||||||||||
Mounted on folded sheets of paper of a uniform size. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 28 | Gosse, Edmund -- Writings -- Proofs | |||||||||
Page proof (13 pages on 7 leaves), "The Writings of Lord Redesdale," 1913 | |||||||||||
Stamped in ink: FIRST REVISE. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 29 | Haldane, Lord [Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane] | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 15 December 1914? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 30 | Harland, Henry | |||||||||
Letters, most signed "H. Harland," sent to Edmund Gosse. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Mr. Gosse," [2 July 1891] | |||||||||||
Subject: observations occasioned by Gosse's letter commenting upon the good and the bad in his novel Mea Culpa. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to unnamed recipient [Edmund Gosse], [12 April 1893] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "Mon très-cher Maître" [Edmund Gosse], 11 May [1893] | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mon très-cher Maître" [Edmund Gosse], [5 May 1895] | |||||||||||
Subject: Gosse's reaction to his story "Rosemary"; disappointment that Gosse could not come to Paris; the weather in Paris; visit from and commentary about Aubrey Beardsley; plans to return to London; commentary related both to legal proceedings against Oscar Wilde and to "men of Oscar's sort in England." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Mon très-cher Maître" [Edmund Gosse], [12 July 1896] | |||||||||||
Subject: reaction to reading Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse, received as a present from Gosse; plans for Sunday; use of a paper knife that was a gift from Gosse; pleasure at seeing the Gosses. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "My dear Master" [Edmund Gosse], 30 September [1896] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by an envelope, without postage, that likely enclosed this letter or the next one. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to "My dear dear Master," [Edmund Gosse], [1896] | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Master" [Edmund Gosse], [2 April 1898] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (5 pages), to "My dear Master" [Edmund Gosse], [2 March 1900] | |||||||||||
Subject: article on Octave Feuillet's Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre that he has agreed to write; visit to Weymouth, recommended by Gosse, during which it rained; interactions with Theo Marzials, who works "as a teacher of singing"; a novel, now in proof, that he has written. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (6 pages), to "My dear Master" [Edmund Gosse], 5 July [1900] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Master" [Edmund Gosse], 19 October [1900] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (7 pages), to "Dearly beloved Master" [Edmund Gosse], 9 December [1900] | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a stamped envelope. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "Mr. Gosse," [April 1903] | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 31 | Hunt, William Holman | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to "My dear Watts" [Theodore Watts-Dunton], 14 April 1884 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W. Holman Hunt. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 32 | Jowett, Benjamin | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to Mr. Watts [Theodore Watts-Dunton], 9 August [1883] | |||||||||||
Subject: Algernon Charles Swinburne; Swinburne's visit; an invitation for Watts to visit for a few days. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: B. Jowett. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 33 | Jusserand, Jean Jules | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to W.B. Slater, 12 March [1888] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Jusserand. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by Jusserand's business card and an envelope. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 34 | Litchinson [?], P. [?] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Swinburne" [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 9 July 1906 | |||||||||||
Subject: a ring that was to be given to Tennyson (who never got it); an offer of an excavated Roman or Medieval ring "as a small tribute" to Swinburne's genius. | |||||||||||
This letter was apparently sent from 150 Harley Street, London. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 35 | Lodge, Oliver | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to A. St. John Adcock [Arthur St. John Adcock], 23 May 1925 | |||||||||||
Subject: his willingness to write a review of a work by Alfred Noyes and its anticipated length. | |||||||||||
Typescript (2 pages), "On Ghost Stories" [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Signed by Lodge at the end. | |||||||||||
From the files of the Bookman? | |||||||||||
Holograph MS (1 page), "Sir JM Barrie's view of Social Problems. . . ." [untitled prose], 22 August 1920 | |||||||||||
Signed by Lodge at the end. | |||||||||||
Includes penciled markings apparently intended to guide a typesetter. | |||||||||||
From the files of the Bookman? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 36 | Manning, Henry Edward [Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster] | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 1 July 1843 | |||||||||||
Recipient's name erased and crossed out. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H.E. Manning. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to unknown recipient, 15 May 1876 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H.E. Card. Archbp. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Lord Beauchamp [i.e., Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp?], 28 May 1886 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Henry. E. Card Archbp. | |||||||||||
On verso of card to which the letter is pasted: clipped signature (torn) of Bishop Edward Parry. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 37 | Martineau, Harriet | |||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to [Marianne Finch], 27 March [1853] | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: H. Martineau. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Acquired by exchange with Sir Angus Fraser in 1989. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 38 | Meldrum, James | |||||||||
ALS (4 pages plus enclosure), to A.C. Swinburne, 9 November 1901 | |||||||||||
Subject: reaction to lines in Swinburne's "On the Death of Colonel Benson"; commentary on the war that occasioned the poem. | |||||||||||
The enclosure is a mounted clipping; it includes an added note in pencil. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 39 | Murray, Charles Fairfax | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 14 July 1886 | |||||||||||
Subject: rescued poem written by Swinburne in pencil and found "on the back of a pencil sketch for stained glass by Edward Burne Jones done about 1864 or 1865." | |||||||||||
Includes a note by Edmund Gosse concerning the Latin poem written in the letter: The corrections are in Swinburne's hand. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 40 | Nettleship, John Trivett | |||||||||
ALS, to Mr. Campbell, 1 December [18]85 | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: J.T. Nettleship. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 41 | Ponsonby, Henry -- Reference Materials -- Transcripts of Letters | |||||||||
Letter, from W.E. Gladstone [William Ewart Gladstone] to H. Ponsonby, 5 March 1894 | |||||||||||
Holograph copy, in the hand of Edmund Gosse, with his initialed note: Copy of Letter from Mr. Gladstone, lent me by Lady Ponsonby, March 7, 1901. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Letter, from Queen Victoria to "Sir Thomas" [Thomas Myddelton Biddulph?], 1 April 1870 | |||||||||||
Holograph copy, in the hand of Edmund Gosse, with his initialed note: Copied from the Queen's autograph, lent me by Lady Ponsonby, March 7. 1901. | |||||||||||
The text of the letter includes a request that its contents be shared with Col. Ponsonby. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 42 | Rossetti, Christina G. | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], [1870] | |||||||||||
Subject: a volume of poems received as a gift. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 7 May [1877] | |||||||||||
Subject: A volume of poems received as a gift and not previously acknowledged, as it was immediately borrowed by her brother. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Ingram [John Ingram], 17 September [1883?] | |||||||||||
Sent from 30 Torrington Square. | |||||||||||
Enclosures cited in letter (materials concerning Ann Radcliffe?) not in folder. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to Mr. Bryant [William J. Bryant], [1890s?] | |||||||||||
Sent from 30 Torrington Square. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 43 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: D.G. Rossetti. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to ----- Stokes [Whitley Stokes?], [1850s?] | |||||||||||
Subject: a price for his as yet unfinished "picture of the Drover" and how the purchase might be made. | |||||||||||
Sent from 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars Bridge. | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to ----- Macmillan [Alexander Macmillan], 27 December 1870 | |||||||||||
Subject: an inquiry concerning "copies of my sister's 2 little books." | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 44 | Rossetti, Gabriele | |||||||||
ALS (1 page), to "My dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 23 March [1841?] | |||||||||||
Subject: submits his name as a "subscriber to your forthcoming publication on America." | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 45 | Rossetti, William Michael | |||||||||
Form of signature used in letters: "W.M. Rossetti" or "Wm. M. Rossetti." | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to Mr. Ingram [John Henry Ingram], 17 December [18]79 | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to "Dear Sir" [unknown recipient], 22 May [18]88 | |||||||||||
Subject: regrets that illness of eldest daughter prevents him (the chairman) from attending the Browning evening; "Please pardon the trouble I unwillingly cause." | |||||||||||
ALS (4 pages), to ----- Furnivall [Frederick James Furnivall], 20 October [18]89 | |||||||||||
Includes a notation signed "F." at the top of the first page. | |||||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to ----- Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 30 March [18]91 | |||||||||||
ALS (1 page), to [W.B. Slater], 12 November [18]95 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 46 | Sadleir, Michael | |||||||||
TLS (1 page), to St. John Adcock [Arthur St. John Adcock], 15 September 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: enclosed notes on Robert Keable that obviate the need to meet with Adcock in person; prompt return of the notes; possible source for a photograph of Keable. | |||||||||||
Enclosure not in folder. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Michael Sadler. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to St. John Adcock [Arthur St. John Adcock], 10 October 1922 | |||||||||||
Subject: confirmation of telephone conversation regarding "11,000 prints of one of the full page Bosschere line illustrations on coloured paper as they appear in our edition of DON QUIXOTE"; request to be told when the prints arrive. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Michael Sadler. | |||||||||||
TLS (1 page), to St. John Adcock [Arthur St. John Adcock], 9 October 1926 | |||||||||||
Subject: Adcock's apparent confusion of him "with some other chairman"; request for the prompt return of a photograph. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Michael Sadler. | |||||||||||
Typescript (4 pages), "Over-valuation of Authors," [prose], undated | |||||||||||
Signed by Sadleir (as "Michael Sadler") at the end. | |||||||||||
From the files of The Bookman? | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 47 | Swinburne, Algernon Charles -- Reference Materials -- Transcripts of Letters | |||||||||
Letter, to Lady Ritchie [Anne Thackeray Ritchie], 22 January 1908 | |||||||||||
Holograph copy with Edmund Gosse's initialed note: This copy is in the handwriting of Lady Ritchie. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 48 | Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore | |||||||||
ALS (3 pages), to unknown recipient, 28 September [18]80 | |||||||||||
Subject: his appreciation for an invitation to preside at a public meeting of an author-related society, which he declines. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: Theodore Watts. | |||||||||||
ALS (2 pages), to "My dear Rossetti" [William Michael Rossetti?], 17 May 1882 | |||||||||||
Subject: contact with Graham "about the pictures." | |||||||||||
Apparently refers to William Graham and artwork from the estate of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, per Roger C. Lewis, Ph.D. | |||||||||||
On mourning stationery. | |||||||||||
Form of signature used: W Theod. Watts. | |||||||||||
Accompanied by a typed transcript. | |||||||||||
Acquired by exchange with Sir Angus Fraser in 1989. | |||||||||||
Check, from H.T. MacKenzie Bell to W. Theod. Watts-Dunton, 28 July 1896 | |||||||||||
Endorsed on the verso by Watts-Dunton. | |||||||||||
The check is in the amount of £380. |