Found 4 collections related to Historians -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence

George Finlay, English philhellene and historian. He traveled to Greece in the 1820's to help in the struggle for Greek independence. There he befriended Lord Byron, with whom enjoyed long literary conversations before Byron's death in 1824. · To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1861 : (B'ANA 0635) : thanking his correspondent for sending him a book which will assist him in writing his History of Greece. With a comment on the pollution in Greece and the "filthy condition" of Athens. less

Philip Henry Stanhope, fifth Earl Stanhope, English historian. · To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 13 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Jan 1861 : (HWD 09.100) : 2 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "On finding a few days since that I could not be in town for the 29th I determined that I would postpone the Att.y General ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Feb 1863 : (HWD 06.056) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "I am starting presently for London but sit down to answer your note before I go." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Nov 1864 : (HWD 06.059) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "I owe you many thanks for your two interesting agreeable letters ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 May 1866 : (HWD 09.099) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Do you happen to have -- to spare -- any note of Mr. Thackeray on a dinner-party or some such common matter, merely as an autograph?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1866 : (HWD 06.054) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Chevering : begins, "Your question as to English portraits is a very difficult one." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Nov 1866 : (HWD 06.055) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "Would you be tempted to a visit here ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Oct 1867 : (HWD 02.008) : from Hotel Vendome, Paris : begins, "I was very glad this morning to receive your letter, especially as it enlightened me as to the authorship of the Henry Bulwer article ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Dec 1867 : (HWD 06.057) : 5 pages (2 double sheets) : from Chevening : begins, "Many thanks for the copy of your 'More about Junius' ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jan 1868 : (HWD 06.060) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "I ought sooner to have thanked you for your letters on the subject of Junius ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1869 : (HWD 06.058) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Chevining : begins, "I have made a few verbal alterations in the passage of my letter Murray ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Jul 1871 : (HWD 09.102) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Gros[venor]. Place : begins, "I quite agree with you that our announcement bore no pleasant aspect ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Nov 1874 : (HWD 09.101) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Oakley Park, Scole, Norfolk (printed stationery) : with thick mourning border; begins, "I was glad the other day to learn from you -- as you told me confidentially -- that you had some idea of reviewing the Greville Diaries ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Aug [no year] : (HWD 09. 096) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : on Athenæum Club embossed stationery; begins, "I called again at the Club on my way from town, hoping to catch you ..." All letters to Hayward in the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files. less

To Lady Coltman (Anna Coltman, née Duckworth), widow of Sir Thomas Coltman, English judge : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jan 1853 : (MISC 4023.08b) : from Albany : begins, "I shall have very great pleasure in dining with you ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Agnes Strickland, English historian. · To Dr. O'Callaghan : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Apr [1852] : (MISC 4088) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Reydon Hall, Wanstead : begins, "I have been waiting for an opportunity of returning your valuable volume of Elizabethan state papers letters ...". less