Found 5 collections related to Dramatists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

Charles Reade, English novelist and playwright. · To Andrew Chatto, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Nov [ca. 1870's] : (MISC 1494) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 2 Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge : begins, "We made the Defendantspay for your time and lodgings in Edinburgh ...". less

Holograph poem, "The Felon," signed : [ca. 1800?] : (B'ANA 0641) : 1 p.; begins, "Oh! mark his wan and hollow cheeks! & mark his eye-balls glare! / & mark his teeth in anguish clenched, the anguish of despair!" Nearly a fair copy, save two minor emendations in the second line of the second stanza. Another known mansucript of "The Felon" is dated 1800 (cf. D. L. Macdonald's Monk Lewis, p. 239). less

William Gibbs Thomas Moncrieff, English playwright and theatre manager. To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 letter signed : 22 May 1851 : (P'ANA 0048) : from Charter House : entirely in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "Wishing to obtain some rather important information to which I see no clue but through George Meredith ...". less

Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and writer. · To William Cox Bennett, journalist and author : 1 autograph letter signed : [6 Sep 1851] : (MISC 0006) : from [Reading] : begins, "What should I do without you my dear kind friend! -- how inimitably stupid it was in me to go looking in the Index for Sir Philip Sidney instead of the Table of Contents ..."; with the postmarked envelope. less

Tom Taylor, English playwright and comic writer. · To William Allingham, poet : 2 items -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" 30 May [no year] : (MISC 1414a) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 8, Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, London, S.W. (printed stationery) : begins, "Will you come dine with us . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Nov [no year] : (MISC 1414b) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "The nuisance [?] that we administer . . . ." Both letters mounted in the album of Fifty-nine Autograph Letters to William Allingham. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "Allingham.". less