Found 52 collections related to Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

To Lady Blessington, Irish-born author and literary hostess : 10 letters, all in French -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Oct 1843 : (BLES 2.105) : from Aix-la-Chapelle : begins, "J'ai reçu votre charmante letter du 16 Octobre, qui m'a prouvé que la bonté et le talent sont inséparables chez vous." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Jan 1844 : (BLES 2.102) : from 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Voyez combien sur vos bontés pour moi. Voici une 50aine de prospectus des Trois Royaumes ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Jan 1844 : (BLES 2.106) : from 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Je viens de vous adresser, par las maison Bossange, qui correspond à Londres avec la librarie Dulau ..."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [Jan 1844] : (BLES 2.103) : [no place] : begins, "Je ne saurais vous exprimer combien je suis touché de vos bontés."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Feb [1844] : (BLES 2.104b) : [no place] : begins, "Je crois que me voilà au moment de traiter avec Mr. Bentley."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Mar [1844] : (BLES 2.104a) : from 14 Caumartin : begins, "Je viens de terminer mon marché ave Monsieur Bentley." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar 1844 : (BLES 2.099) : begins, "J'ai enfin terminé avec Monsieur Bentley, mais non pas comme je l'avois désiré ..."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Mar [1844] : (BLES 2.101) : from Paris : begins, "Mes Trois Royaumes vont paraître à Londres et à Paris en deux, trois, ou quatre jours." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Mar 1844 : (BLES 2.100) : from 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Voici une petite nouvelle qui, je l'espère, vous sera agréable, et pourra plaire à vos lecteurs in the Book of Beauty ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 May 1844 : (BLES 2.098) : from Paris, 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Que je vous remercie de toutes les peines que je vous ai données."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- All letters mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed "Spencer Cowper" : 8 Jul 1846 : (BLES 2.091) : from 7 Grafton Street : begins, "Will you do me the favor to accept the accompanying piece of Blue Sèvres." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Harry Chester, clerk in the Privy Council office. He was the son of Sir Robert Chetster of Bush Hall, Hertfordshire, who was Master of Ceremonies to George III. To "Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jul 1834 : (BLES 1.075) : from Privy Council Office, Downing St. : begins, "I have to request you will do me the favor to inform me whether the Book of Beauty is still open to contribution ... I have written some lines which have been approved by those who have seen them -- 100 lines rhyming upon a woman's name." Though the letter is addressed to "Sir," the recipient was clearly Lady Blessington, editor of the Book of Beauty. Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Louisa Henrietta Sheridan (married name Wyatt), British author, illustrator and editor. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 7 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jul 1836 : (BLES 6.500) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "I have this moment received the accompanying letter, whose external appearance perfectly accords with its contents!" -- 1 autograph letter third person : 17 Nov 1836 : (BLES 6.501a) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : with mourning border; saying she "has the pleasure of transmitting a review of the 'Beautiful Book', which she has written ..."; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Mar 1837 : (BLES 6.501b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "If ill-health be not a palliation for apparent ill-manners, I fear you will not excuse my tardy acknowledgment of y.r beautiful Annual ...." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1837 : (BLES 6.502a) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "I have been so much pleased with the plate you kindly sent for my illustration, that I have affixed it to some details of my own 'Convent days' wh. I had intended for another purpose ...." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jul 1837 : (BLES 6.502b) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South : begins, "Having been engaged during the last two months in editing and revising a MS novel written in a most alarming scrawl -- my close attention to it has again occasioned an accident in my throat ..."; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503a) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "It quite shames me to receive your valuable, lengthened contribution before I have sent you my Tiny one!" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am afraid, notwithstanding you courteously refer only to the Printer, that you fancy I gave my sanction to the conceited alteration proposed ..."; on page 3 of the letter sheet is [a copy of?] a letter from "Sheen" on behalf of Stewart and Murray (printers). -- All letters mounted in volume 6 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Anne Cooper, British domestic servant. She worked as a maid for Lady Blessington for the last fifteen years of the novelist's life. To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 6 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [1853] : (BLES 5.455d) : from 57 St. Giles's, Oxford : begins, "A. Cooper presents her duty to Doctor Madden, and can assure him his name and writings are both familiar to her. Knowing also Doctor Madden were one of my ladies most valued and intimate friends, I think it better to make you acquainted with my position in that family. I was her Ladyship's maid the last 15 years of her life ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Apr 1853 : (BLES 5.455f) : from Churchill Heath, Chipping Norton : begins, "Fearful of being troublesome, I have delayed writing ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [1854] : (BLES 5.455e) : [no place] : begins, "I am indeed sorry I should have troubled you in your illness ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday" : (BLES 5.455a) : from 87 Eaton Place : begins, "I am sorry not to have answered your letter sooner, but I have been so very much occupied." -- 1 autograph note third person : "Monday" : (BLES 5.455b) : from 87 Eaton Place : saying she "received Dr Madden's letter from Oxford and hastens to forward her address ..." -- 1 autograph note third person : 28 May [no year] : (BLES 5.455c) : from 57 St. Giles's, Oxofrd : saying she "is grieved that Doctor Madden should have had so much trouble with her parcel ..." -- All letters to Madden in v. 5 of the Blessington correspondence. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Apr 1849 : (BLES 1.080) : from 15 Victoria Square, Pimlico : begins, "The tone of the Grand Opera is assuredly not deep or serious; & as you know, I am at the best of times shy and tongue-tied -- worse and worse, I think, every year." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 May 1849 : (BLES 1.081) : from 15 Victoria Square, Pimlico : begins, "For the last ten days I have been meaning to write a line in acknowledgement of your first truly kind letter." -- Both letters mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Keppel Richard Craven, Britsih traveller and writer. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Aug 1835 : (BLES 2.092) : from Pente, near Salerno : begins, "Your last kind letter, and the very flattering expressions it contained, ought to have received an earlier answer ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Apr 1836 : (BLES 2.093) : from Naples : begins, "I hope you will not judge of the impression your last kind letter produced upon me, by the tardiness I have observed in replying to it ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Jun 1836 : (BLES 2.094) : [no place] : begins, "You have my best thanks for the two numbers of the Athenaeum you were so good as to send me..." -- All letters mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Manuscript copy, "Extract from a Sermon on Repentance," by Dr. Samuel Parr : [watermark = 1836] : (BLES 3.230) : 1 p.; begins, "The infinite importance of what he has to do, the goading conviction that it must be done, the utter inability of doing it ..." Published in R. R. Madden's Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, v. 2, p. 262. -- Manuscript mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Apr 1820 : (BLES 2.096) : begins, "I do myself the honor of obeying your Ladyship's wishes to have four lines of my writing ..." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Poems : [no date; ca. 1820's?] : (BLES 2.162a) : 2 p.; four short poems on one folded lettersheet, copied in an unidentified hand; apparently done for Lady Blessington; including "Extempore on a Yard of Flannel"; "On Walter Scott's Poem entitled The Field of Waterloo"; "On presenting Buonaparte's [spurs?] to the Prince Regent"; and "An Inscription for the Lap dog of the Countess of Blessington." Along with a copied address (in the same hand), "Conclusion of a Speech attributed by Lord Erskine to Lord Viscount Stafford" (BLES 2.162b). In v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Mar 1848 : (BLES 5.411a) : from Paris : begins, "I forwarded without delay your packet to your correspondent ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec [no year] : (BLES 5.411b) : from Mulgrave Castle : begins, "I have just received your letter, and have to thank you much for your prompt attention ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday M.g" : (BLES 5.412a) : [no place] : begins, "To day is my [courrier?] day and I am now certain of my time ..."; with thick mourning border. -- All letters to Blessington in v. 5 of The Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscripts. less

William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist. The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter); Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law); Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament. less

James Millingen, British archaeologist. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Oct 1824 : (BLES 5.404) : from Florence : begins, "I intended to have written you from Rome, but was prevented by constant interruption. I met with no accident on the road, and escaped being robbed and carried up to the mountains ..."; with an excised autograph address panel to Lady Blessington. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Friday Morning" : (BLES 5.405) : from Palazzo [Gala----?] : begins, "I do not know how to thank your Ladyship sufficiently for your kind note ..."; with an excised autograph address panel to Lady Blessington. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Sunday Ev.ng" : (BLES 5.406) : from Belvedere : begins, "I was in hopes of having the happiness of seeing you either yesterday or this evening ...". less

Thomas Longman, English publisher. He was the older son of Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842), and the brother of William Longman (1813-1877), both of whom were his business partners at the Longman & Co. publishing firm. From 1842-1850 the company's imprint was "Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans" (cf. Maxted's London book trades). To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Nov 1842 : (BLES 3.258a) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "I beg your acceptance of a little work we have just published which may afford you some amusement..."; with an excised stamped envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jul [watermark = 1843] : (BLES 3.260b) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "If it were not for the annoyance occasioned to you by the insane writer of the letter you enclose me, I should consider his statements and letter of no consequence whatever. I believe Mr. Day to be really insane ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jul 1843 : (BLES 3.261a) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "We forwarded to Mr. Tauchnitz the agreement on the 18th of this month, which was the first opportunity after having received it. A copy of Meredith shall be sent to Mr. Rosenberg." -- All letters to Lady Blessington in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, British politician and diplomat. From 1816 to 1849 he was known as Lord Albert Conyngham. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "Albert Conyngham" : "Wednesday" [ca. mid 1830's?] : (BLES 1.087a) : from Hill St. : begins, "I send you a rather absurd little German story; it has the advantage of brevity." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Albert Conyngham" : "Thursday" [ca. mid 1830's?] : (BLES 1.087b) : from Hill St. : begins, "Upon second thought, I have made up my mind that it would not do to change the era of my story; -- it would appear more ridiculous than it is already, were it supposed to be occurring in the 16th cent.y ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Albert Conyngham" : 29 Nov 1835 : (BLES 1.088) : from Yedling : begins, "I have just heard from Mr. Denison that you have been kind enough to send a Book of Beauty for me to Pall Mall..."; includes comment on the marriage of the marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and Lady Charlotte Bury, "how on earth can they have thought of such a thing?" With the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Oct [between 1827 and 1838] : (BLES 5.428) : [no place] : in French; begins, "Ma femme m'a dit qu'elle ..." Mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 29 Dec 1837 : (MISC 0994) : thanking her for Christmas presents, with family news and flattery on her work in Gems of Beauty. -- 16 Jun 1840 (MISC 3535) : sending his poem "The Usher" [no longer enclosed] for publication in one of her journals. less

Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, British prime minister and novelist. The Benjamin Disraeli manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection is composed chiefly of correspondence, most being letters to the Irish-born writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington. Also held are two volumes of the first edition of his Vivian Grey, with considerable manuscript revisions and markings. less

To William Allingham, poet : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : 5 Jul 1850 : (MISC 1401a) : regarding permission to publish verses from the Household Words journal. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Dec 1851: (MISC 1401b) : acknowledging receipt of his paper, and giving praise. -- Both letters to William Allingham mounted in the album of 59 letters to William Allingham. Shelved under "Allingham" with bound manuscript materials. less

George Cattermole, English watercolor painter and illustrator. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" [ca. late 1830's-1840's] : (BLES 1.074) : from the Albany : begins, "Should you be in town to-morrow, and will honour me with a call, I shall be happy to submit the two drawings to your notice ..." Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Holograph poem signed, "To Lady Blessington" : 2 Jan 1849 : (BLES 1.067a) : 1 p.; in ink; begins, "When wintry winds in wild career, / Howl requiems for the bygone year ..." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, Italian noblewoman and writer. She was the last of Lord Byron's Italian mistresses. The Teresa Guiccioli manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings consist of a four-part autobiographical work; various notebooks recording her thoughts and activities; and accounts relating to the life of Lord Byron. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1820 and 1822. Correspondents include Lady Blessington, the Irish-born writer and literary hostess; Lord Byron, the English poet (her lover); Victor Hugo, the French writer; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the English novelist; and over a dozen others. less

Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell, Napoleon's pet English child at St. Helena, where her father was Navy agent. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Dec 1847 : (BLES 1.005a) : requesting to include Blessington in the subscription list for the forthcoming Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon. Within v. 1 of the Blessington Papers manuscript albums. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Sir Alured Clarke, British army officer and colonial governor. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Dec 1819 : (BLES 1.082) : from Mansfield Street : begins, "I am very much flattered and gratified by the receipt of your extremely kind Note, so expressive of that friendship that you and Lord Blessington have always shown me ..." Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug [ca. early 1850's] : (BLES 3.225) : 8 pages (6 single sheets) : from Firfield, Addlestone, Surrey : begins, "The letters you were so good as to mention, were sent to me, and I was very much obliged. They contained nothing of importance, were very, very stupid, and alluded in a painful manner to a very remarkable, but as it turned out, most unfortunate individual, since dead ..."; with much on the character of the late Lady Blessington. The letter continues in a copy in another hand [Madden's?] as (BLES 3.226b), with a note at the head of the page: "In a subsequent communication of the 3rd of Augt Mrs Hall adds:". -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. less

Thomas James Mathias, British satirist and Italian scholar. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Jun 1824 : (BLES 5.390b) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 74 Monte d'Iddio : begins, "I flatter myself that you will favour me by accepting the enclosed little volume ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Nov 1825 : (BLES 5.390c) : 1 page (double sheet) : from "Casa" : begins, "The enclosed little volumes have just been printed in Naples ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 [Nov?] [no year] : (BLES 5.391b) : 1 page (double sheet) : from "Casa" : begins, "I hope to do myself the pleasure of accompanying Sir W. Gell on Sunday next to dine with you ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Feb [1826?] : (BLES 5.391c) : 1 page (double sheet) : from "Casa" : begins, "The enclosed little Volume has been just printed in Naples ..." All letters to Lady Blessington mounted within volume 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less