Found 4 collections related to Melbourne,%20William%20Lamb,%20Viscount,%201779-1848

William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne, British prime minister from 16 July to 14 November of 1834. · To Lady Morgan, novelist and socialite : 9 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : 21 Aug 1827 : (B'ANA 0166) : from Castle : saying "[he] has been long engaged to Mr. La Touche for Monday Friday next ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Sep 1827 : (B'ANA 0165) : from Dublin Castle : begins, "I got your note the other day requesting a frank, but no frank nor direction care with it ..."; with red wax armorial seal. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov 1827 : (B'ANA 0168) : from Dublin Castle : begins, "I have forwarded your letters to Colburn ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Nov 1827 : (B'ANA 0170) : from Dublin Castle : on the final illness of his estranged wife, Caroline Lamb; begins, "I send you the last Medical account which I have received which I am afraid is very unfavourable ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Dec 1827 : (B'ANA 0171) : from Phenix Park : begins, "I send you the letters, which I received by yesterday's mail. They are very melancholy ..."; with partial red wax armorial seal. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1827 : (B'ANA 0172) : from Dublin Castle : begins, "I have been very neglectful lately in not sending you the accounts which I have received." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Dec 1827 : (B'ANA 0174) : from Dublin Castle : begins, "I send you the letter I have received to-day. I am afraid it shows increasing weakness ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Dec 1827 : (B'ANA 0173) : from Dublin Castle : begins, "I have only received this morning a short letter from Dr. Goddard, of which the following is a copy ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Jan 1828 : (B'ANA 0175) : from Dublin Castle : begins, "I have had nothing material to send you ..."; along with a copy of a letter from Caroline Lamb to her husband, copied in the hand of Lady Morgan. -- All letters to Lady Morgan are mounted in the Lucius Wilmerding album of Autograph Letters written by Lady Caroline Lamb. Shelved under *Pforz BT. less

Two contemporary manuscript copies of letters relating to the June 1836 case of criminal conversation with Caroline Norton brought against Lord Melbourne by George Norton. Both copies in the same clerical hand; paper bears a watermark date of 1836. Formerly housed in a later 19th century envelope marked in ink: "Hon. Mrs. P. A. Irby" (i.e., Augusta Cowell). The first page of one of the copies bears a penciled note at the top, possibly in the hand of Augusta Cowell: "Before the trial - Mr N[orton] at this period was jealous of Cap.n Fitzroy Campbell.". less

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others. less