Found 8 collections related to Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence

To Thomas Hill, book collector : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Feb 1800 : (MISC 0389) : from Norton : begins, "I know not how it happened but I have again not received the New London Review ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1800 : (MISC 0390) : from Norton : begins, "I hope I am in time to [?] the [--tion?] in the Monthly Mirror of what relates to the fate of [Farah Floyd?] ..."; also including, "Mr. Robert Bloomfield & his mother Mrs. Glover are with us ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Dec 1800 : (MISC 0388) : begins, "I have great satisfaction in what you tell me of the recovery of Mrs. Siddons ..."; including discussion relating to the copyright of Robert Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. less

Autograph list : [after 15 Jan 1816] : (MISC 0961) : on a letter to her from her brother, Charles Burney, D.D.; reads in full, "Send d'Arblay's promotion / Archdeacon Thomas / Letter to sister." Filed under "Charles Burney (schoolmaster and book collector).". less

Charlotte Smith (née Turner), English poet and novelist. · To Cadell Davies, publishers : 6 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Aug 1794 : (MISC 4406) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I went yesterday to Bristol Hot-wells, and pack'd up the two first dialogues of 'Rural Walks' . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov 1794 : (MISC 4407) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 6 Seymour Street, Bath : begins, "I have the Rhumatism so much in my hands, that it is with great difficulty I write this . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Jan [1796] : (MISC 4408) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I send you the close of Dialogue the 5th which I have written so closely on purpose to save carriage . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Dec [1797?] : (MISC 4409) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I have to day re[ceive]d a letter from Mr. Hayley, highly approving of the first part of 'the Young Philosopher' . . . ." -- Autograph signature on receipt : 31 Jan 1798 : (MISC 4410) : 1 page (partial sheet) : from London : for £18.13.2, the sum received on her account from Messrs. Daniel, "for her mother." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1798 : (MISC 4411) : [no place] : 4 ¹/₂ pages (1 single sheet, 1 double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "The letter you some days since were so obliging as to forward to me was from Mr. Walker of Dublin . . . .". less

Helen Maria Williams, English writer. · Autograph signature on receipt : 7 May 1784 : (MISC 1865) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [from London] : documenting her sale of the copyright of "Peru, a Poem" to Thomas Cadell for £21; also stipulating that "in case of a second edition, ten guinea more to be paid . . . .". less

Sarah Trimmer, English author and educationist. · To Charlotte, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : 1 autograph letter signed (copy?) : 14 Sep 1803 : (MISC 4149) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Brentford : begins, "Having so repeatedly expressed your Royal condescension on similar occasions, I am encouraged to hope for your Majesty's gracious acceptance of The Guardian of Education . . . ." Definitely in Trimmer's hand, but perhaps a copy she made for her own purposes; there are no clear signs of this manuscript having been delivered. less