Scope and arrangement
· Holograph table of contents in bound volume of his own journal articles : (MISC 4084) : including pieces clipped from issues of the Quarterly Review and the Edinburgh Review. Shelved with books under "Hayward.".
· To "My dearest sisters" : 5 autograph letters signed : -- 2 Feb 1864 : (HWD 09.091) : from the Athenaeum; begins, "Things are in good ..." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files. -- 20 Apr 1865 : (MISC 3493) : from 8 St. James St.; begins, "I inclose the cheque for £50." -- 27 Mar [no year] : (MISC 3492) : from the Athenaeum; begins, "I have nothing much to tell you..." -- 7 Mar [no year] : (MISC 3491) : from the Athenaeum; begins, "The basket arrived ..." -- 14 Jan [no year] : (B'ANA 0598) : begins, "I ventured from Newstead Abbey today ...," about which he later says "Lord Byron left half in ruins ..." Filed in the SC manuscript file.
· To Catherine Maria Bury, Lady Charleville : 1 autograph letter signed (copy) : 18 Nov 1849 : (HWD 04.086) : from Hotel Mirbeau, Paris; begins, "Perhaps you will like to hear what is going on here." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files.
· To Harriet Canning de Burgh, Lady Clanricarde : 1 autograph letter signed (copy?) : [no date] : (HWD 09.066) : from 8 St. James St.; begins, "I found your note ..." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files.
· To Mrs. Geale : 1 autograph letter signed (copy) : 20 Apr 1856 : (HWD 09.091) : from Temple; begins, "I am very much obliged to you for your letter and reminiscences ..." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files.
· To Jane Porter, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 May [1834 or 1835] : (MISC 2445) : from 1 Pump Court Temple; offering her a book [not present].
· To "My dear Porter" : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Mar 1870 : (HWD 08.037) : on Privy Council Office stationery; begins, "I will certainly come unless laid hold of suddenly ..." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files.
· To John Tyndall, physicist : 1 autograph letter signed (copy) : 24 Nov 1871 : (HWD 10.107) : from the Athenaeum; begins, "A letter from you was read at the meeting ..." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files.
· To an unknown correspondent : 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" : (MISC 3490) : from Pencarrow Bodmin; begins, "This is a very agreeable place...".
Also held is a copy of a memo from Lady Byron to Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Hayward's hand, on the Byron marriage and separation (B'ANA 0061); filed under "Byron, Anne Isabella" in the SC manuscript file.