Scope and arrangement
· To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "Alexander Bailie Cochrane" : May 1849 : (BLES 1.084) : from Belgrave Street : begins, "It is so idle to tell you what you so well know, that you have left a vacancy here wh can never be filled up." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Alexander Bailie Cochrane" : 2 Jan [no year] : (BLES 1.085) : I hope you have recd a copy of Lucille Belmont, which I desired Colburn to send you some time since." With the excised address from the letter cover. -- Both letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes.
· To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "Alex Bailie Cochrane" : [3 Feb?; no year] : (HWD 04.075) : from Buckhurst, Withyam, Sussex (printed stationery) : begins, "My wife is in Paris & so in her stead I thank you much for your little volume." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Alex Bailie Cochrane" : "Wednesday" : (HWD 10.058) : from 12 Rue de Castiglione : begins, "What of home politics ..." -- Both letters to Hayward in the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files.