Found 185 collections.

Anna Seward, English poet and correspondent. · Holograph verses, "If, Lady, thou art fair, take heed, I pray," signed : 5 Sep 1800 : (MISC 3934) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Lichfield : begins, "If, Lady, thou art fair, take heed, I pray, / That more than charms exterior round thee play!" Published appearances of the verses carry the title, "To the lady, whether single or married, who shall charitably purchase this trifle." Mounted in the Agatha Hogsbottom autograph album, opposite a mounted engraved portrait of Seward by Woolnoth after Romney. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Benjamin Seymour, English-born industrial inventor in Massachusetts (see F. E. Seymour's Benjamin Seymour in Russia, England and America). · To Mary Hays, writer (his cousin) : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Dec 1794 : (MISC 2211) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Boston : begins, "the last time I has the pleasure of your conversation I recollect your expressing a desire of corresponding with me ..."; addressed to "Eusebia" on the address leaf. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Dec 1795 : (MISC 2212) : from Boston : begins, "Your favour of the 11th May 1 duly recei[ved] and felt myself both instructed and gratified ..."; with a small piece of both leaves of the sheet torn away, affecting some text on page 1. less

Charlotte Smith's Celestina (1791) was published by T. Cadell; the 1797 second volume of Elegaic Sonnets and The Young Philosopher (1798) were published by T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies. Manuscript order lists for Charlotte Smith's Celestina, a Novel (2 lists dated 13 July 1791); "A Second Volume" of Elegiac Sonnets (1 list dated 9 June 1797); and The Young Philosopher (1 list dated 11 June 1798). Each list specifies wholesale and retail costs per book. With the names of dozens of London booksellers, along with the numbers of books ordered by each. In some cases (such as with John Murray and Joseph Johnson) it is almost certain that the bookseller's name is an autograph signature; some signatures may have been made by a bookseller's clerk or assistant. The booksllers include: J. A. Arch, R. Baldwin, J. Debrett, C. Dilly, T. J. Egerton, J. Evans, R. Faulder, Forster, H. Gardner, Hookham, J. Johnson, J. Jolliffe, Kearsley, Lane, B. Law Son, Lee Hurst, Longman, J. Murray, Murray Highley, E. Newbery, Nunn, Wm. J. J. Richardson, Rivingtons, Jas. Robson, G. Sael, Scatcherd Co., L. B. Seeley, J. Sewell, H. D. Symonds, W. Treppass, Vernor Hood, J. Walter, B. White Son, and G. T. Wilkie. less

Philip Yorke, second earl of Hardwicke, British politician and writer. · To "Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Oct 1756 : (MISC 0250) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from Wimple : begins, "I receiv'd your letter of the 3d. instant, together with the pacquet transmitted by Mr. Clevland. You have my sincere thanks . . . .". less

John Wolcot [pseudonym Peter Pindar], English poet and satirist. · Holograph poem, "Ode to the Passions" : [no date] : (MISC 4331) : 2 pages (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Ye great rulers of mankind, who domineer over the soul . . . ." Along with a [proof?] print of the title page of his Poetical, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses, the Reviewers (1778), with printed slip correcting the motto. less

Eugénie de Vergès, née Choppin d'Arnouville. She was born on September 13, 1774 to René Choppin d'Arnouville, chevalier, a counsellor to Louis XV and president of the Cour des Monnaies; and his wife, Marguerite-Élizabeth de Chazot. On February 4, 1793, in Paris, she married Jacques-Claude de Vergès. Their first son, Marie Fortuné (1794-1864), was a notable civil engineer; their second son, Adolphe Florimond (1795-1875), was a councillor at the Cour de Cassation. Eugénie de Vergès died on April 4, 1843. The larger of the two volumes (89 manuscript pages; 77 total leaves + 4 loose manuscript inserts) is a commonplace book containing original poems, translations, and notes on a variety of subjects. On the front paste-down is a contemporary note ("Ouvrages de Mlle Eugénie Choppin, depuis Mde. Devergès, faits depuis l'anée 1790") and the large engraved stationer's ticket of De Lermoy, Versailles. The smaller volume (40 manuscript pages; 75 total leaves) is chiefly devoted to accounts and contains entries from 1811 to 1840; with the stationer's ticket of Niodot, Place du Vieux Louvre. Both volumes in contemporary green boards. less

William Whitton, English lawyer. · Autograph signatures on verso of indenture agreement : [circa 14 Apr 1800] : (S'ANA 0101h) : 1 page (folded parchment sheet) : legal document regarding the Shelleys and the sale of an estate in Balcombe. Filed under "Timothy Shelley.". 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

Robert Winter, English clergyman. · To Mary Hays, writer : 1 autograph letter, third person : 28 May 1793 : (MISC 2201) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Hammersmith : saying he "is greatly obliged to her, for her elegant instructive volume . . . .". less

Thomas Percy, Church of England clergyman. · To William Bennet, Bishop of Cork and Ross, later Bishop of Cloyne : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Dec 1792 : (MISC 0473) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from London (no. 27 Lower Grosvenor Street) : begins, "I should have troubles your Lordship with more than one letter before this time, had I not expected long since to have been in Ireland ...". less

Samuel Rogers, English poet. The Samuel Rogers manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: holograph fair copy poetical extracts (from "Jacqueline," "Human Life" and "The Voyage of Columbus"); a holograph testimonial, "Sacred to the Memory of xxxxxx"; and a holograph fair copy of his poem on Earl Grey, "Written in July, 1834." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1820 and 1850. Correspondents include: Lord Byron, poet; Mary Shelley, novelist; Robert Southey, poet; William Wordsworth, poet; and over seventy others. less

Robert Robinson, English Baptist minister. To Mary Hays, novelist : 9 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : 13 Nov 1782 : (MISC 2153) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Walworth : saying, "...if it be possible he will not fail to wait on Miss Hays (for whom he entertains the most profound esteem) some time to morrow afternoon ..." -- 1 letter signed : 11 Jan 1783 : (MISC 2154) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "I had certainly answered your complaisant favour of the 27th of last month had I not been ill ..." -- 1 letter signed : 26 Mar 1783 : (MISC 2155) : 2 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "Though I generally make use of an amanuensis, yet I seldom do so to your sex, but at present I am obliged to serve all alike ..." -- 1 letter signed : 22 Dec 1783 : (MISC 2156) : 2 ²/₃ pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "It does not signify, good Miss Hayes, for once, for this once, you must submit to an amanuensis ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jun 1784 : (MISC 2157) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "I am extremely sorry to hear that you have been so ill ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Jul 1788 : (MISC 2158) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "Is there not a sort of fatality in our correspondence? Certainly without any design ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Nov 1788 : (MISC 2159) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "I have a singular pleasure in all the letters with which your friendship indulges me ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1789 : (MISC 2160) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "I owe you so many thanks, that I know not where to begin ..." -- 1 autograph letter [signature cut away] : 8 Dec 1789 : (MISC 2161) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Chesterton : begins, "Pardon me, good Miss Hays, I just call in to ask, how do you do?" -- All letters published in full in Marilyn Brooks's edition of Mary Hays's letters, p. 250-263. less

Ann Robinson, daughter of the Rev. Robert Robinson (1735-1790); and sister of Mary I. Brown, who was also a friend and correspondent of Mary Hays. · To Mary Hays, novelist : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Oct 1791 : (MISC 2203) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Shipdham : begins, "Unequal as I ever have been to the beautiful and elegant accomplishment of letter-writing, I never found myself so much so as now, on the perusal of your epistles ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 May 1792 : (MISC 2204) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Shipdham : begins, "When I look at the date of your last letter I have all the reason in the world to blush and be ashamed ..." -- Both letters published in full in Marilyn Brooks's edition of Mary Hays's letters, p. 266; 272-273. less

Henry Crabb Robinson, English diarist and journalist. · To Thomas Amyot, lawyer and antiquarian : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov 1795 : (G'ANA 0036) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Bury : begins, "Your political Pop Gun did not miss fire, I assure you, It was easy for you to hit so fair a mark as I and my political opinions afford ..."; with remarks on William Godwin. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Mar 1796 : (MISC 1984) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Bury : begins, "I think I may fairly retort the charge of dullness upon you -- You seem in your last letter to have strained hard to fill your paper and therefore you adopted a circumlocutory style ...". less

William Robertson, Scottish historian and minister in the Church of Scotland. · To Sir Robert Murray Keith, of Murrayshall, diplomat and army officer : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Oct 1778 : (MISC 0997) : 2 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) : from College of Edinburgh : begins, "Mr. Grant, who will have the honour of presenting this letter to you, is warmly recommended to me by his relation and friend Sir James Grant of Grant ...". less

Mary Reid, sister of John Reid, the English physician. "Miss Mary Reid was a literary lady and was spoken of as a blue stocking ... [s]he was a keen politician of the Foxite school ..." -- R. Reid. Old Glasgow and its environs. Glasgow: Robertson, 1864: p. 54. · To Mary Hays, writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Jan 1796 : (MISC 2191) : 1 ¹/₈ pages (double sheet) : from Guilford street : begins, "As I do not wish to awaken feelings of disgust horror by appearing before you with a black eye bruised protuberant forehead, i must relinquish the pleasure of calling on you this morning ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1808 : (MISC 2192) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Lester : begins, "As my brother is going to Town, I gladly avail myself of the opportunity of writing a few lines just to inquire how you do ..." -- Both letters published in Marilyn Brooks's Correspondence of Mary Hays, p. 504-506. less

James Ridgway, English publisher. · To George Dyer, author and advocate of political reform : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec 1794 : (MISC 3616J) : from Newgate : begins, "We think it will be better for to defer a few days, fixing a plan for [David] Holt, until the result of the application making in his favor is known ...". less

Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury; other married name Thrale), British writer. · Autograph signature on memorandum of agreement with John Stockdale, bookseller : 3 Nov 1800 : (MISC 0273) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Westminster : regarding the publication of Piozzi's Retrospection; document, in a clerical hand, also bears the signature of John Stockdale, and the witness, John Jos. Stockdale. less

John Playfair, Scottish mathematician and geologist. · To Thomas Cadell, the elder, bookseller : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Jul 1792 : (MISC 0478) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : from Meigle : begins, "Soon after my arrival I informed you of the results of my application to Sir John Sinclair, I should be glad to hear that the plan he proposed has met your approbation ...". less

Annabella "Bell" Plumptre (1761-1838), English writer and translator. · To Mary Hays, writer : 1 autograph letter signed "Annabella Plumptre" : 23 Nov 1798 : (MISC 2194) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 56 Wells Street : begins, "A lady, a friend of ours from Norwich, who is extremely desirous of seeing the Author of Emma Courtney is to spend the day with us on Saturday ..." Published in full in Marilyn Brooks's Correspondence of Mary Hays, p. 317. less