Found 342 collections.

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

James E. Thorold Rogers, English political economist and politician. · To Humphrey Davy Rolleston, physician : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Mar 1882 : (MISC 0999) : 1 page (doubloe sheet) : from House of Commons Library (embossed stationery) : begins, "I have a supplementary order for the Speaker's gallery on Tuesday next which is at your service ..."; with the stamped, postmarked envelope. less

Benjamin Bickley Rogers, English barrister and classical scholar. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Feb 1878 : (S'ANA 0923) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : on embossed Athenæum Club stationery; begins, "My translation of [Aristophanes'] The Clouds was written while I was an undergraduate at Oxford ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 May 1878 : (S'ANA 0924) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I am very much obliged for your kind present. Shelley's play undoubtedly exhibits powers which ... would have made him a formidable rival to the great comic writers of ancient and modern times..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 May 1878 : (S'ANA 0925) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I am much obliged fopr your kind letter. I had no idea that you were a reviewer as well as an author ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Sep 1878 : (S'ANA 0926) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I have only returned from Scotland for a day, but I must answer your kind letter which I find on my table ..."; with the postmarked envelope, stamp excised. less

Anne Benson Procter, née Skepper, wife of the poet Bryan Waller Procter ("Barry Cornwall"). · To "Dear Mr. Darwin" : 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday" [ca. 1850's-early 1860's] : (MISC 0992) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Braemar : begins, "My daughter tells me that you kindly propose coming to see us before your dinner this Evening ...". less

Adelaide Anne Procter, English poet and women's activist. · To "My dear Miss Eliza" : 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday Evg." [watermark = 18R] : (MISC 1726) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : in verse; begins, "My dear Miss Eliza these lines I indite, / And it pours without ceasing both morning night ...". less

George Lansing Raymond, American educator and philosopher. · To James Wilson Bright, philologist and professor : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Nov 1898 : (B'ANA 0540) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from 1821 Jefferson Place, Washington, D.C. : begins, "At the suggestion -- made some months ago, as I must confess -- of one of our Princeton professors, I venture to write ..."; asking if it would be possible at the next Modern Language Association meeting "to find a place ... for a paper upon the revival of interest in Byron. The paper ... contrasts the visibly representative effects of the older poetry with the audibly representative effects ... in the poetry of Tennyson ...". less

Charles Reade, English novelist and playwright. · To Andrew Chatto, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Nov [ca. 1870's] : (MISC 1494) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 2 Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge : begins, "We made the Defendantspay for your time and lodgings in Edinburgh ...". less

Margeret Roberts (1833-1919), British novelist and children's writer. · To "My dear Miss Bibby" : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Sep [ca. 1860's-1880's?] : (MISC 4023.45a) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from No. 4 Promenade, Great Malvern : begins, "I find on trying to transfer to Malvern your subscription, as I wanted to return Froude Buckle, which, thanks to you, we have been enjoying, that Mr. Smith, or rather his clerk, has allowed me to keep the volumes over the time of your subscription without the notice they should have given me ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

· To Gabriel Harrison, actor, daguerreotypist, and prose writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Apr 1865 : (MISC 0955) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Baltimore : begins, "I yesterday received your long expected letter, and hasten to reply to it ..."; includes, "... I wish to raffle my dear Eddie's watch, and it almost breaks my heart to do so ... I cannot express to you my great grief at being obliged to part with this my last treasure ..." Filed under "Edgar Allan Poe" in MISC File. less

John Joseph Powell, British barrister. · To "My dear Moyer" : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Feb 1877 : (S'ANA 0051a) : 6 pages (2 double sheets; 1 single sheet) : from 9, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C. : begins, "Touching the copyrights questions you sent to me some time ago I think the publisher has copyright in all the publications of Shelley which he has registered under the Talfourd Act ...". less

Rowland Edmund Prothero, first Baron Ernle, English author, land agent, and politician. · To Richard Garnett, librarian and author : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Aug 1900 : (B'ANA 0235) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Thorney Abbey - Thorney - Peterborough : in reference to Prothero's edition of Byron's works; begins, "I wrote from Devonshire to ask Mr. Murray to send you a proof of the suppressed preface ...". less

Sir Edward John Poynter, first baronet, British painter and arts administrator. · To Sybella Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, widow of George Lyttelton, fourth Baron Lyttelton : 1autograph letter signed : 23 Feb 1893 : (MISC 1702) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 28 Albert Gate, S.W. : begins, "I see I am wrong as to the wording of the invitation -- I therefore send you another ...". less

John Ruskin, English art critic and social critic. · To William Allingham, poet : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Sep 1864 : (MISC 1412a) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Denmark Hill, S.E. (embossed stationery) : begins, "I have been at Verona and Venice -- my letters all unanswered for months ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Whit Monday" [no year] : (MISC 1412b) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire (embossed stationery) : begins, "I am so [heavily?] obliged to you for sending me Fraser ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Nov [no year] : (MISC 1412c) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Denmark Hill, S.E. (embossed stationery) : begins, "I am -- alas -- on the very eve of leaving for Oxford ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun 1868 : (MISC 1412d) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Could you lunch with me about ¹/₂ past one -- tomorrow?"; with the postmarked envelope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday afternoon" [watermark = 1857] : (MISC 1412e) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am very sorry I was out to day ..." -- All letters to Allingham mounted within the album of Fifty-nine Autograph Letters to William Allingham. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Allingham.". less

John Russell, first Earl Russell, British Prime Minister and author. · To [?S. R. Townshend Mayer, founder of the Free and Open Church Association and writer] : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Sep 1860 : (H'ANA 0017) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Inverary : body reads in full, "I request you will put down my name, as a subscriber to the Leigh Hunt Memorial Fund." With a mourning border. less

William Michael Rossetti, English art critic and literary editor. The William Michael Rossetti manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: holograph drafts and notes for his 1870 edition of Shelley's poetical works, and drafts and proof emendations for the 1901 reprint of the Pre-Raphaelite journal, The Germ. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1883 and 1911. Correspondents include: H. B. Forman, bibliographer and forger; Elliot Stock, publisher of the reprint of The Germ; E. J. Trelawny, writer and adventurer; T. J. Wise, book collector and forger; and over a dozen others. less

Red half morocco album with gilt spine titling ("MSS. / BOWRING / CORRESPONDENCE / 1822-1854"), containing 59 manuscript letters addressed to John Bowring, the English politician, diplomat and writer. Includes letters to Bowring in his capacities as political editor of Jeremy Bentham's radical Westminster Review; as comissioner to investigate Britain's international commercial relations; as consul at Canton; and as governor of Hong Kong. Correspondents include: Maria Edgeworth, novelist and educationist; Richard Cobden, manufacturer and politician; Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist; and over fifty others. Also included are two letters and a list of books in Bowring's hand; an 1808 letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lt. John Paul of the 33rd Regiment; and an engraving of an English Water Spaniel, by J. Scott, Jun., after C. Tourne. less

[John] Anthony and William Galignani, British publishers and booksellers in Paris. Sons of Italian-born publisher Giovanni Galignani, they took over the family business upon his death in 1821. · To Monsieur Borel, of Paris : 1 letter : 5 Jul 1821 : (B'ANA 0366) : in French, probably in the hand of a clerk; describes English books for sale by Galignani, including editions of Byron. Along with a printed subscription rate schedule for Galignani's Messenger. less

Emma Fagnani, American wife of Italian portrait painter Joseph Fagnani (1819-1873). Emma's memoir of her husband, The Art Life of a XIXth Century Painter, contains many reminiscences of Teresa Guiccioli. · To Teresa Guiccioli, Lord Byron's "last attachment" : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 20 Aug 1869 : (B'ANA 0452) : from New York : in French; begins, "L'article que je vous envoie par le même courier ..." -- 30 Sep 1869 : (B'ANA 0453) : from New York : in French; begins, "Je viens de recevoir votre dernière bonne lettre ..." Both letters relate to the Byron/Beecher-Stowe controversy. less

Marianne Farningham, the pseudonym of English poet and religious writer Mary Anne Hearn. · Holograph verse and signature : 15 Jan 1878 : (MISC 1619) : "Thou shalt hear lovely voices / Whispering ever, "Come," / Sweet will be the meeting / In the heavenly home." Signed, "Marianne Farningham.". less

James Thomas Fields, American publisher, editor, writer, and lecturer. He served as editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1861 to 1870. · To Thornton Leigh Hunt, journalist, son of Leigh Hunt : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Oct 1861 : (H'ANA 0044) : begins, "You promised to write for the 'Atlantic Monthly' your recollections of Shelley as you knew him in your boy-life." Also asks of the papers of Leigh Hunt, "Is there a note from Shelley or Keats to spare?". less

George Finlay, English philhellene and historian. He traveled to Greece in the 1820's to help in the struggle for Greek independence. There he befriended Lord Byron, with whom enjoyed long literary conversations before Byron's death in 1824. · To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1861 : (B'ANA 0635) : thanking his correspondent for sending him a book which will assist him in writing his History of Greece. With a comment on the pollution in Greece and the "filthy condition" of Athens. less

Frederick Gard Fleay, Shakespeare scholar. · Holograph essay signed, "On the received text of Shelley's poems" : 12 Sep 1894 : (S'ANA 0014) : 52 p., in brown cloth folding case. At the end is a note written by Fleay to the printer. Shelved as *Pforz BT (Shelley, P. B.) 03. less

Albany Fonblanque, English political journalist and journal editor. An early contributer to The Times and Morning Chronicle, he also wrote for The Westminster Review, and was for many years the editor and proprietor of The Examiner. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 11 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Feb 1835 : (BLES 2.166) : [no place] : begins, "I am equally surprised and annoyed at the neglect you mention as to the paper of Lord A. Connyngham." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Mar 1836 : (BLES 2.167b) : [no place] : begins, "I have had a feverish cold, with the complicated torments of tooth ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Oct 1836 : (BLES 2.172) : [no place] : begins, "Your Elderly Gentleman has inordinately delighted me. I have just written an article on it for the next Examiner..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Oct 1836 : (BLES 2.168a) : [no place] : begins, "I have been confined to my bed for some days past by a severe attack of fever …"; with the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Oct 1839 : (BLES 2.168b) : from 4 Rue d'Alger : begins, "Though I am almost blind, I must write to say how much I admire Count D'Orsay's letter on the Brougham affair." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Nov [watermark = 1839] : (BLES 2.171b) : [no place] : begins, "I shall be most happy indeed to dine with you next Sunday." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Dec 1839 : (BLES 2.169a) : from 48 Connaught Square : begins, "Neither Bentham nor I had forgotten your kind invitation for Christmas Day, but we are both unable to avail ourselves of it …"; with the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Feb 1840 : (BLES 2.169b) : [no place] : begins, "I am so unwell with a bad cold that I must refuse myself the pleasure of dining with you to-day …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Feb 1840 : (BLES 2.170a) : from 48 Connaught Square : begins, "Many thanks for the present of the velvet, which is of a beauty I have never yet attained to in waistcoats …" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Mar 1842 : (BLES 2.170b) : [no place] : begins, "I found that nothing could be made of the subject you pointed out to me …"; along with an excised address panel from a letter cover marked paid on "12/8/[42?]." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Oct 1842 : (BLES 2.171a) : from Connaught Square : begins, "I very much regret that I am engaged for Saturday next." All letters to Blessington mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. less

Alfred Henry Forrester, English illustrator and writer. He and his brother, Charles Robert Forrester, collaborated on literary works under the name "Alfred Crowquill." He continued to use the pseudonym after his brother's death in 1850, and became a prolific and popular illustrator of comic books and children's books. · To Samuel Rogers, poet : 1 autograph note : 1 Nov 1854 : (MISC 1476) : illustrated third-person request for an autograph. The text of the note is written within an illustration of a banner held aloft by a jester. less

John Forster, English writer and literary adviser. Best known for his friendship with Charles Dickens, Forster also maintained long-lasting friendships with Leigh Hunt, Bulwer Lytton, Walter Savage Landor, William Charles Macready, and Robert Browning. · To Sir Anthony Panizzi, librarian : 10 autograph letters signed : 17 Oct 1853 - 24 Jun 1868 : (MISC 0226-0235) : on various subjects, including requests for books, some remarks on having met with Bulwer Lytton, and regretfully cancelling a meeting planned with his correspondent and Prosper Merimée. less

James Baillie Fraser, Scots-born traveller and artist. · Holograph translation from Saadi : 17 Aug 1836 : (MISC 4157) : [no place] : begins, "Whoever in this world takes wisdom for his guide will be slow to form new friendships." With the original Persian above. On the verso of an album leaf bearing a signed holograph manuscript of Mary Shelley's poem, "To the Dead." Filed in the Oversized SC File. less