Found 11 collections related to Authors%2C Irish -- 19th century -- Correspondence

Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess. The Lady Blessington manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection includes writings and correspondence. The writings consist mainly of poems, including odes to the British writers L.E.L. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. Also held are notebooks of Lady Blessington's "aphorisms," essays, and story pieces, as well as a biographical account of Captain Charles Hesse, "amatory correspondent" of Princess Charlotte. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1835 to 1840 and discusses her work on the literary magazines and publishing, and friend and family matters. Correspondents include: William Beattie, physician and poet; William Jerdan, journalist; Richard Robert Madden, her biographer; Anne Jackson Mathews, wife of comedian Charles Mathews; and over two dozen others. less

To William Young at the Sun Newspaper office, Strand, London : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Nov 1828 : (S'ANA 0465) : from Bromham Devizes : begins, "As you were so good enough to make me an offer of your services in town I have taken the liberty of enclosing a paper that I have just received from Mr. Thomas Moore, the poet ...". less

To Charles O'Hara, army officer and colonial governor : 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Oct 1793 : (MISC 0064) : from Beaconsfield : congratulating him that Toulon is still in England's hands, etc.; begins, "Some very pleasant things have happened to me lately ...". less

Edward Mangin, Irish writer and translator. To Edward Moxon, publisher and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jul 1833 : (MISC 3423) : from 10 Johnstone St., Laura Place, Bath : begins, "The above will show you that I have duly received your favor of yesterday ..."; with the top portion of the lettersheet leaf cut away. With a red wax seal with the image of a water bird with a fish in its mouth. less

Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug [ca. early 1850's] : (BLES 3.225) : 8 pages (6 single sheets) : from Firfield, Addlestone, Surrey : begins, "The letters you were so good as to mention, were sent to me, and I was very much obliged. They contained nothing of importance, were very, very stupid, and alluded in a painful manner to a very remarkable, but as it turned out, most unfortunate individual, since dead ..."; with much on the character of the late Lady Blessington. The letter continues in a copy in another hand [Madden's?] as (BLES 3.226b), with a note at the head of the page: "In a subsequent communication of the 3rd of Augt Mrs Hall adds:". -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. less

Sir James Mackintosh, Irish political writer and politician. · Holograph essay, "Sketch of a Fragment of the History of the Nineteenth Century" : [no date] : (MISC 0448) : 16 p.; begins, "In the following Sketch an attempt has been made to adopt the Temper with which the Writer believes that some Events Persons of our Time may be considered by a future Historian ...". less

Margaret King was born in Dublin in 1772 to Robert King, Viscount Kingsborough, later third Earl of Kingston, and his wife Caroline, née Fitzgerald. As a child, she had Mary Wollstonecraft as a governess. She became Lady Mount Cashell in 1791 upon marrying Stephen Moore, second Earl of Mount Cashell, with whom she had eight children. She left her unhappy marriage in 1805 for a life in Italy where she adopted the name "Mrs. Mason," after the heroine of Wollstonecraft's children's book, Original Stories. Mrs. Mason wrote her own children's books for William Godwin's Juvenile Library publishing firm, and was an important friend to Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley when they chose exile in Italy. Eventually settling in Pisa, Mrs. Mason lived in union with George Tighe (1776-1837), an Irish gentleman and agricultural theorist, with whom she had two daughters, Laura (1809-1880) and Nerina (1815-1874). Laura (married names Galloni and Tardy) published fiction in Italian under the pseudonym "Sara." Nerina married Bartolomeo Cini (1809-1877), of the Cini paper-making family. In 1827 Mrs. Mason and George Tighe separated; that same year, she founded the literary society Accademia dei Lunatici. A few years before her 1835 death she returned to calling herself Lady Mount Cashell. Collection consists primarily of correspondence, in English and Italian; also includes writings by Lady Mount Cashell (her unpublished manuscript novel, Selene; a five-page autobiographical summary; various translations for the Italian edition of her Advice to Young Mothers; essay drafts on moral and religious subjects; some verses, etc.), George Tighe (a memoir of Italian travels, a history of Pisa), and Laura Tighe (a portion of her journal, a volume of verses, a story in Italian under the name "Sara"), as well as some portraits and family documents. less

Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter and writer. · Holograph poem, "Lines addressed to my daughters, Anna, Mary and Eliza Archer Shee," signed : Nov 1839 : (SHEE 0051a) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Tis said on Mount Ida Minerva and Juno / With Venus of Old for an apple intended ..." Mounted in the Martin Archer Shee autograph album. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "Shee.". less

Samuel Carter Hall, Irish-born journal editor and writer. · Holograph presentation inscription, signed : [ca. 1879] : (MISC 4217) : on the title-page of a copy of Hall's Memory of Thomas Moore (London: Virtue Co., 1879). Reads in full: "The Editor of Public Opinion / with the compts regards / of SC Hall." Shelved with reference books under "Moore.". less