Found 5 collections related to Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, British poet. The Felicia Hemans manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph poem, written when she was eleven, titled "Lines on my Sister's Grotto in Wales"; a two-volume commonplace book kept by Hemans and her sister; and a holograph draft of her poem, "The Graves of a Household." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1821 and 1830 and discusses publishing matters, family and social arrangements, and the production of her play, Vespers of Palermo. Correspondents include: the writer Maria Jane Jewsbury; the historian Henry Hart Milman; the publisher John Murray; and over twenty others. less

Alaric Alexander Watts, English journalist and poet. · To the Rev. Thomas Maude, clergyman and minor poet : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jun 1830 : (MISC 1590) : 2 ³/₄ pages (double sheet) : from 58 Torrington Square : begins, "I should be more insensible than I am to the merits of good poetry . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jan 1836 : (MISC 1587) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, "Mrs. Watts has requested me to thank you for the elegant little poem . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Feb 1836 : (MISC 1533) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, "I regret that an extract which it was intended should have been made from your poem was unavoidably omitted . . ."; with a newspaper clipping of a review of Maude's School-Boy pasted on page 3 of the letter sheet. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Dec 1837 : (MISC 1589) : 3 ³/₄ pages (double sheet) : from Ember Cottage, Thames Ditton : begins, "I have to claim your indulgence for my [?] to notice the new edition of your elegant little volume . . . .". less

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others. less