Found 3 collections related to Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888

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

Mary Howitt, née Botham, English writer and translator. · To John Bowring, politician, diplomat and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : "Friday" Sep 1848 : (BRNG 0047) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I send you the Album can you [------ly?] let me have it again tomorrow as I have several more contributions to obtain for it ..." Tipped into the Album of Autograph Letters to John Bowring. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Joanna Baillie, Scottish playwright and poet. · To Sophia Denman Baillie, her sister-in-law : 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 1915.33v) : [no place] : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : begins, "I have committed a most stupid mistake . . . ." Mounted on leaf 33 verso of the Lawrence of Lower Dredgeman Hill autograph album. Shelved under "Lawrence" with bound manuscript volumes. less