Found 5 collections related to Children%20of%20authors%20--%20Great%20Britain%20--%2019th%20century%20--%20Correspondence

Sir Percy Florence Shelley, third Baronet, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist. The Percy Florence Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include two holograph poems, "Giovanni at Putney" and "Song of Venus to the Ground Shark." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1862 and 1886. Correspondents include: Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle (his mother's step-sister); Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist and critic; Sir Timothy Shelley, second baronet (his grandfather); T. J. Wise, book collector and forger; and over a dozen others. less

George Owen Cambridge, youngest son of English poet Richard Owen Cambridge (1717-1802). He published his father's Works in 1803. To J. M. Grimwood of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1808 : (MISC 0386) : accepting membership in the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy Court of Assistants. less

Florence Elizabeth Baird Smith, née De Quincey, a daughter of the English writer Thomas De Quincey. She was the widow of Richard Baird Smith, engineer with the East India Company. · To Edmund Law Lushington, classical scholar : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1889 : (MISC 4325) : 14 pages (3 double sheets, 1 single sheet) + envelope : from 58 Eversfield Place, St. Leonards-on-sea : I am ashamed of being so long in answering your last kind note but as you see I am a wanderer . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Dec 1889 : (MISC 4326) : 8 pages (2 double sheets) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "Many and varied demands upon me have interfered each day with my writing since I received your delightful gift . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [29 Dec 1889] : (MISC 4327) : 4 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I hasten to correct a wrong impression I think I must have given of my usefulness to Colonel [?Gull] . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan 1890 : (MISC 4328) : 4 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I am so glad I did not give you any undue idea of my [?--tical] importance to our dear friend . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Mar 1890 : (MISC 4329) : 8 pages (2 double sheets) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I have been somewhat burdened during the last three weeks with a sore throat and cold . . . .". less

Eliza Trelawny, daughter of Edward John Trelawny, the English writer and adventurer. · To Edward John Trelawny, writer and adventurer (her father) : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Sep [1828] : (T'ANA 0001) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I have at last undertaken to address a few lines to you as I fear you have quite forgotten poor Eliza." On page 2 in another hand (probably that of Mr. or Mrs. Johnson, her foster parents) is a note giving the year in which the letter was written. less