Found 3 collections related to Humorists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

William Robert Spencer, English poet and humorist. · To Princess Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Jan 1817 : (MISC 1971) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I send back the Croisades and the Banjamites with many thanks. If your Royal Highness does not want both copies of the Battuecas (of Mme. de Genlis) I take the liberty of requesting to borrow one of them for Mrs. Spencer ...". less

The James Smith manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph copy of Horace Smith's poem "Man"; holograph sonnets in immitation of Shakespeare ("Absence and presence, born of Elder Night" and "Thoul't still survive, when I to Time shall bow"); and a holograph "Epigram to Count D'Orsay." Four poetic pieces held by the Pforzheimer Collection were published in a posthumous collection edited by Horace Smith in 1840; these four and an additional five pieces were published by Alfred Morrison in 1895, while the remainder remain unpublished. The bulk of the correspondence is from the 1830's. Correspondents include: Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess; Henry Colburn, publisher; Jane Porter, novelist; Horace Smith, writer and humorist (his brother) and over twenty others. less