Found 97 collections related to Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

To Lord Byron, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Feb 1814 : (B'ANA 0694) : thanking him for a copy of The Corsair; with high praise, including, "You have, my Lord, opened your heart to moral beauty, striking on its finest chord." Mounted opposite p. 75 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron. less

To Thomas Hill, book collector : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Feb 1800 : (MISC 0389) : from Norton : begins, "I know not how it happened but I have again not received the New London Review ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1800 : (MISC 0390) : from Norton : begins, "I hope I am in time to [?] the [--tion?] in the Monthly Mirror of what relates to the fate of [Farah Floyd?] ..."; also including, "Mr. Robert Bloomfield & his mother Mrs. Glover are with us ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Dec 1800 : (MISC 0388) : begins, "I have great satisfaction in what you tell me of the recovery of Mrs. Siddons ..."; including discussion relating to the copyright of Robert Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. less

Autograph list : [after 15 Jan 1816] : (MISC 0961) : on a letter to her from her brother, Charles Burney, D.D.; reads in full, "Send d'Arblay's promotion / Archdeacon Thomas / Letter to sister." Filed under "Charles Burney (schoolmaster and book collector).". less

Margaret Bryan, English educator and writer on natural philosophy. She ran a boarding-school for girls at Blackheath from 1795 to 1806, opened a school in London in 1815, and moved to Margate in 1816, where she also ran a school. Her best known works include Compendious System of Astronomy (1797) and Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1806). To Messrs. Lackington & Co., publishers : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : 2 Feb 1811 : (MISC 2011) : saying "if they will send her the Books order'd for Monday Eveng. she will send them copies of the Philosophy in Boards, as before, as she thinks she has enough for that purpose ..." -- 1 autograph letter third person : [20?] Nov [1813?] : (MISC 2012) : requesting they "send her by the Lady who delivers this, a memorandum of the no. of copies of her book exchang'd with them ..." -- Both letters tipped into the William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women. Shelved under "Upcott" with bound manuscript volumes. less

Maria Benson, British writer. She is the author of a few published novels and the pedagocial essay Thoughts on Education. Benson's sister was Anna Dorothea Montagu -- third wife of Basil Montagu. To Henry Colburn, publisher : 1 autograph letter third person : 18 Dec 1821 : (MISC 2009) : requesting he send her more translation work. Tipped in to William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women. less

Maria Calcott, Lady Calcott (née Maria Dundas; other married name Graham), English writer and illustrator. To Owen Rees, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed "M. Graham" : 2 Mar 1824 : (MISC 2022) : [no place] : begins, "I find that W. Dighton has forwarded the drawings he was to reduce for the book to you ...". less

Marianne Baillie, travel writer and poet. John Murray published her First Impressions of a Tour upon the Continent in 1819, one of the first accounts of the grand tour written by a woman. To John Murray, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed ; 13 Aug. [1819?] (MISC 2004), third person, begins: "Mrs. Alexr. Baillie's Compts. to Mr. Murray, and if he ever extends his rides ..." ; in William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women. less

Mary Berry, English author. She and her sister Agnes befriended an elderly Horace Walpole in 1788, who took a strong interest in the girls, providing them a home at his Little Strawberry Hill. She edited the posthumous collection of The Works of Horatio Walpole and wrote several books, including A comparative view of the social life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the French Revolution (1828). Chiefly remembered for her association with Walpole, recent scholars have shown interest in her letters and journals for the insight they give on women's history. To her cousin George : 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Apr 1844 : (MISC 0959) : regarding their cousin Synnot and an appointment to the military. less

Mary Diana Dods, pseudonym David Lyndsay, British writer. For a time she lived among Paris's elite Anglo-French society as a man, taking the name Walter Sholto Douglas. As Douglas, Dods had a wife and child, and her close friend, writer Mary Shelley, helped her conceal the truth behind her gender identity. To Wm. Spooner, care of Mssrs. Hurst & Robinson, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed "D. Lyndsay" : 26 Jun 1825 : (S'ANA 1019) : regarding corrections to proof sheets for an upcoming work ; includes, "I have amended the passage thus - 'Many who were most deserving' etc. and 'Shelley is not - Lord Byron is not' etc." The letter is framed and stored with other flat framed items. less

Mary Holderness, British writer on Russia. To William Upcott, antiquarian and autograph collector : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jan 1823 : (MISC 2024) : from 6 Great Suffolk Street, Borough : begins, "I went to Mr. Sherwood's on Tuesday in last week, and expected to have finally arranged with him, but he said it was requisite for him to see you ..." Tipped into the William Upcott album of letters by eminent ladies. Shelved with bond manuscripts under "Upcott.". less

Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and writer. · To William Cox Bennett, journalist and author : 1 autograph letter signed : [6 Sep 1851] : (MISC 0006) : from [Reading] : begins, "What should I do without you my dear kind friend! -- how inimitably stupid it was in me to go looking in the Index for Sir Philip Sidney instead of the Table of Contents ..."; with the postmarked envelope. less

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, best known as the author of Frankenstein. She also wrote short-stories, poetry, biographies, journal articles, reviews, and edited the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. This is a synthetic collection that includes literary manuscripts and correspondence by Mary Shelley. The manuscripts include one holograph poem ("Stanzas") and one transcript of a poem by her husband, P. B. Shelley ("To the L[or]d C[hancello]r"). The correspondence dates from between 1822 and 1847. Correspondents include: Claire Clairmont, her stepsister; Leigh Hunt, the journalist and critic; John Howard Payne, the actor and writer; and a few others. Also held are copies of forty letters from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, in the in the hand of Clairmont's niece, Paola Clairmont. less

Richard Ford, English art connoisseur and author of several books about Spain. To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Mar 1849 : (MISC 3511) : begins, "Do not forget to let me have Neate's pamphlet on the Benchers which you promised me ..." ; mentions having read Hayward's article on Mr. Dyce Sombre, and announces his own near-death state (though he lived for another nine years). less

Richard Harris Barham, English writer and Church of England clergyman, better known by the nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby. To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 May 1839 : (MISC 3559) : [no place]; begins, "May & Nov are always my months for receiving my rents and I had fully intended calling on you in a few days ...". less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [watermark = 1841] : (BLES 5.402b) : [no place] : body reads in full, "Very happy to dine with you on Sunday and talk over copyright and all other rights and wrongs." With an excised autograph envelope address panel to Blessington. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Sep [1848] : (BLES 5.402a) : from Norwich : regarding his translation of a story of Tieck's in The Keepsake for 1848, titled "A Dream"; begins, "Please let me have 2 proofs at Tomline's, Orwell Park, Ipswich ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun [no year] : (BLES 5.401a) : from Bawtrey : begins, "I was in town but a few days on my return from Egypt ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 5.401b) : [no place] : body reads in full, "At last 'Circumstance, that most unspiritual God' permits me to accept your kind invitation for Monday."-- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 5.403a) : [no place] : body reads in full, "I send you the proof, dear Lady Blessington, & hope to have time to come & wish you good bye before I leave town." -- All letters to Blessington mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer. · Holograph poem, "Buddhist Beatification" : no date : (MISC 4023.04b) : begins, "Abstraction from all cares, all thought, all love ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript material. less

Sir (Samuel) Egerton Brydges, English writer and genealogist. Before experiencing a disappointing lack of success as a poet, he wrote Topographical Miscellanies (1792) and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His novels, including Mary De-Clifford (1792) and Arthur Fitz-Albini (1798) were more popular than his poetry had been. He was elected to Parliament in 1812 and moved to Geneva in the early 1820's, where he remained for the rest of his life. Brydges continued to write various kinds of works, including his Impartial Portrait of Lord Byron (1824). To William Hayley, poet and biographer : 2 autograph letters signed : 18 Dec 1806 (MISC 0384) and 9 Sep 1807 (MISC 0383), regarding Cowper, Gray, Bloomfield, and his discouragement as a poet due to Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and the reviews, particularly the Edinburgh. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Mar 1848 : (BLES 5.411a) : from Paris : begins, "I forwarded without delay your packet to your correspondent ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec [no year] : (BLES 5.411b) : from Mulgrave Castle : begins, "I have just received your letter, and have to thank you much for your prompt attention ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday M.g" : (BLES 5.412a) : [no place] : begins, "To day is my [courrier?] day and I am now certain of my time ..."; with thick mourning border. -- All letters to Blessington in v. 5 of The Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscripts. less

To Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist, and literary critic : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Aug 1855 : (S'ANA 0049) : from Bute St. Old Brompton : begins, "We have missed you grievously on Wednesday evenings, and we laid the blame on the unsettled state of the weather ...". less

Harriet Martineau, English novelist, economist, and social reformer. · Holograph manuscript, "The History of the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816-1846, Book III," signed : 31 Jan 1849 : (MISC 0658) : 304 leaves : [no place] : preface, 2 leaves, signed and dated; the main text leaves divided into six fascicles, each secured with a brass fastener in the top left corner; with many with annotations on the versos. First published by George Bell in 1877. less

Henry Nelson Coleridge, English barrister and writer. In 1829 he married his cousin Sara Coleridge, the daughter of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He compiled and edited several publications relating to his famous father-in-law, including Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). To Edward Moxon, publisher : 1 letter : ca. 1840's : (MISC 1532) : agreeing to "yield to Mr. Pickering's demand" to purchase his stock of Coleridge materials, including "the unpublished edition of Aids to Reflection." The letter is in the hand of Sara Coleridge, signed, "H. N. Coleridge / by Sara Coleridge.". less

Jane Loudon, née Webb, English writer on botany and magazine editor. To Mrs. Bate : 1 autograph letter signed "J. W. Loudon" : 17 Jul 1848 : (MISC 1472) : [no place] : begins, "I arrived here safely after a wearisome journey on Saturday about 6 o'clock ..." The first page of the letter is crosswritten. less