Found 133 collections related to Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

John Saunders, English writer and editor. · To Mary Cowden Clarke, literary scholar and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Apr 1847 : (S'ANA 0555) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I have just heard from Mr. Clarke (Darlington) and as if to enhance the altogether gratifying circumstances attending the commencement of our acquaintence he is just about to do me a great service ..."; each line of the letter is transcribed underneath in a neater hand by Mary Cowden Clarke. less

William Hale White [pseudonym Mark Rutherford], English writer and civil servant. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Oct 1890 : (S'ANA 0914) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Admiralty, S.W. (embossed stationery) : begins, "Some time ago you were good enough to obtain for the folk at Ashtead, where I live, a delivery of letters in the evening.". less

Helen Maria Williams, English writer. · Autograph signature on receipt : 7 May 1784 : (MISC 1865) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [from London] : documenting her sale of the copyright of "Peru, a Poem" to Thomas Cadell for £21; also stipulating that "in case of a second edition, ten guinea more to be paid . . . .". less

Charles Norris Williamson, English writer. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliograpger and forger : 3 letters : -- 1 typescript letter signed : 3 Aug 1892 : (S'ANA 0020f) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 33 Bouverie Street, London, E.C. (printed stationery of "Black White" magazine) : begins, "I am about to bublish some illustrations in connection with the Shelley centenary including some original drawings by Lady Shelley . . . ." -- 1 typescript letter signed : 4 Aug 1892 : (S'ANA 0020d) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 33 Bouverie Street, London, E.C. (printed stationery of "Black White" magazine) : begins, "I am very sorry, but not surprised to find your letter just received that you cannot undertake the article on Shelley on such short notice." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1892 : (S'ANA 0020e) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 33 Bouverie Street, London, E.C. (printed stationery of "Black White" magazine) : begins, "I thank you for your letter just received, am glad that you can undertake the Shelley article.". less

Francis Wrangham, writer and Church of England clergyman. · To the Rev. Henry Hasted, of Bury St. Edmunds : 1 [autograph?] letter signed : 27 Dec 1844 : (P'ANA 0081) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Chester : begins, "As a five minutes amusement to you at this festive season -- of which I wish you many happy returns . . ."; written on page [3] of a double sheet, page [1] of which bears Wrangham's printed "Epigrams.". less

Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist. · To "Miss Keary," either Annie or Eliza Keary, writers : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Oct 1871 : (MISC 4091) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester (embossed stationery) : begins, "Will you two maidens make one Gosling? We have one composite one already called Double Daisy consisting of two Miss Pearsons . . . .". less

Charles Reade, English novelist and playwright. · To Andrew Chatto, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Nov [ca. 1870's] : (MISC 1494) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 2 Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge : begins, "We made the Defendantspay for your time and lodgings in Edinburgh ...". less

John Hamilton Reynolds, English writer and lawyer. · To George Squibb, auctioneer : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Sep 1830 : (MISC 1978) : 1 ¹/₃ pages (single sheet) : from 27 Golden Square : begins, "Will you forgive me for intruding my interests upon you at a time when you are far from well?". less

Anne Isabella Ritchie, née Thackeray, Lady Ritchie, English writer. · To Miss Polier : 1 autograph letter signed "Anne Ritchie" : 19 Nov [between 1877 and 1911] : (MISC 1613) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 153 Gloucester Rd. : begins, "How kind of you to ask us. I am afraid that we cannot come to you for my husband has some work to do ...". less

Samuel Roberts, English writer. · To Taylor and Hessey, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Dec 1817 : (MISC 1375c) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Sheffield : begins, "If you are not discouraged by the ill success of The Blind Man and his Son -- I wish you would undertake another small work that I feel confident would pay you ...". less

Francis Place, English radical and chronicler. · To George Wilson, campaigner against the corn laws : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Jan 1842 : (MISC 4072) : 1 page (double sheet) : from London : begins, "I inclose to you an autograph which I have now cut from the title page of a book ..."; with the excised autograph of Thomas Hardy, the radical and founding member of the London Corresponding Society, mounted at the top of the letter. less

Annabella "Bell" Plumptre (1761-1838), English writer and translator. · To Mary Hays, writer : 1 autograph letter signed "Annabella Plumptre" : 23 Nov 1798 : (MISC 2194) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 56 Wells Street : begins, "A lady, a friend of ours from Norwich, who is extremely desirous of seeing the Author of Emma Courtney is to spend the day with us on Saturday ..." Published in full in Marilyn Brooks's Correspondence of Mary Hays, p. 317. less

Anne Plumptre, English writer and translator. · To Mary Hays, writer : 1 autograph letter [signature excised] : 28 Mar 1798 : (MISC 2193) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "We all regretted very much that we could not have the pleasure of your company yesterday ..."; with the missing closing an dsignature transcribed in another hand on page 3 of the folded lettersheet. Published in full in Marilyn Brooks's Correspondence of Mary Hays, p. 317. less

John William Polidori, English physician and writer. · To "My dear Madam" : 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1820?] : (B'ANA 0607) : 2 pages (double sheet; second sheet half missing) : [no place] : begins, "If you knew the anxiety caused me by your saying you would have a note from me that you might see if I wrote a school boy's hand I am sure the kindness of your heart would have spared me a sleepless night restless day ...". less

Rowland Edmund Prothero, first Baron Ernle, English author, land agent, and politician. · To Richard Garnett, librarian and author : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Aug 1900 : (B'ANA 0235) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Thorney Abbey - Thorney - Peterborough : in reference to Prothero's edition of Byron's works; begins, "I wrote from Devonshire to ask Mr. Murray to send you a proof of the suppressed preface ...". less

John Russell, first Earl Russell, British Prime Minister and author. · To [?S. R. Townshend Mayer, founder of the Free and Open Church Association and writer] : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Sep 1860 : (H'ANA 0017) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Inverary : body reads in full, "I request you will put down my name, as a subscriber to the Leigh Hunt Memorial Fund." With a mourning border. less

Lady Georgiana Fullerton, English novelist and philanthropist. · To Miss Oldfield : 1 autograph letter signed : 14 Nov [no year] : (MISC 4103) : from 27, Chapel Street, Park Lane W.; begins, "The Reverend Mother at Harley House Brunswick Place Marylebone Road would like to see Mary ...". less

Thomas Medwin, English writer and biographer. The Thomas Medwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a holograph essay, "Gossip on Smoking in General, Smokers in particular"; autograph emendations for a next edition in a copy of his Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley; and several poems, including translations from Catullus. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1821 and 1847. Correspondents include Richard Bentley, the printer and publisher; Ferdinand Freiligrath, the German poet and translator; Charles Ollier, the publisher, writer and editor; Jane Williams of the Shelley circle; and over a dozen others. less

George Meredith, English novelist and poet. · Notes and additions to T. L. Peacock's Science of Cookery manuscript : [after 1866?] : (TLP 0065) : 1 volume (42 manuscript leaves; 7 binder's leaves) : [from London?] : emending and expanding some of Peacock's recipes; volume also contains annotations (transcriptions?) in the hand of Meredith's wife, Mary Ellen, Peacock's eldest daughter. Shelved as *Pforz B-R 01. less

John Herbert Slater, English lawyer and writer on book collecting. · To Elliot Stock, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jul 1893 : (MISC 4267) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 35, Tivoli Road, Crouch End, London, H. (printed stationery) : begins, "The copyright in magazine articles lasts the full term of 42 years, but the publisher takes the first 28 if he has paid for the articles ....". less

Charlotte Smith (née Turner), English poet and novelist. · To Cadell Davies, publishers : 6 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Aug 1794 : (MISC 4406) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I went yesterday to Bristol Hot-wells, and pack'd up the two first dialogues of 'Rural Walks' . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov 1794 : (MISC 4407) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 6 Seymour Street, Bath : begins, "I have the Rhumatism so much in my hands, that it is with great difficulty I write this . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Jan [1796] : (MISC 4408) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I send you the close of Dialogue the 5th which I have written so closely on purpose to save carriage . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Dec [1797?] : (MISC 4409) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I have to day re[ceive]d a letter from Mr. Hayley, highly approving of the first part of 'the Young Philosopher' . . . ." -- Autograph signature on receipt : 31 Jan 1798 : (MISC 4410) : 1 page (partial sheet) : from London : for £18.13.2, the sum received on her account from Messrs. Daniel, "for her mother." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1798 : (MISC 4411) : [no place] : 4 ¹/₂ pages (1 single sheet, 1 double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "The letter you some days since were so obliging as to forward to me was from Mr. Walker of Dublin . . . .". less

Theodosia Trollope, née Garrow, English writer. She made her literary début as a poet in 1839; some of her verses appeared in Heath's Book of Beauty, edited by Lady Blessington. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Mar 1840 : (BLES 3.195c) : from Braddons, Torquay : begins, "I wish I coudl express how deeply I feel your great kindness in offering to assist me in what must be (to me) a very fearful undertaking." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Nov 1840 : (BLES 3.195b) : from Braddons : begins, "Permit me to thank you very sincerely for the two beautiful annuals which your kindness has made mine ..." With the excised address panel from the envelope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : (BLES 3.195a) : from Braddons : begins, "Why will you leave me without one word of thanks to offer in return for your kind and most beautiful gifts?" With the excised address panel from the envelope. -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. less

Sydney Smith, English author and wit. · To Charles Cowden Clarke, writer and public lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Jul 1844 : (MISC 1326) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 56 Green St. : begins, "There are in all Countries fixed and regular absurdities whcih it is almost atheistical to call in question -- Such is the admiration of Sharkespeare in England ...". less

Caroline Anne Bowles Southey, English poet and writer. · Holograph sonnet, "To the Rev.d G. W. Doane, Bishop of New Jersey," signed "Caroline Southey" : 23 Jan 1842 : (MISC 3687) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Greta Hale, Keswick : begins, "Once have we met -- once only face to face, / A brief half hour by the pale tapers light ...". less

Catherine Hutton, English novelist and letter-writer. · To Mr. James Belcher : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Apr 1822 : (MISC 2558) : upon his having sent her a book about English queens; mentioning her own book on the subject (unpublished in her lifetime); discussing Mary Hays's Female Biography, with comments on Lucy Aikin and Mrs. Blair. less

William Henry Ireland, English writer and literary forger. · To Mr. Perkins, Esq. : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Nov 1834 : (MISC 0204) : [no place]; begins, "If you would oblige me by an order for Two any Day most convenient the ensuing week, you will greatly oblige me.". less