Found 52 collections related to Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, Anglo-Irish noble and minor politician. From 1822 to 1854 he was styled Viscount Castlereagh. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "Castlereagh" : "Tuesday" [between 1822 and 1849] : (BLES 1.071) : [no place] : begins, "I send you back the Contes. I think you did not overrate Mes Premiers Amours ..." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed "Castlereigh" : [between 1822 and 1849] : (BLES 1.072a) : [no place] : begins, "Will you forgive me for not availing myself of your kind invitation ..." With the wax seal intact. -- 1 autograph letter signed "Castlereigh" : [between 1822 and 1849] : (BLES 1.072b) : [no place] : begins, "I will be delighted to dine with you ..." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed "Castlereigh" : "Saturday" [between 1822 and 1849] : (BLES 1.073a) : [no place] : begins, "I can not say more than that I sincerely thank you for your kind good wishes..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Castlereigh" : "Sunday" [between 1822 and 1849] : (BLES 1.073b) : [no place] : body reads in full, "I will do my best." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- All letters within v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. 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

Holograph memorandum signed : [1855?] : (BLES 4.281) : 1 p.; explaining references in the correspondence of Walter Savage Landor to the Revd. Julius Hare; begins, "Among the letters of Mr. Landor frequent reference will be found to a young friend a clergyman subsequently well known in English Ecclesiastical literature ..." Mounted in v. 4 of the Blessington Papers. less

Sir Alured Clarke, British army officer and colonial governor. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Dec 1819 : (BLES 1.082) : from Mansfield Street : begins, "I am very much flattered and gratified by the receipt of your extremely kind Note, so expressive of that friendship that you and Lord Blessington have always shown me ..." Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Holograph poem signed, "To Lady Blessington" : 2 Jan 1849 : (BLES 1.067a) : 1 p.; in ink; begins, "When wintry winds in wild career, / Howl requiems for the bygone year ..." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, British politician and diplomat. From 1816 to 1849 he was known as Lord Albert Conyngham. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "Albert Conyngham" : "Wednesday" [ca. mid 1830's?] : (BLES 1.087a) : from Hill St. : begins, "I send you a rather absurd little German story; it has the advantage of brevity." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Albert Conyngham" : "Thursday" [ca. mid 1830's?] : (BLES 1.087b) : from Hill St. : begins, "Upon second thought, I have made up my mind that it would not do to change the era of my story; -- it would appear more ridiculous than it is already, were it supposed to be occurring in the 16th cent.y ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Albert Conyngham" : 29 Nov 1835 : (BLES 1.088) : from Yedling : begins, "I have just heard from Mr. Denison that you have been kind enough to send a Book of Beauty for me to Pall Mall..."; includes comment on the marriage of the marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and Lady Charlotte Bury, "how on earth can they have thought of such a thing?" With the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Oct [between 1827 and 1838] : (BLES 5.428) : [no place] : in French; begins, "Ma femme m'a dit qu'elle ..." Mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 29 Dec 1837 : (MISC 0994) : thanking her for Christmas presents, with family news and flattery on her work in Gems of Beauty. -- 16 Jun 1840 (MISC 3535) : sending his poem "The Usher" [no longer enclosed] for publication in one of her journals. less

Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, British prime minister and novelist. The Benjamin Disraeli manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection is composed chiefly of correspondence, most being letters to the Irish-born writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington. Also held are two volumes of the first edition of his Vivian Grey, with considerable manuscript revisions and markings. 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 Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed "Spencer Cowper" : 8 Jul 1846 : (BLES 2.091) : from 7 Grafton Street : begins, "Will you do me the favor to accept the accompanying piece of Blue Sèvres." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, Irish-born author and literary hostess : 10 letters, all in French -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Oct 1843 : (BLES 2.105) : from Aix-la-Chapelle : begins, "J'ai reçu votre charmante letter du 16 Octobre, qui m'a prouvé que la bonté et le talent sont inséparables chez vous." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Jan 1844 : (BLES 2.102) : from 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Voyez combien sur vos bontés pour moi. Voici une 50aine de prospectus des Trois Royaumes ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Jan 1844 : (BLES 2.106) : from 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Je viens de vous adresser, par las maison Bossange, qui correspond à Londres avec la librarie Dulau ..."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [Jan 1844] : (BLES 2.103) : [no place] : begins, "Je ne saurais vous exprimer combien je suis touché de vos bontés."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Feb [1844] : (BLES 2.104b) : [no place] : begins, "Je crois que me voilà au moment de traiter avec Mr. Bentley."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Mar [1844] : (BLES 2.104a) : from 14 Caumartin : begins, "Je viens de terminer mon marché ave Monsieur Bentley." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar 1844 : (BLES 2.099) : begins, "J'ai enfin terminé avec Monsieur Bentley, mais non pas comme je l'avois désiré ..."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Mar [1844] : (BLES 2.101) : from Paris : begins, "Mes Trois Royaumes vont paraître à Londres et à Paris en deux, trois, ou quatre jours." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Mar 1844 : (BLES 2.100) : from 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Voici une petite nouvelle qui, je l'espère, vous sera agréable, et pourra plaire à vos lecteurs in the Book of Beauty ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 May 1844 : (BLES 2.098) : from Paris, 14 Rue Caumartin : begins, "Que je vous remercie de toutes les peines que je vous ai données."; with the address, excized from letter cover. -- All letters mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Anne Cooper, British domestic servant. She worked as a maid for Lady Blessington for the last fifteen years of the novelist's life. To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 6 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [1853] : (BLES 5.455d) : from 57 St. Giles's, Oxford : begins, "A. Cooper presents her duty to Doctor Madden, and can assure him his name and writings are both familiar to her. Knowing also Doctor Madden were one of my ladies most valued and intimate friends, I think it better to make you acquainted with my position in that family. I was her Ladyship's maid the last 15 years of her life ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Apr 1853 : (BLES 5.455f) : from Churchill Heath, Chipping Norton : begins, "Fearful of being troublesome, I have delayed writing ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [1854] : (BLES 5.455e) : [no place] : begins, "I am indeed sorry I should have troubled you in your illness ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday" : (BLES 5.455a) : from 87 Eaton Place : begins, "I am sorry not to have answered your letter sooner, but I have been so very much occupied." -- 1 autograph note third person : "Monday" : (BLES 5.455b) : from 87 Eaton Place : saying she "received Dr Madden's letter from Oxford and hastens to forward her address ..." -- 1 autograph note third person : 28 May [no year] : (BLES 5.455c) : from 57 St. Giles's, Oxofrd : saying she "is grieved that Doctor Madden should have had so much trouble with her parcel ..." -- All letters to Madden in v. 5 of the Blessington correspondence. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Grantley F. Berkeley, English politician and sportsman. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 7 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Jul 1834 : (BLES 1.049a) : from Berkeley House : begins, "I have seen [Frederick Mansel] Reynolds to-day respecting his publication in the Keepsake of two tales of mine, and he thinks he cannot insert both." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul 1834 : (BLES 1.047a) : from Berkeley House : begins, "Mr. Reynolds has not kept his appointment with me ..." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Jul 1834 : (BLES 1.049b) : from Harrold Hall : begins, "I am shocked to hear of poor James Fitzroy's death." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Jul 1834 : (BLES 1.050a) : from Harrold Hall : begins, "Having told some of my friends who do me the honour of having the least interest in my writings, that there will be a tale of mine in the Book of Beauty, perhaps you will oblige me by a note in that book on the subject, stating that it was received, but omitted for certain reasons." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Sep 1835 : (BLES 1.048b) : from Berkeley Castle : begins, "Many thanks for your very kind letter, which I forwarded to Messrs. Saunders & Otley ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1835 : (BLES 1.050b) : from Berkeley Castle : begins, "Your letter reached me on my return from hunting this afternoon ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Nov 1835 : (BLES 1.048a) : from Harrold Hall : begins, "Let me congratulate you on the immeasurable superiority of thye Book of Beauty over The Keepsake which, as D'Orsay truly observes, is on its last legs." -- All letters to Lady Blessington in v. 1 of the Blessinton Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Harry Chester, clerk in the Privy Council office. He was the son of Sir Robert Chetster of Bush Hall, Hertfordshire, who was Master of Ceremonies to George III. To "Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jul 1834 : (BLES 1.075) : from Privy Council Office, Downing St. : begins, "I have to request you will do me the favor to inform me whether the Book of Beauty is still open to contribution ... I have written some lines which have been approved by those who have seen them -- 100 lines rhyming upon a woman's name." Though the letter is addressed to "Sir," the recipient was clearly Lady Blessington, editor of the Book of Beauty. Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Apr 1849 : (BLES 1.080) : from 15 Victoria Square, Pimlico : begins, "The tone of the Grand Opera is assuredly not deep or serious; & as you know, I am at the best of times shy and tongue-tied -- worse and worse, I think, every year." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 May 1849 : (BLES 1.081) : from 15 Victoria Square, Pimlico : begins, "For the last ten days I have been meaning to write a line in acknowledgement of your first truly kind letter." -- Both letters mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

George Cattermole, English watercolor painter and illustrator. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" [ca. late 1830's-1840's] : (BLES 1.074) : from the Albany : begins, "Should you be in town to-morrow, and will honour me with a call, I shall be happy to submit the two drawings to your notice ..." Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

James Millingen, British archaeologist. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Oct 1824 : (BLES 5.404) : from Florence : begins, "I intended to have written you from Rome, but was prevented by constant interruption. I met with no accident on the road, and escaped being robbed and carried up to the mountains ..."; with an excised autograph address panel to Lady Blessington. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Friday Morning" : (BLES 5.405) : from Palazzo [Gala----?] : begins, "I do not know how to thank your Ladyship sufficiently for your kind note ..."; with an excised autograph address panel to Lady Blessington. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Sunday Ev.ng" : (BLES 5.406) : from Belvedere : begins, "I was in hopes of having the happiness of seeing you either yesterday or this evening ...". less

George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield, British Tory politician. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [21 Aug 1841] : (BLES 1.078) : [no place] : begins, "We are just going to Versailles, dear Lady Blessington, to see the Duchesse de Grammont ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1843 : (BLES 1.077) : from Rome : begins, "Many, very many thanks for your kind letter; you can not conceive what real pleasure I received when your letter arrived..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 1.076) : [no place] : begins, "I can never sufficiently thank you for your most beautiful present; but I do not think I can ever have the courage to order so precious a remembrance to be made into a cushion-case." -- All letters mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Apr 1820 : (BLES 2.096) : begins, "I do myself the honor of obeying your Ladyship's wishes to have four lines of my writing ..." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell, Napoleon's pet English child at St. Helena, where her father was Navy agent. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Dec 1847 : (BLES 1.005a) : requesting to include Blessington in the subscription list for the forthcoming Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon. Within v. 1 of the Blessington Papers manuscript albums. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

John Bostock, English painter and draftsman. To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter third person : 30 Jan 1839 : (BLES 1.068) : from 21 Brazen-nose St., Manchester : regretting that he'd "neglected sending up Lady Gardner's portrait, more particularly as he has been paid for the drawing"; also promising portraits of Lady Charlotte and Mrs. Ashby. Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

John George Lambton [nicknamed "Radical Jack"], first earl of Durham, English politician. · To Henry William Paget, first marquess of Anglesey, army officer and politician : 1 autograph letter (fragment) : 24 Nov 1837 : (BLES 2.143) : from Gov. House, Fredericton, New Brunswick : begins, "Few circumstances connected with my advancement to this command have occasioned me such sincere satisfaction as your note ..." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Keppel Richard Craven, Britsih traveller and writer. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Aug 1835 : (BLES 2.092) : from Pente, near Salerno : begins, "Your last kind letter, and the very flattering expressions it contained, ought to have received an earlier answer ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Apr 1836 : (BLES 2.093) : from Naples : begins, "I hope you will not judge of the impression your last kind letter produced upon me, by the tardiness I have observed in replying to it ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Jun 1836 : (BLES 2.094) : [no place] : begins, "You have my best thanks for the two numbers of the Athenaeum you were so good as to send me..." -- All letters mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess. The Lady Blessington manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection includes writings and correspondence. The writings consist mainly of poems, including odes to the British writers L.E.L. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. Also held are notebooks of Lady Blessington's "aphorisms," essays, and story pieces, as well as a biographical account of Captain Charles Hesse, "amatory correspondent" of Princess Charlotte. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1835 to 1840 and discusses her work on the literary magazines and publishing, and friend and family matters. Correspondents include: William Beattie, physician and poet; William Jerdan, journalist; Richard Robert Madden, her biographer; Anne Jackson Mathews, wife of comedian Charles Mathews; and over two dozen others. less

To Lady Blessington, Irish-born writer and literary hostess : 3 letters -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday night" : (BLES 1.086a) : [no place] : begins, "I am sorry to say there are various things -- none of them all, nor all of them, worth one course of yr dinner -- fixed for t-morrow in the House of Lords; and I must therefore beg you not to wait dinner one minute for me ..." With the excised address from the letter cover. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 Feb 1849 : (BLES 1.086b) : [no place] : begins, "I am very sorry you have had so much trouble with the picture. It is returned, & the frame is here." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 Apr [1849] : (BLES 1.083) : [no place] : begins, "I have been in the country all wee (altho'it seems my ghost appeared to some reporter at Covt Garden Opera on Tuesday, where I was not) ..." -- All letters to Lady Blessington mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less