Found 7 collections related to Journalists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence

John Scott, Scots-born journalist. · Holograph poem, "England, Just before the victories gained in June 1815" : [watermark = 1815] : (MISC 1373.18) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "O'er England's plains, in common pace, / Men all the usual tasks pursue ...". 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

John Black, British journalist and newspaper editor. For twenty-six years, Black was the editor of the London newspaper The Morning Chronicle. He is perhaps best remembered as having been the first employer of a young Charles Dickens, who later described Black as his "first hearty out-and-out appreciator.". To an unnamed reporter : 1 autograph note signed : 1825 (MISC 0369), regarding coverage of a coronation for the Morning Chronicle. less

Alaric Alexander Watts, English journalist and poet. · To the Rev. Thomas Maude, clergyman and minor poet : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jun 1830 : (MISC 1590) : 2 ³/₄ pages (double sheet) : from 58 Torrington Square : begins, "I should be more insensible than I am to the merits of good poetry . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jan 1836 : (MISC 1587) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, "Mrs. Watts has requested me to thank you for the elegant little poem . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Feb 1836 : (MISC 1533) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Torrington Square : begins, "I regret that an extract which it was intended should have been made from your poem was unavoidably omitted . . ."; with a newspaper clipping of a review of Maude's School-Boy pasted on page 3 of the letter sheet. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Dec 1837 : (MISC 1589) : 3 ³/₄ pages (double sheet) : from Ember Cottage, Thames Ditton : begins, "I have to claim your indulgence for my [?] to notice the new edition of your elegant little volume . . . .". less