Found 4 collections related to Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

Amelia Opie, née Alderson, English novelist and poet. The Amelia Opie manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and artwork. The writings include: a holograph story, "The Brithday," and a number of holograph poems. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1828-1845. Correspondents include: Elizabeth Inchbald, the writer and actress; James Montgomery, the hymn writer and poet; Jane Porter, the novelist; Robert Southey, the poet, and over thirty others. The artwork consists of over one hundred thirty pencil portraits of friends and relatives, most of whom remain unidentified. less

Holograph short story, "The adventures of Ernest Alembert" : 25 May 1830 : (MISC 0187) : 16 p.; stitched within brown paper covers marked in Brontë's juvenile hand, "The Adventures of Ernest / Alembert a Tale by C / Brontë May 25 1830"; begins, "Many Years ago there lived in a certain country, A youth named Ernest Alembert. He came of an ancient & noble race ..." With the bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. 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