Found 6 collections related to Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861

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

Holograph copybooks : ca. 1816-1821 : (MISC 3985) : 2 vols.; including fair copies of original poems, apparently drafted elsewhere. Vol. 1 has 116 pages, numbered in pencil and a penciled table of contents at the end; v. 2 is about one-third blank. Bookplates of "Edward Arnold, Surrey." Shelved with bound manuscript material under "Bury.". less

Amelia Opie was an English author and abolitionist. The collection consists primarily of correspondence dating between 1795 and 1853. It also includes a number of prose and poetry pieces and over one hundred thirty pencil portraits of friends and relatives. less