Found 6 collections related to Philanthropists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence

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

William Wilberforce, English politician, philanthropist, and slavery abolitionist. · To the Revd. Dr. Phippen : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 May 1815 : (MISC 3979) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Kens[ingto]n Gore : begins, "I am unaffectedly hurt to find that I never answered yr letter concerning Mr Duncan." Tipped into grangerized copy of Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Hazlitt.". less

George Moore, English philanthropist and businessman. To Horace Mayhew, writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1841] : (MISC 0046) : from Kidwelly, South Wales : begins, "There is a subject for you, I think, in the following circumstance. I have just now opened the Swansea & Carmarthan Line, and the women here wear such high hats that they cannot sit in the carriage ..."; with ink sketches of women in the hats. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "March the somethingth" [no year] : (MISC 0047) : from Putney : begins, "Can you illustrate this? A friend of mine is courting a Scotch lass; she is already wedded to Highland customs ... She has presented him with a genuine Maude, or Scotch Shawl, and insists upon his wearing it ..."; with ink sketches of the shawled gentleman in various predicaments ("in a gale"; "absence of mind"). less

Louisa Anne Beresford [née Stuart], marchioness of Waterford, British watercolour painter and philanthropist. · To Sybella Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, wife of George Lyttelton, fourth Baron Lyttelton : 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Dec [no year] : (MISC 1705) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from F[ord] C[astle] : begins, "I had been so ashamed of the drawings sent to you that the idea of you caring to keep one never entered my head.". less

Hannah More, English writer and philanthropist. · Holograph poem, "Time," signed : 17 Apr [1823] : (MISC 4041) : from Barley Wood : 1 1/2 pages (single leaf within album) : begins, "With sense our conduit is at strife / We squander Time, yet wish for Life . . . ." Within album of "Original Compositins and Extracts"; shelved with bound manuscripts under "Original Compositions.". less