Found 5 collections related to More, Hannah, 1745-1833

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the British couple known as the Ladies of Llangollen. They set up home in 1780 in Plas Newydd, Wales, and over their fifty years together hosted some of the most celebrated literary figures of the day, including Robert Southey, Wordsworth, Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. · To Mr. Bearbon[?] : 1 autograph letter third person on behalf of Butler and Ponsonby : 23 May 1823 : (MISC 2014) : begins, "Lady Eleanor Butler Miss Ponsonby shall be very particularly obliged by any attention that Mr. Bearbon[?] will have the goodness to pay -- ". Tipped in to the William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women, shelved under "Upcott" with bound manuscript volumes. less

Holograph commonplace book : 1790-1799 : (MISC 0660) : includes part of Cowper's translation of the Aeneid, Book VIII, beginning at line 18 ; also a 65-line translation from Ovid, beginning: "You bid me write t'amuse the tedious hours, / And save from with'ring my poetic powers ..." Both pieces were first published in 1815 at the arrangement of John Johnson. A pencil drawing of trees and soldiers is on p. 2 (at front). Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. 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