Found 4 collections related to Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell, Napoleon's pet English child at St. Helena, where her father was Navy agent. To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Dec 1847 : (BLES 1.005a) : requesting to include Blessington in the subscription list for the forthcoming Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon. Within v. 1 of the Blessington Papers manuscript albums. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Partial-holograph epistolary and poetical piece for the Weekly Political Register : 5 Sep 1818 : (MISC 4022) : from North Hempstead [Long Island] : 42 pages : includes manuscript of "To John Cartwright Esq. ... On the conduct of the Westminster Rump and on that of Mr. Hunt and Sir Francis Burdett" which appeared in the Weekly Political Register, v. 34, issue 11 (5 Dec 1818). 34 ⁷/₈ pages in the hand of amanuensis; the rest in Cobbett's hand, signed at the end. Concludes with an autograph letter (copy) signed by Cobbett to Mrs. [Jeremiah] Brandeth, whose husband, a stocking knitter, had been executed in Derby. Shelved under "Cobbbett" with bound manuscript volumes. less

Possibly put together by relatives of the Reverend John Leroux, Rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, who died in 1819. He had two children: George Wilson Leroux, an army officer who died in 1822 at the age of 27; and Louisa Mary Leroux, who died in 1836. Mixed volume of manuscript and printed material. On the front free endpaper (half of which is cut away) is scripted in ink, on the verso, "Began in the year 1821," followed by a later pencil addition, "by [?] Leroux of Long Melford." Leaves 1-52 and 75-77 are in manuscript, in divers hands, and contains a mixure of prose and verse, the prose typically being anecdotes of famous people. A short poem criticizing Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is on leaf 41 recto; another on Byron's Cain is on leaf 42 recto. Leaves 78-122 contain mostly pasted-in printed material (clippings of newspaper stories and poems) but also two small pasted-in manuscript pieces: a short letter addressed to "Madam" dated 1827, and a four-line joke. Also included in this section is a small broadside, "Memoirs of Buonaparte," with a hand-colored "hieroglyphic portrait" of Napoleon; and a handbill, "To the Capital Burgesses, and Burgesses at large of the Town of Wisbech," by Thomas Skrimshire. The remainder of the volume is mostly blank with occasional printed illustrations pasted in, including an engraving of "Long Melford Hall, Suffolk" and two hand-colored etchings by T. L. Busby: "More free than welcome" and "Many a slip between the cup the Lip" (dated Feb. 1827). Laid in is a post card with an engraving of Woodhill House in Danbury and "With Best Wishes" printed at the bottom. less

· Manuscript poem copied in the hand of "Miss Hazlet" [possibly Margaret Hazlitt (1770-1841)]. Nine ten-line stanzas; begins, "Oh! shame to thee, land of the Gaul, / Oh! shame to thy children and thee ...." Published in various 19th century sources under the title, "Ode," and ascribed to Lord Byron, it is not in fact by Byron (see J. McGann's edition of Byron's complete works, volume VII, page 111). Copy date unknown; the watermark is 1814. On page 4 of the folded double sheet is an authentication note in the hand of Thomas Hardy, the radical bootmaker and founder of the London Corresponding Society, which reads in full: "The above excellent lines on the Gallic Nation on their desertion of Napoleon Bonaparte, written by Lord Byron. Copied by Miss Hazlet and sent to Thomas Hardy.". less