Found 33 collections related to Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866

Roundell Palmer, first Earl of Selborne, English lawyer and politician; he served as British Lord Chancellor from 1872-1874 and from 1880-1885. · To John Claremont Whiteman, a director of the East India Company : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Jul 1848 : (P'ANA 0056) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I wish I had leisure to search for authorities on the classical question to which the paper I return you, relates: -- Mr. Peacock has the advanatage of me in this respect: but his instances do not seem to me at all in point ..." Summarized in N. Joukovsky's Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, v. 2, p. 313, note 6. less

Sarah Matilda Brancaleone, née Hobhouse, contessa Ranghiasci-Brancaleone, English-born Italian noblewoman. She was the sister of Lord Byron's friend John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton. · To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed "Matilda Brancaleone" : 6 Sep 1849 : (P'ANA 0020) : 1 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) : from Erlestoke Park : on mourning paper; begins, "My poor Brother is anxious that I should inform you of the dreadful calamity which has befallen him ...". less

Miguel del Riego y Núñez, Spanish clergyman. His father was Eugenio Antonio del Riego Núñez, the writer, and his brother was Rafael del Riego y Núñez, the military general and politician. · To Thomas Love Peacock, poet and satirical novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Apr 1842 : (P'ANA 0060) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 57 Seymour Street, Euston Sq.re : begins, "I am very anxious for having the inscription to be engraved under the little portrait of my father worded in the best way possible ...". less

Edward Nicolls, British naval officer. He was the son of General Sir Edward Nicolls, Irish officer of the Royal Marines, and the first husband of Mary Ellen Peacock (later married name Meredith), daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, the writer. · Holograph logbook of the steam ship Proserpine : 17 Sep 1840 - 4 Apr 1841 : (P'ANA 0093) : 1 fascicle (11 pages; 6 leaves) : from Falmouth; Funchal; St. Vincent's; the Equator; Bahia; Angra Pequena; Orange River; Cape Voltas; Duncan's Bay; St. Helen's Bay; Cape of Good Hope; St. Helena : records weather, procurement of goods ("the natives supplied us with 2 bullocks and 3 sheep"; "taking on board 20 Tons coal"); and events ("Clifford, seaman, fell overboard"; "buried Henry Pratt, stoker"). The identity of the writer is not entirely certain, but it may be Nicolls, as he was Proserpine's Second Officer (cf. N. Joukovsky's Letters of T. L. Peacock, v. 2, p. 269). Accompanied by a much later note in the hand of Nicolls's daughter, Edith Clarke, which explains: "1840. [Thomas Love] Peacock was engaged this year in testing the Proserpine, a steam vessel which had been built at his suggestion, he salied from Falmouth on 17th Sept 1840 accompanied by Miss Love, Lieutenant Nicolls on duty, afterwards his son in law, his two daughters were also with him ...". less

Thornton Leigh Hunt, English journalist. He was the eldest child of the poet, journalist, and critic Leigh Hunt. · Holograph library call slip signed : 3 Sep 1843 : (H'ANA 0084) : used at the British Museum; for Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (in Italian); and Lanzi's History of Painting in Italy. less

Hugh Owen, Welsh campaigner for education. To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1844 : (S'ANA 0285) : from Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset House : relating a story of a financial transaction of Percy Bysshe Shelley's; begins, "According to the kind permission which you gave me this morning I now beg to lay before you the claim of my old friend ...". less

Francis Rawdon Chesney, British army officer and explorer. Thomas Love Peacock, the novelist and East India Company official, was a supporter of his expedition on the Euphrates. To William Cabell, civil servant clerk under Charles Grant, director of the East India Company : 1 autograph letter : 28 Aug 1834 : (P'ANA 0066) : sending a list of needs for the Euphrates Expedition ; includes, "... The money disbursements will be in good hands if entrusted to either Peacock or yourself: ...". less

George Eden, first Earl of Auckland, politician and governor-general of India. · To John Bowring, politician, diplomat and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Feb 1834 : (BRNG 0011) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from London : begins, “I enclose three letters – one for yourself – one which I will oblige you to forward ...” – Mounted in the Album of Autograph letters to Jon Bowring. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

The John Cam Hobhouse manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph inscription in his copy of the works of Pope, attesting that the book was previously owned by Byron; a holograph English translation from the original Greek of Thomas Love Peacock's poem, "A White-Bait Dinner"; and a notebook of holograph notes in Italian and English on Berni, Montaigne, Bayle, Roscoe, and others. The correspondence is dated chiefly between 1823 and 1850, and discusses publishing matters, his political career, and various matters relating to Lord Byron and his legacy. Correspondents include: Thomas Love Peacock; the politician and writer Sir John Bowring; the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts; the portrait painter John Jackson, and over a dozen others. less

Clarinda Atkyns, née Knowles, lifelong friend of Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock declared his love for the fifteen year old beauty in an 1812 letter to his friend Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (cf. Joukovsky, N. Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, 47). She eventually married the Revd. John Atkyns (1802 or 1803-1875). To Thomas Love Peacock : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Apr. [ca. 1850] : (P'ANA 0022) : begins, "I was so glad to see your letters yesterday -- I did not like the last one I wrote after it was done ...". less

Augustin F. B. Creuze, naval engineer. His Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture was published in 1840. To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Sep 1841 : (P'ANA 0043a) : enclosing papers from his friend Sir William Snow Harris, a scientist giving Peacock information on the mariner's compass (see record for Sir William Snow Harris manuscript material). Filed under Sir William Snow Harrison. less

Walter Coulson, English newspaper editor and barrister. In his youth, he studied under and worked for the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who helped him get a position at the Morning Chronicle in 1813. Coulson became editor of the liberal political newspaper The Traveller in 1800, and in 1828, began his career as a barrister. He was a friend of Charles Dickens, the novelist; Francis Place, the radical; and James Mill, the utilitarian philosopher. Coulson was also the godfather of the first child of William Hazlitt, the critic and essayist, and acted for Hazlitt's wife in their divorce proceedings. To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : ca. 1830 : (P'ANA 0037) : begins, "When you mentioned to me yesterday ..." ; a long letter, in part discussing James Mill. less

Edward Gryffydh Peacock, East India Company clerk; he was the only son of Thomas Love Peacock, the writer. · To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet (his father) : 1 autograph letter signed (fragment) : [ca. 1840's?] : (P'ANA 0072) : 1 page (single sheet) : [from France] : begins, "There is such a disturbance jolting that writing correctly is out of the question. Our stay here is uncertain as we may visit some other parts of France before our retrun home ..."; on thin graph paper, with Latin verb conjugations written in the verso. less

W. Freshwater could not be identified. · To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Sep 1845 : (P'ANA 0052) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : from Hammersmith : begins, "My object in addressing you is to state, that a person, with whom I am intimately acquainted, has recently dramatized your beautiful poem - 'Rhododaphne,' with a view to its introduction upon the Stage ...". less

Lieutenant John Ouchterlony, F.G.S., British engineer. · To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : "Friday P.M." [watermark = 1836] : (P'ANA 0045) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 10 Lancaster Place : discussing the specific gravity of various types of wood; begins, "I am sorry that I am not able to vouch for the accuracy of the following memoranda, but the approximation to the truth is as near as I can make it ...". less

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, English writer on science and phrenologist. · To [?John Cam Hobhouse], Baron Broughton, politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1859 : (P'ANA 0039) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : from Chateau de Beaurepaire, Bologne sur Mer : begins, "Although I have not had the pleasure of seeing you since the days of Shelley Byron I have taken the liberty of writing you, being in search of the address of a common friend, Tom L. Peacock the poet ...". less

Thomas Nelson Waterfield, English civil servant. · To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Sep 1849 : (P'ANA 0021) : 3 pages (double sheet) + envelope : [no place] : on the death of Julia Hobhouse; begins, "The fatal disease was dysentery caught in the Channel Islands, where it was prevalent.". less

Translation into English of the section titled "Danais" in the 1824 edition of Welcker's Aeschylische Trilogie Prometheus (page 390f). In an unidentified hand; watermark dated 1850. Here titled "The Daniad," the text begins: "This dramatic poem is likewise founded on an epical production (the author of which is unknown) from which it has probably borrowed its name." Found among the papers of the English satrical novelist Thomas Love Peacock. less

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others. less

Harriet Blagrave Deane Love, cousin of Thomas Love Peacock, the satirical novelist and poet. · Autograph ownership inscription in her copy of T. L. Peacock's Genius of the Thames : 1816 : (P'ANA 0098) : on the title page of the 1812 second edition, Pforzheimer copy 3; written in light pencil: "Harriet Love / Yarmouth / 1816." Shelved as *Pforz A-RD 06. less