Found 7 collections related to Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869

Red half morocco album with gilt spine titling ("MSS. / BOWRING / CORRESPONDENCE / 1822-1854"), containing 59 manuscript letters addressed to John Bowring, the English politician, diplomat and writer. Includes letters to Bowring in his capacities as political editor of Jeremy Bentham's radical Westminster Review; as comissioner to investigate Britain's international commercial relations; as consul at Canton; and as governor of Hong Kong. Correspondents include: Maria Edgeworth, novelist and educationist; Richard Cobden, manufacturer and politician; Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist; and over fifty others. Also included are two letters and a list of books in Bowring's hand; an 1808 letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lt. John Paul of the 33rd Regiment; and an engraving of an English Water Spaniel, by J. Scott, Jun., after C. Tourne. less

Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer. · Holograph poem, "Buddhist Beatification" : no date : (MISC 4023.04b) : begins, "Abstraction from all cares, all thought, all love ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript material. 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

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