Scope and arrangement
To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [watermark = 1841] : (BLES 5.402b) : [no place] : body reads in full, "Very happy to dine with you on Sunday and talk over copyright and all other rights and wrongs." With an excised autograph envelope address panel to Blessington. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Sep [1848] : (BLES 5.402a) : from Norwich : regarding his translation of a story of Tieck's in The Keepsake for 1848, titled "A Dream"; begins, "Please let me have 2 proofs at Tomline's, Orwell Park, Ipswich ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun [no year] : (BLES 5.401a) : from Bawtrey : begins, "I was in town but a few days on my return from Egypt ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 5.401b) : [no place] : body reads in full, "At last 'Circumstance, that most unspiritual God' permits me to accept your kind invitation for Monday."-- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (BLES 5.403a) : [no place] : body reads in full, "I send you the proof, dear Lady Blessington, & hope to have time to come & wish you good bye before I leave town." -- All letters to Blessington mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.|||To "Mr. Cannington" : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Mar [1854] : (MISC 0266) : from 16 Upper Brook Street : begins, "We are going to start a little ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Aug 1857 : (MISC 0265) : from 16 Upper Brook Street : begins, "In your [notice?] of [Mr. ----?] you ...".|||To Archibald Campbell, nephew of Thomas Campbell : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Jul 1845 : (MISC 1681) : from Pall Mall : begins, "I have the pleasure to inform you that Sir Robt. Peel is [?---] to [?---] favourably to you ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [11 Jul 1845] : (MISC 1680) : from Pall Mall : body reads in full, "I have the pleasure to inform you that Sir Robt. Peel has announced you to a landing waitership in the Port of London." With the stamped and postmarked envelope, with red wax "House of Commons Library" seal.|||To Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher and printer : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Dec [1849?] : (BLES 5.403b) : begins, "I cannot consent to the publication of any correspondence of mine with Lady Blessington ..." Mounted in v. 5 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.|||To Mr. Parker : 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 264) : from from 16 Upper Brook Street : begins, "Can you dine here next Friday the 31st ...".|||To unidentified recipients : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed to "Sir" : 16 Sep 1861 : (MISC 0926) : [no place] : begins, "Your obliging letter of the 6th [last?] has been forwarded to me on the Continent. Assuredly there must be many surviving friends of [Mr.?] Leigh Hunt ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Dec [no year] : (MISC 4158) : from Fryston : begins, "As I do not collect autographs of especially antiquarian characters, I will not deprive you of the Earl of Argyl's. I have nothing of Keats in the country ..." -- 1 autograph note signed : 31 Mar [no year] : (MISC 4023.56a) : from Hotel des Palmes, Palermo : including "... Please send a post-card every two or three days here ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.