Scope and arrangement
· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 7 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jul 1836 : (BLES 6.500) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "I have this moment received the accompanying letter, whose external appearance perfectly accords with its contents!" -- 1 autograph letter third person : 17 Nov 1836 : (BLES 6.501a) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : with mourning border; saying she "has the pleasure of transmitting a review of the 'Beautiful Book', which she has written ..."; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Mar 1837 : (BLES 6.501b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "If ill-health be not a palliation for apparent ill-manners, I fear you will not excuse my tardy acknowledgment of y.r beautiful Annual ...." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1837 : (BLES 6.502a) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "I have been so much pleased with the plate you kindly sent for my illustration, that I have affixed it to some details of my own 'Convent days' wh. I had intended for another purpose ...." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Jul 1837 : (BLES 6.502b) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South : begins, "Having been engaged during the last two months in editing and revising a MS novel written in a most alarming scrawl -- my close attention to it has again occasioned an accident in my throat ..."; with an excised address panel, perhaps from the letter cover this letter was mailed in. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503a) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 7 Belgrave Str. South, Belgrave Square : begins, "It quite shames me to receive your valuable, lengthened contribution before I have sent you my Tiny one!" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Aug 1838 : (BLES 6.503b) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am afraid, notwithstanding you courteously refer only to the Printer, that you fancy I gave my sanction to the conceited alteration proposed ..."; on page 3 of the letter sheet is [a copy of?] a letter from "Sheen" on behalf of Stewart and Murray (printers). -- All letters mounted in volume 6 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
· To Thomas Campbell, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jun 1831 : (MISC 2584) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Southsea, Hants : begins, "I have read, with great pleasure, the new periodical under your direction [i.e., The Metropolitan] ..."; with two holograph epigrapms on page 3 of the double sheet, for insertion in the magazine: "Shepherd's Tartan," and "On the Circus being removed from ----- during the Election.".