Scope and arrangement
· To Cadell & Davies, publishers : 6 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Aug 1794 : (MISC 4406) : 4 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I went yesterday to Bristol Hot-wells, and pack'd up the two first dialogues of 'Rural Walks' . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Nov 1794 : (MISC 4407) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 6 Seymour Street, Bath : begins, "I have the Rhumatism so much in my hands, that it is with great difficulty I write this . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Jan [1796] : (MISC 4408) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I send you the close of Dialogue the 5th which I have written so closely on purpose to save carriage . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Dec [1797?] : (MISC 4409) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I have to day re[ceive]d a letter from Mr. Hayley, highly approving of the first part of 'the Young Philosopher' . . . ." -- Autograph signature on receipt : 31 Jan 1798 : (MISC 4410) : 1 page (partial sheet) : from London : for £18.13.2, the sum received on her account from Messrs. Daniel, "for her mother." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1798 : (MISC 4411) : [no place] : 4 ¹/₂ pages (1 single sheet, 1 double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "The letter you some days since were so obliging as to forward to me was from Mr. Walker of Dublin . . . .".
· To Mary Hays, writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jul 1800 : (MISC 2152) : 5 pages (1 double sheet; 1 single sheet) : from Hastings : begins, "I cannot my dear Madam look at the date of your last obliging Letter, without doubts whether you can forgive my apparent negligence in leaving it so long unanswered . . ."; with a black wax seal bearing the word "Sanidades" in cursive script. Published in full in J. P. Stanton's Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, pages 349-351.
· To Harriet Lee, novelist and playwright : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 May 1797 : (MISC 3681) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Oxford : begins, "I should not dear Madam have been so long before I wrote to thank you for your kind remembrance of me in sending me your very entertaining book . . ."; with a partial red wax seal bearing the word "Sanida[des]".
· To Sarah Rose, née Farr, widow of the lawyer Samuel Rose : 1 autograph letter (incomplete) signed : [26 Apr 1806] : (MISC 3670) : 1 page (single sheet) : [from Tilford] : being the final page and address leaf of a longer letter; begins, "Here are some English verses that came not many mornings since on reading the Aphorism -- Frienship is Love -- with.t his wings . . ."; includes a holograph poem, "Friendship as some one says or sings"; addressed and franked by Lord Clanricarde, with an annotation in the hand of Frances Burney following his signature ("who was Ch: Smiths Col. FitzEdward"). Published in full, reunited with first three quarters of the letter (now at the Huntington), in J. P. Stanton's Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, pages 729-731.