Found 342 collections.

To Henry S. King & Co., publishers : 3 documents : -- 1 memorandum of agreement signed : 11 Jun 1873 : (G'ANA 0033a) : 1¹/₄ p. (single sheet) : for payment to Paul for his Godwin biography. -- 1 receipt of payment signed : 12 Jun 1873 : (G'ANA 0033b) : 1 p. (single sheet) : for £100 for the Godwin biography. -- 1 receipe of payment signed : 14 May 1875 : (G'ANA 0033c) : 1 p. (single sheet) : for another £100 for the Godwin biography. less

Lady Evelyn Stanhope Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, wife of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, fourth earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890), British politician. To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 2 autograph letters signed : ca. 1861-1875 : (MISC 3509-3510) : including references to D'Israeli and "household suffrage.". less

Marie Corelli, British popular novelist. To an unidentified "Madam" : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 May 1896 : (MISC 4023) 62c : declining an invitation to a "Women Writers Dinner." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and writer. · To William Cox Bennett, journalist and author : 1 autograph letter signed : [6 Sep 1851] : (MISC 0006) : from [Reading] : begins, "What should I do without you my dear kind friend! -- how inimitably stupid it was in me to go looking in the Index for Sir Philip Sidney instead of the Table of Contents ..."; with the postmarked envelope. less

To Mrs. F. N. Jackson : 1 autograph letter signed : 26 May [between 1880 and 1899] : (B'ABA 0584) : from Wentworth House, Swan Walk, Chelsea, S.W. (printed memorandum sheet) : reads in full, "At the risk of appearing discourteous, I am afraid I must decline to be 'interviewed.'". less

Stopford Augustus Brooke, British preacher and writer. His sermons reflected his liberal Christianity and social commitment. Brooke was also a lecturer and a literary critic. His English Literature (1876) is a primer which covers the work of literary figures from Caedmon to Shelley. Holograph address, "Inaugural address to the Shelley Society" : 10 Mar 1886 : (S'ANA 0009) : begins, "It has been asked, 'Why have a Shelley Society?'"; the address was privately printed in 1886 by T. J. Wise. Laid in is a note from T. J. Wise (S'ANA 0154). less

Rose Mary Crawshay, née Yeates, British feminist and school board member. An admirer of Romantic poetry, she initiated an annual Byron-Shelley-Keats memorial essay prize for women writers. To T. J. Wise, book collector and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Nov 1886 : (S'ANA 0219m) : thanking him for the books and his letter, enclosing two broadside announcements of the winners of the 1886 Byron-Shelley-Keats memorial essay prizes, which are both annotated in her hand. From the files of the bibliographer H. Buxton Forman. less

Richard Copley Christie, English scholar and bibliophile. He was a professor of history, economics, and jurisprudence at Owens College from 1854-1869. To Sir Henry Cole, civil servant : 1 autograph letter signed + 1 letter copy : ca. May 1879 : (P'ANA 0025-0026) : regarding Peacock bibliography and publishing of miscellanea. (P'ANA 0025) with note: "Mrs. C. Clarke to act upon & return." Mrs. Clarke was Edith Nicholls, Peacock's granddaughter, and was in the possession of manuscripts which were to go to Christie for editing. less

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. less

Holograph memorandum signed : [1855?] : (BLES 4.281) : 1 p.; explaining references in the correspondence of Walter Savage Landor to the Revd. Julius Hare; begins, "Among the letters of Mr. Landor frequent reference will be found to a young friend a clergyman subsequently well known in English Ecclesiastical literature ..." Mounted in v. 4 of the Blessington Papers. less

Robert Browning, English Victorian poet and playwright. The Robert Browning manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of his writings and correspondence. The writings include one holograph verse play (Colombe's Birthday), some autograph corrections of printed proof sheets (La Saisiaz and Jocoseria), and one holograph sonnet, "Tutti ga I so gusti e mi go I mii." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1876 and 1887 and discusses both his professional and personal life, and his Shelley related interests. Correspondents include: Sarah Anne FitzGerald, learned lady ; H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger ; Ellen Heaton, art collector and philanthropist ; George Barnett Smith, author and journalist ; and over forty others. less

Robert Browning, Sr., clerk in the Bank of England, father of the poet and playwright Robert Browning. Album of sketches : (MISC 1937) : 62 leaves, loose in binding, containing unsigned caricatures and drawings in pencil and in ink and watercolor, text in pencil and in ink beneath. The caricature sketches and text form short narratives, somewhat like comic strips. Three drawings appear to be in a different hand. Provenance note : "Mary Elizabeth Hunter -- These sketches, by Mr. Robert Browning Senr were given to me by him, set by set as they were finished. Paris. 1859-60" -- in ink on inside front cover. Shelved under "Browning" with bound manuscript material. less

Robert Chambers, Scottish publisher and writer. · To "My dear Alexius" [i.e., Alexander Ireland, journalist] : 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [April 1866] : (HWD 08.038) : 2 pages (double sheet) : on embossed stationery of Union Club, St. Andrews : begins, "I am quite elated with the prospect of seeing you here on Monday next ...." In the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files. less

Robert Seymour Bridges, English poet. He held the title of Poet Laureate from 1913, upon the refusal of Rudyard Kipling. To A. H. Bullen, literary editor and publisher : 2 autograph letters signed : 6-12 Nov 1897 : (S'ANA 0007)-(S'ANA 0008) : regarding a proposed critical essay on Shelley by Bridges. less

Robert Williams Buchanan, British poet, playwright and novelist. He was highly prolific and counted G. H. Lewes, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens among his friends. To a Frank Hoyt : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Sep 1884 : (S'ANA 0744) : admits: "Of course we all love Shelley the poet, but personally I have a less exaggerated liking for Shelley the man.". less

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, English poet and essayist. To Mrs. Sherwin : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Feb 1870 : (B'ANA 0659) : from 10 Neville St. S.W. : begins, "I do not know whether you have read the article in the last Quarterly Review on the Byron scandal ...". 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

To William Allingham, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jul 1894 : (MISC 1410) : [no place] : reads in full, "Your application was too late. I had given all my own tickets away & the list was closed for further cards." Along with the stamped, postmarked envelope. Mounted in the Album of Fifty-nine Autograph Letters to William Allingham. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "Allingham.". less

Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, Viennese-born sculptor in Britain. He was among the most popular, prolific, and successful sculptors of late nineteenth-century England. Among his many works, he is known for sculpting the head of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. To E. J. Trelawny, writer and adventurer : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Sep 1876 : (B'ANA 0213) : mentioning his work on a Byron statue. less

Sir George Alexander Macfarren, English composer. To Miss Corbett : 1 letter : 11 Nov 1880 : (S'ANA 0742) : from 7 Hamilton Terrace, N.W. : in the hand of an amanuensis; begins, "I thank you for your setting of Shelley, which I like much, & shall keep as a token from you ...". less