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Longmans, Green & Co.
1956-1969
Letter from Berry to Mr Blagden, dated 7th January 1956. Letter from Blagden to Berry rejecting for publication Berry's "Poets' Grammar". Request to publish Berry's essay "Restoration of Grammar"...
Attingham Park
1953
Reply to letter from Berry. Thanks for giving lecture at Attingham Park and for description of the Green Man.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
c. 22.02.1877
Autograph letter and envelope on black-edged paper. Dated Thursday night. Date as postmark. DGR has asked Fry, his wife and Herkomer to visit and view the painting [Astarte Syriaca]; voices concern re...
Alfred Lord Tennyson and family, correspondence and literary works
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)
1827-1906
Comprises: (1) 'Poems, by two brothers', 1st edition, London, 1827, actually poems by the three brothers, Frederick, Charles, and Alfred Tennyson; (2) 'A collection of autograph letters from Alfred, L...
Correspondence and literary manuscripts of James Sheridan Knowles
Knowles, James Sheridan (1784-1862)
1825-1925
Comprises: Vol.1: A collection of autograph letters from James Sheridan Knowles to James Muspratt, with a letter from Lady Max Muspratt presenting the collection to Lord Brotherton, 18th April, 1831-1...
Correspondence and papers of the Luttrell family, including some relating to Narcissus Luttrell.
Luttrell family
c.1676-1770
Comprises: (1) Much fragmentary eighteenth-century poetry in English, Latin, and French; (2) Miscellaneous commonplace notes, extracts, and speeches; (3) Various documents in French, including an eigh...
Correspondence of Sir David Wilkie, with related material
Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841)
c.1806-1849
Comprises a collection of Wilkie's correspondence with several persons, notably Thomas Macdonald, dated ca. 1806-1849, together with many engravings taken from original pictures painted by Wilkie, pri...
Letter from Thomas Moore, with related material.
Moore, Thomas
1824-1833
Comprises 1 autograph letter from Thomas Moore to Messrs Baldwin & Co. dated 31 January 1826 (with a transcript), 5 printed portraits of Thomas Moore at various dates, including 1824 and 1833, and in...
William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
c.1835-1860
Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...
Autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, dated November 1816, with related material.
Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
c.1816
Comprises an autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, headed 'Trowbridge, Nov. 1816', an engraved portrait and bust of Crabbe, and a further engraving of the thatched house in Aldebur...
George Crabbe : priest, poet and philosopher (1754-1832) : his life, written by his son, the Rev. George Crabbe, M.A. ; extra-illustrated by A.M. Broadley with correspondence, portraits and verse.
Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
c.1726-1914
Comprises the 1847 edition of the 'Life of Crabbe' re-bound into 6 vols in 1903 by Broadley. They are extra-illustrated by the insertion of numerous portraits, poems, watercolour views, and maps, toge...
Mendelssohn (Felix), autograph letters mainly to Ignaz Moscheles
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
1824-1846
76 letters from all periods of Mendelssohn's life, 65 of them to his friend, the Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso Ignaz Mosceheles, of whom he was at one time a pupil. The letters are full of refe...