Box: 1 Folder 1
à Beckett, Arthur William, 1844-1909
ALS, 15 April 1901, to My dear Sir, willing to respond to the toast of The Institute of Journalists; ALS, 24 January 1894, to Dear Sir, enclosing a cheque for a subscription to the Urban Club.

Box: 1 Folder 2
à Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856
ALS, 5 April 1852 to J.F. Poole, thanking him for an invitation which he cannot attend; clipped signature.

Box: 1 Folder 3
Abraham, Robert J.
ALS, 5 March 1827, to John F. Kingston, concerning freedom of expression and publication.

Box: 1 Folder 4
Agnew, Georgette
AMs poem, 16 September 1949, first line: "Wher'er I go I see you there."

Box: 1 Folder 5
Aidé, Hamilton, 1826-1906
ALS, 2 March n.y., to Mr. Phillips, thanking him for a painting of his uncle.

Box: 1 Folder 6
Aikin, Arthur, 1733-1854
Autograph inscription on removed endpaper; engraved portrait, 1883.

Box: 1 Folder 7
Airey, John Alfred Lumb
AL third person, 2 July 1888, to Sir Richard Webster, accepting an invitation to breakfast at the Merchant Taylor's Hall.

Box: 1 Folder 8
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892
ALS, 11 and 17 December 1862, to Professor Thompson, disputing Caesar's landing northeast of Dover.

Box: 1 Folder 9
Albanesi, E. Maria (Effie Adelaide Maria), 1866-1936
ALS, 20 June n.y., to Dear Friend, sending congratulations.

Box: 1 Folder 10
Albani, Emma, Dame
3 visiting cards, with notes, one dated 1 December 1876.

Box: 1 Folder 11
Albery, James, 1838-1889
ALS, May 1874, to H. Stack, declining an invitation.

Box: 1 Folder 12
Alison, Archibald, Sir, 1792-1867
AD, 7 May 1856, biographical details; ALS, 22 July n.y., to My dear Sir, allowing him to use passages from his works in the recipient's journal; clipped signature, 1862; three engraved portraits (one by Sartain, one by D.J. Pound).

Box: 1 Folder 13
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899
TLS, 13 September 1892, to Dear Sir, sharing his inability to read novels but he must write fiction since, while "the public will read my scientific articles...it won't pay me for writing them"; ALS, 29 September [1892], to Payn, sending a "popular scientific" called "Big Bills" which should be published after "Pretty Poll"; TLS, 8 August 1895, to Dear Sir, thanking him for reviews and agreeing to sign a book if he sends it; TLS, 5 September 1895, to Fred, about discussing the question of focussing with his father; ALS dictated, 18 November 1895, to Dear Sir, giving permission to publish his portrait if he gets consent of the photographer; TLS, 1 July 1899, to Dear Sir, he cannot lecture at the London Institution because of his ill health and plans to spend the next winter in Sicily; holograph book review of Darwinism by Alfred Russel Wallace, signed.

Box: 1 Folder 14
Allen, Thomas, 1803-1883
ALS, 2 March 1824, to Dr. Nuttall, about admission to the antiquarian society, with envelope.

Box: 1 Folder 15
Allingham, William, 1824-1889
ALS, 22 July 1845, commenting on a proof.

Box: 1 Folder 16
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, Sir, 1836-1912
ANS, 27 March 1890, to Alfred, looking forward to seeing the American paintings, and thinks he's on the right track with his own work.

Box: 1 Folder 17
Amos, Sheldon, 1835-1886
ALS, 4 May 1866, to My dear Sir, agreeing to write on the subject mentioned and asks for assistance on the best sources of historical information.

Box: 1 Folder 18
Anderson, Alexander, 1845-1909
ALS, 20 March 1884, to Mr. Gibbons, thanking him for a gift of Carleton's poems and will send a copy of his own book, Songs of the Rail.

Box: 1 Folder 19
Anderson, James, 1739-1808
ALS, 9 March 1763, to John Archer, thanking him for a fifty pound payment and awaiting the balance owed him; engraved portrait, 1809.

Box: 1 Folder 20
Annandale, Charles, 1843-1915
ALS, 12 December 1892, to Herbert Penbin, citing a legal authority for adding surnames.

Box: 1 Folder 21
Anonymous
Poem, "The Beauties; To Mr. Eckard and the Painter."

Box: 9-10 Vault shelf
Ansted, Alexander
Eight holograph manuscripts and drawings for: Illustrations to the Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy (with twenty-one original blocks and copperplates), In the Acre of God, The Latin Sun (with copperplate engraving mezzotint of frontispiece of trees), The Question, The Two-Horse Plough, The Pandoemoniad, Tea Table Ditties, The Bridge; and six copperplates (one with original ink drawing) and two zinc plates; instructions to printer for some; notes about miscellaneous copperplates.

Box: 1 Folder 22
Anstey, F., 1856-1934
ALS, 14 September 1892, to Mrs. Whittey, thanking her for a good review in The Lady's Pictorial.

Box: 1 Folder 23
Archer, William, 1856-1924
TLS, 30 March 1891, to Mrs. Emery [Florence Farr], sorry that he cannot come out to visit, he does not need her to make extracts, and notes that he suggested to Grein that she play the lead, Svava, in Bjornson's play, A Gauntlet.

Box: 1 Folder 24
Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935
ALS, 16 January 1893, 8 July 1893, 5 July 1894, 11 July 1910, 6 January 1911, all to [William] Morris Colles, with questions, about his articles, declining an invitation, accepting a proposed payment for his story "Jones Goes A-Hunting," and suggesting other stories for the Pall Mall magazine.

Box: 1 Folder 25
Ashbee, Henry Spencer, 1824-1900
ALS, 17 July 1893, to Mr. Egley, about membership in a literary society.

Box: 1 Folder 26
Ashby-Sterry, J. (Joseph), d. 1917
ANS, 13 January 1890, to Boyer, declining an invitation; ANS, 23 December 1896, to Mrs. [Mary] Whitley, praising her Every Girl's Book.

Box: 1 Folder 27
Asprey, William
ALS, June 1831, certifying that, at the command of His Majesty when Duke of Clarence, he made two pieces of plate as presents to Sir Gilbert Blane.

Box: 1 Folder 28
Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928
ANS, 18 July 1819, to My dear Hudson, declining an invitation; ANS, 12 September 25, to My dear Hudson, thanking him for a book; TLS, 11 December 1925, to Dear Hudson, about Liberal politics; TL mimeograph, 14 October 1926, giving his reasons for his intended resignation as Prime Minister; TL, 14 October 1926, cover letter sending an advance copy of resignation letter, signed initials by Asquith's secretary, novelist Violet Paget.

Box: 1 Folder 29
Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945
ANS, 11 October 1928, agreeing to autograph some books.

Box: 1 Folder 30
Astley, H. J. Dukinfield (Hugh John Dukinfield), 1856-1930
ALS, 7 January 1901, to Robert Hovenden, asking for his support for T. C. Hughes as a member of the F.S.A.; ALS, 21 April 1902, to Robert Hovenden, about his election to the Royal Historical Society; color lithograph caricature, "The Mate," Vanity Fair, 17 November 1877.

Box: 1 Folder 31
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
AS postcard, 1 January 1905, to Miss Gertrude Norman, with New Year's greetings.

Box: 1 Folder 32
Austin, Alfred, 1835-1913
Mss. notes with corrections, with envelope addressed "For Lamia's 'Thoughts in the garden that I love'."

Box: 1 Folder 33
Austin, Sarah, 1793-1867
ALS, n.d., to Miss Macirone inviting her to tea with Austin, her daughter, and Sir Alex Gordon.

Authors, B

Authors, B

Box: 1 Folder 34
Badman, S. R. (Stanley Roy), 1906-
ALS, 18 February 1939, to Clifford Bax, thanking him for praise and offering him a drawing of Epping Forest "in memory of our collaboration on this book."

Box: 1 Folder 35
Bagnold, Enid
TLS, 27 July 1931, to Margaret MacKail, about the death of Bagnold's mother; TNS, 7 June 1933, about her words being read under the trees. [both signed Enid Jones]

Box: 1 Folder 36
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851
ALS, 5 January 1805, to the editor of the Monthly Mirror, declining to have her portrait reproduced and thanking him for noticing her work.

Box: 1 Folder 37
Baillie, Marianne, 1795?-1831
ALS, n.d., to Dear Sir, about his dealings with Lord Byron.

Box: 1 Folders 38-39
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913
ALS, 4 October 1896, to Miss Bacon the photographer, thanking her for offering to send him copies of her slides; TMs.: "Other Worlds Than Ours," bound lecture, March 1897.

Box: 1 Folder 40
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
AN third person, 15 January 1847, to Lord Willoughby, inquiring about tickets.

Box: 1 Folder 41
Banim, John, 1798-1842
ALS, 25 March 1831, to R.B. Peake, about receiving forty pounds from the Literary Fund last Christmas and now needs to ask them for more money.

Box: 1 Folder 42
Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs., 1821-1897
ALS, 4 September 1861, to Cruikshank, about a fundraiser for the Queen's Hospital.

Box: 1 Folder 43
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
ALS, 26 September 1874, to Dear Madam, about a triptych for a church; ANS, 18 June 1897, to Rev. R. Gwynn, asking him to look through this [Perpetua?]; AP, 16 September 1897, to Rev. R. Gwynn, from South Wales researching for a Welsh novel; magazine portrait, signed.

Box: 1 Folder 44
Barnard, Francis Pierrepont, 1854-1931
ALS, 16 January 1901, to Hubert Hall, about a translation into English by John Blount of Upton's De Studio Officio Militari that would be suitable for a volume of the Camden series; ALS, 22 February 1901, to R. Hovenden, thanking him for suggesting the Oxford Historical Society for Blount's manuscript translation of Upton.

Box: 1 Folder 45
Barrett, Wilson, 1848-1904
Autographed quotation from his novel, The Sign of the Cross.

Box: 1 Folder 46
Bashkirtseff, Marie, 1860-1884
ALS, 21 September [ca. 1884-1885]; ALS, December [ca. 1884-1885]; ALS, [ca. 1884-1885] all written in French by her mother, concerning a photograph of Marie to be printed in a journal; printed invitation to a memorial mass for Marie, 31 October 1892.

Box: 1 Folders 47-52
Bax, Clifford, 1886-1962
AMs, playlet, "Aminta;" newspaper photograph of poets Watts-Dunton and Swinburne, caption by Bax; All the World's a Stage, edited and with an introduction by Clifford Bax (London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1946); 39 ALS, 1929-1950 (17 from actors in the book); AMs.: "Pagoda Bells: (Epigrams from the Siamese)."

Box: 1 Folder 53
Bayley, F. W. N. (Frederic William Naylor), 1808-1853
ANS, n.d., to My dear Powell, asking to have a "little dramatic manner" favorably attended.

Box: 1 Folder 54
Bayliss, Wyke, Sir, 1835-1906
ALS, 30 September 1901, to Mr. Hovenden, about viewing the gallery pictures before ballotting.

Box: 1 Folder 55
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889
AMsS, poem, "The Kingfisher," 22 June 1868; AMsS, "Bobbington Church;" carte-de-visite signed E. Bradley

Box: 8 Folder 3
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889
8 drawings on one board for Verdant Green, ca. 1853

Box: 1 Folder 56
Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877
ANS, 16 December 1875, to Dear Doctor, asking him to write the necessary lines.

Box: 1 Folder 57
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
ANS, 20 November n.y., to Andrew Lang, asking if there is any news.

Box: 1 Folder 58
Benedict, Julius, Sir, 1804-1885
Christmas card, n.y., to J.W. and W.D. Davison.

Box: 1 Folder 59
Bennet, John, d. 1686
ADS, ca. 1680, petitioning the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on behalf of Daniel Bayley and giving him a good character.

Box: 1 Folder 60
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
ALS, 23 February 1922, to My dear Edward, regretting that he must go to the first night of the "David Garrick" opera to be polite to Nigel Playfair, comments on Harry Green's performance, and he asked Ruby Miller to dine and dance; TNS, 2 November 1922, to Dion Clayton Calthrop, he will talk about the Esmond medallion business when he sees him.

Box: 1 Folder 61
Bennett, W. C. (William Cox), 1820-1895
ALS, 12 November 1883, to Thomas Gibbons, referring to a journal he publishes which will contain an unpublished letter of Lord Macaulay's and hoping to have something of Carleton's.

Box: 1 Folder 62
Bennett, William Sterndale, Sir, 1816-1875
Visiting card, 10 September 1857, with note to J.W. Davison; invitation to dinner, 28 July 1873, to Mr. J.W. Davison; visiting card with note to J.W. Davison, n.d.

Box: 1 Folder 63
Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925
ANS, 30 January 1900, to Mrs. Grantham, with inscribed copy of his hymn, "Lie Still, Beloved, Lie Still; ALS, 25 November 1905, to Mrs. Daniel, returning letters and clippings.

Box: 1 Folder 64
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940
ALS, 7 March 1902, to [William Morris] Colles, concerning two stories and where they could be published as serials; ALS, 5 May 1905, to Dear Sir, sending a one-act play, "The Friend in the Garden," and a three-act play, "Dodo."

Box: 1 Folder 65
Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871
ANS, 27 May 1848, to Benjamin Webster, accepting a box at the Haymarket; ANS, 6 July 1848, to Benjamin Webster, asking for admission for his friends; ALS, 6 July 1869, to G. Cruikshank, about illustrating a book; reproduction engraving of Bentley.

Box: 1 Folder 66
Beresford Hope, A. J. B. (Alexander James Beresford), 1820-1887
ALS, 13 October 1854, to E[dward] Herford, about a book he has not read yet and suggestions he made to Herford.

Box: 1 Folder 67
Bernard, William Bayle, 1807-1875
ALS, 22 January n.y., to Oxberry, about a payment due him; ALS, 29 February n.y., to G. Vining, Jr., congratulating him on his success and asking for box seats at the theater.

Box: 1 Folder 68
Bernard-Beere, Fanny Mary, 1856-1915
ANS, n.d., to Mr. Abbey the designer concerning the costumes she is to wear in "Tosca."

Box: 1 Folder 69
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
Signed visiting card, 1879.

Box: 1 Folders 70-72
Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
ALS, 22 July 1871, to Dear Sir, sending some publications by the Palestine Exploration Fund; ALS, 6 October 1888, to his publisher Chatto [and Windus], about additing a preface to Herr Paulus, and about Mesmerism; ALS, 2 November 1889, to Chatto [and Windus], about their publishing schedule and suggesting legal action; ALS, 19 September 1891, to Chatto [and Windus], about The Rebel Queen and the problems of the survey of Palestine; photo of Besant reproduced in McClure's Magazine; ALS, 29 August 1892, to Chatto and Windus, concerning The Ivory Gate. Includes proofs for title page, half-title page, dedication, and advertising block; ALS, 5 September 1892, to Chatto and Windus, concerning The Ivory Gate; ALS, May 1893, to Chatto [and Windus], concerning The Rebel Queen; ALS, 22 July 1899, to Chatto [and Windus], concerning "The Orange Girl"; ALS, 29 March 1901, declining an invitation; engraving by G. Kruell.

Box: 1 Folder 73
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919
ALS, 11 February 1883, to Sir, refusing to publish anything without payment; ANS, 6 April 1883, K. Barry requests a copy of "Classical Notions of Heaven and Hell" for Miss Betham-Edwards; APS, 1 July 1883, to Westminster Review, asking for a copy of the Westminster Review containing "Classic Notices of Heaven and Hell"; ANS, 12 May n.y., to Sir, thanking him for sending the Shakespeare and will pay for it next week.

Box: 1 Folder 74
Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906-
Holograph mss. of his poem, "A Bay in Anglesey," signed and dated "first draft. published in1963."

Box: 1 Folder 75
Bibesco, Elizabeth, 1897-1945
ALS, 13 December 1916, to John Drinkwater, thanking him for his help with the Italian matinee at the Savoy Theatre.

Box: 1 Folder 76
Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825
Signature and envelope, postmarked 17 November 1814, addressed to William Phillips.

Box: 1 Folder 77
Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933
ALS, 18 April 1909, to James Hamilton Wylie, congratulating him on his retirement.

Box: 1 Folder 78
Birkett, Norman Birkett, Baron, 1883-1962
ALS, 19 August 1937, 7 January 1949, 11 May 1949, all to Clifford Bax, thanking him for his book on cricket, the wireless for the blind, and inviting him to dinner.

Box: 1 Folder 79
Bismarck, Otto, Furst von, 1815-1898
ANS, [7 May 1866], to Princess Orloff, thanking her. [in French]

Box: 1 Folder 80
Black, William, 1841-1898
ANS, 8 January n.y., to Dear Sir, agreeing to comply with his request; engraving by J. J. Cade; Woodbury process photograph.

Box: 1 Folder 81
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895
ALS, 28 April n.y., to Sir J.E. Alexander, thanking him for sympathizing with his work; ALS, 20 October n.y., to Professor Rogers, sending a scrap to publish but not before sending a proof; ALS third person, 11 December 1880, regrets that he will be teaching in London and cannot see Miss Heerwart; color lithograph.

Box: 1 Folder 82
Blacklock, Thomas, 1721-1791
Holograph mss. of poem, "To the Revd. Mr. Jameson," a fair copy made by Richard Jameson, with an ALS from Jameson to the Revd. Mr. Spence; engraved portrait of Blacklock.

Box: 1 Folder 83
Blackwood, John, 1818-1879
ALS, 10 August 1869, to Edward Herbert, about a story in The Revue de Deux Mondes that resembles the legend of Pygmalion.

Box: 1 Folder 84
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899
ALS, 30 October, 1868, to Dear Sir, declining extra lecturing duties because he will be teaching two classes in the winter.

Box: 1A Folder 85
Blatchford, Robert, 1851-1943
ANS, 23 November 1928, to Mr. Waring, agreeing to a visit.

Box: 1A Folder 86
Blatchford, Winnie
ALS, 20 November 1903, on National Cinderella Society letterhead, to Willie Gallagher, about starting the club again and looking forward to hearing good accounts of the Cinderella Fund concert.

Box: 1A Folder 87
Bligh, Richard, 1780-1838?
ALS, 18 August 1831, to Dawson Turner, sending an autograph of the Lterator Historicus and of Lord Nugent; engraved portrait.

Box: 1A Folder 88
Blind, Mathilde, 1841-1896
APS, 3 December 1885, to W. M. Rossetti, asking him to send proofs; printed photograph.

Box: 1A Folder 89
Bliss, Arthur, Sir, 1891-1975
ALS, 14 July 1953, to Clifford Bax, thanking him and Meum Stewart for sending the anthology.

Box: 1A Folder 90
Boas, Frederick S. (Frederick Samuel), 1862-1957
ALS, 18 March [ca. 1885?], to Dear Sir, soliciting a lecture engagement; ALS, 30 November 1929, to Dear Sir, with the chorus of his poem, "The Balliol Rooks"; obituary and photo clipping.

Box: 1A Folder 91
Bodley, J. E. C. (John Edward Courtenay), 1853-1925
ALS, 23 January n.y., to W.M. Egley, noting that Sir Charles Dilke does not mind what metal the setting is made of providing it won't get dirty; 31 March n.y., to W.M. Egley, with regrets that he could not visit his studio.

Box: 1A Folder 92
Bosworth, Joseph, 1789-1876
ALS, 14 May 1821, to the editor of the Literary Gazette, sending a book he has just printed and asks for a review.

Box: 1A Folder 93
Botfield, Beriah, 1807-1863
ANS, n.d., referring to the completion of King Edward's diary.

Box: 1A Folders 94-95
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948
AL, 3 February 1936, to Penelope [Wheeler], about her request for a prologue; holograph prologue to his play, "Culbin Sands," 4 November 1936, initialed; prologue to "Culbin Sands" printed in Falkirk High School Jubilee Magazine; Lyric Plays 1st ed. (London: Constable, 1932) , inscribed presentation copy to Penelope and Christopher Wheeler, 14 December 1932.

Box: 1A Folder 96
Bourchier, Arthur, 1863-1927
ANS, [March 1922], to comedian Harry Green, with regrets for not coming to visit.

Box: 1A Folder 97
Bourne, William Sturges, 1769-1845
Franked address signed, 18 April 1830, to C.B. Wollaster.

Box: 1A Folder 98
Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825
ANS, 1 September 1848, to Sir, asking if a house is furnished; engraved portrait of John Bowdler (1746-1823).

Box: 1A Folder 99
Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850
ALS, 11 June 1830, to My dear Sir, noting that the butterfly has arrived; engraved portrait.

Box: 1A Folder 100
Boyce, Rubert W. (Rubert William), Sir, 1864-1911
ALS, 6 August 1896, to Mr. Thompson Yates,inviting him to the Lister banquet; caricature of Boyce as a Gargoyle clutching a cat for the corner of the Thompson-Yates Laboratories.

Box: 1A Folder 101
Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron, 1829-1893
AMsS, untitled poem (first line: "Believe me, my Gladys") with envelope addressed to Miss Longbridge, n.d. [envelope postmarked 29 April].

Box: 1A Folder 102
Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1837-1915
ALS, 24 April 1877, to Mr. Ralston, concerning death of Miss Green's brother; ANS, n.d., fragment concerning upcoming vacation [both signed Mary Maxwell]; engraving of Miss Braddon.

Box: 1A Folder 103
Bray, Charles, 1811-1884
ALS, 19 April 1850, to Edwin Hertford, asking if he received the books he sent; ALS, 23 October 1854, to My dear Sir, thanking him for a pamphlet and referring to another about money and mortgages.

Box: 1A Folder 104
Bray, Mrs. (Anna Eliza), 1790-1883
ALS, 2 November 1828, to Seth Stevenson; ALS, 25 November 1828, to Seth Stevenson; ALS, 6 January 1829, to Seth W. Stevenson, all concerning her book, The Protestant, or a Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary.

Box: 1A Folder 105
Brereton, Austin, 1862-1922
5 ALS, 17 February 1883, 15 August, 2 and 14 October, and 12 December 1884, to W. Beatty-Kingston, concerning theatrical publications.

Box: 1A Folder 106
Brieux, Eugène, 1858-1932
ANS, 18 September 1915, to Mon cher ami, concerning plans for the carpenter for work in his studio [in French]

Box: 1A Folder 107
Bristow, Amelia, b. 1783
Receipt, signed, 8 January 1830, from publisher Charles Tilt for copyright on her book, Emma de Lisseau.

Box: 1A Folder 108
Britton, John, 1771-1857
ALS, 24 December 1810, to James Northcote, sending Ridson's Survey of Devon and asking him to write a memoir of Sir Joshua for a future issue; 20 February 1851, to William Parke, acknowledging a subscription to his testimonial; ALS, 16 February 1852, to W. Park, referring to drawings of Park's church.

Box: 1A Folder 109
Brodrick, George C. (George Charles), 1831-1903
ALS, 27 November 1902, to Mr. Hall, Mr. Knaus wishes to pay direct but he hopes Knaus will communicate with Mr. Hovenden; color lithograph caricature of Brodrick from Vanity Fair, 30 August 1884.

Box: 1A Folders 110-116
Brooks, Shirley, 1815-1874
37 ALS, 1850-1874, to W. Hardman; menu; ALS, 17 July 1869, to Mark L.; ALS, 14 July 1872, to W.I. Thorne; ALS, n.d., to Kate H. Fergussen; 13 August 1869, birthday wishes; APS, 3 November 1873, poem, "A Birthday Acrostic"; two clippings.

Box: 1A Folder 117
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
2 ALS, n.d. [includes a fair copy of both letters], to My dear L., sending his article to Muller to copy; ALS third person, to Mr. Bevan, thanking him for a lecture; two engraved portraits of Brougham.

Box: 1A Folder 118
Broughton, Rhoda, 1840-1920
ALS, Tuesday, 3 September n.y., to Madam, thanking her for her praise of her story, "Cometh Up; ALS fragment, 5 September n.y., answering questions about her story.

Box: 1A Folder 119
Brown, Arthur Henry, 1830-1926
ALS, 4 September 1879, to Dear Sir, allowing him to use his carol for a lecture and asking for a copy of any review, and asking if a notice of his part song, "This is the Birthday of My Love," has appeared in the Morning Post.

Box: 1A Folder 120
Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893
5 ALS, 1886-1887, to Buxton Forman, about sending the cast of the Rossetti effigy to the Manchester Academy exhibition and asking him to pay R.W. Wallace for the wild-duck for the top of the drinking fountain, sending Wallace an extra two guineas, acknowledging receipt of three pounds for the Rossetti memorial, casting the memorial, and the list of subscribers on the bronze tablet.

Box: 1A Folder 121
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891-
TLS, 10 September 1942, to A.W. McLeod, acknowledging a mistake he will correct in the event of reprinting, with stamped envelope.

Box: 1A Folder 122
Bruce, John, 1802-1869
ALS, 26 May 1868, to architect William Tite, sending a note from a manuscript in the British Museum showing the in former times the Hospital was not regarded as a private institution.

Box: 1A Folder 123
Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804
ALS, n.d., to Miss Burnes, apologizing for the delay and inviting her to dinner; engraved portrait from European Magazine, 1803.

Box: 1A Folder 124
Buchanan, Robert Williams, 1841-1901
ALS, 7 March 1874, to Frederick Chapman [Chapman and Hall publishers], about reprinting The Land of Lorne, with integral reply, 9 March 1874; ALS, 25 June [after 1875], to Miss Caldwell, about a part in The Queen of Connaught; ALS, 27 September 1900, to publisher Grant Richards, about three books, Latterday Letters, Recollections, and The Coming Terror.

Box: 1A Folder 125
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855
ALS, 22 December 1824, to Messrs. Lackington, Hughes and Co., describing the aims, policy, and other details of his journal, The Oriental Herald; printed, "Improved Plan of Publishing The Oriental Herald, to Meet the Daily Increasing Demand for East Indian Information"; signature on a frank to Lord John Russell; engraved portrait.

Box: 1A Folder 126
Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879
ANS, 7 January 1879, to Mr. Legge, acknowledging receipt of the balance owed him; ANS, Sat., 26 June, n.y., to Morris, sending money; AN, n.d., in third person, asks for a paragraph to be inserted; color caricature by Faustin.

Box: 1A Folder 127
Bugeaud, Thomas Robert, duc d'Isly, 1784-1849
ALS, 13 January 1840, to M. Marechal, about the Legion of Honor [with typescript] [in French].

Box: 1A Folder 128
Bullen, Edward, 1813-1868
AL, 5 February 1925, to Mr. Payne, asking if Cowper wrote "The Elegy on a Mad Dog."

Box: 1A Folders 129-131
Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1857-1915
ALS, 30 April 1897, to the Editor, The Spectator, enclosing a manuscript; 3 ALS, 1897, to Roger Ingpen, editor of Cornhill Magazine, about his book, article on the Antarctic expedition, death of his son; ALS, 5 August 1897, to Editor, requesting information he needs to finish the article for Cornhill Magazine; 5 ALS, 1898-1899, to Roger Ingpen; 2 ALS, 1907, n.d., to Roger Ingpen; TL mimeograph, 28 April 1897, to Frank T. Bullen praising article about a whale published in Cornhill Magazine.

Box: 1A Folder 132
Bunsen, Ernst von, 1819-1903
ALS, 15 February 1865, to the author of an article in the Edinburgh Review, inviting him to dine and about Bunsen's synthesis of the Gospels.

Box: 1A Folder 133
Burgoyne, John F. (John Fox), Sir, 1782-1871
Carte-de-visite, signed.

Box: 1A Folder 134
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836-1917
8 ALS, 1890-1913, to Harry Furniss, L.B. Walford, and others; two photographs.

Box: 1A Folder 135
Burnand, John Thomas
ALS, 25 November 1865, to Dear Sir, submitting and describing his play, "Virtus."

Box: 1A Folder 136
Burnham, Edward Levy-Lawson, 1833-1916
ANS (third person), 25 March 1901, declining an invitation to the Sheffield Press Club; colored caricature lithograph portrait from Vanity Fair, 22 March 1873.

Box: 1A Folder 137
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
ALS, 4 November 1893, to Herbert Gilchrist, noting the bad time he had at the Chicago World's Fair.

Box: 1A Folder 138
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey, 1828-1906
ALS, 1 June 1879, to Dr. Chapman, apologizing that she will not have the promised article on the police ready for the next issue of the Westminster Review because she has been busy with the appointment of s Select Committee of Parliament to inquire into the Contagious Diseases Act.

Box: 1A Folder 139
Buxton, John
ALS, 4 March 1946, to Clifford Bax, sorry that Bax has incited the critics and regrets that Bax's brother did not find Buxton's poem suitable for his cantata.

Box: 1A Folder 140
Byron, Henry J. (Henry James), 1835-1884
ALS, Saturday, n.d., to Clement Scott, referring to a letter not posted; ALS, 23 August 1878, to Reece, advising him that the contribution will go in the October issue; photograph clipped from a journal.

Authors, C

Authors, C

Box: 1A Folder 141
Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931
TLS, 17 April 1896, to Mr. Gwynne, asking for the Ecclesiastical position of his church when it was in danger of being turned into a music hall; photograph; photograph clipped from a journal; caricature, "The Manxman," from Vanity Fair, 2 July 1896.

Box: 1A Folder 142
Campbell, Malcolm, Sir, 1885-1949
TLS, 4 March 1938, to Harry Green, regretting that he and his wife could not attend Green's play and sending copies of two of his books.

Box: 1A Folder 143
Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940
ALS, n.d., to [Clifford Bax], complaining about his imitations of her, Hinkley's telegram promises 400 pounds so she must go.

Box: 1A Folder 144
Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
ALS, 21 July 1813, to Dear Sir, sending part of the money because the post office cannot be trusted; ALS, 16 November 1841, to Mrs. Burge, arranging a meeting; fifteen-page manuscript article on Greece, Greek art, and philosophy; four engraved portraits.

Box: 1A Folder 145
Capell, Richard, 1885-1954
ALS, 14 February 1924, to Barnes, referring to a concert and Barnes' lecture.

Box: 1A Folder 146
Capern, Edward, 1819-1894
ALS, 1 December 1883, to Mr. Gibbons, referring to some of his poems published in The Herald, sent four copies, will send two cabinet photographs, and thanks for postal orders and stamps.

Box: 1A Folder 147
Carey, Rosa Nouchette, 1840-1909
Autographed signature.

Box: 1A Folder 148
Carlyle, E. I. (Edward Irving), b. 1871
ALS, 19 January 1902, to Dear Sir, enclosing his subscription payment to the Royal Historical Society.

Box: 1A Folder 149
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929
AMsS, poem, "In Apple Time."

Box: 1A Folder 150
Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929
AMs, play, "St. George and the Dragon," amid astronomy notebook; four photographs, one captioned on back, "George Hukin took it, April 1915"; portrait from a photograph taken in 1900; two postal cards to Russell Green, 19 September 1913 and 23 June 1915.

Box: 1A Folder 151
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927
ALS, 26 May 1883, to Mr. Gibbons, sending a copy of the title page of "What are the wild waves saying?"; engraved portrait clipped from magazine.

Box: 1A Folder 152
Carruthers, Robert
ALS, 10 October 1868, to W. D. Adams, declining an invitation.

Box: 1A Folder 153
Casserly, Gordon
ALS, 10 January 1921, to Whitney Starr, inviting him to lunch for an interview and thanking him for his nice review of The Elephant God.

Box: 1A Folder 154
Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
Clipped signature mounted with engraved portrait, with biographical notes.

Box: 1A Folder 155
Cesnola, Alessandro Palma di, 1837-1914
APS, postmarked 26 July 1882, to Cecil Breat, advising him that his book, Salaminia has been published and asks if it should be sent to the address Cesnola has on his list of subscribers.

Box: 1A Folder 156
Chalmers, Alexander, 1759-1834
ANS, 21 August 1810, to Dear Sir, arranging to visit.

Box: 1A Folder 157
Chalmers, Patrick R. (Patrick Reginald), 1872-1942
AMsS, poems: "Guns of Verdun," "The Grey Men," "Hay Harvest," "Infantry," "The Visitor;" untitled poem, first line, "My love lived in a Northern land."

Box: 1A Folder 158
Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
ANS, 1 June 1829, to Mr. Ireland, asking to remain anonymous if he publishes his manuscript; clipped signature; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Box: 1A Folder 159
Champfleury, 1821-1889
ALS, n.d., to M. Bouzin, noting he has seen Mr. Morris who has a number of English and French sketches to show him, and asks him to hurry up the designers, engravers, and music printers to be ready by March. [in French]

Box: 1A Folder 160
Champion de Crespigny, Philip, Mrs.
ALS, 18 March n.y., to Mr. Starr, noting an alteration she made in her article and asking him to let her know when it will appear.

Box: 1A Folder 161
Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790-1846
ALS, 13 September 1834, to Rev. T.J. Judkin, requesting permission to publish an anecdote about his experience with Irish hospitality, and her project to etablish an Irish professorship in the Irish university.

Box: 1B Folder 162-163
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
AmsS, on vellum, bound in vellum, in 1930 boxcase of The Turkey and the Turk, with original ink drawings by Thomas Derrick; AMs, unpublished story, "The Dog, a canine organ, for the dog days," illustrated in colored pencil and ink by Chesterton.

Box: 1B Folder 164
Chisholm, Caroline, 1808-1877
ALS, 11 September 1842, to [Messrs. Smith Elder and Co.] offering the copyright on her works; franked envelope in her hand to Messrs. Smith Elder and Co., stamped "ship-letter" postmarked 13 December 1842 and 4 March 1843; AD, extract of the Governor's speech in Council and F.L. Merewether's Report on Immigration in which her assistance is noted.

Box: 8 Folder 5
Chisholm, Caroline, 1808-1877
Lithographic print, 1852; newspaper clippings from The Colonial Observer, 25 August 1842.

Box: 1B Folder 165
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872
ALS, 13 June 1859, to W.H. Calcott, about Calcott's Handel work.

Box: 1B Folder 166
Chorley, Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, Baron, 1895-
ALS, n.d., to D. Campbell Lee concerning the National Trust.

Box: 1B Folder 167
Churchill, T. O.
ALS, 18 January 1819, to Messrs. Cadell and Davies offering to edit a revised version of Walker's Rhyming Dictionary.

Box: 1B Folder 168
Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877
ALS, 29 September 1835, to Robert B. Peake, sending a sketch by his brother-in-law Edward Novello.

Box: 1B Folder 169
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 18098-1898
ANS, n.d., invitation to her birthday tea and dinner.

Box: 1B Folder 170
Clifford, Margaret
ALS, 25 December 1926, to Mrs. Watts-Dunton, advising her to take a long rest and sell the house, with stamped envelope.

Box: 1B Folder 171
Clinton, George, 1739-1812
ALS, 28 March 1780, to Lieut. Col. Marinus Willett, sorry that Willett's letter did not arrive before the legislature adjourned.

Box: 1B Folder 172
Clodd, Edward, 1840-1930
ANS plus envelope, 31 May 1918, to Thomas R. Waring giving the location of Grant Allen's house.

Box: 1B Folder 173
Cobham, Alan J. (Alan John), Sir, 1894-1973
TLS, 26 March 1928, To Harry Green, expressing how much he enjoyed the brief time they spent together in Joannesburg.

Box: 1B Folder 174
Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1911
ALS, 20 January 1880, to R. Hovenden, thanking him for sending one of the twenty-five copies of the parish regiment extracts from Erith.

Box: 1B Folder 175
Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849
AMsS, untitled poem, first line: "I have lived, and I have loved."

Box: 1B Folder 176
Coleridge, Sarah Coleridge, 1802-1852
ALS, n.d., to Mr. Moore, about a visit she intends to make.

Box: 1B Folder 177
Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
ALS, 3 August 1837, to Dear Sir, about his role at the Chronicle; ALS, 24 July 1861, to My dear Sir, about his daughter's still-born child; ANS, 20 September 1862, to My dear Sir, declining an invitation; half-tone portrait

Box: 1B Folder 178
Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom), 1854-1932
ALS, 8 October 1908, to Albany F. Major, about the Viking Club financing his book, Edda.

Box: 1B Folder 179
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
ALS, n.d., referring to a feud with Antrobus; signature clipped from letter.

Box: 1B Folder 180
Colum, Patraic, 1881-1972
AMsS, poem, "The Charm."

Box: 1B Folder 181
Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927
ANS, 19 January 1905, to Mr. Reeves, declining his Saint Chappelet.

Box: 1B Folder 182
Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907
APS, 23 May 1879, to William Rossetti, instructing him how Harper and Brothers wants his manuscript sent.

Box: 1B Folder 183
Conway, William Martin, Sir, 1856-1937
APS, postmarked 29 April 1898, to W[illiam] Morris Colles, just returned from a cycling tour; photograph.

Box: 1B Folder 184
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
ALS, 11 November 1864, to W.C.M. [Charles] Kent, sending her book; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound; full-length engraved portrait, 1 September 1849, inscribed to Mr. G. H. Davidson.

Box: 1B Folder 185
Coolidge, W. A. B. (William Augustus Brevoort), 1850-1926
ALS, 11 April n.y., about the difficulty of reprinting the Alpine Guide; 25 May, n.y., seeking vol. 3 of the Alpine Guide.

Box: 1B Folder 186
Cooper, Duff, Viscount Norwich, 1890-1954
ALS, 30 March 1931, to Mrs. Webb, thanking her for her volunteer help [in electing him to St. George's Westminster].

Box: 1B Folder 187
Cooper, George
ALS, 20 June 1880, to William Alexander Barrett, declining an invitation.

Box: 1B Folder 188
Cooper, Maria Susanah
ALS, 30 October 1762, to Mr. Dodsley, completed and sending her novel [Letters between Emilia and Harriet].

Box: 1B Folder 189
Corelli, Marie, 1864-1904
ANS, 19 June 1910, to Mrs. Bailres, accepting a luncheon invitation; ALS, 26 June 1910, to Mrs. Bailres, declining the invitation; portrait plate.

Box: 2 Folder 1
Corney, Bolton, 1784-1870
ALS, 10 July 1847, to J. P[ayne] Collier, congratulating him on a new appointment.

Box: 2 Folder 2
Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960
ADS, n.d., two poems, "Youth" and "In the Backs."

Box: 2 Folder 3
Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874
ALS, 12 July 1843, to Dear Sir, requesting a proof for an enclosed manuscript as his copyist transposed chapters; ALS, [1842], to Frederick Montagu, asking his brother-in-law to accompany his wife and children to the Drury Lane theater to see Acis and Galatea in his place, with envelope.

Box: 2 Folder 4
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
TLS, n.d., to Harry [Green], thaning him for remembering him on the first night of "After the Ball."

Box: 2 Folder 5
Cowen, Frederick H. (Frederick Hymen), Sir, 1852-1935
ALS, 21 June 1880, to William Alexander Barrett, asking for publicity for a concert.

Box: 2 Folder 6
Cox, David, 1783-1859
AN, n.d., "Mr. Cox stays one hour for seven shillings if he takes away the drawing he makes during the session..."

Box: 2 Folder 7
Coxe, H. O. (Henry Octavius), 1811-1881
ALS, 27 March 1862, to Sir George Lewis, commenting on Bodleian manuscript 266.

Box: 2 Folder 8
Craig, Isa, 1831-1906
ANS fragment, n.d., clipped from the foot of a letter.

Box: 2 Folder 9
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887
ANS, Thursday [1855], to My dear Cousin, an invitation to attend the concert at St. George's Hall.

Box: 2 Folder 10
Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866
ALS, Thursday [1848], to E.C. Chapman, asking for an appointment.

Box: 2 Folder 11
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
ANS, 17 March 1888, to William Reeves, enclosing check for books received.

Box: 2 Folder 12
Cranmer, Elsie Paterson
ALS, 15 January 1921, to Dear Sir, asking for a review of her book of poems, To the Living Dead.

Box: 2 Folder 13
Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, Earl of, 1812-1880
ANS third person, n.d., to Dr. Townsend, sending some volumes, and thanking him for compliments on his book, Progress by Antagonism ; color caricature lithograph portrait from Vanity Fair, 11 May 1878.

Box: 2 Folder 14
Creighton, Basil
ALS, 15 January, n.y., to Dear Sir, referring to his essay, "The Future of the Novel" (AMsS).

Box: 2 Folder 15
Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford), 1860-1914
TLS fragment, [1893], about three of his works, and travel plans.

Box: 2 Folder 16
Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857
ALS, 24 January 1824, to Mr. Capon, expressing willingness to receive a written communication on a subject of national importance; ALS, 30 September 1830, to G. Macdonald, about Prince [Jules Auguste Armand Marie] Polignac; ALS, Tuesday, n.d., to [Frederick Locker-Lampson], about Lord Walpole's possible illegitimate baby; engraved portrait, 1832; caricature portrait of him as "the editor of 'Boswell's Johnson';" newspaper clipping about Croker.

Box: 2 Folder 17
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854
ALS, 25 February 1854, to My dear sir, congratulating him on his election to the Antiquaries, and Croker's plans to write a ballad on London for him to print; signature on frank addressed to J. Gough Nichols; caricature portrait of him as "author of 'the Irish fairy legends'."

Box: 2 Folder 18
Croly, George, 1780-1860
ALS, 20 February 1837, to S. [Reynolds] Hole, thanking him for a book and commenting on his favorable reviews; ALS, 19 November 1857, suggesting a title for a book about a general sketch of literature; ALS, 22 March 1869, in third person he informs Archdeacon Allen of the death of Dr. Milsom on 15 April 1784.

Box: 2 Folder 19
Cross, Elizabeth D.
ALS, 21 October 1868, to Dear Sir, thanking him for including her lines in his classbook.

Box: 2 Folder 20
Crowquill, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872
ANS, 6 January 1848, to M[ark] Lemon, requesting a job for his friend Percy Cruikshank, with a drawing of a lemon on a plate; AN, n.d., in third person requesting a note, with a drawing of a clown on a toadstool inscribed with his name, and a drawing of a clown's stick bearing the name Harley and a clown's head and bells (addressed to A. Forrester inside); ANS, n.d., to Rodin, Esq., asking for a notice for his Christmas carols and songs.

Box: 2 Folder 21
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Letters sent and financial records, 1841-1863 (11 items): AL, [1871], to Mr. Tweedie, replying on the integral leaf of a dunning letter from Tho. Mills and Co. to Tweedie concerning a check returned for non-payment; account of Messrs. Tilt and Bogue with C. Brain, 1841, showing a balance in favor of Cruikshank, endorsed by Cruikshank instructing them to pay the account; two checks, 30 and 31 March 1842, drawn on Finsbury Bank, signed by Cruikshank; AN draft, crosswritten on note to Cruikshank, 10 March 1865, referring to an unpaid subscription; two envelopes, 1855 and 1857, addressed to Mrs. George Cruikshank, countersigned by him; two drafts of a letter, 10 March 1858, to Frankeem about Mr. Elliston's reactions to the Falstaff drawings; ALS, 24 September 1862, to Louden, about the disposition of plates, blocks, and printed stock from the late Mr. Bogue's estate to his new publisher, Mr. Arnold; ANS, January 1863, expressing thanks to the press for a second edition of a catalogue.

Box: 2 Folder 22
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Letters received, 1848-1878 (52 items). Correspondents include Joseph Cundall, George Routledge, C.W.H. Wyman, James, Lowe, Job Caudwell, James Wilson, Locker Lampson, L. Lace Cayley, J. Whitaker, and other publishers and printers dealing with art and printing matters, particularly teetotalitarianism.

Box: 2 Folder 23
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811
ALS, Saturday morning [ n.d.], to T. J. Horsley Curties, thanking him for a letter and a gift of some books.

Box: 2 Folder 24
Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895
ALS, 1 October 1881, to W. Cosmo Monkhouse, concerning Monkhouse's criticism of his book on earthenware and requests that he read the proofs on his book on porcelain.

Box: 2 Folder 25
Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842
ALS, 1 September 1826, to Thomas Gaspy, accepting a dinner invitation; two engraved portraits.

Box: 2 Folder 26
Cunninghame Graham, R.B. (Robert Bontine), 1852-1936
2 ALS, 15 July 1915 and 14 February 1929, to Grant Watson, referring to Watson's stories.

Box: 2 Folder 27
Cusins, W. G. (William George), 1833-1893
2 ALS, 22 October and 21 November 1875, to George Grove, concerning G. F. Handel's music.

Authors, D

Authors, D

Box: 2 Folder 28
Dallas, E. S. (Eneas Sweetland), 1828-1879
Signature and four lines clipped from the foot of a letter.

Box: 2 Folder 29
Darwin, Bernard, 1876-1961
ALS, 8 November n.y., referring to statements made in his book, probably The English Public School (1929), about private schoolmasters.

Box: 2 Folder 30
Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925
ALS, 20 May 1906, to Mrs. Humphry, recommending that she publish all of her father's letters.

Box: 2 Folder 31
Daryl, Sidney, 1844-1914
APS, 27 March n.y., to Dear Sir, declining a dinner invitation.

Box: 2 Folder 32
Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941
2 ALS, Wed., 16 February n.y., and 29 December, to Mrs. Egley, regretting not being able to call on her because of a boil on his neck, and a book she requests from the British Museum has not yet been cataloged.

Box: 2 Folder 33
Davidson, John, 1857-1909
ALS, 24 October 1895, thanks for a copy of Punch and Judy but it is not his personal copy which he regrets lending.

Box: 2 Folder 34
Davies, John Stanley
ALS, 1 May 1929, to Mr. Porter, returning a copy of The Tempest and offers to loan him any other volume of the Arden Shakespeare.

Box: 2 Folder 35
Davitt, Michael, 1846-1906
ALS, 27 May 1884, to Mr. Reeves, requesting that he purchase the most modern copy of A Slang Dictionary.

Box: 2 Folder 36
De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911-
ALS, 20 April 1959, to C. Kennedy, referring to a limited edition of his story, The Story of a Lifetime, published by the Golden Cockerel Press and illustrated by Clifford Webb. With envelope.

Box: 2 Folder 37
Delacour, F.
ALS, n.d., to William Alexander Barrett, announcing the date of a musicale. In French.

Box: 2 Folder 38
Delane, John Thaddeus, 1817-1879
ALS, Wednesday night, notifying recipient that all will be ready and that the fight will be another Waterloo.

Box: 2 Folder 39
Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876-1957
ALS, 4 January 1949, to Mrs. Taylor Whitehead, praising her essay on James Agate and noting that he has to write a similar piece for The Leader magazine.

Box: 2 Folder 40
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834
6 ALS, 1839-1850, to George Ure Skinner and others, concerning ornithological subjects.

Box: 2 Folder 41
De Vere, Aubrey, 1814-1902
ALS, 19 December 1896, to Macneile Dixon, praising his artist friend G.W. Watts.

Box: 2 Folder 42
De Watteville, H. (Herman Gaston), b. 1875
ANS, 1 January 1917, to Dear Dion, enclosing a fragment of the outer cover of the L20 zeppelin that was wrecked in Norway on 3 May.

Box: 2 Folder 43
De Wohl, Louis, 1903-1961
ALS, 1 May 1944, to Linhar (?) Ling, about a prospective publisher. In German. With two typed pages of corrected text, one-page precis, and proof sheets of pp. 1-32 of his novel, Julian; typed sheet of proposed financial agreements for Julian and Problems of Labour Government; typed title page and contents page for his, The Method in the Madness; one typed page, "Was der Deutsche unter Hitler nicht lesen konnte."

Box: 2 Folder 44
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
ALS, 30 November 1824, accepting an invitation to be a guest of His Royal Highness; signature and address on visiting card.

Box: 2 Folders 45-46
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Signature (initials) clipped from foot of letter; envelope, postmarked 5 August 1861, in Dickens' hand; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall. Also, Dickensiana: a collection of manuscripts and other material relating to Charles Dickens and his work, particularly, The Pickwick Papers, and letters by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Charles Plumptre Johnson, F.G. Kitton, and John F. Dexter.

Box: 2 Folder 47
Dicksee, Francis Bernard, Sir, 1853-1928
4 ALS, 1925-126, to Mrs. Watts-Dunton, concerning an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts; two envelopes addressed to Mrs. Watts-Dunton in his hand; signature clipped from foot of letter.

Box: 2 Folder 48
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1810-1869
AL, 4 March 1858, third person invitation to dinner to meet members of the council of the society.

Box: 2 Folder 49
Doran, Dr. (John), 1807-1878
ALS, 6 June 1860, to William Parke, thanking him for sending a book; signature and date, 1864, on a clipped piece of paper; colored caricature of Doran from Vanity Fair, 6 December 1873.

Box: 2 Folder 50
Doudney, Sarah, 1843-1926
ALS, 10 December [1883], to Mr. Gibbons, about her address changes and poor health.

Box: 2 Folder 51
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945
25 ALS, 1906-1921, to his godfather, Monseigneur Drew, containing vituperative insults, accusations, and friendly emotions dealing with his unsuccessful litigations, imprisonments, and court cases.

Box: 2 Folder 52
Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952
11 ALS, 1935-1947, to Dr. G.B. Roatta, to Henry Savage, and to Irving Davies, about his travels in Italy, and his manuscripts for sale; black-and-white photograph of Norman Douglas and G. Orioli, ca. 1930.

Box: 2 Folder 53
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
ANS, n.d., declining an invitation because he is taking the chair at the Irish Society's dinner on the 13th; photograph clipped from magazine.

Box: 2 Folder 54
Duff Gordon, Alexander Cornewall, Sir, 1811-1872
ALS, 2 July [1847], to the manager of the [theater], requesting a change in seats for the opera, "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

Box: 2 Folder 55
Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, 1821-1869
ALS, 26 June 1847, third person request for a good private box for the opera, "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

Box: 2 Folder 56
Dunsterville, L. C. (Lionel Charles), 1865-1946
ANS, 13 August 1931, notifying the recipient he has signed the book sent him by [Joseph] Mausbach, U.S.A. and returned it.

Box: 2 Folder 57
Dwarris, Fortunatus, Sir, 1786-1860
ALS, 14 April 1845, to B. Webster, inquiring if Webster has received his manuscript for a five-act comedy.

Box: 2 Folder 58
Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869
ALS, n.d., to W.N. Lettsom, concerning an omission in Love's Labors Lost; ALS, 18 December 1843, to Mr. Turnbull, about his proposed remarks on Collier's Shakespeare; black-and-white portrait of Dyce as a boy reproduced in magazine.

Box: 2 Folder 59
Dykes, J. Oswald (James Oswald), 1835-1912
ALS, Tuesday the 27th, sending an autograph of Dr. Cavendish [not extant].

Authors, E

Authors, E

Box: 2 Folder 60
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 1845-1926
ALS, 18 February [ca. 1890], to Sir Rawson [William] Rawson, thanking him for sending his Analysis of the [Maritime] Trade [of the United Kingdom] which Edgeworth reviewed for The Economic Journal.

Box: 2 Folder 61
Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849
3 ALS: 18 November 1820, to Madame La Duchess de Broglie, accepting a dinner invitation and looking forward to discussing with Mr. de Broglie her article on France in the Edinburgh Review; 23 April 1847, signature and address, "in her 81st year;" ALS, 20 May 1847, to Mrs. Murray, forwarding some letters for Mrs. Lawrence; ALS, 1 December 1847, to Mr. Millar, sending a book for children with his name in it.

Box: 2 Folder 62
Edwards, Joseph
AMs, n.d., "Edwin Halford (Secretary of the Bradford Labour Church and Editor of the Bradford Labour Echo)" [the journal was published in West Yorkshire, England, 1894-1899?]; pull-proof of a half-tone portrait of Halford.

Box: 2 Folder 63
Edwards, Joseph
Biographical entries received from British socialists for Edwards' Labour Annual, 1894-1899, including William Dunkirk Baster, John Battolla, L.H. Berens, Thomas St. J. Conway, J. Derfel, Arthur Field, Michael Flurscheim, George William Foote, Henry George, J. Bruce Glasier, Jean Grave, Joseph Frederick Green, Eugene Guerard, Edward Harford, B.T. Hall, Leonard Hall, Fred Hammill, Augustin Hamon, William Heaford, John A. Hobson, S.G. Hobson, Dan Irving, Ebenezer Job, William Johnson, James Taylor Kay, J.C. Kenworthy, Paul Lafargue, James Leakey, Boleslaw Limanowski, T.J. Macnamara, Henry William Macrosly, Richard McGhee, Margaret McMillan, Robert T. Manson, Louise Michel, J. Mole, Charles Eccles Muse, David Nicoll, William Oakley, Richard Marsden Pankhurst, W.G. Pearson, George Herbert Perris, Evacustes A. Phipson, William Pickles, Henry M. Reade, W.F. Rean, B. Riley, Howard C. Rowe, Charles Rowley, Henry Stephens Salt, George Archer Hilleary Samuel, H.B. Samuels, James Samuelson, Sidney Dillon Shallard, H. Russell Smart, H. Bodell Smith, Harry Snell, Percy Harold Snelling, George H.V. Snow, Enid Stacy, W.T. Stead, Sergius Stepniak, William Augustus Steward, Alexander W. Thompson, H.O. Thompson, W.W. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, Gertrude Tuckwell, Frederick Verinder, Limehouse Vestry, Emile Vinck, Felix Volkhovsky, Graham Walles, and Alexander Webster.

Box: 2 Folder 64
Edwards, Joseph
Letters received from British socialists, 1892-1918.

Box: 2 Folder 65
Edwards, Joseph
Letters received from and handbills by W.T. Stead, 1890-1891.

Box: 2A Folder 66
Edwards, Joseph
Socialist pamphlets, leaflets, and handbills received from British socialists.

Box: 2A Folders 67-68
Egan, Beresford, b. ca. 1906
AMsS, incomplete (66 p. of 312 p. novel), Pollen, a Novel in Black and White [published 1933]; typescript, "Exotic Perfume," and "And I Will Come to Thee" with proof illustration, 1929; wrapper proofs for Aphrodite (April 1929) and Cyprian Masques (May 1929) by Pierre Louys; TL (mimeographed retained copy), 2 June 1929, to R.A. Caton, The Fortune Press, complaining about the writings of author Pierre Louys which Egan is illustrating and inquiring about the production quality for his drawings in Louy's The Adventures of King Pausole [1933].

Box: 2A Folder 69
Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (Rowland Eyles), 1804-1891
ALS, 22 January 1861, to My dear Sir, declining to subscribe to a church paper; albumen candid photograph of Warburton with Sir G.M. Grant, W.M. Severne, and Lord Crichton.

Box: 2A Folder 70
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1766-1841
AMsS, Memorandum of Lord Elgin's imprisonment at Lourdes, December 1803, and Narrative of Lord Elgin's Public Life, Broomhall, 1830.

Box: 2A Folder 71
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
ALS, 4 April 1878, to Mr. Ralston, commiserating with him about his illness; two portraits of her clipped from magazines.

Box: 2A Folder 72
Ella, John, 1802-1888
3 ALS, to William Alexander Barrett, 31 March, 13 May and 30 June 1880, noting the Musical Union is in trouble, listing the upcoming performances, praising [Hans von] Bulow's performance of B's trio, and receiving a silver salver as a token of friendship.

Box: 2A Folder 73
Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849
2 ADS, 12 April 1821 and 15 December 1829, banker's drafts, to Duckett and Morlands, bankers, London; woodcut portrait and photograph of a bust of Elliott.

Box: 2A Folder 74
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939
6 ALS, 1917-1937, to Grant Watson thanking him for books, to Clifford Bax sending folk songs; photograph of ancient Chinese painting from Royal Academy exhibit 1935-36.

Box: 2A Folder 75
Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777-1869
ALS, 12 January 1820, to H[enry] Card, noting that he cannot find a particular passage of Cicero, enclosing an extract of a letter from Bishop Latimer to Lord Cromwell.

Box: 2A Folder 76
Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), b. 1883
ALS, 18 August 1938, regretting he will not be able to go to the production as he will not be in London for some weeks.

Box: 2A Folder 77
Ertz, Susan
3 ALS, 1932-1935, to Mr. Heppner, declining an interview.

Box: 2A Folder 78
Espin, Thomas Espinelle, 1824-1912
ALS, 26 May 1887, to Edward Herford, concerning Herford's draft of a bill on church matters.

Authors, F

Authors, F

Box: 2A Folder 79
Fane, Violet, 1843-1905
ALS, 3 May [1865?], to Mrs. Geary, about a portrait of Fane by Francis Grant.

Box: 2A Folder 80
Faning, Eaton, 1850-1927
ALS, 17 September 1880, to Dear Sir, concerning a musical arrangement for eighteen boys, and the cost of his lectures that should be "more amusing than scientific" for 200 boys.

Box: 2A Folder 81
Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
Signature and five lines clipped from the foot of a letter.

Box: 2A Folder 82
Fawkes, Francis, 1721-1777
ALS, 14 June 1777, to Rev. Mr. Meen, about correcting and transcribing his translation of the fourth book of A Poetical Translation of Appollonius Rhodius from the Greek, with Notes; a printed receipt, 1771, signed by Fawkes agreeing to deliver the manuscript; a printed subscription notice, 13 October 1777, for the posthumous book.

Box: 2A Folder 83
Fenn, George Manville, 1831-1909
2 ALS, 2 April 1901 and 3 December 1902, to R. Hovenden, about Hovenden's ill health, and rejecting a contribution to a memoir he is working on.

Box: 2A Folder 84
Field, Julian
ALS, 11 September 1894, to P. Bowles [his agent?], asking for news of his book Powders of Merchant from Lippincott, asks that Methuen insert a blurb for his new book in the Literary Gossip in the Athenaeum.

Box: 2A Folder 85
Fielding, H. (Harold), 1859-1917
APS, 6 January 1916, to The Authors' Syndicate, requesting acknowledgement of receipt of manuscript.

Box: 2A Folder 86
Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
ALS, 22 May 1857, to Compte a Madame, with thanks for the gift of a sovereign, and notes that the first edition of his poem is nearly sold.

Box: 2A Folder 87
Fitzgibbon, Edward, 1803-1857
ALS, n.d., to Benjamin Webster, with news of his activities, reminds him when they once met, and suggests that he request the publisher of [Maria Edgeworth's] Leonora to send a copy to B.M.'s library.

Box: 2A Folder 88
Fleury, Andre Hercule de, 1653-1743
ADS, 7 December 1737, to Tres Illustre et Magnifique Seigneur Abdulla Grand Vizir de l'Empire Ottoman, congratulating him on his appointment as Grand Vizir and hopes for a happy success in his peace talks with the Roman emperor and Czarina of Russia. In French.

Box: 2A Folder 89
Fonblanque, Albany, 1793-1872
ALS, 25 January 1841, to Mr. [Benjamin] Webster, complaining that his wife was refused dress circle seats at the Haymarket Theater.

Box: 2A Folder 90
Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900
ALS, 19 February 1896, to Dear Sir, refusing an invitation from the Sheffield Press Club because of illness; color caricature of Forbes, Vanity Fair, 5 January 1878.

Box: 2A Folder 91
Forbes, Henry N.
ANS, 14 July 1942, to [Lady Margaret Sackville], sending his book of verse [The New Gods Rising] in hopes she will like it and recommend it to her friends.

Box: 2A Folder 92
Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, Sir, 1853-1937
5 ALS, 1894-1926: 19 October 1894, to Mrs. Gowon, accepting a dinner invitation; 28 March, 6 April, 21 May 1925 and 9 December 1926, to Mrs. Watts-Dunton, thanking her for sending her new book, accepting invitation to dinner, and declining an invitation.

Box: 2A Folder 93
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917
ALS, 14 October 1891, to Rev. C. Henry Daniel, asking for prices of books and requesting him to send two more copies of Love's Graduate; ALS, 26 February 1898, to [William Michael?] Rossetti, returning a letter of [John] Hookham Frere of which he has made a copy unless Rossetti does not want a copy to exist.

Box: 2A Folder 94
Forster, John, 1812-1876
2 ALS, 26 May and 20 June 1853, to My dear Reeve, allowing him to attach his name to the paper, and enclosing contribution for the Marochetti statue.

Box: 2A Folder 95
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 1860-1929
ALS, 20 March 1900, to Mrs. Bayse, enclosing money for her organ fund; ALS, 21 February 1901, to Miss Bacon, enclosing a photograph of herself at age four, requesting its return, and the number of the Strand when the article appears.

Box: 2A Folder 96
Frankau, Gilbert, 1884-1952
TPS, 10 January 1921, to Mr. Meredith Starr, agreeing to an interview.

Box: 2A Folder 97
Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892
ALS, 20 December 1875, to Dearest Eleanor, telling her he bought the Shepton horse and will have to write an extra article; signature and a few words clipped from the bottom of a letter.

Box: 2A Folder 98
Freeman, John, 1880-1929
ANS, 20 January n.y., to [John Collings] Squire, glad that Squire has all of his books and enclosing the latest.

Box: 2A Folder 99
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894
21 ALS, 1864-1869, to Hayward, about his writings, politics, and reviews.

Box: 2A Folder 100
Fry, Charles Burgess, 1872-1956
8 ALS, 1934-1953, to Clifford Bax, seeking a poem, "The Goat" by Heredia, opinions about World War II, and personal news; AMs poem, "India Jai Hai" (published May 1947 in The Times).

Box: 2A Folder 101
Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934
ALS, 20 June 1928, to Dear Sir, thanking him for a Fry family genealogical pamphlet.

Box: 2A Folders 102-104
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925
57 ALS and pen-and-ink drawings, 1885-1901, to Sir Robert Hunter and Lady Hunter: intimate letters containing humorous sketches.

Box: 2A Folder 105
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910
ALS, 30 November 1864 and 22 January 1892, to Rossetti, about not altering Rossetti's work, the Early English Text Society, and asking him to tea.

Authors, G

Authors, G

Box: 2A Folder 106
Gabell, Henry, 1764-1831
ALS, 24 July 1816, to Mrs. Hawkes, noting her grandson's proficiency in literature, with Winchester College School account for Messrs. Wades; ALS, 22 December 1816, to F. Burrows, requesting payment of fees for Messrs. Wades as instructed by Mrs. Hawkes, with Winchester College School account for them.

Box: 2A Folder 107
Gairdner, James, 1828-1912
2 ALS, 3 May 1900 and 7 January 1903, to Mr. Hovenden, enclosing the Camden Society's annual subscription to the Royal Historical Society.

Box: 2A Folder 108
Gallon, Tom, 1866-1914
2 ALS, 23 April and 10 May 1901, to Gordon Browne, about Browne illustrating Gallon's book, The Man Who Knew Better; ALS, 18 April 1907, requesting tickets for Fielding Dinner and to sit with their friends Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Burgin.

Box: 2A Folder 109
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
ALS, 9 June 1923, to [Elliot L.] Grant Watson, thanking him for the gift of his book and criticizing it.

Box: 2A Folder 110
Galt, John, 1779-1839
ALS, Friday, to J. M___, agreeing to send a copy of his book to be reviewed; AMs, "Chapter 13," single page; caricature portrait published by James Fraser; engraved portrait, engraved by G.B. Shaw.

Box: 2A Folder 111
Ganz, Wm. (Wilhelm)
ALS, 7 April 1880, to William Alexander Barrett, enclosing a program; ALS, 17 May 1880, to William Alexander Barrett, enclosing a biography written by the singer; ALS, 4 June 1880, to William Alexander Barrett, about a concert and lists the schedule.

Box: 2A Folder 112
Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George), 1865-1946
6 ALS, 1907-1915, to My dear Helen, containing personal news, condolences on the death of her mother, returning a manuscript, expressing his loneliness, thanks her for an inscription to him for their friendship, and mentioning his work.

Box: 2A Folder 113
Gardiner, H. Balfour (Henry Balfour), 1877-1950
ALS, 9 October 1925, to Clifford Bax, praising Inland Far and planning to re-read it.

Box: 2A Folder 114
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, 1829-1902
ALS, 28 February 1901, to My dear Hall, forwarding Bowman's first year's subscription.

Box: 2A Folder 115
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
ANS, 12 October 1864, sending his autograph to a young lady who asked for it. In Italian. Also, carte-de-visite photograph of Garibaldi.

Box: 2A Folder 116
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937
ALS, 30 September 1913, to [Elliot L.] Grant Watson, congratulating him on his story but fears that Duckworth and Co. will not publish it despite his recommendation because it is too strong for most people and would not be popular.

Box: 2A Folder 117
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906
3 ALS: 26 December [1871], to Rossetti, informing him of the author of two poems, and asking him to tell Miss [Christina Georgina] Rossetti that he received the book by Cecco d'Ascoli; 26 January 1889, to Mrs. Graham T___, regretting that he cannot identify anything derived from the Greek anthology in the edition of Herrick; 26 February 1890, to Messrs. Meehan, returning their invoices for a fair copy with a list of the book titles. Also, three photographic reproductions (two from magazines) and one color caricature of Garnett in Vanity Fair, 11 April 1895.

Box: 2A Folder 118
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
ALS fragment, [paper watermarked 1826], noting that it is impossible to write off one's mind in a 1d letter; reproduction sketch portrait.

Box: 2A Folder 119
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
2 ALS: 31 December 1901 and 3 January 1903, to R[obert] Hovenden, enclosing a check for the Royal Historical Society.

Box: 2A Folder 120
Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970
2 ALS: 20 September 1938, to Miss Watt, returning her letters that he copied, and mentioning that his Fifty Years of Modern Verse is getting strikingly unsympathetic reviews and does not sell; 4 June 1947, to Mr. Waring, asking for the loan of M.P. Shiel's letters to him and transcriptions of any inscriptions by Shiel in his books.

Box: 2A Folder 121
George, Walter Lionel, 1882-1926
ANS, 1915, "being interned in the Ministry of Munitions I cannot see my friends. So I send you a Christmas card." On page torn from a book.

Box: 2A Folder 122
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
ALS, 10 March 1906, to My dear [C.] Grove, asking him to arrange for the appointment of young Lord Vivian to the 17th Lancers.

Box: 2A Folder 123
Gibbon, Charles, 1843-1890
ALS, 27 October 1884, to Thomas Gibbons, sending anniversary greetings, and commenting that his story, "Heart's Delight," will appear in several named newspapers.

Box: 2A Folder 124
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, 1878-1962
ALS, 29 April 1928, to Mr. Waring, thanking him for writing about his poem, and noting that he is new to Letchworth, has not met Mr. Westill but Mr. Dudley is his neighbor; corrected galley proofs of his poem, "The Oven," to be published in English Review (stamped 8 June 1912).

Box: 2A Folder 125
Gifford, William, 1756-1826
ALS, n.d., quoting a motto from Ovid, and inviting the recipient to come and look at the variety of works by Bacchus and Psyche; signature clipped from the bottom of a letter, November 1821; engraved portrait, 1827, from Gentleman's Magazine; engraved portrait by E. Finden printed by W.H. Watts; engraved portrait by S. Freeman from a painting by J. Hoppner.

Box: 2A Folder 126
Gigout, Eugene, 1844-1925
ANS, 6 July 1920, to A.M. Henderson, on visiting card, referring to a concert and enclosing a program on which he has made several notes, with envelope. In French.

Box: 2A Folder 127
Gilbert, Alfred, 1854-1934
ALS (dictated, but signed with a quill), 12 November 1895, to the Venerable Archdeacon Watkin, asking him to lend ecclesiastical objects for an art exhibition at the Royal Academy; ALS fragment (dictated, but signed with a quill), n.d., expressing his distaste for undue publicity given to trifles in art and offering to design an initial letter for the first word of the recipient's article.

Box: 2A Folder 128
Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897
ANS, Sunday 14th, n.y., to Edward Goodall, asking him to meet himself and Mr. A.D. Fripp at the gallery to discuss arrangements for Tuesday evening; signature clipped from letter agreeing to attend the next meeting of the 'Gilbert' Sketching Club at St. Martin School of Art.

Box: 2A Folder 129
Gilchrist, Murray, 1868-1917
ANS, stamped 18 December 1907, "with R. Murray Gilchrist's compliments."

Box: 2A Folder 130
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940
TMsS, "Canon Gray," 4 p., with corrections, unpublished appreciation of poet John Gray; sketch, 18 March 1940, of lettering for a memorial stone for Dorothy Rutherford (ink over pencil); lower-case alphabet and numbers, 10 June 1929, with artist's instructions.

Box: 2A Folder 131
Gleig, G. R. (George Robert), 1796-1888
ALS, 22 August 1829, to Sir Egerton Brydges, encouraging him to write and publish, and with news of mutual friends; ALS, 28 November 1855, to Lady Clanwilliam, asking if she will be at Deal on Monday the 3rd and if she will put up with him for a day or two; caricature portrait published by James Fraser.

Box: 2A Folder 132
Godwin, William, 1756-1836
ANS, 19 October 1809, to James Northcote, inviting him to dinner; promissory note, 28 January 1811, to Mr. J.S. Fisher (endorsed on verso); signature, 13 May 1823, "Campbell. Lives of the Admirals. Volume containing Blake;" caricature published by James Fraser (2 copies); engraved portrait by Ridley from a drawing by Lawrence, published by Vernor and Hood, 31 January 1803.

Box: 2A Folder 133
Goldring, Douglas, 1887-
ALS, 30 September 1927, agreeing to autograph the recipient's copy of The Fortune, noting that it is his favorite and, being out of print, now rare, and mentions the forthcoming publication of his new novel, The Facade.

Box: 2A Folder 134
Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885
Signature clipped from a letter, with his seal (damaged); intact impression of seal with explanatory note in the hand of A.P. Watt.

Box: 2A Folder 135
Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924
ALS, 18 October 1900, to Miss Smart, thanking her for a monetary gift for the School for the Blind at Peking, and describes the duplicity of the Chinese authorities in the massacre of blind men during the siege of Peking.

Box: 2A Folder 136
Gore, Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances), 1799-1861
2 ALS, [postmarked 13 December 1843] and n.d., to George Cruikshank, thanking him for executing her commission, complaining about how poorly Mr. Mortimer has treated her, and that Mr. Ainsworth never answered her letters; noting there was a costume of a Bighyn in the Illustrated News at the time of the Queen's visit, and offers alternative subjects for him.

Box: 2A Folder 137
Gosse, Edmund, 1845-1928
10 ALS, 1876-1929, to Rossetti, Parry, Rogers, Birrell, and Ralston, about his and their writing; five photographs of him at various stages of his life.

Box: 2A Folder 138
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893
ALS, 16 July 1869, regretting that a recent visit turned out to be a sad and painful one for his guest; ALS, 8 October 1877, to General Lebrun, interceding for a young cadet officer who wishes to be posted to his regiment. Both in French.

Box: 2B Folder 139
Graeme, Bruce, 1900-
TLS, 22 October 1955, providing the list of the [character Theodore I.] Terhune titles in order of publication, most of which are out-of-print.

Box: 2B Folder 140
Grand, Sarah
8 ALS, 1890-1921: She writes five letters to Meredith Starr (who interviewed her for his book, The Future of the Novel, Famous Authors on Their Methods; Series of Interviews with Renowned Authors), January-March 1921, concerning his coming to interview her, notes on The Future of the Novel, returning her interview unaltered, commenting on and returning his essays on mysticism, and her difficulties in planning a trip to Germany. She writes to Mr. [Edward John] Goodman, 9 April 1890, praising his book, Too Curious, and arranging for him to visit her; to Mrs. Royce, 17 June 1894, declining an invitation; to Louis N. Parker, 9 April 1908, sending him the American edition of Babs the Impossible.

Box: 2B Folder 141
Grant, James, 1822-1887
ALS, 12 January 1836, to the Editor of Tait's Magazine, advising him that he is the author of Random Recollections of the House of Commons and asking him to insert a letter in the correspondence column to correct some misconceptions by the reviewer.

Box: 2B Folder 142
Grant Duff, Mountstuart E. (Mountstuart Elphinstone), Sir, 1829-1906
ANS, 19 November 1897, to Mr. [Robert] Hovenden, thanking him for an introductory note to a bank; signature clipped from the foot of a letter; color caricature of Grant Duff, Vanity Fair, 2 October 1869.

Box: 2B Folder 143
Granville, Granville Leveson Gower, Earl, 1773-1846
ANS, 10 March, 1790, to Sir, requesting Leigh's juvenile poems from their catalogue.

Box: 2B Folder 144
Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946
ALS, 20 January 1908, to Miss Crowdace, offering to rent a summer cottage.

Box: 2B Folder 145
Grattan, H. P. (Henry Plunkett), 1808-1889
ALS, 18 December 1840, to Dear Sir, about finances; cover, 11 June 1815, clipped from letter, to banker Thomas Coutts; cover, 16 June 1837, to Clement T. Smythe, Town Clerk, Maidstone.

Box: 2B Folder 146
Grattan, Henry, 1746-1820
2 engraved portraits: 1 December 1810, engraved by J. Godby from an original drawing by A. Pope, published by T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London; 3 May 1823 engraved by R. J. West, published by J. Robins and Co., London.

Box: 2B Folder 147
Grattan, Thomas Colley, 1792-1864
ALS, 6 April 1838, to publisher John Murray, introducing Dr. Hartwig as a talented German scholar wanting to publish one of Goethe's plays; two engraved portraits, 1831 and 1853.

Box: 2B Folder 148
Gray, Maxwell, d. 1923
ALS, 16 November 1889, to Dear Sir, concerning her terms for submitting the manuscript of her next long story to Mr. Gosse. Signed M.G. Tuttiett.

Box: 2B Folder 149
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
2 pencil sketches, one young woman, two children [matted and framed].

Box: 2B Folder 150
Gregory, Barnard, 1796-1852
ALS, 28 August 1846, to Benjamin Webster, extending an agreement with the lessee of the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Box: 2B Folder 151
Gregory, Lady, 1859-1932
Printed I.P.A. receipt postal card, signed, 12 January 1931.

Box: 2B Folder 152
Grenville, Thomas, 1755-1846
11 ALS, 1795-1831, n.d.: 6 ALS, 1795-1801, n.d., to Major General Ross, about military affairs; 2 ALS, 1831, n.d., to Lady Dover, about the health of her family; two engraved portraits, 1808 and 1840.

Box: 2B Folder 153
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
ALS, 13 September 1787, to Dear Sir, about the ship Africa; ALS, 19 October 1806, to Mr. Jarvis, about a request Jarvis had of Grenville; engraved portrait by F. A. Dean.

Box: 2B Folder 154
Greville, Violet, Lady, 1842-1932
ALS, 19 March n.y., to Dear Sir, complaining that Josie, A Tale is being advertised every day in the papers and her novel is not; ALS, 19 December n.y., to Dear Sir, agreeing to let him publish Scattered Souls under her name if it is likely to improve the sale.

Box: 2B Folder 155
Grey, Maria Georgina Shirreff
ALS, Tuesday, April 13, n.y., to Lady Bell, soliciting aid on behalf of a poor old lady.

Box: 2B Folder 156
Gribble, Francis Henry, 1862-1946
ALS, 17 March 1899, to [William Morris] Colles, concerning publisher Putnam selling and remaindering simultaneously and not crediting him with remaindered books' sales; with a penciled note by Colles noting that Putnam has not replied to his queries.

Box: 2B Folder 157
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907
ANS, 15 May 1906, to the violinist Wolff. In German.

Box: 2B Folder 158
Griffin, William Hall
ALS, 3 November 1891, to Dear Sir, thanking him for a sketch and Brainey's letter, and promising to find a photograph of a medallion in Italy.

Box: 2B Folder 159
Griffith, Anne
ALS, 31 August 1821, to her brother, with news of mutual friends.

Box: 2B Folder 160
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
ALS, 3 April 1790, to Isaac Reed, requesting that he return one of Grose's books; three pages of his diary, December 1776; line drawing full portrait by F. Bartolezzi, 1787.

Box: 2B Folder 161
Grote, George, 1794-1871
ALS, 27 May n.y., to Geo. Lee, acknowledging that he is not again offering himself as a candidate to represent the city; with separate addressed fragment.

Box: 2B Folder 162
Grover, Jos.
ALS, 14 September 1814, to Mr. Bawtry, inquiring if he has been successful in locating his brother Thomas Grover in Kentucky who has inherited a legacy.

Box: 2B Folder 163
Grundy, Sydney, 1848-1914
ALS, 31 December 1897, to [Louis Napoleon] Parker, about [Lionel] Brough being in India with "Costello" in his repertory, and Brough's concerns with unauthorized performances.

Box: 2B Folder 164
Gubsky, M.
ALS, n.d. [pre-1953], suggesting authors and the titles of their books that he might want to translate from Russian.

Authors, H

Authors, H

Box: 2B Folder 165
Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
ALS, 24 August 1891, to Dear Sir, declining an invitation to subscribe to the Marlowe memorial; TLS, 8 April 1901, to W.R.M. Thwaites, declining an invitation to a banquet because of his travels; signature clipped from the foot of a letter, with a few lines; to Archdeacon T. Stevens, signature clipped from the foot of a letter; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 21 May 1887; photo by E.O. Hoppe clipped from magazine.

Box: 2B Folder 166
Hale, John W. (John Wesley), 1836-1914
AN [third person], 31 December 1901, to Historical Society, sending a subscription for 1902.

Box: 2B Folder 167
Halévy, Ludovic, 1834-1908
One line, in French, written on his visiting card, initialed.

Box: 2B Folder 168
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865
ALS, 17 October 1859, to My dear sir, accepting an invitation to a lecture by Mr. Owen; ALS, 22 August 1861, to [his son] Arthur Haliburton, with family news, with envelope; holograph memorandum on House of Commons notepaper asking if members of Parliament who lose their seats become cherubim; ALS fragment, n.d., notifying recipient that he has moved into town; 10 April 1860, signature clipped from foot of letter; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall; line drawing clipped from magazine.

Box: 2B Folder 169
Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881
ALS, 1 January 1862, to Mrs. Heath, with news of weddings and balls, and suggests they get together for something amusing.

Box: 2B Folder 170
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889
ALS, 27 May n.y., to E. Moran, Globe Office, requesting that he slip in an extract about Mrs. Hall's purpose in writing; ALS, 30 June n.y., to My dear sir, regretting he will not be able to review a book since he will be retiring soon from the Art Journal after forty-two years; ALS, 1 July n.y. [between 1880 and 1883], remarking on his imminent retirement, having published his last book in 1880 and his first in 1820, but planning a work, the "Recollections of a Long Life" [published as Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815 to 1883]; 10 October n.y., to Dear Sir, agreeing to accept art news from his friend in Rome but regrets he cannot pay much.

Box: 2B Folder 171
Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859
ALS fragment, n.d., mentioning his return from a visit to Bowood; ink drawn print portrait captioned, "unpublished and not identified."

Box: 2B Folder 172
Hallam, Henry Fitzmaurice, 1824-1850
AMsS [initials] poem, "To a Lady who detain'd the Author's watch as a pledge for some verses in her Album..."; AMsS [initials] poem, "sweet vales and mountain streams, adieu!...," beneath a wash drawing of a mountain boating scene mounted on the page.

Box: 2B Folder 173
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
ALS, 14 August 1859, to Dear Sir, thanking him for sending a copy of Wanderings in North Wales and asking if he has Miss [Louisa Stuart] Costello's work, [Falls, Lakes, and Mountains of North Wales].

Box: 2B Folder 174
Hamilton, H. B. Hans (Henry Best Hans), 1850-1935
AN third person, 15 April 1901, accepting an invitation from the Sheffield and District Press Club.

Box: 2B Folder 175
Hankin, St. John Emile Clavering, 1869-1909
APS, 2 August 1904, to Bernard Watkin, noting that he has the manuscripts of The Colon and Linda, and asks Watkin not to send back the copy of Come le Foglie since the whole council has not considered it yet; ALS, 1 December 1904, to Bernard Watkin, asking for the opinion of the whole council on Le Trois Filles, Street's play, and George Egerton's; APS, 9 March 1905, to Bernard Watkin, asking that he send The Inspector General to the council for rapid consideration; ALS, 8 November n.y., to John Drinkwater, noting that he just finished reading his play and, while he likes it, he offers criticism of a particular incident on p. 15.

Box: 2B Folder 176
Hannay, James, 1827-1873
ALS, 30 September 1852, to [John Chapman], inquiring about reviewing for the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review; receipt, September 1852, for payment for an article in Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review; receipt, 8 July 1853, for payment for an article in Westminster Review; ALS, 4 July 1866, to Dr. John Chapman, asking permission to reprint his articles from Westminster Review in a volume of miscellanies.

Box: 3 Folder 1
Hardy, William John, 1857-1919
ALS, 27 February 1901, to [Robert] Hovenden, hoping to see him at Hardy's lecture.

Box: 3 Folder 2
Hargrove, Alfred E.
ALS, 25 March 1882, to Dear Sir, enclosing nine sheets of Thomas Gent's own works; ALS, 10 April 1882, to H[enry] B[enjamin] Wheatley, enclosing a seventeen-page manuscript about printer Thomas Gent.

Box: 3 Folder 2
Hargrove, William, 1788-1862
ALS, 8 September 1846, to Charles Roach Smith, asking for the return of some of his museum pieces, comments on some relics, and requests credit for a drawing, if used, to his son William Wallace Hargrove; ALS, 15 October 1846, to E[dmund] T[yrell] Artis, notifying him that the Yorkshire Philosophical Society will take a portion of his museum at an agreed upon value as suggested by valuers chosen by him and the society, and asking him if he will serve; ALS, 17 October 1846, to E[dmund] T[yrell] Artis, thanking him for agreeing to be a valuer and notifying him that once the society selects a valuer then the two valuers must choose an umpire, with envelope and seal.

Box: 3 Folder 4
Harland, Henry, 1861-1905
ALS, 2 August 1894, to Gilchrist, agreeing to send a copy of the Yellow Book [which Harland edited], and his plans to leave for the Lake Country.

Box: 3 Folder 5
Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936
2 ALS and 1 APS, 1 and 11 June n.y., and Monday, to Miss Bacon, about her housing needs, health, and plans for meeting.

Box: 3 Folder 6
Harris, William Henry, 1883-1973
ALS, 13 November 1934, to Mrs. Henderson, mentioning his visit with her and her husband in Glasgow and promising to send her husband the [Henry] Purcell "Chaconne" and some other anthems he has done lately.

Box: 3 Folder 7
Harrison, Clifford
3 ALS, 27 June, 24 September, 19 October 1902, to Clifford [Bax], about a lecturer's sing-song delivery, that he doesn't read poetry but concentrates on his music and art, socialism's impatience at the slow work of evolution, acting is as complex an art as drawing or music, encourages Bax to write his epic and notes that many writers and composers create much more than they publish.

Box: 3 Folder 8
Harvey, Elizabeth, b. 1760
ALS, 1 M__ 1710, to Jean De la Rue, hoping that Mr. Morando would send her silver to her, she is living in the country but will spend the next winter in Paris. In French. Small engraved portrait.

Box: 3 Folder 9
Hawker, Robert Stephen, 1803?-1875
ALS, 7 June 1855, to William Brimacombe, requesting parish financial information; stamped envelope addressed to J.H. Blight, cancelled 24 November 1857, with seal and franked with Hawker's initials.

Box: 3 Folder 10
Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862
ALS, 2 June 1853, to Henry Ruve, sending regrets for not being able to attend to an affair in Willis's rooms on 7 June.

Box: 3 Folder 11
Hayley, William, 1745-1820
Holograph poem on ALS, 15 February n.y., from M. Ashton requesting a epitaph for her late husband; initialed signature clipped from foot of letter; engraved portrait.

Box: 3 Folder 12
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
ALS, 24 January, 1843, to Editor of the Sunderland and Durham County Herald, enclosing a note [not extant] to be inserted in the next publication and proposing to write an article about the safety lamp; reproduction portrait from a crayon drawing by W. Bewick.

Box: 3 Folder 13
Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913
ALS, 4 March 1853, to Edward Herford, promising to submit a suitable article to the Constitutional when a subject occurs to him; ALS, 29 March 1867, to John Brent, requesting assistance in locating the manuscript for a book, The Black Book of Canterbury.

Box: 3 Folder 14
Heathcote, Ralph, 1721-1795
ALS, 20 May 1812, to Mr. Cameron, inquiring if they shipped the goods to his brother in March; integral reply that she sent the box to Major Heathcote via the Ralph Nicholson (Ship) for Montreal and Quebec and requests that he pay the bill of lading.

Box: 3 Folder 15
Heber, Reginald, 1783-1826
ADS, 7 December 1796, attesting that three relatives were alive on 10 October 1796; AMsS, 1804, poem "Palestine" [won Oxford prize, 1803, published 1809]; engraved portrait by T. Woolnoth from a painting by T. Philips.

Box: 3 Folder 16
Hedin, Sven Anders, 1750-1821
Cabinet photograph, signed, April 1891. Photographer Selma Jacobsson, Stockholm.

Box: 3 Folder 17
Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875
ALS, 11 January 1838, to N[icholas] Carlisle, at the direction of the Chancellor of the Exchequer he thanks Carlisle for a memoir of Mr. Wyon; ALS, 24 February 1869, to [William Ralston Shedden Ralston], thanking him for sending his translation of [Ivan Andreevich] Krylov's Fables; ANS initials, n.d., to Lady Augusta Stanley, accepting a dinner invitation; color caricature portrait, Vanity Fair, 15 August 1874.

Box: 3 Folder 18
Henschel, George, Sir, 1850-1934
18 ALS and 3 APS, 1907-1933, to A.M. [Archibald Martin] Henderson, on musical and personal topics.

Box: 3 Folders 19-22
Heron-Allen, Edward, 1861-1943
5 ALS, 1919, to J. Gilmer, Author's Syndicate, about the success of his stories, the form of his name for publication, and the use of the pseudonym Florian; AMsS, "Into the Middle of Next Week and Further" (short story); carbon TMs, "A Conflict of Elements, A Comedietta in One Act," 1888; TMs, "Ashes of the Future (A Study of Mere Human Nature): The Suicide of Sylvester Gray," 1888; published version, Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke and Company,1888; AMs, "A Perfect Plot," 1889; AMsS, "Blazee Ballades," 1889 (bound in ALS from George Moore to Augustus Moore recommending the book for publishing); ALS, 10 September 1889, from J[ohn] T[rivett] Nettleship thanking Heron-Allen for the delightful ballade; ALS, 14 November 1889, from Herbert Reeve, about a ballade in the Friar's News; ALS, Sunday n.d., from Alfred Ward, appreciating his little joke; TLS, 22 November 1889, commenting on a ballade and declining an invitation to dinner.

Box: 3 Folder 23
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923
ALS, 2 December 1911, to [William Morris] Colles, authorizing a typewritten copy of his "Ariadne," indicating cuts, and comments on Miss Olive.

Box: 3 Folder 24
Hey, Richard, 1745-1835
AMsS, 9 December 1808, introduction to a volume, and commenting on his two printed Dialogues; engraved portrait.

Box: 3 Folder 25
Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950
Autographed quotation from his novel, The Garden of Allah.

Box: 3 Folder 26
Hiles, Henry, 1826-1904
ALS, 4 February n.y., to William Alexander Barrett, asking if he is acquainted with Dr. Crotch's charts and can he ascribe four bars of music to him.

Box: 3 Folder 27
Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903
ALS, 23 November 1895, to [William Michael] Rossetti, looking forward to seeing Allingham's letters from Rossetti's brother [Dante Gabriel Rossetti]. Annotated by Rossetti, 30 November, that he sent nineteen letters, 1854-1870.

Box: 3 Folder 28
Hill, Peter
APS, 25 May 1940, to Clifford Bax, going back to France and worried that if anything happens he'll try to get through to Bax and M[eum Stewart] using only things that his wife and he know as tests, and asks Bax to help his wife spiritually if anything happens to him. With envelope inscribed by Bax, "letter from Peter Hill, 27-5-40, not to be opened until after his death."

Box: 3 Folder 29
Hiller, Ferdinand, 1811-1885
16 ALS, 1853-1882, to [Salvatore] Marchesi, [cavaliere di Castrone], on musical matters. In French, German, and Italian.

Box: 3 Folder 30
Hine, Muriel
2 ALS, 6 January and 31 December 1920, to Mr. Starr, looking forward to seeing him, comments on his verses published last night, and inviting him to tea.

Box: 11-12
Hipkins, Alfred J. (Alfred James), 1826-1903
7 volumes of collected photographs, clippings from journals, manuscripts, manuscript notes, memoranda, diaries, and exercise books compiled by his daughter, Edith J. Hipkins, 1867-1896.

Box: 3 Folder 31
Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758-1838
ALS, 1 January 1810, to Reverend Richard Warner, about the death of William Cunnington, his dedication to him in the first volume of Hoare's book, and with a proposed wording for a memorial to Cunnington in the church.

Box: 3 Folders 32-34
Hobbes, John Oliver, 1867-1906
AMs, "From Kalliste in Exile," 7 pp. edited; partial AMs, The Sinner's Comedy (published 1892); 6 letters, 1898-1906, about her writings, recommendation for an acquaintance, length of her new book, and the value of South London property.

Box: 3 Folder 35
Hodgson, William Hope, 1875-1915
ALS, 30 May 1912, to Mr. Tinney, sending a copy of his novel, The Night Land.

Box: 3 Folder 36
Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara), 1770-1844
ALS, January 1830, to John Smith of Gray's Inn, thanking him for sending his book, A Month in France and Switzerland, During the Autumn of 1824.

Box: 3 Folder 37
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
ALS, 1 January 1865, to Dr. Lombard, inviting him to meet with Dr. Ellis at Holmes' house.

Box: 3 Folder 38
Holmes, Richard R. (Richard Rivington), Sir, 1835-1911
ALS, 21 February 1884, to bookseller [Charles] Hutt, asking for four books from his catalogue on approval.

Box: 3 Folder 39
Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934
7 ALS, ca. 1922-1929, n.d., to Clifford Bax, concerning his travels to Perugia, anticipating meeting Helen Waddell, an idea to make a chamber opera from The Wandering Scholar [libretto by Bax, music by Holst, founded on incident in Helen Waddell's The Wandering Scholars]; with two staffs of mss. music mentioned in the 24 December letter.

Box: 3A Folder 40
Home, John, 1722-1808
ALS, 13 January n.y., to My dear John, about finances; three engraved portraits, 1799-1804.

Box: 3A Folder 41
Hood, Tom, 1835-1874
ALS, 22 June 1865, to S.C. Hall, noting that he would like to use the lines but Punch already used them, and comments on the improvement of the weekly periodical, Fun, which Hood edits; ALS, n.d., to [W. Teignmouth] Shore apologizing for not seeing him, he will be attending William Harvey's funeral, and bringing his autograph requested by Miss Josephine Owen; ALS, n.d., to Mr. Lacy, asking him to give the bearer a copy of Charles the Bold, a play produced at Covent Garden in 1815 for Miss Kelly.

Box: 3A Folder 42
Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841
ALS, Monday, n.d. [ca. 1817-1841], to William Jerdan [editor of the Literary Gazette] enclosing the paper on "Dry Rot;" ALS, Thursday, n.d. [ca. 1833/34], to My dear sir, praising his "Scotch Chambermaid" and noting that he based one of the chapters in his novel Jack Brag on the same incident; engraved portrait, 1842.

Box: 3A Folder 43
Hogg, James, 1830-1910
ALS, 12 November 1895, to William Morris Colles, Secretary of the Society of Authors, wishing to republish a story by Eden Phillpotts, possibly in The Christian World, and discusses copyright ownership.

Box: 3A Folder 44
Hooton, Charles, 1813?-1847
ALS, 6 January 1846, to his uncle W.C. Ellis, apologizing for keeping his publications but ill health prevented him from returning them, and mentions that Mr. Ainsworth is anxious for a ballad from him for next month.

Box: 3A Folder 45
Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933
ANS, n.d., to the Hon. Secretary of the Sheffield and District Press Club, declining an invitation; color caricature portrait from Vanity Fair, 26 December 1895.

Box: 3A Folder 46
Hopkins, Robert Thurston, 1884-
ALS, 11 December 1929, to Dear Sir, thanking him for a letter and sending him one of Hopkins' books that deals with sheep bells.

Box: 3A Folder 47
Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884
ALS, 2 March 1870, to Mr. Scott, printer, with instructions for sending copies of his Death of Marlowe to Australia, with copies to Mr. Gray for Mr. Robertson, and one hundred to himself; engraved portrait from a daguerreotype by Paine of Islington.

Box: 3A Folder 48
Horne, Thomas Hartwell, 1780-1862
ALS, postmarked 6 February 1824, to his publisher [Thomas] Cadell, about reprinting two sections from one of his books at the request of Mr. Lloyd; with integral note by Cadell that he informed Lloyd he had no objections.

Box: 3A Folder 49
Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957
ALS, 30 May n.y., to Dear Friend, thanking him for liking his memoirs and sharing news of his family; 3 ACS, n.d., thanking Dear Friend for remembrance, sympathy, and holiday greetings; CS, n.d., sympathy card signed Magda Horthy; ANS, n.d., thanks for kind remembrance; photograph of Horthy clipped from magazine.

Box: 3A Folder 50
Hosack, John, 1809-1887
ALS, 22 July 1872, to My dear sir, requesting the correct address for the Misses Sandemans to call on them.

Box: 3A Folder 51
Hosea, M.
ALS, December [ca. 1780-1789], to Mr. Wingate at Mr. [Charles] Nourse, bookseller, on the Strand, sending two books to be bound.

Box: 3A Folder 52
Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812-1876
ALS, 16 April 1853, to Edward Herford, agreeing to see a copy of the Constitutional and to know the objects of the periodical; ALS, 25 December, n.y., to Dr. Holmes, making an appointment for treating his left vocal cord.

Box: 3A Folder 53
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885
ALS, 4 November [1865], to My dear Sir, thanking him for his proposition to dedicate his new poem to him.

Box: 3A Folder 54
Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959
ALS, n.d., to his French translator [Henry-D.] Davray, explaining the meaning of certain words and phrases; ANS, 3 January 1949, to Dear Sir, answering his request for an autograph but declining to send any letters from Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, or George Meredith.

Box: 3A Folder 55
Howard, Joseph Jackson, 1827-1902
ALS, 20 May 1861, to John Gough Nicholas, providing genealogical information on the Robert Chester line; ALS, 19 June 1861, to My dear sir, providing information about the Lovett shield; ALS, Wednesday, n.d., to My dear sir, requesting genealogical information about the White family of London.

Box: 3A Folder 56
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888
ALS, 7 July 1852, copy of a public letter to be published advertising The Dial of Love, a new periodical for children which she is editing; ALS, 10 December n.y., to publishers Bohn and Griffiin, requesting a copy of a juvenile volume which they are publishing that contains stories by her; ALS, Tuesday n.d., to Madam, having no objection to her publishing Howitt's words but reminding her that the poem has already been set to music two or three times; engraved portrait.

Box: 3A Folder 57
Howitt, William, 1792-1879
ALS, 29 April 1851, to T[homas] K[ibble] Hervey, thanking him for an announcement.

Box: 3A Folder 58
Hoyle, Charles, 1772 or 3-1848
AMsS, 4 October 1832, to Gentlemen, Hoyle's poem, "Carmen Seculare" from an unpublished poem called "Ameurin in Cambria," submitted to their magazine.

Box: 3A Folder 59
Hughes, Donald
ALS, 17 March 1953, to Lady Margaret Sackville, praising her booklet of flower poems, and noting that he will be giving half-hour recitals of home-made verse at schools.

Box: 3A Folder 60
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Brief inscription, signed with his initials, V.H.

Box: 3A Folder 61
Hullah, John, 1812-1884
ALS, 7 May 1872, to William Alexander Barrett, only the training schools are to be examined this year and the only assistance will be needed for inspecting paperwork for which help he will be grateful; ALS, 17 February 1880, to William Alexander Barrett, thanking him for the stalls, he has not yet heard the opera, and inviting him to dine and chat.

Box: 3A Folder 62
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
ALS, 23 June 1835, to R.B. Peake, requesting that the English Opera Company stage his farce, "The Family Friend," and asking for a fee; ALS, to My dear sir, 28 June [1856], discussing the use of the word "sensuous;" pen-and-ink print full-length portrait of Hunt by A. Croquis.

Box: 13
Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942
9 notebooks and account books, notes, signed pencil drawing of Margaret Sackville West, 1910-1931.

Box: 3A Folder 63
Husk, William Henry, 1814-1887
ALS, 10 November 1875, to [George] Grove, referring to the orthography of P. Humphrey, and sends corrected proofs and an article on The Beggar's Opera.

Box: 3A Folder 64
Hutton, Catherine, 1756-1846
ALS, 19 January 1829, to Thomas Thompson, discussing autographs she has collected; engraved portrait by William Read, 1824.

Box: 3A Folder 65
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
ALS, 4 November 1930, to Mr. [Ralph David] Blumenfeld, discussing how science can become a religion, commenting on a Russian film, Earth, and critiquing one of Blumenfeld's stories.

Box: 3A Folder 66
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
ANS (initials), 31 December 1920, New Year's greetings on notecard.

Box: 3A Folder 67
Hyde, Douglas
ALS, 12 April 1894, to Fred Kirk, concerning the interest in Irish literature among the English at Leicester.

Box: 3A Folder 68
Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright, 1866-1944
APS, 15 October 1904, to [William Morris] Colles, "I am still open to writing a continuous novel at a lesser rate. But short stories take much more doing." ALS, 20 September 1942, to Dear Carter, with an unflattering description of George Augustus Sala.

Authors, I

Authors, I

Box: 3A Folder 69
Ingram, John Henry, 1842-1916
2 ALS, 19 and 21 January 1904, to J.H. Slater, requesting information on the death of Marlowe's killer, Archer.

Box: 3A Folder 70
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
ALS, 9 December 1883, to Mrs. Herford, inquiring about the health of her husband [Edward] and family; ALS, 15 December 1887, to Edward Herford, detailing his literary publications since leaving The Examiner.

Box: 3A Folder 71
Ireland, John, 1879-1962
ALS, 19 October 1953, to Clifford Bax, with sympathy on the death of [his brother] composer Arnold Bax.

Box: 3A Folder 72
Ireland, Thomas
AD, proposal for a history of all times, 24 April 1837.

Box: 3A Folder 73
Irving, Henry Brodribb, 1870-1919
ALS, 1 July 1902, on Lyceum Theatre letterhead, to Miss Ferguson (?), acknowledging her proposed visit.

Authors, J

Authors, J

Box: 3A Folder 74
Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948
Autograph inscription to A.J.A. Symons, 26 November, on removed endpaper from William Morris, 1926; clipped signature from typed letter.

Box: 3A Folder 75
Jacobi, Hermann, 1850-1937
ALS, 14 December 1890, to Dear Sir, referring to his correspondent's Sanskrit studies and some of his own translations.

Box: 3A Folder 76
James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860
3 September 1856, to My Dear Vincent, from the British Consulate, Richmond, Virginia, about his ill health, the yellow fever epidemic at Norfolk, detailed news about a mutual friend Walter who was attacked by Indians under the influence of alcohol, and mentioning the impending disunion between the North and South.

Box: 3A Folder 77
James, Henry, 1843-1916
ALS, 5 January 1880, to Mr. Osgood, sending the proofs of his novel, Confidence, offering sympathy for the fire that destroyed the publisher's building and hopes that the plates were not damaged; ALS, 18 April [1880], to My dear Grove [editor of Macmillan's], asking to postpone publishing his serial, Washington Square, because he is publishing Daisy Miller in the Cornhill as he is "accused of crowding my productions too much."

Box: 3A Folder 78
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860
ALS, n.d., to Mrs. [S.C.] Hall, arranging a visit; ALS, Tuesday [1840], to My dear Lee, asking if her book of catalogues would be more useful if she added the name of the engraver to each picture.

Box: 3A Folder 79
Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865-1916
ALS, [23/24 October 1901], to Dear Metcalfe, mentioning finishing a new serious and tragic naval book.

Box: 3A Folder 90
Janson, Henry U.
2 ALS, 4 and 7 February 1867, to George Potter, dealing with animals and naturalists' subjects, chiefly on the Indian bat; ANS, 27 January 1867, C. M. Topping to Mr. Potter, about the rarity of the bat.

Box: 3A Folder 81
Jarvis, C. S. (Claude Scudamore), 1879-1953
TLS, 19 March 1943, to [Louis] Golding, complaining about dealings with publisher Walter Hutchinson concerning his book, Arab Command, and briefly praises Golding's World I Knew.

Box: 3A Folder 82
Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, 1841-1905
ALS, 22 September 1895, to [Thomas Hay Sweet] Escott, looking forward to reading his new book and he will look into the rules about discounts with the University Press; ALS, 26 January 1905, to Mrs. Humphrey, noting it is an honor to have his lines used in a biographical sketch [of an unnamed colleague in the House of Commons, 1892].

Box: 3A Folder 83
Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826-1884
ALS, 15 April 1871, to Dear Sir, about a quick printing; ALS fragment, about expenses and petitions.

Box: 3A Folder 84
Jerrold, Clare, b. 1861
2 ALS, 14 March and 27 April 1914, to Mr. Broadley, thanking him for sending letters for her research on her book [The Story of Dorothy Jordan] and she is happy he likes the book.

Box: 3A Folder 85
Jerrold, Douglas William, 1803-1857
ALS initials, 27 November n.y., to Mr. Morris, requesting that he send future cheques on Mondays to the newspaper office; ANS, n.d., to Dear Miller, asking him to delay sending the Manifesto to Vestris.

Box: 3A Folder 86
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880
ALS, 31 January 1872, to Miss Josephine, apologizing for Josephine not receiving a note with a ticket for a private view at the Kensington soiree and looking forward to seeing her the next time Jewsbury is in town.

Box: 3A Folder 87
Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893
ALS, 20 January n.y., to Mrs. Bell, returning a proof with pleasant recollections of an evening spent in the Glasgow town hall; ALS, 20 February n.y., to My dear Sir, about a book on Thucydides; ALS, 30 November n.y., to Dear Sir, acknowledging receipt of Canon Pinder's testimonial and will inquire about the University Press; color caricature lithograph portrait from Vanity Fair, 26 February 1876.

Box: 3A Folder 88
Joyce, James Wayland, 1812-1887
ALS, 10 September 1885, to My dear Sir, about the Reviser's attack on the policy of the Churches of England; ALS, 12 July 1887, to E[dward] Herford, about publishing a volume showing up the lawyers' bad law and worse history, and noting a forthcoming book, Handbook of the Convocation.

Authors, K

Authors, K

Box: 3A Folder 89
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891
Pen-and-ink drawing, depicting an elderly couple seated in their drawing room, with a small boy in "fauntleroy" collar having just entered.

Box: 3A Folder 90
Kennedy, Bart, 1861-1930
3 ALS, 5, 9, and 10 January 1921, to Meredith Starr, sending a copy of his book, a book review, delaying an 800-word article until Tuesday, and enclosing an 800-word article for which his name should be displayed on the bill or placard of the Pall Mall Gazette; AMsS, article, "Keep the Novel Clean," heavily corrected.

Box: 3A Folder 91
King, Thomas William, 1801-1872
ALS, 29 July 1862, to the Reverend Lambert B. Larking, answering his query about the arms annexed to the pedigree of Tomlynson of Whitby.

Box: 3A Folder 92
Kingslake, Alexander William, 1809-1891
ALS, 15 February 1864, to Dear Sirs, declining to have his name appear as one of the vice-presidents but thanks them for the honor.

Box: 3A Folder 93
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
ALS, 16 April 1866, to My dear Sir, agreeing to send a carte-de-visite; ALS, 16 April 1867, to [Edward Dowden], agreeing to publish his article in Fraser's, and suggesting improvements with quotes from Robert Browning's Sordello.

Box: 3A Folder 94
Kitto, John F. (John Fenwick), b. 1837
ALS, 28 December 1897, to Mr. Rogers [secretary of the Marlowe Society], offering to get him the information he requires.

Box: 3A Folder 95
Knox, E. V. (Edmund Valpy), 1881-1971
ALS, 1 June 1952, to Stella Gibbons, thanking her for donating a copy of her Collected Poems to the Starfield House Library.

Box: 3A Folder 96
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kn'i'az`, 1842-1921
ALS, 21 March 1903, to [William Morris] Colles, sending the signed agreement with Mr. Thomas and concerning the proposals of Felix Alcan and possible better terms.

Authors, L

Authors, L

Box: 3A Folder 97
L., P. L.
Pen-and-ink drawings,"After Dinner Adventures of Smith and Jones," initialed by P.L.L. and P.E., inscribed to "Miss Jepson from P.L.L., October 1865," captioned drawings of a brief and amusing adventure on House of Lords embossed notepaper bound in green cloth.

Box: 3A Folder 98
Labouchere, Henry Du Pre, 1831-1912
ALS, 26 January [1827], to George Cruikshank, thanking him for sending a copy of his Illustrations of Phrenology.

Box: 3A Folder 99
Lackington, James, 1746-1815
ALS, 19 June 1813, to the editor of the York Herald, requesting that he insert an advertisement in the next issue. The advertisement is addressed "To Ministers" seeking a pious-zealous minister for a new chapel in Devon; engraved portrait cut from Wonderful Magazine; engraved portrait printed after his death.

Box: 3A Folder 100
Laidlaw, William, 1780-1845
AMsS initials, 15 May 1791, poem, "Newstead," in praise of Byron.

Box: 3A Folder 101
Laing, David, 1793-1878
ALS, 26 July 1872, to Dear Sir William, concerning the Waverly manuscripts and the proposed Sir Walter Scott catalogue.

Box: 3A Folder 102
Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
ALS, 24 January 1809, to Mr. Baker, about clothes she's ordered made; engraved portrait from a painting in the possession of Sir A. Vere Foster; pencil sketch portrait.

Box: 3A Folder 103
Landor, Walter Savage, 1755-1864
ALS fragment, Saturday morning, to Mrs. Gollop; signature clipped from a letter; pen-and-ink full-length drawing of Landor in 1840 after a sketch by W. Fisher; portrait from the picture by William Fisher in the National Portrait Gallery.

Box: 3A Folder 104
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
AL third person, [10 August 1901], to the Secretary of the London Library, apologizing for asking for the wrong book; ALS, 7 April n.y., to My dear Sir, commenting that he is just about to read the recipient's Beaumont paper; ALS, 1 July n.y., to Dear Sir, complaining about criticism and that he is represented as a literary Iago in a Chicago paper; ANS, n.d., to Dear Sir, says he cannot be at the meeting and suggests a window, brass, or bust.

Box: 3A Folder 105
Langford, John Alfred, 1823-1903
ADS, n.d., from Weekly Post, No. 2, no. 1208, referring to Dr. Johnson and some of his own school days.

Box: 3A Folder 106
Lathom, Diana
AMsS, poem about her dead infant son Henry (first line: Ah simple flow'r, the sight of thee revives); AMs, four verses from the manuscript copy of Gray's Elegy but altered or omitted when sent to the press (first line: The thoughtless world to majesty may bow); AMs, to Mrs. Blofeld, Hoveton, "On Dr. Lettsome by Erskine."

Box: 3A Folder 107
Lathrop, John, 1740-1816
ALS, 23 November 1796, to Justin Ely, apologizing for giving him the wrong note and mortgage.

Box: 3A Folder 108
Laurence, Richard, 1760-1838
AMsS initials, poem on Matthew Boulton and James Watt (first line: Hail! classic spot, y'cleped th' abode of Rooks).

Box: 3A Folder 109
Lavery, John, 1856-1941
ALS, 26 May 1906 [postmarked 1905], to Mrs. Vulliamy, arranging to paint the portrait of her husband, with envelope.

Box: 3A Folder 110
Lawson, Wilfrid, Sir, 1829-1906
ALS, 29 July 1888, to My dear Sir, declining to become involved with the Westminster [Review]since "these literary enterprises are not exactly in my line."

Box: 3A Folder 111
Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947
ANS, 19 June 1894, to Frederick Rogers, sending thanks to him and the Elizabethan Society for their sympathy; photogravure portrait by W. and D. Downey; medallion portrait by Irma Le Gallienne clipped from periodical.

Box: 3A Folder 112
Leadham, I. S. (Isaac Saunders), 1848-1913
2 ALS, 23 May and 3 July 1902, to R[obert] Hovenden, thanking him for help with genealogical information on the Osmond family for his paper, and enclosing his subscription to the Royal Historical Society .

Box: 3A Folder 113
Lee, Elizabeth
2 ALS, 10 and 13 September 1891, to Mr. Rogers, asking for the names of other ladies going to Canterbury for the mayor's party since neither her brother Sidney nor her usual companion Mrs. Bram Stoker will attend, and then declining to go because she does not know any of the ladies he mentioned.

Box: 3A Folder 114
Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926
ALS, 17 March 1889, to Dear Rogers, sending some addressed envelopes for circulars to be inserted and sent and mentioning amounts paid by named individuals; ALS, 10 March 1890, to Dear Rogers, concerning his difficulty talking with Coleridge about the Marlowe memorial; ALS, 19 July 1891, to Dear Rogers, noting that Lord Coleridge cannot attend in September but can go to Canterbury on 3 October; 2 ALS, 19 and 20 June 1902, to Dear Sir, on the advice of Mr. S.C. Hall, requests a refund of two guineas paid twice for his subscription to the Royal Historical Society; APS, 11 January 1911, to John S. Arthur, thanking him for suggested names for inclusion in the Dictionary of National Biography but declining the headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School as lacking permanent interest.

Box: 3A Folder 115
Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935
ALS, 26 February n.y., to Allan Monkhouse, thanking him for a good review of The Prince and commenting on a John Singer Sargent sketch; ALS fragment, n.d., to Allan Monkhouse, reviewing a book.

Box: 3A Folder 116
Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870
ALS, 22 December 1848, to John Clow, apologizing for not getting the autographs for Clow's book until now; carte-de-visite of Lemon.

Box: 3A Folder 117
Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872
Pencil drawing, 1847, by Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne]; two portraits clipped from periodical.

Box: 3A Folder 118
Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878
ALS, Tuesday [20? May 1873], to Mr. Ralston, noting that Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] is gratified by Mr. Ruskin's opinion and they look forward to seeing Ruskin any Sunday.

Box: 3A Folder 119
Lewis, George Cornewall, Sir, 1806-1863
ALS Monday, 30 June [between 1823 and 1862], to [Edmund] Head, inquiring about an indecipherable word in a manuscript of Michael Scot in the Bodleian containing some Latin translation from a lost work of Aristotle on astronomy; clipped franked address to Sir Edmund Head; ANS, 2 February n.y., an application slip for the London Library for a book; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by John Watkins.

Box: 3A Folder 120
Lewis, John Delaware, 1828-1884
ALS, 13 November 1875, to Dr. [John] Chapman, complaining that Alfred W. Bennett identified Lewis as the writer of an article in the Westminster Review and wrote to him directly rather than through Chapman, inquires if he's seen the new Church of England Quarterly Review with an article that is "the last gasp of orthodoxy," and comments that it's been so long since he's been in Paris that he doesn't know anyone there.

Box: 3A Folder 121
Ley, Henry G. (Henry George), 1887-1962
ALS, 29 January 1931, to Dear Henderson, regretting that their [school] terms clash but that he may be in Scotland after Easter.

Box: 3A Folder 122
Lietch, David, d. 1881
ALS, 8 July 1852, to [John] Chapman, requesting a decision on publishing his article on Scottish ballad poetry in the Westminster Review since the editors of the Eclectic Review have expressed interest, and describes a few chapters of a novel for which he would like advice on pursuing publication.

Box: 3A Folder 123
Lindsay, Jack, 1900-
ALS, 8 October 1930, to Alan Odle, thanking him for the extended time to publish a proposed illustrated edition of Balzac's Contes Drollatiques.

Box: 3A Folder 124
Lindsay, M., Miss
ALS, 7 March n.y., to Mrs. Clare Royse, sending her last published song, "The Land of Dreams."

Box: 3A Folder 125
Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898
APS, 19 September 1882, to Messrs. Chatto and Windus, notifying them of her change of address after 23 September.

Box: 3A Folder 126
Lipscomb, M. C.
ALS, 11 February 1853, to Dear Sir, discussing Jane Eyre.

Box: 3A Folder 127
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
ALS, 8 November 1868, to My Lady. In French. Carte-de-visite, signed; color caricature lithograph portrait from Vanity Fair, 15 May 1886.

Box: 3A Folder 128
Liveing, Edward G. D. (Edward George Downing), 1895-1963
2 ALS, 27 January and 22 July 1905, to Mrs. Humphry, trying to get something written while working, and sending what he's written so far about Sir George Stokes.

Box: 3A Folder 129
Locke, William John, 1863-1930
ALS, 5 November 1904, to the Secretary, the Stage Society, submitting his play, The Open Window, for the Stage Society to consider producing.

Box: 3A Folder 130
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895
ALS initials, n.d., to Dear Milman, asking him what he thinks of a Cingalese packet he just received which confirms his belief that Sir A. Johnstone is a charlatan.

Box: 3A Folder 131
Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1793-1854
ALS, 17 July 1836, to My dear Sir, mentioning that he forgot to bring home Chataubriand's new book, and suggesting how Mr. Murray can address packets to reach him; ANS, n.d., to My dear Sir, returning a manuscript about Buonaparte's connections that is useless to his work; ANS initials, Sunday n.d., to Dear Sir, thanking him for sending the Edinburgh Literary Journal; initialed, franked address to John Munghy clipped from letter; portrait clipped from periodical.

Box: 3A Folder 132
Lockwood, Frank, Sir, 1846-1897
Pen-and-ink profile sketch of a balding man wearing a monocle, drawn on government blind-stamped notepaper.

Box: 3A Folder 133
Loewe, Louis, 1809-1888
ALS, 14 August 5632 [1872], to Michael Henry, sending Sir Moses Montefiore's thanks for the kind letter, and notes that Montefiore will send a copy of the report detailing his journey to Petersburg.

Box: 3A Folder 134
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Carte-de-visite by Elliott and Fry, London, signed by Longfellow on verso; engraved portrait clipped from book.

Box: 3A Folder 135
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
3 APS, 10 September 1916, 25 December 1923, n.d., to Mrs. P.L. Agnew, short greetings on picture postcards; unaddressed postcard, [1917], with best wishes for a happier 1917; message card inscribed "with love to Phil, EVL;" proof of his foreword to the catalogue of the work of the French painter Gaboriaud; photograph of Lucas by Walter Benington.

Box: 3A Folder 136
Ludovici, Anthony Mario, 1882-
ALS, 14 June 1933, to Meredith Starr, regrets that Starr gave up reviewing, and compliments Starr's writing.

Box: 3A Folder 137
Luttrell, Henry, 1765-1851
ALS fragment, n.d., to [Lady Holland], plans to visit her at H[olland] H[ouse] or the South Med[iterranean] when he is well.

Box: 3A Folder 138
Lyall, Edna, 1857-1903
ALS, 23 August 1895, to [William Morris] Colles, concerning the American rights to her next book and wishing to remain with Messrs. Longman but seeking serial rights with Messrs. Appleton; TLS, 1 July 1897, to Sir, seeking space in his column to protest the removal of a statue of her ancestor, Captain Burges, from St. Paul's.

Box: 3A Folder 139
Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Earl, 1817-1887
ALS, 2 November 1869, to J.E. Alexander, regretting that as Ambassador to Paris he cannot recommend the heat machine invention to the Emperor.

Box: 3A Folder 140
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873
Clipped, signed, franked address, 3 August 1832, to Mr. Godwin; ALS, 28 October 1839, to Sir, concerning the dishonesty of I. Ratford; ALS fragment, 3 April 1848, planning to take legal measures against an infringement of the rights of property; ALS, n.d., to Lady Murray, asking about M. Paboracine Francesco; 5 portraits (three engraved, one line drawing, one colored lithograph).

Box: 3A Folder 141
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891
ALS, 28 October 1913, to Mrs. [Katherine Tynan] Hinkson, noting that he enjoyed her description of George Russell, hopes she will visit him, and will send a photograph of the Watts portrait of his father.

Box: 3A Folder 142
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness, 1802-1882
AN third person, 29 January 1831, to Mr. Egley, wishing to know the price of the Siamese twins book; AN third person, [1839], to Mr. Egley, asking if he has finished any more of the miniature pictures.

Authors, M

Authors, M

Box: 3A Folder 143
Macaulay, James, 1817-1902
ANS, n.d., to Rev. E[dward] Bradley, regretting he will not be at home to push the August part and hopes the reviewers and newspaper writers will appreciate Bradley's papers [written as Cuthbert Bede].

Box: 3A Folder 144
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
ALS, 3 July 1849, to Lady Morley, thanking her for a prescription and regreting that he will not be able to thank her in person at Kent House; ANS, 30 April 1851, to Dear Macleod, inviting him to breakfast; clipped signature; engraved portrait by G. Cook from a photograph by Matill and Polybank [Maull and Polyblank]; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank.

Box: 3A Folder 145
Maccoll, Norman, 1843-1904
ANS, 21 August [1891], to F. Rogers, declining an invitation to visit Canterbury on 16 September [for the unveiling of the Marlowe Memorial].

Box: 3A Folder 146
Macdiarmid, John, 1779-1808
ADS, 17 August 1785, assigning copyright of William Perry's Royal Standard English Dictionary to Mr. John Murray, bookseller, London.

Box: 3A Folders 147-148
Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947
13 ALS, 1922-1923, to Henry Danielson, bookseller and publisher, referring to Danielson's bibliography of Machen's works, including a corrected proof of the printed prospectus, plus notes, with envelopes; 17 ALS, 1921-1925, to Henry Savage, referring to Savage's despair over the failure of his book, Richard Middleton, and discussing his own books and the difficulty in getting payments from his publishers; photogravure portrait used as frontispiece to the bibliography.

Box: 3A Folder 149
MacCarthy, Desmond, 1877-1952
TLS, 4 June 1928, to Dear Sir, acknowledging his unawareness of some books which he omitted from a bibliography and agrees to look at them and possibly include them in the next bibliography.

Box: 3A Folder 150
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937
TLS, 11 February 1914, to Mr. T.R. Waring, thanking him for a letter with enclosures and notes the debate on South Africa will be held tomorrow.

Box: 3B Folder 151
Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
28 ALS, 1894-1924, to [William Morris] Colles, concerned with his books and those of his mother, Sarah Grand, plus mentions of H.G. Wells and artist Claude Lovat Fraser.

Box: 3B Folder 152
Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
ALS, 11 November n.y., to S.C. Hall, regretting that he never received his letters but will lend whatever aid he needs to his project.

Box: 3B Folder 153
Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell, Sir, 1847-1935
9 ALS, 1882-1886, to Franz [Francis] Hueffer, about his music and the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company; 11 ALS, 1921-1925, to Philip L. Agnew, about his music, the Royal Academy of Music, and the king's tiredness; 1 APS, 13 August 1933, to Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, about his declining health and that he keeps their daughter busy with his correspondence.

Box: 3B Folder 154
Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832
ALS, 3 January 1804, to Dear Sir, regretting he will be out tomorrow morning but at home after three for a visit; clipped signed frank, 20 October 1822, to Edmund Barker; engraved portrait, 1847, by J. Cochran from a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Box: 3B Folder 155
Maclaren, Archibald, 1755-1826
ANS, n.d., "If you condescend to purchase my little Production (on the sale of which depends the present support of myself and family) I shall ever retain a grateful sense of your goodness."

Box: 3B Folder 156
Macleod, J. D. (John Dunning)
AMsS, "Tir Nan Og," fifty-two pages of poems bound in cloth. Most of these verses were written before 1923. Some of them appeared in Country Life, The Cambridge Review, The Chapbook, The Granta, The New Cambridge, The Pioneer (Allahabad), and The Westminster Gazette.

Box: 3B Folder 157
Maginn, Ellen Bullen
ALS, Thursday n.d. [July 1840?], to Dear Sir, requesting a reply to a previous note; ALS, Monday morning n.d., to [Charles Molloy] Westmacott, inquiring about the whereabouts of the doctor [her husband, William Maginn], that she is alarmed at the rumors of war, and that the English are leaving Boulogne as fast as they can.

Box: 3B Folder 158
Maginn, John
ALS, 18 January 1833, to C[harles] M[olloy] Westmacott, introducing his friend the reverend Mr. Welland, a member of a group of starving parsons awaiting an audience with the king to air their grievances.

Box: 3B Folder 159
Maginn, William, 1793-1842
3 ALS initials, n.d., to C[harles] M[olloy] Westmacott, inquiring about orders for any theatre, doesn't know what to say on general politics so is sending a quiz by his brother-in-law [George P. Bullen], directs him to print the king's speech and wants him to ask Lord G. if he's heard anything of Earl Grey; ANS, n.d., requesting Pemberton's Voyages and Travels volume containing Spain; financial sheet, "Expenses of a monthly magazine selling two thousand copies of 8 sheets." All referring to Fraser's Magazine; caricature portrait.

Box: 3B Folder 160
Manners, Thomas, Sir
ALS, 12 March 1591, to My vere good Lorde, about his daughter's marriage. With typed transcript.

Box: 3B Folder 161
Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892
Signature clipped from a note addressed to his publisher, 1881.

Box: 3B Folder 162
Marie Louise, Princess, granddaughter of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1872-1956
2 ALS, 7 November 1899 and 7 April 1902, to Mrs. [Florence Farr] Emery, worried about her brother [Christian Victor] in the Transvaal [where he died in 1900 during the Boer War], suggests meeting at Buckingham Palace, and mentions her plans to spend four months in Egypt, with envelope; thanks her for sending a copy of her plays, is unsure if she will be able to come see her play, notes that she continues her interest in Egyptian studies, and has taken up enameling on metals; with envelope.

Box: 3B Folder 163
Marryat, Florence, 1837-1899
APS, 3 April 1897, to The Authors' Syndicate, thanking them for a royalty check; AMsS, January 1890, poem (first line: There is no death, What seems so is transition).

Box: 3B Folder 164
Marston, Philip Bourke, 1850-1887
TL, Saturday 27 November [between 1875 and 1886], to Mrs. Rossetti, declining an invitation but planning on visiting her next week with his father [Westland Marston].

Box: 3B Folder 165
Marston, Westland, 1819-1890
ALS, 5 January 1881, to Mrs. Rosetti, accepting an invitation to dinner for himself and his son Philip and looking forward to the reading of Miss Blind's poem; ALS, 17 September 1888, to Edith Heraud, thanking her for the gift of her book and noting that he has not heard from Mr. Church, with addressed and stamped face of envelope; signed inscription to Mrs. Adams on removed half-title page of Marston'sThe Patrician's Daughter; signed inscription to Theodore Martin on removed flyleaf of a book.

Box: 3B Folder 166
Martin, George, Sir, 1764-1847
ADS, 12 August 1810, to Thomas Dench, commander of H.M. Sloop The Nautilus, orders to deliver dispatches to Algiers, obtain intelligence of the movements of the enemy's ships, and forwarding the information to Palermo.

Box: 3B Folder 167
Martin, Theodore, Sir, 1816-1909
ALS, 26 April 1877, to My dear Bill, regrets not being able to help him as he no longer has a set of Abbotsford Charles books, notes that he worked eight hours a day in Wales as the royal biographer, and comments about the mess in the East thanks to Gladstone; signature clipped from a letter; color caricature portrait from Vanity Fair, 7 July 1877; photograph clipped from periodical.

Box: 3B Folder 168
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
ANS, Saturday n.d., to Dear Susan, inviting her to tea.

Box: 3B Folder 169
Martineau, James, 1805-1900
ALS, 12 January 1869, to Miss Alice M. Whitworth, declining to send his autograph and instead enclosing a contribution to her charity.

Box: 3B Folder 170
Martineau, Joseph
ALS, 16 June [1853], to My dear Reeve, sending a contribution to a fund for the erection of Marochetti's equestrian statue of Richard Couer de Lion.

Box: 3B Folder 171
Martineau, Maria, d. 1864
ALS, 22 March n.y., to Miss Hennell, about the medicinal properties of carrots, relating a story about her father's [Richard Martineau] past illness cured by carrot tea, using it to cure her aunt's [Harriet Martineau] tic, including the recipe, and including news of Miss Julia Smith.

Box: 3B Folder 172
Masefield, John, 1878-1967
APS, 15 January 1913, to Miss M. Watt, thanking her for her letter and her poem; ALS, n.d., to Mrs. Cram, asking her to choose a day and time to visit him; ALS, [ca. 1920], to Miss [Lena] Ashwell, assuring her that he will let the committee know of her company [Lena Ashwell Players, formed to entertain the troops during World War I].

Box: 3B Folder 173
Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948
4 ALS, 1896-1913, to [William Morris] Colles, about a photo for his book, declining more work, seeking copies of his publishing agreements, and inquiring about an arrangement with [J.W.] Arrowsmith and Newnes' contract for Mason's novel, The Watchers.

Box: 3B Folder 174
Mason, William, 1725-1797
ANS fragment, 7 March 1794, mentioning leaving and returning this place and asks for news while he is gone; engraved portrait, 1771; engraved portrait by McNell; engraved portrait from European Magazine, 1 October 1783.

Box: 3B Folder 175
Masse, Victor, 1822-1884
ALS, 1 January 1872, to Ma cheri Eleve, giving her instruction and advice on musical composition. In French.

Box: 3B Folder 176
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912
ALS, 5 November 1899, to Grand ami, noting that he is thinking of dedicating his next work [opera?] to a societé de chant if there is a reputable one at Dijon. In French.

Box: 3B Folder 177
Matz, B. W. (Bertram Waldrom), 1865-1925
ALS, 21 August 1902, to I.F. Dexter, asking to borrow back a copy of a steel engraving of Charles Dickens which was used in the book, The Dickens Bazaar. With stamped envelope.

Box: 3B Folder 178
May, Florence
ALS, 12 November n.y., to Dear Madam, thanking her for encouraging her writing and noting the difficulty in getting published.

Box: 3B Folder 179
May, Phil, 1864-1903
Original caricature drawings, 1901, on the back of the "Ye Sette of Odd Volumes Menu, 17 December 1901, Ye Artistic Ghymkana." With original drawing by Rene Bull, and Hassall, and autographs by artists Claude Shepperson, Alfred Eartz, George Frampton, Arthur Diosy, and Ernest Clarke. With printed "Inaugural Chant of the Odd Volumes," 24 November 1936 (No. 6 of 100).

Box: 3B Folder 180
Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887
AMs fragment, first page of preface to The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher, heavily corrected.

Box: 3B Folder 181
Mayo, Isabella Fyvie, 1843-1914
ALS, 31 October 1877, to Mr. [S.C.] Hall, thanking him for a poem and sending condolences on the death of his friend Durham, the painter.

Box: 3B Folder 182
McCarthy, Justin, 1830-1912
ANS, 3 November 1877, to Messrs. Chatto and Windus, thanking them for a cheque for his contribution to the Gentleman's Magazine.

Box: 3B Folder 183
McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly), 1860-1936
ALS, 17 September 1885, to W.M. Rossetti, asking about the status of his photographs; ANS, 20 August [1891], to Dear Sir, accepting an invitation to be present at the Marlowe Memorial unveiling in Canterbury on 16 September.

Box: 3B Folder 184
McGill, Donald Fraser Gould, 1875-1962
4 original ink and watercolor comic postcards, signed.

Box: 3B Folder 185
McKie, William, Sir, 1901-
ALS, 19 January 1949, to Mr. Henderson, grateful for his choral arrangements, for sending his book, and that he is interested in McKie's organ piece.

Box: 3B Folder 186
Meade, L. T., 1854-1914
ALS, 25 June 1901, to R[obert] Hovenden, Treasurer, Royal Historical Society, sending the subscription due from Manchester College Library; ALS, 22 April 1903, to [William Morris] Colles, noting that she has a splendid plot for no. 5 of her cake maker series.

Box: 3B Folder 187
Meakin, Budgett
ALS, 24 December 1898, to [Robert Hovenden?], thanking him for suggested works, hoping to meet him again at the next Historical Society meeting, and mentioning a visitor named Haffenden who considers his ancestry to have been Dutch.

Box: 3B Folder 188
Medtner, Nikolay Karlovich, 1880-1951
ALS [written by his wife Anna], 22 February 1931, to Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Henderson, with news of his successful recital, with postscript by Medtner in German; ALS [written by his wife Anna], 27 March 1931, to Mrs. and Mrs. A.M. Henderson, apologizing for not writing more because of her poor English, with note by Medtner in German saying how much they enjoyed their visit and promising not to steal the matches the next time. With two envelopes.

Box: 3B Folder 189
Menzies, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978
TLS, 1 November 1948, to Harry Green, thanking him for his hospitality; TLS, 22 January 1951, to Harry Green, regretting declining an invitation because of ill health.

Box: 3B Folder 190
Merivale, Caroline
ALS, 15 May n.y., to My dear Sir, inviting him to a party.

Box: 4 Folder 1
Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922
4 ALS, 25 August [1917], 29 May-11 September [1921], to Mrs. George Cran, thanking her for a book, letter, visit, photographs; two black-and-white photos, 1921, one of Meynell with her son Everard and one of Everard outside their house.

Box: 4 Folder 2
Meynell, Everard
ALS, 24 June 1916, to Mrs. Cran, about some photographs he has taken [on pictorial letterhead of mounted soldiers, "Action Front!!,' 1915, for the Red Cross], with cachet envelope designed by John Singer Sargent for the Red Cross.

Box: 4 Folder 3
Meynell, Gerard T. (Gerard Tuke), b. 1877
ALS, 12 June 1917, to [Edward] Johnston, asking for details of Johnston's childrens' book, and commenting on the fallout of the partners in William Morris's firm, and Edward Burne-Jones and Rossetti's stands.

Box: 4 Folder 4
Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
5 ALS, 1915-1922, to Mrs. Cran, about Alice Meynell, photographs, an impending visit, and a printed memoriam to Alice Meynell, with poem, "The Young Neophyte," on the verso.

Box: 4 Folder 5
Meynell family (Alice's daughters Olivia Sowerby and Madeline Lucas)
ALS, 4 August 1921, to Mrs. Cran, Madeline thanks her for the bulbs and photographs; ALS, 3 December 1929, to Mrs. Cran, Olivia thanks her for the photographs and her father sends thanks for the kind note and proofs.

Box: 4 Folder 6
Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948
ALS, 4 November 1901, to [William Morris] Colles, about advertisements in a booklet he wrote; ALS, 29 November 1901, to [William Morris] Colles, about his articles and ideas.

Box: 4 Folder 7
Miles, William Augustus, 1753?-1817
AL, [docketed 13 December1792], describing a conversation with Dr. Parr in which Parr asserts a plot to attack the King; ALS copy, 12 December 1792, to Dr. Parr, relating the steps he has taken and his reasons.

Box: 4 Folder 8
Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1829-1896
ALS, 3 May 1872, to [Ralph Nicholson] Wornum, asking for the bearer of this note to be admitted to the National Gallery; signature clipped from the bottom of a letter.

Box: 4 Folder 9
Miller, H.
ALS, 7 July 1856, to Dear Sir, giving permission to strike off a few photographs from the picture of the "Fairy Ring" and that he is quite satisfied with the painting, and saw several satisfactory criticisms of it.

Box: 4 Folder 10
Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868
ANS, 9 May 1901, to R[obert] Hovenden, enclosing the Sion College subscription to the Royal Historical Society; ANS, 26 May n.y., to Mr. Reeve, supporting Baron Marochetti's statue; ANS, n.d., to My dear Fisher, expressing pleasure at his upcoming visit.

Box: 4 Folder 11
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
2 clipped signatures; caricature portrait line drawing by W.R. with facsimile signature, published by James Fraser.

Box: 4 Folder 12
Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798-1851
ALS initials, n.d., to Dr. John M. Brown, asking him to see his patient and a Mr. Fairgrieve, and thanking him for condolences on the death of his wife.

Box: 4 Folder 13
Molesworth, Coote, b. 1698
ALS, 12 January 1779, to William Hayley, thanking him for a poem and enclosing one in reply to his ode; AMs poem, 18 December 1778, "Impromptu," about Hayley.

Box: 4 Folder 14
Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921
ALS, 4 July n.y., to Gladys, Rosamond, and Violet [written by her daughter, Juliet, for Louise Molesworth], thanking them for their letters, and noting that some parts of all her stories are true; also signed by Mrs. Molesworth.

Box: 4 Folder 15
Molesworth, William Nassau, 1816-1890
ALS, 19 March 1885, to Edward Herford, about his poor health; subscribers copy, 2 May 1838, pencil sketch caricature of Molesworth titled "A Leading Article of the Westminster Review."

Box: 4 Folder 16
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762
Engraved portrait.

Box: 14
Montagu, Robert, Lord, 1825-1902
Galley proofs: Topicorum Liber: A Roberti de Monte Aucto 1866 (London: printed by Harrison and Sons, 1868) [apparently unpublished], with extra galleys, manuscript materials, scraps intended for a revised and enlarged corrected edition; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 1 October 1870.

Box: 4 Folder 17
Montalba, Clara, 1842-1929
ALS, n.d., to Dear Miss Halse, unable to find the drawing of Gericault, she sent another one she found during her search.

Box: 4 Folder 18
Montgomery, James, 1771-1854
AMsS, July 1807, poem, "Bolehill Trees," endorsed to the Rev. Edward Goodwin, 1 March 1808.

Box: 4 Folder 19
Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885
ALS, 16 October n.y., to the Editor of the Ladies Museum, asking for a favorable review of a forthcoming three tales for children written by her two sisters and herself.

Box: 4 Folder 20
Moore, Bernard, b. 1873
ANS, 11 May 1948, to Miss Margaret Sackville, thanking her for her cousin's address and returning his book, sends her a copy of A Cornish Gleaning.

Box: 4 Folder 21
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
ALS, 1 July 1835, to Rev. Lee Torre, thanking him for a letter and a gift; ALS, 2 March 1838, to Mrs. Douglas, asking her to forward an enclosed letter to Villamil; ALS, Saturday, to My dear sir, declining an invitation because of poor health; AN, n.d., requesting the enclosed letter be posted immediately; signature clipped from letter; Moore's visiting card, signed by him, with envelope addressed to Owen Rees; 9 portraits: 7 engravings, 1824-1831, one embossed profile, one caricature.

Box: 4 Folder 22
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
ALS, 25 April [1823], to J. Hatchard and Son, asking them to send three copies of Bible Rhymes to Charles Grant with instructions for inscriptions to three other people and a list of other recipients; clipped signature; engraved portrait, 1831.

Box: 4 Folder 23
Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859
ALS, 3 July 1858, to My dear and reverend Sir, looking forward to seeing him; ALS, n.d., to [Dr. Cubitt] for his present of a grape vine; engraved portrait.

Box: 4 Folder 24
Morley, Henry, 1822-1894
ALS, 26 May 1883, to F. Rogers, apologizing for not answering his questions about his lectures on Carlyle; ALS, 13 April 1886, to Mrs. George Denman, apologizing for not retrieving two portraits which she was to loan the University College Society for an exhibition; ALS, Tuesday evening, to A.W. Bennett, notifying him that he asked Mr. Myers to send three or four tickets for the meeting at the Mansion House but that his name should get him in if the tickets do not arrive in time.

Box: 4 Folder 25
Morley, John, 1838-1923
ALS, 10 November 1881, to My dear Sir, asking him to write a little article about Charles Kingsley for the Pall Mall; ALS, 4 November 1887, to My dear Thompson, advising him that he has already been in touch with the Liverpool folk and has promised them assistance; ANS, 30 July 1898, declining to write a letter; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 30 November 1878.

Box: 4 Folder 26
Morris, Lewis, Sir, 1833-1907
ALS, 2 November 1882, to Mr. Benser, regretting that he is not joining the Reform Club; ALS, 3 September 1891, to F. Rogers, noting he is not a subscriber and does not intend to become one but if he is in Canterbury on 16 September he might like to witness the ceremony honoring Marlowe; clipped signature; portrait photograph.

Box: 4 Folder 27
Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945
ALS, 8 December 1929, to Mr. Wilson, responding to a request for suggested titles of his for 18- to 25-year-old men to read; ALS, 5 August 1930, to Mr. Wilson, suggesting he telephone him at home; ALS, 29 December 1933, to Mr. Wilson, thanking him for an invitation to his children's parties which began ten minutes before he received the letter.

Box: 4 Folder 28
Morrison, Herbert, 1863-1945
Menu for complimentary dinner for Herbert Morrison, 31 January 1949, signed by attending dignitaries; APS, 11 September 1949, to Harry Green, sorry to hear he was taken ill at the theater; ALS, 21 September 1949, to Harry Green, thanking him for the show and dinner; TLS, 22 November 1949, to Harry Green, thanking him for a recording of Winston Churchill; ALS, 22 December 1949, to Harry Green, thanks and Christmas wishes; TLS, 21 March 1951, to Harry Green, thanks for congratulations.

Box: 4 Folder 29
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826
ALS, 24 June 1822, to W[illiam] W[allis] Woodward, having fifty sets of Geography and Atlas sent, the eight volume geography is not yet done, and mentions his other publications.

Box: 4 Folder 30
Mortimer, Favell Lee, 1802-1878
ALS, Saturday, to Mrs. Crosbie, inviting her to lunch.

Box: 4 Folder 31
Morton, W. Scott (William Scott)
AMsS, 7 November 1866, poem, "To My Pipe," with printed version, "Sonnet to My Pipe," Judy, 5 June 1867.

Box: 4 Folder 32
Moschelles, Ignaz, 1794-1870
ALS, 15 December 1844, to Joseph Dessauer; ALS, 27 May 1852, to Bookhaus, about composer-conductor Julius Benedict; ALS, 19 January 1857, to Joseph Dessauer. All on musical matters, in Czech.

Box: 4 Folder 33
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908
ALS, Saturday, to Mrs. Hemming, inviting her to visit before Moulton leaves London.

Box: 4 Folder 34
Muddock, J. E. (Joyce Emmerson), 1843-1934
ALS, 28 March 1893, to W[illiam] Morris Colles, referring to the Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. agreement concerning his publishing rights; ALS, 5 May 1893, to W[illiam] Morris Colles, returning an initialed agreement and appending a list of titles for the new series with hopes that he can place them to better advantage than the last series.

Box: 4 Folder 35
Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton), 1853-1934
ALS, 18 February 1900, to R. Hovenden, accepting an invitation to dine at the Freemasons' Tavern to share what little biographical information he can about Gwynne; ALS, 19 February 1900, to R. Hovenden, suggesting setting up an interview to discuss Gwynne.

Authors, N

Authors, N

Box: 4 Folder 36
Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847
ALS, Monday, to John Pinkerton, asking for the return of a copy of the encyclopedia that another friend wants to borrow.

Box: 4 Folder 37
Naubert, August
ALS, 8 April 1789, to Adam Theophil Gebhard, suggesting that he read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, and other books. In German.

Box: 4 Folder 38
Naylor, John
ALS, 24 August 1900, to Thomas R. Waring, with news of his recently completed vacation, and comments on James Geikie's The Great Ice Age and a review of Stout's Psychology; with envelope.

Box: 4 Folder 39
Nelson, Carlotta Le Clercq
ALS, 29 October 1883, to Gilbert Farquahar, referring to opera rehearsals.

Box: 4 Folder 40
Neubauer, Adolf, 1832-1907
ALS, 20 January 1879, to Dear Sir, suggesting that he send a modern document to the Turkish Embassy and that he could help him with an old one; ALS, 22 January 1879, to Dear Sir, regretting that he cannot help him with the Turkish document since he cannot read modern diplomatic documents.

Box: 4 Folder 41
Neville, Henry, 1837-1910
ALS, 19 May 1875, to Sir William Fergusson, thanking him for his advice to send his child to the hospital.

Box: 4 Folder 42
Neville, Richard Cornwallis, 4th Baron Braybrooke, 1820-1861
ALS, 26 January n.y., to Henry Colburn, about amending manuscript sheets but that they must not be altered, and that Sir Isaac "Newton's letter is not worth insertion there being already 3 on the same subject."

Box: 4 Folder 43
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, 1856-1941
ALS, 15 February n.y., to Mr. Rogers, returning a petition with a few signatures from his classmates at Watford.

Box: 4 Folder 44
Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890
ALS, 10 July 1869, to My dear Madam, declining to send his writing to a bazaar.

Box: 4 Folder 45
Nichols, Beverley, 1899-1983
ALS, n.d., to Dear Pat, inviting a former employee for supper.

Box: 4 Folder 46
Nichols, John, 1743-1826
ADS, 24 February 1778, receipt for the purchase from John Murray of shares of copyright in Grainger's Biography, signed by William Chapman and John Nichols; engraved portrait, 1782.

Box: 4 Folder 47
Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873
ALS, Thursday, to Edward F. Rimbault, requesting two copies of the report of the Percy Society to write it up for the Gentleman's Magazine.

Box: 4 Folder 48
Nichols, Robert
ALS, 8 June 1936, to Clifford Bax, congratulating him on his play, Socrates; ALS, 5 December 1936, to Clifford Bax, about his reaction to Alec Waugh.

Box: 4 Folder 49
Nicolini, Ernest, 1834-1898
Two visiting cards, Ernesto Nicolini, inscribed in French.

Box: 4 Folder 50
Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923
ALS, 15 February 1892, to Dear Sir, returning the plate of Robert Browning which he used in The Bookman.

Box: 4 Folder 51
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
ALS, 23 June 1891, to Colonel Hutchins, suggesting several places where he can obtain a good nurse.

Box: 4 Folder 52
Nilsson, Christine, 1843-1921
Two visiting cards, Christine Nilsson; two visiting cards, between 1872-1887, Madame Christine Nilsson Rouzaud, three inscribed in French, one in English.

Box: 4 Folder 53
Nisbet, Hume, 1849-1921?
ALS, 24 April 1901, to My dear Curtis, sending his agent his new book on painting and pleased with his watercolors.

Box: 4 Folder 54
Noble, Mark, 1754-1827
AD, the King granted Elizabeth Anne Hunt the right to reassume and take her family surname of Andrews [written by Noble after 1822]; clipped signature, 2 November 1797, affixed to engraved portrait by J.K. Sherwin.

Box: 4 Folder 55
Noel, Roden Bereley Wriothesley, 1834-1894
ALS, 5 May 1894, to Dear Sir, inviting him to a lecture on Sir J. Ferguson's poetry before the Irish Literary Society.

Box: 4 Folder 56
Noel, R. R. (Robert Ralph)
ALS, 9 February 1866, to My dear Chapman, agreeing to write an article on the situation in Austria which he has almost completed; ANS, Thursday, to Herr V. Falkenstein, accepting an invitation; ALS, 4 September n.y., to Herr Weinhold, introducing Mrs. Jameson and asking him to show her his drawings from his Spanish journey [in German].

Box: 4 Folder 57
Normandy, Lady
ALS, 8 August n.y., sends her compliments and will call to see a bust on Saturday.

Box: 4 Folder 58
Norris, W. E. (William Edward), 1847-1925
ALS, 13 December 1897, to [William Morris] Colles, returning the proofs of the second installment of The Widower and inquires about the American serial and book rights; ALS, 23 May 1907, to Dear Sir, while noting that he has forgotten most of the short stories he wrote, his favorite is "Poor Harry" published by Methuen but that it may be too long for the recipient's reprint length; ALS, 23 July 1907, to Dear Sir, agreeing to let him reprint "Mysterious Mrs. Wilkinson" with a suggested prefatory remark.

Box: 4 Folder 59
Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877
ALS, n.d., to F.O. Ward, returning a book with "a wee book of my publishing"; two engraved portraits.

Box: 4 Folder 60
Novello, Sabilla, d. 1904
ALS, 13 March 1833, to R.B. Peake, sending a drama translated from the French for him to consider for the English opera company and will accept whatever payment he thinks it merits.

Box: 4 Folder 61
Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958
25 April 1931, to Mrs. [Marion] Cran, apologizing for mislaying her letter in which she proposes to write an article for Harper's Bazaar about his garden, and inviting her to visit.

Authors, O

Authors, O

Box: 4 Folder 62
O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848-1929
Clipped signature; presentation portrait after the painting by John J. Bacon.

Box: 4 Folder 63
O'Donnell, Elliott, 1872-1965
TLS fragment, [1954], enclosing notices for his talk at the London Spiritualist Alliance and noting the release date of his new book, Dangerous Ghosts.

Box: 4 Folders 64-68
Odle, Alan
AMs, n.d., lecture on humour; Sydney Cooper School of Art and Science examination schedule, 1906, for A.E. Odle; AMs, n.d., article, "Rabelais and His Modern Readers"; AMs, n.d., short story, "The Man Who Killed Time"; AMs, n.d., short story, "The House of Clothes"; ALS, n.d., to Mrs. Wells, expressing surprise and pleasure that she has bought one of his drawings at an exhibition by Mrs. Beresford.

Box: 4 Folder 69
Ogle, Nathaniel
Clipped signature and phrase.

Box: 4 Folder 70
Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888
ALS, Friday, 23 April n.y., to Lady Augusta Stanley regretting that he will be late for their luncheon because of a wedding he will be attending; ALS, n.d., to Mr. Sebag, with news that he will be going to Liverpool to meet his wife returning from America but that the gales may delay her arrival and their appointment, and comments on his heavy newspaper and magazine article writing load; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 15 April 1896.

Box: 4 Folder 71
O'Neill, Norman
ALS, 9 January 1934, to Clifford Bax, thanking him for kind words in Radio Times about his music.

Box: 4 Folder 72
Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853
ALS, 30 January 1827, to M.A. Burthon, thanking her friend for a gift; ALS, 1 February 1841, to My Dear Cousin, with thanks for a book, and family news; ALS, 1 September 1845, to Dear friend, with thanks for a book she requested only to find she'd already borrowed a copy which she will return.

Box: 4 Folder 73
O'Rell, Max, 1848-1903
ANS, 29 July 1902, describing the most admirable sight and most objectionable institution in London, in answer to a symposium in a literary journal; two small sketches captioned, "my favorite contribution to children's autograph books"; clipped signature.

Box: 4 Folder 74
Orpen, William, Sir, 1878-1931
ALS, n.d., to John Gloag, complaining about a rough steamer passage, with a pencil sketch of himself in a bathtub; AN, n.d., comments that he is busy with the Jews, notes a dinner with Tim Healy who discussed Uganda, with a pen and ink drawing of a naked baby; ANS, n.d., to John Gloag, with a pen and ink drawing of a naked hairy man and commenting that it is a faithful representation of what Mr. Bellingham saw every morning thus leading to grave trouble for Zink, that it is not to be reproduced in the Irish Review nor shown to any female, and comments on Zink's love life; ALS, n.d., to John Gloag, disappointed that Zink lost and that Orpen has to say he was mistaken, with two pen and ink phallic drawings, one captioned Zinks; pen and ink drawing of an eyeglass-wearing elephant with an outsized penis; pen and ink drawing of a Semitic man holding a lady's hand.

Box: 4 Folder 75
O'Sullivan, Séamus
ANS initials, n.d., to A.J.L., with best wishes.

Box: 4 Folder 76
Ouida, 1839-1908
ALS (Louise de la Rame), n.d., to Sir Alexander, expressing pleasure at the impending visit by him and Lord Houghton.

Box: 4 Folder 77
Ouseley, Frederick Arthur Gore, Sir, 1825-1889
ALS, 31 January 1873, to William Alexander Barrett, thanking him for a review of "Hagar" in the Post and for a suggested ending; he plans to publish it in vocal score.

Box: 4 Folder 78
Ouseley, William, Sir, 1767-1842
AMs, [after 1826], essay on "Alexander and His Tradition," and notes.

Box: 4 Folder 79
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
ALS [in wife's hand], 20 May 1853, to My dear Carlyle, inviting him to come for breakfast and stay to enjoy the spring day ; ALS, 26 December 1858, to Mr. Price, offering condolences and inviting him to visit; ALS, 13 April 1892, to Douglas Murray, explaining this short reply due to depression over his late illness.

Box: 4 Folder 80
Oxenford, John, 1812-1877
ALS, 31 July 1865, to Dear Sir, requesting that Mrs. Sullivan be allowed to visit her husband in the hospital; ANS, n.d., to actor R[obert] Keeley, asking him to give the two acts of the "Cold Heart" to the bearer of the note and asks for some tickets.

Authors, P

Authors, P

Box: 4 Folder 81
Paganini, Nicolo, 1784-1840
ANS, n.d., responding to note from J. Cannot, 18 May 1832. In French. With portrait clipped from magazine, and carte-de-visite.

Box: 4 Folder 82
Pain, Barry, 1864-1928
ALS, 9 February 1893, to Dear Sir, thanking him for sending the amusing story, "The Messenger of Trust"; ALS, 4 September 1877, to W.H. Helm, acknowledging receipt of payment for a review of The Human Boy in the Morning Post; ALS, 3 March 1904, to Louis Napoleon Parker, accepting an invitation to dinner at the club but needs clarification on the date; ALS, 21 June 1921, to Louis Napoleon Parker, conferring the right to dramatize Pain's novel, The Exile of Falvo, until 30 September 1922 and that any profits will be divided equally between them.

Box: 4 Folder 83
Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis, Sir, 1827-1919
ALS, 27 August 1891, to My dear Hendriks, enclosing a proof of Conventional Tariff, news of his wife, and visit to Holland; ALS, 21 September 1892, to My dear Hendriks, noting that the third part of his dictionary [Dictionary of Political Economy, 3 vol., 1894-1899] is out and the first volume will take some more months to finish.

Box: 4 Folder 84
Palmer, Doris M.
Drawing, graphite and colored pencil, signed, of girls wearing yellow bonnets, entering the green door of a brick building. On verso, "For Clifford [Bax], from Cecil and Doris."

Box: 4 Folder 85
Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879
ALS, 12 June 1853, to Dear Reine, contributing ten pounds for Marchetti's statue as authorized by Ashley Ponsonby; ALS third person, 2 November 1860, to Mr. Herford, declining cooperation with the General Committee on the pew system since he is Roman Catholic; ANS, 22 March 1866, to the Messengers, British Museum, admitting A. Kinnaird, M.P., and party to see the British Museum; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 17 January 1874.

Box: 4 Folder 86
Pardoe, Miss (Julia), 1806-1862
ALS third person, 11 April 1860, to William Maw Egley, apologizing for missing an appointment and looking forward to seeing his picture ["Pyramus and Thisbe"] at the exhibition.

Box: 4 Folder 87
Parker, Gilbert, 1862-1932
ALS, 22 February 1899, to Louis Napoleon Parker, arranging for Louis and his wife to visit for talk and theatricals; ALS, 27 April 1899, to Louis Napoleon Parker, cajoling him into collaborating on a play, and criticizing the weak story of Louis's play, Change Alley.

Box: 4 Folder 88
Parker, John, Sir
AD [16th century], endorsed on verso "For Sir John Parker," concerning reasons why the six clerks should not speak against such office. With typed transcription.

Box: 4 Folder 89
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
ALS, 24 October 1841, to Dear Sir, thanking him for corrections to his glossary [Glossary of Architecture 3rd ed., 3 vols, 1840-1841] and arranging to send the third volume to him, plus a copy of [Some remarks upon the Church of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, read at a meeting of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, February 25, 1841], and asks if he will notice them; ALS, 3 December 1853, to Dear Sir, that he is obligated to the editor of the Penny Post for another year.

Box: 4 Folder 90
Parker, Louis Napoleon, 1852-1944
ALS, 30 November 1892, to A.S. Comyns Carr, thanking him for information and discussing his own work. On the last leaf is a list of Parker's plays, possibly in Carr's hand.

Box: 4 Folder 91
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
ALS, 12 May 1852, to John Chapman, about Judge Appleton writing an article on the life of Judge Story; ALS, 30 August 1852, to John Chapman, apologizing for not sending an article and promises to write and send one, he did not pay his bill because he thought he could do so with articles, and asks if he wants to reprint a volume of sermons; ALS, 7 November 1854, to John Chapman, surprised at his opinion of Martineau and Hodgson, and other publishing news.

Box: 4 Folder 92
Parkinson, Thomas
ALS, 3 April 1902, to Dear Sir, detailing his wife's ill health which left them in dire financial straits, lists some of the books he has written, and requests financial assistance; printed leaflet announcing his book, Yorkshire Legends and Traditions, extracting reviews and press notices of the first series.

Box: 4 Folder 93
Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891
ALS, 3 October 1884, to Richard J. Kelly, thanking him for a copy of his letter to the Morning Post.

Box: 4 Folder 94
Parr, Bartholomew, 1750-1810
AMsS, 18 December 1783, poem, salutation cut out.

Box: 4 Folder 95
Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825
ALS, 23 October 1811, to Rev. Symmons; ALS, 25 December 1824, to George Dyer, thanking him for a book and inquiring about the subscription cost; ALS, 15 July n.y., to Dear Sir, inviting him to dinner; engraved portait by Ridley, 1809; engraved portrait by J. Cochran, painted by A. Chisholm, 1832.

Box: 4 Folder 96
Partridge, Bernard, b. 1861
ALS, 8 August 1920, to My dear Phil, replying to an earlier request for information about the reason for scoring tennis by fifteens, citing a letter from a great tennis player with historical details but no solid answers.

Box: 4 Folder 97
Partridge, Eric, 1894-1973
ALS, 7 September 1927, to Mr. Lowe, sending a copy of Ixion in Heaven and Endymion, the first publication from his Scholartis Press, and asking him to read it.

Box: 4 Folder 98
Patmore, P. G. (Peter George), 1786-1855
ALS, 8 April 1825, to Dear Sir, concerning his parents' financial situation, and their circumstances over the last year, and enclosing a list of contributors.

Box: 4 Folder 99
Patterson, R. H. (Robert Hogarth), 1821-1886
ALS, 18 March 1867, to the Manager of the Theatre Royal Adelphi, inquiring why the dramatic critic on the staff of the Globe Journal has been refused admission to the Adelphi Theatre.

Box: 4 Folder 100
Pattison, Mark, 1813-1884
ALS, n.d., to [Rev. A.C.] Daniel, expressing his anxiety about the new nominee, Inge, and asking how Daniel and his college position will be affected.

Box: 4 Folder 101
Payn, James, 1830-1898
ALS, [stamped and docketed 11 April 1893], to [William Morris] Colles, noting his ill health but having written a lot of the new recollections, "Some Gleams of Memory with Some Reflections."

Box: 4 Folder 102
Payne, John, 1842-1916
ANS, 8 August 1874, to [William Michael] Rossetti, accepting a dinner invitation.

Box: 4 Folder 103
Payne, Wyndham
ANS, 4 December 1925, to F. J. Burnley, with compliments.

Box: 4 Folder 104
Pedrick, Gale, 1873-1870
ALS, 2 May 1901, to R[ichard] Hovenden, enclosing a prospectus for a unique work supported by the Dukes of York and Northumberland

Box: 4A Folders 105-156
Pemberton, Max, Sir, 1863-1950
ALS, 5 April 1901, to My Dear Sir, accepting an invitation; 69 AMsS and TMsS, of his short stories, articles, lectures, plays, and film synopses.

Box: 5 Folders 1-22

Box: 5A Folders 23-37

Box: 5B Folders 38-65
Pemberton, Max, Sir, 1863-1950
47 AMsS and TMsS, of his short stories, articles, lectures, plays, and film synopses.

Box: 6 Folders 1-9
Pennell, Harry L. L.
5 ALS, 1905-1912, to his mother, concerning his travels with Captain Robert Falcon Scott on the British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913); ALS, 23 March 1910, from R. Scott to Admiral Holland, noting that Pennell has been directed to return to England and praises his work [magnetic and meteorological research]; ALS, 7 April 1912, Diana Wilson to Mrs. Pennell, praising Harry; newspaper clippings about the expedition, 1910; pendant [in case] in gold, silver, and platinum, representing the Terra Nova in the Arctic Circle.

Box: 6 Folder 10
Pepys, Walter Courtenay, b. 1840
ADS, 23 June 1870, permit form filled in, granting him permission to pass out of the ports at Honolulu for San Francisco.

Box: 6 Folder 11
Perrin, Alice, 1867-1934
ALS, 1 January n.d., to Mr. Starr, enclosing a manuscript; the manuscript, "Future of the Novel"; ALS fragment, n.d., inviting recipient to tea.

Box: 6 Folder 12
Perry, Cath.
Diary, 1836-1837, mentions Trelawney and Mary Shelley (pp. 19-20).

Box: 6 Folder 13
Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921-
TLS, 5 December 1947, to Harry Green, thanking him for his kind letter; Variety Club of Great Britain luncheon menu, 7 August 1951, autographed by Harry Green, Philip, and others; TLS, 28 December 1951, to Harry Green, thanking him for his generosity toward the National Playing Fields Association; TLS, 26 April 1956, from Michael Parker to Harry Green, noting that Prince Philip suggested Harry talk to the Duke of Gloucester about his idea for the National Association of Boys' Clubs; ALS, 15 July n.y. [ca. 1952-1958], to Harry Green, thanking him for a copy of his book on magic [Harry Green Says You Are a Magician].

Box: 6 Folder 14
Phillimore, W. P. M. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913
ALS, 8 January 1901, to R[ichard] Hovenden, about the difficulty and cost in compiling the indexes to his collections of legal records; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 24 November 1898.

Box: 6 Folder 15
Pickthall, Marmaduke William, 1875-1936
7 ALS, 1901-1921, to J.B. Pinker, about writing, editing, and sales of his novels, Said the Fisherman, Enid, The Children of the Nile, The Myopes, The Valley of the Kings, his service responsibilities in the Army in 1918 that prevent him from beginning his new book for publisher W. Collins, and requesting his stories for revision.

Box: 6 Folder 16
Pigou, Frederick, d. 1804
ALS, [1 November 1835], asking if his parcel of books containing The Life of Hannah More with Selections From Her Correspondence was left at the recipient's house by mistake.

Box: 6 Folder 17
Pissarro, Lucien, 1863-1944
ALS, 28 February 1925, to G. S. Tomkinson, nothing that he stopped printing and issuing books in 1914 but will not destroy his type or close the press [Eragny Press] in case he decides to produce another book, and agrees to read an article and make suggestions.

Box: 6 Folder 18
Pitman, Isaac, Sir, 1813-1897
ALS in shorthand, 1869.

Box: 6 Folder 19
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Printed document signed "Chatham," 1 November 1791: instructions for Alexander Douglas, commander of His Majesty's sloop Helena, to "cruize for the purpose of preventing the illegal practice of running brandy and other goods," countersigned by Admiral Hood.

Box: 6 Folder 20
Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796-1880
ALS, 29 July n.y., to J.G. Nichols, about an error in chapter three of Planché's book; ANS, Friday [1880], to Mrs. Boyce, agreeing to see Miss Rowe but noting he no longer has any influence with theater managers; ALS, Saturday, to Palcraft, giving permission for a copy of his play, Charles the Twelfth, to be made from the prompt book for five guineas.

Box: 6 Folder 21
Planté, Francis, 1839-1934
ANS, 19 July 1889, to Monsieur Vitu, mentioning Madame Erard and Albert Blondel. In French.

Box: 6 Folder 22
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944
ANS, 27 May 1916, to My Dear Wheatley, sending a copy of the little book.

Box: 6 Folder 23
Pollock, Frederick, Sir, 1845-1937
ALS, 10 March 1885, to Mrs. Meredith, loaning her his copy of T.L. Peacock's works and recommending his favorite story.

Box: 6 Folder 24
Pollock, W. F. (William Frederick), 1815-1888
Signed frank, 22 April 1838, to Miss Met Haly; ANS, 11 June 1853, to H. Reeve, adding his name to the subscription list for the statue of Coeur de Lion for two guineas; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 2 April 1870.

Box: 6 Folder 25
Portal, William W. (William Wyndham), 1850-1931
ALS, 10 January 1903, to [Richard] Hovenden, thanking him for congratulations on his election as a Fellow fo the Society of Antiquaries.

Box: 6 Folder 26
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839
ALS, Monday [1866], to Dear Sir, when he is in London, hoping to see the pictures the recipient mentions.

Box: 6 Folder 27
Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-
ALS, 9 October n.y., to Mr. Reeves, sending a parcel of new books.

Box: 6 Folder 28
Procter, Anne Benson, 1799-1888
ALS, 5 July n.y., to Mr. Bright, arranging a luncheon meeting.

Box: 6 Folder 29
Prothero, G. W. (George Walter), 1848-1922
ALS, 25 December 1863, to My dear treasurer, asking if the society can afford to pay eight pounds for a set of E.H.R.

Box: 6 Folder 30
Provence, John, b. 1870
ALS, 14 April 1911, to Mr. O'Brien, thanking him for compliments about his books, noting that they have been complete failures both in Britain and America, and regrets that he will never see Boston or Nova Scotia.

Box: 6 Folder 31
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832
ALS, 24 August 1826, to Mr. Ackermann, acknowledging receipt of his promissory note for the balance for fifteen copies of the Kings' Palace Brighton; ALS, 4 June 1832, to William Vulliamy, sending an account, with envelope; pencil sketch of a sculptured and emblazoned tomb; lithograph portrait by E. Scriven after J. Green, 1833.

Box: 6 Folder 32
Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie), 1800-1882
ALS, 10 December n.y., to My dear Saunders, asking support for an election in July.

Authors, Q

Authors, Q

Box: 6 Folder 33
Quilter, Robert, 1877-1953
ALS, 10 January 1934, to Clifford Bax, asking for his opinion of and advice about Quilter's music for the light opera, The Blue Boar, and praising Bax's play, The Rose Without a Thorn.

Authors, R

Authors, R

Box: 6 Folder 34
Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967
TLS, 29 October 1910, to Mr. Fisher, apologizing that his copy of Cynewulf is in storage for another two months and lists all of his books that are recently and soon to be published; TLS, 22 May 1911, to Mr. Fisher, announcing that he is finally settled into his house and is ready to review some French books.

Box: 6 Folder 35
Ravensworth, Henry Thomas Liddell, Earl of, 1797-1878
AMsS, 10 June 1833, poem, "The Tay," inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of Athol.

Box: 6 Folder 36
Rawnsley, H. D. (Hardwicke Drummond), 1851-1920
ALS, 11 September n.y., to Dear Sir, agreeing on a day and time for the recipient to visit; photograph clipped from magazine.

Box: 6 Folder 37
Reade, Charles, 1814-1884
ALS, 15 March n.y., to Mr. Pearson, noting that only a court appearance will prevent him from visiting on 11 April for a week.

Box: 6 Folder 38
Reeves, John, 1752?-1829
ALS, 6 July n.y., to Mr. Nicol, noting they will meet soon and to ignore the newspapers, "nobody can have that office but me"; two engraved portraits, 1798 and 1818.

Box: 6 Folder 39
Reid, H. G. (Hugh Gilzean), 1836-1911
ALS, 11 April 1896, to My dear Sir, declining an invitation of the Sheffield journalists to a banquet but he is in Belgium for rest and peace, and praises their guest, Sala, for organizing the International Press Union.

Box: 6 Folder 40
Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883
ALS, 15 March 1876, to Henry Stevenson, discussing his new novel, a romance of English modern life on the Wye River, picturesque and exciting but without the murders, seduction, and adultery of most modern romances [Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye, 3 volumes (London: Tinsley, 1877)].

Box: 6 Folder 41
Reid, T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss), 1842-1905
ALS, 4 March 1898, to Ariel Wright, declining an invitation to the Sheffield Press Club's annual dinner because he is recovering from the influenza.

Box: 6 Folder 42
Reinecke, Carl, 1824-1910
ALS, 6 February 1862, to Mr. Wursh, regretting he is unable to have the recipient's work performed and gives a long criticism of it, and discusses his own oratorio, "Belshazzar." In German.

Box: 6 Folder 43
Reyer, Ernest, 1823-1909
ALS, 21 March n.y., to his nephew, mentioning Massenet and Madame Porcher; ANS, n.d., referring to a dinner engagement. Both in French.

Box: 6 Folder 44
Reynolds, Alfred, 1884-1969
ALS, 24 September 1930, to Clifford Bax, asking him to write some words for a minuet to be sung at the end of a play [most likely Polly]; manuscript sheet music of the slow minuet for end of play; Christmas card, signed and with a bar of music, and greeting in Russian added.

Box: 6 Folder 45
Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.
ALS, 24 February 1921, to Mr. Elan, remembers meeting him and encloses a circular to show how his suggestion for informal afternoon gatherings has "borne fruit," wants to talk to him about the future of the novel; TLS, 4 March 1921, to Mr. [Meredith] Starr, she mislaid Mr. Sabatini's address but suggests how he can be reached, and inviting him to the Writers Club for tea; APS, 17 March 1921, to Meredith Starr, confirming their appointment; APS, 27 March 1921, to Meredith Starr, her illness prevents her from meeting a deadline.

Box: 6 Folder 46
Rice, James, 1843-1882
ALS, 29 May 1871, to Dear Sir, refusing to publish a story since he never publishes reprints, and suggests that the recipient can come by to pick up the proofs.

Box: 6 Folder 47
Richards, Grant, 1872-1948
TLS, 16 October 1903, to W.H. Helm, sending an advance copy of a new romance [Uther and Igraine ] by a new writer, Warwick Deeping, and hoping Helm will review it for its release date; TLS, 18 March 1904, to W.H. Helm, thanking him for the review of Uther and Igraine in The Morning Post last fall and sending a copy of Deeping's new novel, Love Among the Ruins, for review.

Box: 6 Folder 48
Richardson, Dorothy Miller, 1873-1957
66 ALS, 1946-1952, to Henry Savage, on a variety of literary subjects including authors Ambrose Bierce, William Blake, Robert Browning, John Dos Passos, Norman Douglas, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Henry Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, John Cowper Powys, V.S. Pritchett, Bertrand Russell, Edith Sitwell, H.G. Wells, William Butler Yeats, and others.

Box: 6 Folder 49
Richmond, Legh, 1772-1827
Diary entry, 1 October [1821], "came to dear Dr. Buchanan's today; Edinburgh looks very fine" with clipped signature; AMs poem, addressed to a bereaved woman parishoner; ALS, n.d., from Richmond's daughter, C.E. Haweis to Dr. Dobie, enclosing the poem and explaining her father's inspiration for writing it, and allowing him to keep her father's letters for as long as he needs them; ANS initials C.E.H. describing why her father wrote these verses; engraved portrait by W. Finden after Slater, 1828.

Box: 6 Folder 50
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931
ALS, [received 3 January 1925], to Mr. Tomkinson, explaining that he designed the fonts, decoration, pagination, paper watermarks, and illustrations in the Vale books, not the Ballantyne Press.

Box: 6 Folder 51
Rieu, Jean-Louis, 1788-1868
AMs, "De l'action Volcanique par Jean Louis Rieu, dedie a Monsieur Alexandre Lombard, 1896," composition book containing Rieu's ideas, written by a student almost thirty years after Rieu's death, in French; three fragments of unrelated letters.

Box: 6 Folder 52
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1923
ALS, 7 May 1897, to Dear Sir, forwarding, at her husband's request, a check for one guinea toward enlarging the London Library.

Box: 6A Folder 53
Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865
ALS, 15 November 1842, to Thomas Hood, enclosing an article, "The Gamester's Last Stake," written by a woman author he met several years ago, she is a regular contributor to Chamber's Journal, but he deliberately hasn't read the article.

Box: 6A Folder 54
Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943
Inscription signed on flyleaf to Maude S. Humphries.

Box: 6A Folder 55
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl, 1832-1914
ALS, 22 January 1881, to J. Hornblower, declining an invitation to dine and regretting not being able to meet the Lord Chancellor and judges, and thanks him for finding a job for Sergeant Heath, with stamped envelope.

Box: 6A Folder 56
Robertson, James Craigie, 1813-1882
ALS, 26 October 1850, to My dear Doncaster, sending a manuscript in Latin, with the AMs enclosed.

Box: 6A Folder 57
Robinson, G. G. (George G.)
ADS, receipt, 9 May 1778, to John Murray, for shares of copies of books; ADS, receipt, 3 June 1779, to John Murray, paid for Thompson's Plays and Poems; ADS, receipt, 8 November 1780, to John Murray, for one-fourth share of Mr. Du Lolme's treatise on the English Constitution.

Box: 6A Folder 58
Robinson, John R. (John Richard), Sir, 1828-1903
ALS, 4 February 1897, to J. Cooke, declining an invitation to the annual dinner of the Sheffield Press Club.

Box: 6A Folder 59
Robinson, Mary, 1822-1888
ALS, 1882, to Mrs. Rossetti, inquiring about the rumors of the ill health of Mr. Brown.

Box: 6A Folder 60
Rodd, Rennell, 1858-1941
ALS, 18 August 1899, to Madam, discouraging her from seeking employment in Egypt since hotels are closed and business is at a standstill.

Box: 6A Folder 61
Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855
ALS, 1 May 1813, to Dear Wrangham, apologizing for not writing, and mentions his poem about a voyage from London to Gravesend; ANS, 23 January 1833, to My dear Sir, thanking him and saying he will be happy to wait upon him; ANS, 26 February 1852, to Lady Morley, inviting her to dinner to meet Fanny Kemble; ANS, n.d., to Miss Cushman, arranging her visit; ANS, Wednesday, to Lord St. Vincent, inviting him and Nina to come for dinner; ANS, n.d., to Mrs. Mackenzie, thanking her for her kindness and regrets not seeing Miss Mackenzie; ANS, n.d., to Mr. Blakesley, inviting him and his wife to dine; ANS, n.d., to Lady Theresa, noting that if he is free of his engagements before midnight he will come; ANS, n.d., looking forward to seeing the unnamed recipient; ANS, third person, having the honor of waiting upon the Duke and Duchess of Wellington; AMs, two-page essay on social devotion; signature clipped from letter; engraved portrait by W. Finden after Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1834; caricature portrait; engraved portrait by H. Meyer from a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence; article, "A Memory of Samuel Rogers," by S.C. Hall, clipped from periodical.

Box: 6A Folder 62
Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959
ALS, 23 May 1931, to Arthur Wontner, about the film Siva to be made in England; ALS, 6 March 1933, to Arthur Wontner, happy to hear Mussolini recognized Wontner's "great artistry"; ALS, 27 July 1933, to Arthur Wontner, asking him to be listed among vice-presidents and patrons of the Windmill Players; ALS, 8 August 1933, to Arthur Wontner, about fishing and hoping to work together again but play-producing is a risky gamble.

Box: 6A Folder 63
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
TLS, 14 November 1914, to W[illiam] Morris Colles, thanking him for his suggestion but "any usefulness my writings might now have will be in my own country."

Box: 6A Folder 64
Rosa, Carl (Carl August Nikolaus), 1842-1889
2 visiting cards with Christmas greetings.

Box: 6A Folder 65
Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
ALS, 18 September 1797, to Messrs. Cadell and Davies, asking them to forward a letter for the Earl of Bristol, inserting a correction in the next edition of his book, The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, and pass on to Mr. Rough his thanks for Rough's dedication to him in his book; ANS, n.d., to Messrs. Cadell and Davies, requesting they send a copy of Leo X to Rev. Dr. Lloyd; franked address, 27 April 1807, to Mrs. Smith; ANS, 19 May 1822, to Mr. Monroe, admitting the bearer, Mr. Henderson, to see the Liverpool Royal Institution; four engraved portraits; caricature portrait; biographical clipping from periodical.

Box: 6A Folder 66
Roussel, Albert, 1869-1937
ALS, 2 June 1910, to Monsieur, accepting an invitation to dinner. In French.

Box: 6A Folder 67
Royden, A. Maude (Agnes Maude), 1876-1956
ALS, 24 November 1936, to Mr. Stern, expressing interest in his work but wishes to postpone meeting until her return from America.

Box: 6A Folder 68
Rubbra, Edmund, 1901-
ALS, 2 April 1947, to [Clifford] Bax, sending Bax's original copy of "Lujata's Song" and would like to have a copy of "The Buddha."

Box: 6A Folder 69
Rumford, Kennerley, 1870-1957
ALS, n.d., to Mrs. Stephenson, apologizing for taking her piece of music, hopes she received it safely, and comments that he enjoyed singing in her house.

Box: 6A Folder 70
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Signature clipped from a letter, with rubber stamp of his publishers, Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 22 May n.y.

Box: 6A Folder 71
Russell, Edward R. (Edward Richard), 1834-1920
ALS, 6 April 1896, to W.R.M. Thwaites, declining an invitation from the Sheffield Press Club.

Box: 6A Folder 72
Russell, John, Earl, 1792-1878
ALS, 20 May 1835, to Viscount Etrington, noting the King does not object to the appointment of William Tucker, Jr. as Lieutenant in the East Devon Volunteer Cavalry; ALS, 15 August 1865, to Lt. Col. John Neale, the Queen has approved Russell's recommendation of Neale to the post of Consul General and Charge d'Affaires at Guayaquil [Ecuador], with envelope.

Box: 6A Folder 73
Russell, William Clark, 1844-1911
ALS, 26 April 1906, to [T.J.] Cobden-Sanderson, asks to delay answering his letter because of rheumatic gout, with envelope; ALS, 15 October 1907, to J.F. Meehan, assuming Meehan is the publisher of the Beacon, he asks him to send a copy to Messrs. Skeffington and Son.

Box: 6A Folder 74
Rutter, Frank, 1876-1937
TLS, 26 October 1924, to Mrs. Watts-Dunton, with news of his recent purchase of a house in Maidenhead which occupies his time for at least another month, and inquires about the publication date of her Rossetti article, with envelope.

Authors, S

Authors, S

Box: 6A Folder 75
Sackville, Margaret, Lady, 1881-1963
AMsS poem, "Fete Galante: Adieu"; AMsS poems, "Pierrot's Song," "Epitaphs," "Vale," "The Confession," "Witnesses," and "Invocation," with 2 ALS, 28 October 1920 and 11 September 1921, to Clement Shorter, enclosing poems to be published, all bound in blue cloth-bound volume.

Box: 6A Folder 76
St. John, James Augustus, 1801-1875
ALS, 9 February n.y., to [William] Tinsley, concerning a portrait for his book, that artist Charles Mercier would like it engraved, but St. John will leave it up to Tinsley to decide; ALS, 3 June n.y., to [William] Tinsley, asking him to thank Mr. Knight for sending back the portrait, mentions several favorable reviews of his book and Mrs. Hookham's book.

Box: 6A Folder 77
Saint-Priest (Le Chevalier de)
ALS, 16 August 1829, to Monseigneur, mentioning the author of the book, Veillees Politiques, and requesting an audience with his excellency.

Box: 6A Folder 78
Sainsbury, Harrington
ALS, 18 December 1882, to Dr. [John] Chapman, about several medical and other books that he is reviewing for the Westminster Review.

Box: 6A Folder 79
Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933
ALS, 10 July [1845], to My dear Sir, noting that he will make corrections.

Box: 6A Folder 80
Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
42 ALS, 1859-1894, n.d., to W.B. Kingston, James Payn, Clement Scott, Dr. Edward H. Sieveking, W. Moy Thomas, Messrs. Tillotson and Son, William Tinsley, Andrew Tuer, and others; AMs, 12-12 January 1870, notes for his "Echoes of the Week" column; AMs, "Echoes of the Week," insertion "to precede copy already posted"; AMsS, "The Story of the Three Captains" (published in Belgravia, holiday number, 1878); signature clipped from letter; signature clipped from letter to Charles Kean; cabinet photograph by Van der Weyde; engraved portrait; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins; etched portrait by E. Bocourt from a photograph by Van der Weyde; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 25 September 1875; photograph vignette clipped from a book.

Box: 6A Folder 81
Salt, Henry Stephens, 1851-1939
ALS, 4 August 1896, to Dear Sir, complaining about the publications The Fortnightly and The Savoy.

Box: 6A Folder 82
Sambourne, Linley
ALS, 17 June [1908], to Louis Napoleon Parker, about photographing people with a little camera of his own invention, like Alice's Knights; ALS, 31 July 1908, to Louis Napoleon Parker, thanking him for cards to the dress rehearsal of his pageant.

Box: 6A Folder 83
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, Viscount, 1870-1963
ALS, 18 December 1902, to Mr. Meech, about Samuel's letter containing his opinion of the Northern Echo journal, and sending a copy of his book, Liberalism.

Box: 6A Folder 84
Sandford, John, 1801 or 2-1873
ALS, 10 October 1865, to Edward Herford, congratulating him on the success of his labors.

Box: 6A Folder 85
Savage, Anne
ALS, n.d., to Miss Eyre, responding to a request for an autograph.

Box: 6A Folder 86
Savage, Henry
ALS, 1960-1964, to Harold Mortlake (7 letters from London; 16 letters from Punta de Hildalgo, Tenerife, Canary Islands; and two letters from Bajamar, Tenerife) mainly concerning his attempts to find a publisher after years of obscurity living in the Canary Islands; two envelopes (one stamped), 1964; six poems, 1960-1964; photograph of pen-and-ink caricature drawing of three men.

Box: 6A Folder 87
Sayers, F. (Frank), 1763-1817
ALS, n.d., to Dear Sir, thanking him for the list of Strutt's works [not included], and other books, and notes that the engravings of the cathedrals will be too small but very real.

Box: 6A Folder 88
Scharwenka, Xavier, 1850-1924
2 APS, 1906, to Professor Waldemar Mayer, referring to rehearsals for the Brahms quintet, and other musical matters. In German.

Box: 6A Folder 89
Schmidt, Aloys, 1892-1980
6 ALS, 1839-1847, on musical matters. In German.

Box: 6A Folder 90
Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931
TLS, 15 November 1926, to [Attorney General] Wilhelm, sending a declaration already discussed, which he wishes circulated, referring to an unauthorized publication of his letter in a paper called the Pesti Naplo [Budapest]. In German.

Box: 6A Folder 91
Schütt, Eduard, 1856-1933
11 ALS, 1897-1913, to Herr Schloesser, referring to the conductor Richter, Mahler and his second and eighth symphonies, Hans Reger, Schonberg and Sarasate, and other musical matters. In German.

Box: 6A Folder s 92-94
Scott, Clement, 1841-1904
14 TLS and ALS drafts and retained copies, 1897-1898, to Richard Butler, Henry Irving, Edward Lawson, Walter Pallant, and others; TMs, "Thirty-Five Years at the Play," lecture; TDS, farewell article for the "Drama of the Day" column in The Daily Telegraph, with clipped article from The Westminster Gazette and the Star, 12 December 1898; photograph by Martin and Sallnow; photographic print, 6 October 1901, from The Free Lance; 75 ALS received, 1898-1899, from friends, colleagues, and authors referring to his retirement.

Box: 6A Folder 95
Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970
ALS, 10 September 1905, to Dear Madam, declining to write music for her libretto since he is very busy, romantic opera is not in his line, and he has arranged to do a music drama with H.G. Wells.

Box: 6A Folder 96
Scott, Robert, 1811-1887
ALS, 19 February 1884, to My dear Sir, asking him to preach one of the Lenten sermons in the Cathedral on 2 April.

Box: 6A Folder 97
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Signature clipped from letter, 25 November 1829; signature and address clipped from an envelope; engraved portrait from the picture in the Royal collection; embossed profile.

Box: 6A Folder 98
Seaman, Owen, Sir, 1861-1936
APS initials, postmarked 29 September 1915, to Mrs. Agnew, "Welcome home!" The insides of the folding card contain a reproduction from Punch no. 3865, 4 August 1915, five-stanza poem by Seaman translated into Italian by Renato Santamaria, with drawing of the Kaiser cowering before a wayside crucifix, drawn by Bernard Partridge.

Box: 6A Folder 99
Secker, Martin, 1882-1978
ALS, 28 August 1929, to T.R. Waring, thanking him for mentioning Hervey Fisher in a review, and inquiring if he'd like Secker's spare copy of Francis Brett Young's The Tragic Bride, with envelope; ALS, 1 September 1929, to T.R. Waring, sending an inscribed copy of The Tragic Bride , asking if he has any first editions of 1890s books which Secker collects, and he will let Waring know if he finds a spare copy of Young's Undergrowth.

Box: 6A Folder 100
Selver, Paul, 1888-
ALS, 23 February 1921, to Mr. Starr, informing him that he sent a copy of his Modern Czech Poetry to him at the Pall Mall Gazette for review and asking to be notified when it appears.

Box: 6A Folder 101
Seymour, Beatrice Kean
ALS, 3 May 1928, to Mr. Waring, agreeing to sign his copies of her and her husband's books.

Box: 6A Folder 102
Shanks, Edward, 1892-1953
ANS, 14 January 1921, to Dear Sir, agreeing to make an appointment with him.

Box: 8 Folder 1
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
2 TLS, 14 July 1914, to the Editor of The Nation, with corrected proof, titled "The Strange Case of Ernest Newman." Bound in blue morocco.

Box: 6A Folder 103
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
TMs, "The Emperor and the Little Girl"; TLS, 10 March 1926, Blanche Patch (Shaw's secretary) to Clement Shorter, enclosing the above manuscript for Shorter to read, and noting her correspondence with Miss Furniss about her father's [Harry Furniss] illustrations for the play, Poison, Passion originally published in his annual [Harry Furniss's Christmas Annual]; TLS, 26 February 1947, to Lawrence Green, castigating him as a "very inexperienced actor or manager" and noting that Man and Superman is not available since Maurice Evans is contemplating a revival, with envelope; envelope address to T. R. Waring Jr., 16 March 1945.

Box: 6A Folder 104
Shaw, Byam, 1872-1919
TLS, 30 March 1915, to Louis Napoleon Parker, about Lady Paget's request for designs of dresses for the Masque that Parker is producing at Drury Lane theater.

Box: 6A Folder 105
Shaw, Martin, 1875-1958
ALS, 3 May n.y., to Clifford Bax, about securing a loan from an oil man willing to back N's [Harold Nielson?] production, and that Shaw has no money because the sale of sheet music is suffering because of the mechanization of music.

Box: 7 Folder 1
Shepherd, Richard Herne, 1842-1895
AMsS, variations of readings of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist as compared between first issue in Bentley's Miscellany and subsequent editions [bound].

Box: 7 Folder 2
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
ALS fragment, n.d., to My dear Lord, about the recipient's disagreement with Mr. Wilson and its affect on Sheridan; ALS fragment, 16 February n.d., to his brother Charles Francis Sheridan, praising his speech; 2 engraved portraits; photographic portrait clipped from magazine.

Box: 7 Folder 3
Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947
Envelope addressed to T.R. Waring, postmarked 5 October 1921.

Box: 7 Folder 4
Shinwell, Emanuel, 1884-
TLS, 20 December 1948, to Harry Green, thanking him for a gift of cigars and will send him a copy of his book when his publisher finds one; TLS, 23 December 1948, to Harry Green, sending a copy of his book [The Britain I Want, 1943], noting it is outmoded by events but that the chapter on class distinctions is still worth reading; TLS, 8 February 1949, to Harry Green, sending a photograph of himself; TLS, 23 July 1949, to Harry Green, agreeing to attend the opening of Green's new play on 10 August.

Box: 7 Folder 5
Shore, W. Teignmouth (William Teignmouth), 1865-1932
ANS, 22 May 1880, to [W.R.S.] Ralston, thanking him for the Indian fairy tales.

Box: 7 Folder 6
Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926
TLS, 30 November 1914, to W.H. Helm, asking what the snake means in Balzac's novel, La Peau de Chagrin and what is implied by the quotation from Sterne in the novel; TLS, 2 December 1914, to W.H. Helm, thanking him for the interesting information, with an appended page with a drawing of Balzac's snake and Stern's snake; ALS, 8 April 1921, to W.H. Helm, apologizing for cutting his article a little and noting that the Daily Mail has cut the most important eight lines from his own article.

Box: 7 Folder 7
Shortt, W. T. P. (William Taylor Peter), b. 1801?
AMsS, "Anglo-American Achievements and Greek History of Kanada," in bound journal, with proofs of the printed title page in Greek plus preliminary notice; printed letter of acknowledgment filled in by Harvard College, 10 June 1853, thanking Shortt for the gift of Gesta Anglo-Americana; 3 ALS, 1850, to Shortt, thanking him for donating a copy of his book to the Bodleian Library and to Worcester College library.

Box: 7 Folder 8
Sichel, Edith Helen, 1862-1914
ALS, 20 June n.y., to Sir Claude, congratulating him on being honored, and talks about the death of a mutual friend.

Box: 7 Folder 9
Sichel, Walter Sydney, 1855-1933
ALS, 5 April 1916, to Louis Napoleon Parker, congratulating him on Dennis Eadie's performance in the production of Parker's play, Disraeli.

Box: 7 Folder 10
Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs., 1854-1934
ALS, 10 January 1921, to Dear Sir, declining a personal interview but promising to send the 800 words before the end of the month.

Box: 7 Folder 11
Silberrad, Una L., 1872-1955
ALS, 13 January 1921, to Dear Sir, noting that she has already promised to talk with someone from the Glasgow Herald and Evening Standard about the future of the novel, but if he is still interested in her view she will write something for him.

Box: 7 Folder 12
Silas, Edouard, 1827-1909
ALS, 3 March 1858, to Dear Sir, thanking him for a recommendation to Mrs. Hodgson for a pupil.

Box: 7 Folder 13
Simon, John Allsebrook Simon, Viscount, 1873-1954
TLS, 24 March 1932, to Mrs. Clifford Bax, thanking her for sending his grandmother's plate.

Box: 7 Folder 14
Simpson, J. Palgrave (John Palgrave), 1807-1887
ANS, 1 May 1864, to Alfred Wigan, accepting an invitation.

Box: 7 Folder 15
Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922
ALS, 1 February 1897, to W.R.M. Thwaites, declining an invitation to the Sheffield Press Club; ANS, 21 April 1904, to J. Harris Stone, enclosing the autograph he requested; ANS, 19 March 1906, to Dear Sir, returning The Visitors with thanks; TLS, 17 November 1908, to Louis Napoleon Parker, about collaborating on a play; mounted photograph from the St. James's Photographic Company.

Box: 7 Folder 16
Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969
ALS, Friday [postmarked 10 August 1945], to Frederick Dawson, thanking him for his delightful letter and for sending another containing an interesting passage which he copied into his notebook, with envelope.

Box: 7 Folder 17
Skelton, John, Sir, 1831-1897
ALS, Friday, to [John William] Parker, asking for a copy of the proof for the article, "Abolishing the Writing of Books," that did not appear, and inquiring if Thackeray is working on a history of Queen Anne.

Box: 7 Folder 18
Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947
ALS, 16 April 1872, to to Mr. Dixon, confirming that they met at the Junior Army and Navy Club, and asking him to identify two pseudonyms, "Martingale" and "Market Harborough"; TLS, 1 March 1912, to Mr. Vivian Carter, sending a review copy of his new novel, The Unholy Estate, and describes the plot and its relationship to the British divorce laws reforms.

Box: 7 Folder 19
Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904
ALS, 26 November 1880, to Cavalieri Rossetti, about the death of Ceccarini on his voyage to Australia, and that his book, [Thrift], will be translated and published in Italy by Barbera; signature and date, July 1885; signature clipped from a receipt; photographic reproduction in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from a photograph by Frederick Hollyer.

Box: 7 Folder 20
Smirke, James E., d. 1842
ALS, 29 September 1830, to William Warren, sending the song [his poem, "The Horn of the Chase"] he requested [on verso], with integral envelope.

Box: 7 Folder 21
Smith, Albert, 1816-1860
ALS, November 1854, to Mr. Parke, mentioning friends, and suggesting he read his paper, "Only Once a Year," in this month's The Keepsake and hoping Parke saw his letter in The Times signed "The London Scoundrel" about gambling in the railway carriages; ALS 26 February 1856, to Mr. Parke, informing him that Russell went back to the Crimea via Trieste, other family news, Charles Dickens is backing him up in The Household Words, asking if Parke saw Dickens' paper about the poor people outside Whitechapel Workhouse, and noting that he and Dickens go out into the streets on Saturday nights to observe; printed circular letter, signed, to J.I. O'Beirne, editor of The Court Journal explaining why he excludes the press from his lectures (with franked, addressed envelope); ANS, n.d., to Dear Cooper, announcing his arrival, with an amusing drawing of a pedestrian struggling against the wind and rain; clipped signature; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Box: 7 Folder 22
Smith, Anthony J.
ALS, 10 June 1909, to John F. Dexter, thanking him for the set of Dickens illustrations which he will mount for his collection.

Box: 7 Folder 23
Smith, Barbara Leigh, 1837-1891
ALS, 11 August n.y., to Mr. Chapman, with news of seeing Papa off at the railway station, her travels to Bath and St. James Back Bristol, and notes that Miss Cornwallis won first prize for her essay.

Box: 7 Folder 24
Smith, C. A.
ALS, n.d. [after 1845], to Lady Bell, asking for a ride to the exhibition and inviting her to dine afterward, and commenting that Mr. Cockerell is too busy to share his reminiscences of her deceased husband, Sydney Smith.

Box: 7 Folder 25
Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910
ALS, 13 October 1860, to E. Trimmer, he cannot find the list of classical subjects for the approaching examination and asks if Trimmer can change the time from ten until eleven; clipped signature; Woodburytype photograph.

Box: 7 Folder 26
Smith, Horace, 1779-1849
ALS, Thursday, to Liston, Mrs. Mathews has requested that he insert his autograph in the first volume of his brother's [James Smith] memoirs and asks Liston to give the bearer of the note the volume.

Box: 7 Folder 27
Smith, Julia
ALS, 22 September n.y., to Mr. Chapman, with condolences on his ill health and inviting him down for some country air and to bring her the pamphlet, The Summary of the Laws Relating to Women; ALS, October 1853, to My dear Sir [Mr. Chapman], having read the papers by Emerson she is not sure there is enough to make a volume worthy of him, and lists fifteen essays and criticisms.

Box: 7 Folder 28
Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845
ALS, 3 August 1831, to Mr. Tomms, asking for prices of Thompson's London Dispensatory and Duncan's London Dispensatory; ANS, 25 November 1842, to Rev. James Tate, "send your notice of assssment upon Amen to Mr. Taylor," with reply from Tate, 5 December 1842, humorously commenting on Smith's continual misspelling of his name as Taite; AN, torn from his commonplace book, on the subject of Descarte's system.

Box: 7 Folder 29
Smith, Noel Sydney
ALS, 29 June 1947, to Lady Margaret, enclosing a book containing two of his poems, compliments her poems, asks if she's read Miss Martyn's poems, and recommends S.F.A. Coles' Cities of Troy.

Box: 7 Folder 30
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950
ALS, 22 March 1917, to Mr. Kelly, thanking him for his letter and clippings, and commenting that he does not think the Dominion delegates will deal with Home Rule.

Box: 7 Folder 31
Somerville, E. O. (Edith Oenone), 1858-1949
ALS, 15 May 1894, to Mr. Langbridge, complaining that while her novel, The Real Charlotte, has finally been published, she had a hard time with the publisher, Ward and Downey, delaying publication and not paying until confronted by her lawyer; ALS, 30 September 1897, to Mr. Langbridge, thanking him for his praise of The Silver Fox , mentioning mutual friends, and is stumped by a question about The Real Charlotte.

Box: 7 Folder 32
Solon, L. M. (Louis Marc), 1835-1913
ALS, 6 November 1888, to Mr. Bemrose, thanking him for inquiring of Mr. Monkhouse about publishing Solon's article on pate sur pate, and hopes to resume work on his book on stoneware; 4 ALS, 1890-1898, to Cosmo Monkhouse, thanking him for his laudatory article on Solon's works, requesting separately printed copies of the article, referring to his book on stoneware that needs a publisher and asking for advice about finding a suitable printer, thanking him for sending a catalogue of the second exhibition of Oriental China to add to his collection of ceramic books, and mentioning preparing a ceramic bibliography.

Box: 7 Folder 33
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
AMsS, four lines to accompany a portrait; two engraved portraits; one cameo bust portrait.

Box: 7 Folder 34
Spain, Nancy, 1917-1964
APS, n.d., to Mr. Taylor, suggesting he add something to his R.L. Stevenson book but asking him to be kind since they are printers of whom she is fond.

Box: 7 Folder 35
Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956
7 ALS, 1926-1930, to novelist and critic Desmond Coke whom the artist is hoping to interest in his work; and one publication notice, art dealer TLS, 23 April 1929, A.S. Watt Coke about an exhibition of Spare's work; 2 APS, 1928, order forms for The Youth and the Sage (illustrated by Spare), one with a note signed from the author Warren Retlaw; and a publication notice for The Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare, by Kenneth Grant.

Box: 8 Folders 2 and 6
Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956
Nine drawings depicting a semi-nude man seated on a rock, a nude man (rear view) carrying a load of branches, a primitive warrior carrying weapons, a boudoir scene with one figure in bed and one about to enter a bath, a reclining female nude, a standing female nude seen from the back, a female figure and a dragon in a mountain landscape, a nude female bust accompanied by several stylized self-portraits, and an unfinished drawing of a faun seated before a headless and armless nude female figure. Also, The Golden Hind, A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature (October 1922) containing drawings by Spare.

Box: 7 Folder 36
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
ALS, 16 September 1899, to Messrs. Millward, seeking a guaranteed delivery date for a sarcophagus; ALS, 29 November 1899, to Messrs. Millward, questioning their insistence in delivering the urn sealed and suggesting that he is disinclined to take an alternate course by committing suicide, being cremated, and having his ashes delivered to them on their schedule; ALS, 2 January 1901, to Prof. Bastian, about a portrait by Herkomer.

Box: 7 Folder 37
Spontini, Gaspare, 1774-1851
ALS, 4 January 1840, to Paul Humbert, noting that he has been, and is still, ill. In French.

Box: 7 Folder 38
Squire, William Barclay, 1885-1927
ALS, 12 March n.y., to The Editor, Monthly Musical Record, concerning a critic's review of Morris dances, and asks for a well-authenticated version of the correct melody of the Cheshire tune for the appendix to his Dictionary of Music, and he is still seeking a copy of the tune of the "Literary Dutchman" to verify if it is an old Morris dance tune.

Box: 7 Folder 39
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
ALS, 16 December 1909, to Harris Stone, mentioning his swollen neck glands, and asking for the address of the Travellers Magazine to send his "Call of the Road." With stamped envelope.

Box: 7 Folder 40
Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere), 1863-1951
ALS, 5 February 1908, to Edgar Jepson, thanking him for a good review of his book, The Blue Lagoon, in Vanity Fair.

Box: 7 Folder 41
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
ALS, 18 April, to Miss Molly, declining to attend a conference; ANS, Friday night, 189-, to G. Christy, returning tickets with thanks.

Box: 7 Folder 42
Steen, Marguerite
ALS, 23 February 1935, to Hugh Walpole, about her superstitions, publishing The One-Eyed Moon, and writing two books simultaneously, The Tavern and Daughter of an Authoress [published as Who Would Have Daughters?], wishes she could afford a secretary to do all of her manuscript retyping.

Box: 7 Folder 43
Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943
4 ALS, 1904-1911, to William Morris Colles, about his publishing agreements with Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, apologizes for delayed response from Messrs. Wodianer and Sons, expected delivery date of his manuscript [Ruins of Desert Cathay; Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China] to Messrs. Macmillan and asking Colles to find a publisher for a German edition.

Box: 7 Folder 44
Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877
ALS, 7 December 1869, to W. Tinsley, correcting the misunderstanding that his book is a work of prophesy but rather an historical sketch but that Mr. Bentley will republish his The History of the Jesuits, and complaining about having to rewrite others' works; ALS, 4 April 1871, to W. Tinsley, disappointed by the sales of his work, his failing eyesight affects his income, and asks for the remaining bound copies to sell if he travels.

Box: 7 Folder 45
Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904
ALS, 10 December 1888, to Mr. Rogers, about the site for the Marlowe Memorial.

Box: 7 Folder 46
Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia), 1813-1886
ALS, 5 June 1860, to Shirley Brooks, asks if he has forgotten her, and mentions a New York actress and theater manager.

Box: 7 Folder 47
Stephens, Frederic George, 1828-1907
ALS, 12 April 1882, to My dear William, will meet him on Friday.

Box: 7 Folder 48
Ashby-Sterry, J. (Joseph), d. 1917
ALS, 3 May 1864, to Henry Stevenson, editor of the Norwich Chronicle, offering to write a column of news and gossip for the paper.

Box: 7 Folder 49
Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir, 1818-1878
ALS, 23 December 1852, to My dear Sir, sending a note to his friend Granville Vernon who has a copy of the head of the Empress Isabella which he will be glad to show to the recipient; ANS, 23 March n.y., to Dear Sir, declining an invitation to see his picture and expecting it will be well placed in the exhibition.

Box: 7 Folder 50
Stockley, Cynthia, 1883-1936
APS, 14 January 1921, to Meredith Starr, she is too ill to do an article for him.

Box: 7 Folder 51
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
ALS, 7 October 1886, to Mr. Tinsley, asking if it is too late to send a short story for the Christmas issue; ALS, 7 October 1879, to Dear Sir, Mr. [Henry Brodribb] Irving sends his regards who would like to see the recipient during Wednesday's performance [at the Royal Lyceum Theatre].

Box: 7 Folder 52
Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932
APS, 30 January 1915, to Simon Bussy, "with love to you and famille."

Box: 7 Folder 53
Strahan, Alexander, 1834?-1918
ALS, 27 August 1868, to Messrs. Nelson and Son, giving permission for Davenport Adams to reprint some pieces by Robert Buchman but he does not know which titles by George MacDonald that Adams wants for his reading book. William Nelson forwarded the letter to Adams asking for clarification on the MacDonald pieces and admonishing him not to ask for permission to publish "more than a very few short ones."

Box: 7 Folder 54
Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874
ALS, 14 February 1831, to Dear Sir, thanking him for publishing her poems in the Norfolk Chronicle and sending a sonnet previously published in the New Monthly Magazine only under her initials; ALS, 11 August n.y., to [Henry] Colburn, introducing a "gentleman of learning and literacy"; AMsS, poem, "Charade"; AMsS, quotation from her Lives of the Queens of England (1840); engraved portrait, 1846, with obituaries.

Box: 7 Folder 55
Strickland, Elisabeth, 1794-1875
ALS, n.d. [pre-1840], to Seth Stevenson, her sister Agnes is writing Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England [published as Lives of the Queens of England] dedicated to the Queen and since Miss Lawrence saw the announcement and used the same title, Agnes would like to see a copy of her book; ALS, n.d., to Seth Stevenson, thanking him for loaning his precious books and she will complete her extracts and return the books.

Box: 7 Folder 56
Strickland, Jane Margaret, 1800-1888
ALS, Monday 4 May [1835], to Messrs. Dean and Munday, thanking them for sending her books and commenting on the quality of the workmanship, noting some errors, quotes a letter she received, and mentioning her current writing projects.

Box: 7 Folder 57
Stuart, Gilbert, 1742-1786
ADS, 10 December 1781, agreement to accept seventy pounds sterling from John Murray for printing The History of Scotland From the Enlightenment of the Reformation till the Death of Queen Mary and thirty pounds sterling upon the sale of five hundred copies of the book; ADS, 19 August 1782, transferring copyright for The History of Scotland From the Enlightenment of the Reformation till the Death of Queen Mary to George Robinson and John Murray for one hundred guineas; two engraved portraits.

Box: 7 Folder 58
Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline, Lady, 1806-1855
AMsS, article, "My Pet Aversions."

Box: 7 Folder 59
Sutro, Alfred, 1863-1933
ALS, 10 August n.y., to Louis Napoleon Parker, about the actress Miss Westcote, a former protege of his whom he found disappointing.

Box: 7 Folder 60
Swain, Charles, 1801-1874
Signature clipped from a letter.

Box: 7 Folder 61
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
Envelope addressed to Henry A[rthur] Bright, 19 June 1893.

Authors, T

Authors, T

Box: 7 Folder 62
Talbot, Lord
ADS, 1604, to Lord Talbot, concerning the surrender of the town of Grave, Netherlands, signed by Rxiom. With typed transcription.

Box: 7 Folder 63
Tarr, E. Whitney
AMs, poem, "Tom Hanlin," edited copy, with edited typescript copy.

Box: 7 Folder 64
Tate, James, 1771-1843
ALS, 5 December 1842, to Dear Sir, responding to the recipient's son's request for an autograph of Sydney Smith, and promising to acquire Charles Lamb's autograph for him as well; signature clipped from a letter; printed letter, 10 August 1818, to Mr. Urban, removed from a periodical, concerning the imminent publication of some of Rev. Anthony Temple's sermons.

Box: 7 Folder 65
Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886
ALS, 21 April 1882, to Dearest Kate, with news of the ill health of a mutual friend, the letters he's received in response to his autobiography; ALS, 12 February 1886, to Dearest Kate, commenting on doctors, the effects of weather on people, enclosing Stephen de Vere's translation of an ode by Horace, and arranging for her to visit.

Box: 7 Folder 66
Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880
ALS, 6 February 1875, to Lady Thompson, apologizing and sending a letter from his wife; ALS, 3 March n.y., to John Mitchell, noting that Mr. Delane has asked him to write a notice about his portraits of the Prince and Princess of Wales published by Mitchell; ALS, n.d., to Dear Franks, about getting a fair copy of a manuscript for the printers, regretting the deal, and thinks they should see it through at the least possible cost; Woodburytype photographic portrait.

Box: 7 Folder 67
Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914
ALS, 13 December 1903, to Mr. Ford, sending the certificate to be stuck on the back of the picture frame.

Box: 7 Folder 68
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
ALS fragment, postmarked 5 July 1891, to Lady Dorothy Nevill, about "Diana of the Crossways," with envelope; cabinet photograph as Ophelia, autographed.

Box: 7 Folder 69
Thirkell, Angela Mackail, 1890-1961
ALS, 24 July 1950, to Mr. Bowne Webb, asking to visit with librarian Gilbert Barker, an admirer of his books; Christmas card, signed.

Box: 7 Folder 70
Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896
ALS, June 1848, to Mademoiselle Vignon [on "petit bleu"], noting he has finished with the Conservatoire, the universal exhibition keeps him busy, and he is going to Brittany for a month. In French.

Box: 7 Folder 71
Thomé, Francis, 1850-1909
ANS, n.d., to Mr. Spinetti, proposing a collaboration and a meeting; AN, n.d., on his visiting card. Both in French.

Box: 7A Folder 72
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916
AMs, 1901-1902, unsigned articles, some photographically illustrated, contributed to the Portfolio Society, of which Thompson was editor. Bound volume.

Box: 7A Folder 73
Thomson, Christine Campbell, 1897-1985
ALS, [ca. 1927-1928], to Dear Sir, noting that Meredith Starr has asked her to let the recipient have a copy of her first novel [His Excellency (Selwyn and Blount, 1927)] to review in the Pall Mall.

Box: 7A Folder 74
Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
ANS, Friday, to W. Teignmouth Shore, the enclosed has run up against some articles of Dickens, he took the denouement from Balzac, and it will make two numbers.

Box: 7A Folder 75
Thring, Edward
ALS, 30 July 1883, to E.C. Lowndes, congratulating him on his success and sends greetings to his parents.

Box: 7A Folder 76
Ticknor, George, 1791-1871
ALS, 3 March 1866, to [Henry Fothergill] Chorley, thanking him for sending his poems and commenting on them, asks him two questions about his works, and comments on the end of the American Civil War.

Box: 7A Folder 77
Todhunter, John, 1839-1916
ALS, 18 May 1890, to Mrs. Emery [Florence Farr], praising her stage performance; ALS, 24 February 1891, to Mrs. Emery [Florence Farr], congratulating her for a good review from Clement Scott, describes Comyns Carr's negative reactions to the Ibsen play; ALS, 26 May 1911, to [Marcus S.C.] Rickards, apologizing for not having previously read his book, Musical Echoes, but herewith criticizes it; AMs, four-line poetic epigram, "At the Independent Theatre."

Box: 7A Folder 78
Toklas, Alice B.
4 ALS, 1961 and n.d., to Sir Francis Rose, thanking him for sending his book [Saying Life (Cassell, 1961)] in which he dedicates it to and writes about Gertrude Stein, mentions her failing eyesight; mentioning Bernard Faÿ and Denise Aimé-Azam, moving to a different house in Paris, commenting that Dame Edith Sitwell was converted before she died [in 1964], and thanking him for another book with recipes and illustrations; color print of Jesus Christ by Memling with Easter greetings to Francis on verso.

Box: 7A Folder 79
Toole, John Lawrence, 1830-1906
ANS, 30 May 1894, to Sir Henry Thompson, introducing Joseph Hatton, an old friend of Irving and himself, who would like to consult Thompson; ALS, 21 November 1894, to Joseph Hatton, inviting him to come to the Garrick Theatre for dinner, with note from Hatton on the bottom, 25 January 1907, to James Stoddart, sending a copy of Toole's Reminiscences of J.L. Toole chronicled by Hatton, with stamped envelope.

Box: 7A Folder 80
Trebelli, Zélia, 1838-1892
ALS, 15 January n.y., to Mrs. S. Kirson [Alice M. Atkinson], noting she had great success in Carmen in New York and sang that opera four times, the area reminds her of Russia during the winter, her daughter is with her grandfather in Paris studying music, and she may go back to Europe in the summer.

Box: 7A Folder 81
Tree, Maud, 1863-1937
ALS, 2 February n.y., to Mr. [Harry] Green, thanking him for agreeing to join other distinguished actors in providing his autograph for Princess Mary's birthday-book.

Box: 7A Folder 82
Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir, 1838-1928
ALS, 27 February 1887, to Dear Madam, regrets that he will not be able to go on with Fox unless he leaves public life, and does not want the responsibility of a valuable volume that may be of interest to Robert Browning; ALS, 13 May 1896, to Mr. Giddins, a previous engagement prevents him from hearing the Liberals protest against educational proposals and taxes, and stating his position on local taxpayer relief.

Box: 7A Folder 83
Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
ANS, 1 May 1900, to Mr. Ward, arranging an appointment at Ward's studio.

Box: 7A Folder 84
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Signature and closing clipped from a letter.

Box: 7A Folder 85
Tuke, Robin
ALS, 1 July 1917, to Author's Syndicate, inquiring about the status of his manuscript.

Box: 7A Folder 86
Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889
ALS, 8 February 1850, to My dear Sir, about a rejected manuscript; ANS, [1852], to Rev. Dr. Rogers requesting proofs; ALS, 25 June 1856, to Robertson Gladstone about a submission to European times and about Prince Albert; ALS, 8 February 1859, to Edward Walford criticizing his writing; ALS, 27 July 1880, to Rev. Canon [Frederic William] Farrar asking who was Judas's father; two engraved portraits.

Box: 7A Folder 87
Turner, Charles Tennyson, 1808-1879
ANS, 28 February 1833, to J. Singer Sargent, informing him that he will write to Lord Weymouth today.

Box: 7A Folder 88
Turton, Sarah
ALS, 19 August 1839, to W. Pulley, apologizing for forgetting to list among Miss Amory's property a sixth share in a freehold farm that is rented.

Box: 8 Folder 89
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Autographed photographic postcard, n.d., Rotary Photo no. 2339B by H.T. Reed, London.

Box: 7A Folder 90
Twining, Louisa
ANS, 31 December n.y., New Year's greeting.

Box: 7A Folder 91
Tyndall, John, 1820-1893
ANS, n.d., to Prof. Balfour, sending a subscription fee for a memorial.

Authors, V

Authors, V

Box: 7A Folder 92
Vanson, Frederic
AMs, December 1955, two poems, "The Mightiest Birth," and "The Nativity," on his letterhead.

Box: 7A Folder 93
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
ALS, 28 March n.y., to Clifford Bax, arranging to give a surprise concert of R.O. Morris's works for his birthday, and asking for a financial guarantee to cover a loss; ALS, 5 October n.y., to Clifford Bax, hoping to send printed notices about the R.O. Morris Concert on 14 November; ANS, n.d., to Clifford Bax, thanking him for a guarantee of ten pounds; ALS, n.d., to Clifford Bax, accepting an invitation to dine.

Box: 7A Folder 94
Vallings, Harold
ALS, 14 February 1911, to the Author's Syndicate, concerning submitting his stories to an American editor, fearing they might be "handicapped as being decidedly English."

Box: 7A Folder 95
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
ADS, 19 January 1857, appointment of Major General John Cox as general officer because of the death of Major General William Cox (1785?-1857).

Box: 7A Folder 96
Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861
ALS,6 June 1839, to the Lord Chancellor [Charles Cottenham] indicating she is sending him copies of communications from Sir John Conroy and that she has shown them to the Duke of Wellington; includes an engraved portrait of the Duchess by W. Read, 1853. Laid in a bound morocco volume.

Box: 7A Folder 97
Villiers, Frederic, 1851 or 2-1922
ALS, 7 July 1896, to Dear Sir, accepting an invitation to dine with the Sheffield Press Club if he is not on the warpath.

Box: 7A Folder 98
Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922
ALS, 10 January 1898, to the Editor of The World, chastising their reviewer for announcing his death in a review of his English version of Emile Zola's Assommoir.

Box: 7A Folder 99
Vrooman, Walter
9 ALS, 1898-1899, to Joseph Edwards, concerning the founding of the labor college, Ruskin College, Oxford, with calling card of Backworth Club (annotated "financial backers of Ruskin Hall"), fourteen pages of notes of personal contacts and visits, and innovations for Ruskin Hall ("adopt phonograph as a method of teaching").

Authors, W

Authors, W

Box: 7A Folder 100
Wallace, Grace, Lady, d. 1878
ANS, 2 February 1865, agreeing to have her autograph included "among so many celebrities" if asked by Mrs. Mitchell.

Box: 7A Folder 101
Wallace, William
ALS, 9 March 1910, to Dr. Wylie, about performing a marriage ceremony, Wylie's Exeter work and museum occupation, and noting that he and his wife carried the little book, The Ancient and Loyal City of Exeter, on their holiday; printed poem, "Burial of Sir John Moore," January 1909 [in Latin].

Box: 7A Folder 102
Waller, John Francis, 1810-1894
ALS, 3 October 1878, to Cecil Brent, returning his book of signs and asking for several on specific pages; ALS, 17 October 1878, to Cecil Brent, thanking him for sending the signs and apologizing for marking one erroneously.

Box: 7A Folder 103
Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941
ALS, 18 October 1932, to Mr. Theis, editor of Everyman, agreeing to review a book and recommending Marguerite Steen as a reviewer, with stamped envelope.

Box: 7A Folder 104
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
ADS, November 1721, receipt from Charles Hudson to Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, endorsed by Walpole, Charles Turner and Henry Pelham.

Box: 7A Folder 105
Warburton, Henry, 1784?-1858
Franked, stamped envelope addressed to J. Bell; engraved portrait by W.H. Mote from a painting by George Hayter.

Box: 7A Folder 106
Warfield, David, 1866-1951
ALS, 31 October 1943, to Harry Green and Jack Pearl, congratulating them on their excellent comedic performances in All for All.

Box: 7A Folders 107-111
Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
AMs, drafts and notes for her novels, Marcella, Alethea, or a Pacifist [unfinished], Nora's Engagement [unfinished]; ALS, 1888-1913, arranging a visit, to Mrs. E. Wright agreeing to speak on "The Work of Women in Settlements," to Madame Samaia thanking her for a picture of a friend; three photographs.

Box: 7B Folder 112
Warren, Samuel, 1807-1877
ALS, 3 April 1852, to Mrs. M.A. Smith, expressing sympathy on the distressing affliction of her husband; ALS, 3 February 1865, to the Duke of Northumberland, apologizing for not being able to visit when in the area, he heard one of his books quoted during a libel case, the death of a friend; franked envelope, 7 February 1856, to Reverend J.E. Cox; signature clipped from foot of a letter; engraved portrait by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Box: 7B Folder 113
Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott), 1863-1921
ALS, 5 April 1913, to Mr. Engelbart, suggesting that Miss Foxe go to a competent agent such as J.B. Pinker of Talbot House; 4 ALS, 1912-1918, to C. Charles Paine, thanking him for his sympathies, declining a lunch invitation because he is on a "hunger strike" by necessity, news of his son Dick's honor for a Somme raid, unhappy news that Dick is missing in action, and two envelopes addressed to Charles Paine.

Box: 7B Folder 114
Watson, Richard B. Marriott
3 ALS, 1910-1913, to C. Charles Paine, asking for trees, thanking him for the trees, and disabusing him of his inseparability from a tennis racquet.

Box: 7B Folder 115
Watson, Rosamund Marriott, 1863-1911
3 ALS, 19 June-25 August 1911, to C. Charles Paine, inviting him to tea, thanking him for a trophy, and disappointed with Morrison's book and despairing over their weedy lawn.

Box: 7B Folder 116
Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864
AMsS, 3 February 1838, poem, "Lines Written Beneath a Picture"; caricature portrait.

Box: 7B Folder 117
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914
ALS, 15 March 1893, to [Buxton] Forman, not objecting to using [Swinburne's] remarks reproduced in the proof sent of Nibelung's Ring translation of Watts-Dunton's work.

Box: 7B Folder 118
Waugh, Alec, 1898-
TNS, 21 June 1928, to T.R. Waring, agreeing to autograph Waring's copy of Waugh's book of essays, On Doing What One Likes.

Box: 7B Folder 119
Waugh, Arthur, 1866-1943
ALS, 26 January 1927, to Mrs. Watts-Dunton, glad that she likes his wife and extols his wife's virtues, with envelope.

Box: 7B Folder 120
Waugh, Edwin, 1817-1890
ALS, 29 November 1872, to Edward Herford, hoping he finds his book interesting and correcting the subscriber's price; lithograph scene from his dialect poem, "Come 'whoam' to thi' children an' me," illustrated by W. Brooks.

Box: 8 Folder 4
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
ALS, 1 January 1837, to H[enry] W. Kinsman, noting he received the Spanish claim, will send him $500, and please give Edward $100 for college, with integral envelope and seal.

Box: 7B Folder 121
Weckerlin, J. -B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1821-1910
AMsS, 5 May 1897, two versions of his transcription for the piano plus a printed version of "Amour dis-moi"; ALS and APS, 1874-1903, to [Salvatore] Marchesi, on various musical matters, mentioning his opera le "Marche des Fees," Goethe and Conradin Kreutzer, with stamped envelopes. In French.

Box: 7B Folder 122
Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
ALS, 27 December 1911, to Sir Claude Phillips, congratulating him as a fellow writer on receiving a recognition.

Box: 7B Folder 123
Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906
ALS, 29 March 1889, to Dear Sir, enclosing a payment on an outstanding account, and noting his illness; ALS fragment, n.d., to F.J. Goodman, inviting him to visit and including the train schedule.

Box: 7B Folder 124
Welles, Sumner, 1892-
TLS, 8 September 1945, to R. Lewis, sending him his autograph on a separate card.

Box: 7B Folder 425
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1844
ALS, 21 September 1827, to My dear Lord Clelan, he would boast about how Clelan received him if he had been at Newcastle when Wellington visited; ANS third person, 8 April 1835, acknowledging receipt of a letter; ALS third person, 2 August 1844, to Allen Pening, declining an invitation to dinner with the master of the Clothworkers Company because he will be in the House of Parliament.

Box: 7B Folder 126
Wells, H. G . (Herbert George), 1866-1946
ANS, n.d., to Lady Russell, praising her book, An Excellent Mystery (Stephen Swift, 1912); APS, n.d., to John Cox, thanking him for a story and noting he has no influence with the labor propaganda people.

Box: 7B Folder 127
West, Geoffrey, 1900-
TLS, 7 March 1930, to Mr. Waring, thanking him for sending newspaper clippings about H.G. Wells for his biography, and noting that he changed his name from G.H. Wells because people incorrectly thought he was H.G. Wells' son.

Box: 7B Folder 128
Westall, William, 1781-1850
ALS, 29 December 1834, to Rev. Ainger, thanking him for his willingness to take his unsold prints from John Robinson and deliver them to the bookseller that Ainger will deal with in the future, with an integral note to John Robinson directing him to give the prints to Ainger.

Box: 7B Folder 129
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
ANS with his butterfly mark, n.d., to Rennell Rodd, questioning his travels and inviting him to breakfast.

Box: 7B Folder 130
White, Arnold, 1848-1925
ALS, 18 October 1888, to Mrs. Lowther, referring to his visit to South Africa where he has been helping the development and colonization.

Box: 7B Folder 131
Whitechurch, Victor L. (Victor Lorenzo), 1868-1933
ALS, 18 July 1920, to J.W. Lister, inviting him to inspect the church records.

Box: 7B Folder 132
Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
ALS, 22 February 1894, to H. Bellhouse, about his travel plans en route to visit Bellhouse; two photographic portraits clipped from magazines; newspaper obituary.

Box: 7B Folder 133
Widor, Charles Marie, 1844-1937
ALS, n.d., to Auguste Dorchain, that he will bring the manuscript early the next morning, he still has two pages to alter. In French.

Box: 7B Folder 134
Wilhelmj, August, 1845-1908
ALS, 13 February 1895, to Mein lieber Wolff, on musical matters. In German.

Box: 7B Folder 135
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841
ALS, 12 November 1828, to Perkins, the engraving of the picture Perkins lent to him is almost complete, and asks for a wax impression of his coat of arms to engrave on the plate's dedication; 2 AN, n.d., criticizing his pupils' work and suggesting altenative methods.

Box: 7B Folder 136
Williams, Anna, b. 1845
ALS, 24 February 1892, to Mr. Sinclair, advising him that she would like to sing "The Lost Chord" in the key of A with an organ for a program in the cathedral.

Box: 7B Folder 137
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827
ALS, n.d., to Madame Mauvon, inviting her to dine on Wednesday because they are playing the game Boston on Friday, comments that another guest who is pregnant does not want to sit so long, invites her to come on Friday also and to bring her husband as well. In French.

Box: 7B Folder 138
Wilson, John, 1785-1854
ALS, n.d., to My dear Miss Alison, noting that Mr. N. Nenan left Edinburgh yesterday; engraved portrait clipped from magazine, 1907.

Box: 7B Folder 139
Wood, Evelyn (Henry Evelyn), 1838-1919
ALS, 6 January 1881, to J. Hornblower, noting that he will be en route to the Transvaal the next week, with stamped envelope; ALS, 17 April n.y., to Sir James Alexander, mentioning the illnesses of his companions on the battlefield, and he will answer his questions but not on paper.

Box: 7B Folder 140
Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa), b. 1856
ALS, 30 April n.d., to Mr. Waring, autographing the book he sent her, commenting on the value of books from the Daniel Press, and noting that her failing eyesight compels her to use a friend to write the letter.

Box: 7B Folder 141
Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
ALS, 27 July 1881, to [Henry Arthur] Bright, commenting on the attitude of a committee toward sculpture, Julian Hawthorne promises to review Bright's new book [The English Flower Garden (Macmillan, 1881)], and he visited with the Tennysons.

Box: 7B Folder 142
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
AMsS, 26 June 1830, poem, first line: At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears.

Box: 7B Folder 143
Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross), 1885-1959
ALS, 11 January 1921, to Dear Sir, agreeing to talk on the "novel" question, and noting when she is free.

Box: 7B Folder 144
Wylie, James Hamilton, 1844-1914
ALS, 13 April 1883, to Wylie from Macmillan and Co., rejecting his manuscript of the history of England under the House of Lancaster, with specific criticisms; ALS, 30 May 1883, to Wylie from C.J. Longman, rejecting the same manuscript because there is not enough demand for a book of this length on this period of English history; ALS, 25 January 1887, to W.E. Gladstone, clarifying a locale referring to James Gladstone that was mentioned in his book; ALS, 15 May 1888, to Dear Sir, asking the schoolmaster to secure some play time for his son, and outlines his heavy schoolwork load.

Authors, Y

Authors, Y

Box: 7B Folder 145
Yates, Edmund Hodgson, 1831-1894
ANS, 2 February 1861, to Mr. Shore, hopes he has seen the article "Gustave Dore" in this month's Temple Bar; color caricature, Vanity Fair, 16 November 1878.

Box: 7B Folder 146
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940
ALS, 12 June 1917, to Dear Sir, enclosing the Cuala Press booklists and mentions the ones still in print and their cost.

Box: 7B Folder 147
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
ALS, 18 March n.y., to Mrs. Emery [Florence Farr], inviting her to come to a lecture to chant; TLS, 3 November n.y., to Dear Sirs, enclosing a cheque to pay his bill and requests they send the Criterion until further notice; his bookplate designed by Sturge Moore.

Box: 7B Folder 148
Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901
ALS, 25 February n.y., to Madam, rejecting her sketches of Florentine and Venetian history as they are written for a younger audience that those who read the Monthly Packet and she is publishing a multi-part Hungarian history that would make her wait a long time before publication; three photographic prints clipped from magazines.

Processed by:	Susan Hamburger
Date Completed:	2004
Encoded by:	Susan Hamburger

Title:	Inventory of the Mortlake Collection of English Life and Letters, 1591-1963
Accession number:	1969-0024R
Shelf location:	Vault
Provenance:	Purchased from Harold Mortlake, 1969.
Extent:	11.65 cubic ft.
Repository:	Pennsylvania State University, University Libraries, Special Collections Library

Inventory of the Mortlake Collection of English Life and Letters, 1591-1963

Accession number: 1969-0024R

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