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Daily thoughts. : Selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters written by Charles Kingsley to Dr. James Hunt (1833-1869), an ethnologist and writer on stammering. Kingsley consults Hunt about his own stuttering and describes its effects. Kingsley also discusses Darwin's evolutionary theory and his friendship with Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). The collection also includes four letters from Kingsley's wife, Fanny Grenfell Kingsley, to James Hunt.
mssHM 32204-32261
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Charles Kingsley correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters written by Charles Kingsley to Dr. James Hunt (1833-1869), an ethnologist and writer on stammering. Kingsley consults Hunt about his own stuttering and describes its effects. Kingsley also discusses Darwin's evolutionary theory and his friendship with Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). The collection also includes four letters from Kingsley's wife, Fanny Grenfell Kingsley, to James Hunt.
mssHM 32204-32261
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Charles Kingsley letter to " My Dear Hughes,"
Manuscripts
In this letter, Kingsley is ordering some fish flies (according to a sketch by Kingsley). He also comments upon an article in Punch.
mssHM 78384
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Catalogue of Short Writing of Kingsley Amis and Photocopies
Manuscripts
The bulk of the collection consists of drafts of novels, short stories, poems, essays and television and radio scripts by Kingsley Amis, many heavily corrected. Also included are individual manuscript pieces by Martin Louis Amis, Sir John Betjeman, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and George Melly, and groups of limericks by Robert Conquest. Letters deal with personal and literary matters, including Amis' reactions to the work of other authors and their reactions to his writings.
mssAMS 1-1362