Manuscripts
S. Austin Allibone papers
- Description
The collection contains correspondence and five manuscript notebooks. The vast majority of the correspondence was not penned by Allibone, and a good portion of it was neither authored by him nor addressed to him. Three of the five manuscript notebooks are by Edward Everett, one was written by Baron Thomas Babington Macauley and one was composed by Allibone and his wife, Mary. Everett's manuscripts include a biography of Baron George Gordon Byron (AL 394) and of Sir Walter Scott (AL 395) as well as a copy of his speech "In Defense of the Webster Statue" (AL 398). Macauley's manuscript is a version of his unpublished History of England, and Allibone's manuscript contains, among other items, A visit to Washington Irving, as well as an autograph copy of his letter to Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Significant correspondents include George Bancroft, Henry Ward Beecher, Sir David Brewster, Elihu Burritt, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Thomas Babington Macauley, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie, William Hickling Prescott, L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney, Baron Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Ticknor and Robert C. (Robert Charles) Winthrop.
- Date
- 1848-1887
- Call number
- mssAL
- Provenance
- Provenance unknown. In library as of 1932.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Rights
- The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
- Associated people
- Victoria, (1819-1901,)
- Allibone, Mary. (1800-1891.)
- Bancroft, George, (1813-1887.)
- Beecher, Henry Ward, (1781-1868.)
- Brewster, David, (1810-1879.)
- Burritt, Elihu, (1795-1881.)
- Carlyle, Thomas, (1812-1870.)
- Dickens, Charles, (1804-1881.)
- Disraeli, Benjamin, (1794-1865.)
- Everett, Edward, (1800-1874.)
- Fillmore, Millard, (1809-1894.)
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, (1780-1862.)
- Horne, Thomas Hartwell, (1783-1859.)
- Irving, Washington, (1809-1865.)
- Lincoln, Abraham, (1807-1882.)
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, (1803-1873.)
- Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, (1800-1859.)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1809-1880.)
- Mackenzie, R. Shelton (1796-1859.)
- Prescott, William Hickling, (1791-1865.)
- Sigourney, L. H. (1809-1892.)
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, (1811-1863.)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1791-1871.)
- Ticknor, George, (1809-1894.)
- Winthrop, Robert C.
