Manuscripts

"Memoranda of his unpublished 'History of England'" by Lord Macaulay

Description: With letter signed by C. Macaulay, brother of Lord Macaulay.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1860
Call number: AL 399-400
Creator: Allibone, S. Austin (1816-1889)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1932.
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"Recollections of Lord Byron, 1815" by Edward Everett

Manuscripts

With letter by Edward Everett to S. Austin Allibone.

AL 393-394

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"Recollections of Sir Walter Scott, 1818" by Edward Everett

Manuscripts

With Edward Everett letter to S. Austin Allibone.

AL 395

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"Defense of the Webster Statue" by Edward Everett

Manuscripts

With Edward Everett letter to S. Austin Allibone, letter by Joseph Ames to Edward Everett, letter by Fletcher Webster to Edward Everett, a printed text, and pamphlet.

AL 396-398

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Commonplace book by S. Austin Allibone and Mary Allibone

Manuscripts

Begins with "A Visit to Washington Irving, June 12th, 1855."

AL 401

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Everett-Francis

Manuscripts

Includes Millard Fillmore letters signed to S. Austin Allibone 1852 July 23, 1852 August 2, 1852 November 12, 1853 February 18; autograph letter signed, 1856 October 11 (AL 152-156).

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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 Macauley's manuscript is a version of his unpublished History of England, and Allibone's manuscript contains, among other items, A visit to Washington Irving, as well as an autograph copy of his letter to Queen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.

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"Memoranda of his unpublished 'History of England'" by Lord Macaulay

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