Manuscripts

Francis Bennoch letters

Description: The collection consists of letters to Francis Bennoch and his wife, Margaret Bennoch. The letters are primarily from literary friends, and the collection includes letters from Benjamin Robert Haydon, Charles Kingsley, Mary Russell Mitford, John Ruskin, and Martin Farquhar Tupper.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1837-1886
Call number: mssBE
Creator: Bennoch, Francis (1812-1890)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, July 1957.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Pearson-Whetman; ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters to Francis Bennoch and his wife, Margaret Bennoch. The letters are primarily from literary friends, and the collection includes letters from Benjamin Robert Haydon, Charles Kingsley, Mary Russell Mitford, John Ruskin, and Martin Farquhar Tupper.

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Bennoch-Mill

Manuscripts

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Mary Russell Mitford

Manuscripts

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Hunt-Tupper collection

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of letters between William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) and John Lucas Tupper (approximately 1823-1879). The correspondence spans the entire life of their acquaintance, beginning in 1848 and ending with Tupper's death in 1879. Subject matter covers a wide range of topics, including descriptions of Hunt's journeys to Palestine, his quarrels with Thomas Woolner, his response to the death of Thomas Combe, his everyday ordeals as a painter, his struggles to create various paintings, his and Tupper's views on Pre-Raphaelite principles, and their differing opinions on politics and other topics. The collection also includes one autograph poem by William Holman Hunt, and seven letters Hunt wrote to Annie Amelia French Tupper. Additional correspondents in the collection are: Marion Edith Waugh Hunt (10 letters to Annie Amelia French Tupper); Gladys Mulock Holman Hunt (one letter to Mary Tupper); and George Tupper (one letter to William Holman Hunt). There are a few pieces of ephemera related to William Holman Hunt including a catalog of an exhibition of his works at Leicester Galleries, London, 1906.

mssHM 54509-54686

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Frederick James Furnivall correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts from 1843 to 1910. The topics of the material include education (in particular Eton College and Working Men's College), studies in English language and literature, and the work and interests of Frederick James Furnivall. There is also some ephemera. Correspondents include: Henry Barthorp, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Henry Bradshaw, Robert Browning, Robert Shergold Browning, Viscount Edward Cardwell, Derwent Coleridge, William Johnson Cory, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Sir John Francis Davis, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Ewart Gladstone, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Thomas Hughes, William Holman Hunt, Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Arthur Jones, Charles Kingsley, David Laing, James Russell Lowell, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Vernon Lushington, Sir Frederic Madden, David Masson, Frederick Denison Maurice, Mary Elizabeth Braddon Maxwell, George Meredith, John Stuart Mill, Lady Euphemia Chalmers Gray Ruskin Millias, Sir John Everett Millais, Richard Monckton Milnes (1st Baron Houghton), Henry Morley, Friedrich Max Müller, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, John Murray, George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir John Robert Seeley, Alfred Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Connop Thirlwall, Richard Chenevix Trench, Albert Way, Hensleigh Wedgwood, James Pillans Wilson, and Charlotte Mary Yonge.

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Susanna Beever Letters

Manuscripts

The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts & Correspondence (Boxes 1-2). There are only two manuscripts, which are interfiled with the correspondence. The correspondence series is mainly letters from Susanna Beever, written in the last few years of her life, to William and Rosa Tuckwell. There are also several letters to and from Albert Fleming, fellow resident of the Lake District, and friend of John Ruskin. The letters are mainly about Susanna Beever's friends, good works, and garden but the letters also have several references to John Ruskin. 2. Ephemera (Box 2) consisting of reproductions of two drawings, a poem, and the original binding from the disbound volume of Beever letters.

mssHM 62832-62915

Francis Bennoch letters

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