Manuscripts

Pearson-Whetman; ephemera

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)
Production 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.

Bennoch-Mill

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.

mssBE

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Mary Russell Mitford

Manuscripts

mssBE

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Francis Bennoch letters

Manuscripts

mssBE

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Ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection includes letters from Susanna Beever to Albert Fleming, William and Rosa Tuckwell, as well as several letters from Fleming and William Tuckwell. The letters are mainly about Susanna Beever's friends, good works, and garden but the letters also have several references to John Ruskin.

mssHM 62832-62915

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Ephemera

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

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Correspondence and Ephemera

Manuscripts

mssAMS 1-1362

Pearson-Whetman; ephemera

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