Manuscripts

Charlotte Turner Smith collection

Description: A collection of letters written by Charlotte Turner Smith, which focus mainly on business matters and book publishing and selling. The letters are written to James Dodsley, Thomas Cadell, and William Davies of the firm Cadell & Davies, Robert Southey, and Joseph Cooper Walker.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1784-1806
Call number: mssHM 10800-10844
Creator: Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from D. F. Bogardus, October 1925.
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: Cadell, Thomas, (1773-1836,); Davies, William, (-1820,); Dodsley, James, (1724-1797,); Southey, Robert, (1774-1843,); Walker, Joseph C. (1761-1810,)
Associated organization: Cadell & Davies,
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Charlotte Turner Smith collection

Manuscripts

A collection of letters written by Charlotte Turner Smith, which focus mainly on business matters and book publishing and selling. The letters are written to James Dodsley, Thomas Cadell, and William Davies of the firm Cadell & Davies, Robert Southey, and Joseph Cooper Walker.

mssHM 10800-10844

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Charlotte Brontë collection

Manuscripts

A collection of letters and manuscripts written by Charlotte Brontë. The manuscripts include both bound and unbound prose and verse; some of which are written in the minute hand which she often used. The majority of the letters are written to her friend Ellen Nussey, along with a small group of letters to her mentor, William Smith Williams, and one letter to her biographer, Elizabeth Gaskell.

mssBrontec

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Lady Charlotte Bury's diary, 1805-1810 : transcripts

Manuscripts

The material includes: HM 82895 (1) Mary Isabel Fry's research notebook, notes, genealogical information, and maps (16 pieces) ; HM 82895 (2) Lady Charlotte Bury's diary, typewritten transcription (142 p.) ; HM 82895 (3) diary, typewritten transcription with annotations, corrections and footnotes (180 p.).

mssHM 82895 (1-3)

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Robert Southey collection

Manuscripts

A collection of letters written by Robert Southey to William Taylor, British scholar, essayist, and translator. The collection also includes two letters to James Everett and a letter by John Warden Robberds. Three of the letters by Southey include autograph copies of his poems, "The Wedding," "Inscription Under an Oak," and "King Ramiro." The letters discuss many of the important people of the period including, among others, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Napoleon I, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth. Also included is the original separated binding, with the William K. Bixby bookplate; all of the material in the collection is still window-mounted on paper.

mssHM 4815-4876

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Hannah More collection

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Hannah More. The correspondence includes letters to and from Charles James Hoare and his wife, Jane Isabella Hoare; letters to More's publishers Cadell & Davies; Reverend Renn Dickson Hampden; Selina Macaulay; Thomas Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury; Ann Kennicott; Sophia Matilda, Princess of Gloucester; Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay; and James Stephen. The letters discuss the political and religious issues of the day, including the death of Charlotte, Princess of Great Britain and the trial of her mother, Caroline, Queen consort of King George IV; the Catholic Question; abolitionists; spiritual life and religion. The collection also contains two poems by Thomas Macaulay and a black and white print of More's home Barley Wood, with an autograph note by More.

mssMoreh

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Drake, Nathan, 1766-1836. 17 letters to Cadell & Davies, (1815-1832), Hadleigh (Suffolk, Eng.)

Manuscripts

Note: many of the letters are written to William Davies, d. 1820 and three letters written to Thomas Cadell, 1773-1836. CD 167, 169, 180 followed by draft replies and CD 171, 174, 177, 179 followed by autograph notes.

CD 164-180

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Drake, Nathan, 1766-1836. 17 letters to Cadell & Davies, (1815-1832), Hadleigh (Suffolk, Eng.)