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.

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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Correspondence -- Sidney - Turner. CD 450-498

Manuscripts

The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and records (accounts, bills, estimates, receipts, orders to pay and promissory notes). Correspondents represented in the collection include: Cadell & Davies, Thomas Cadell, 1742-1802, Thomas Cadell, 1773-1836, William Davies, d. 1820, William Dickinson, Nathan Drake, William Gilpin, William Parr Greswell, John Home, Daniel Lysons, Edward Nares, William Pengree Sherlock and Sharon Turner.

mssCD 1-529

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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.

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Cadell & Davies. Memorandum concerning the publication of a work by Sharon Turner, (1799, Jan. 31). 1 piece

Manuscripts

mssCD 1-529

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Geddes, Alexander, 1737-1802. Promissory note in favor of Smith & Lepard, (1796, Sep. 30). 1 piece. Note: repaired

Manuscripts

mssCD 1-529

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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

Charlotte Turner Smith collection

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Charlotte Turner Smith collection

Correspondence -- Sidney - Turner. CD 450-498

Charlotte Brontë collection

Cadell & Davies. Memorandum concerning the publication of a work by Sharon Turner, (1799, Jan. 31). 1 piece

Geddes, Alexander, 1737-1802. Promissory note in favor of Smith & Lepard, (1796, Sep. 30). 1 piece. Note: repaired

Robert Southey collection