Manuscripts

To a Young Italian Lady: poem

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Description: A signed, autograph seven stanza poem, with typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume are six autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees and two black and white engravings of Ainsworth.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1823.
Call number: mssHM 14981-14987
Creator: Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of April 1939.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Jeny Jumper's Chaunt: a ballad

Manuscripts

An autograph ballad, or flash song, in six stanzas, with corrections and a typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume is the poem "Henley" (1827), seventeen autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees, a signed, black and white photograph (1857), and three black and white engravings of Ainsworth.

mssHM 14961-14980

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William Harrison Ainsworth letters to William Jeffs

Manuscripts

A volume with 57 autograph letters by William Harrison Ainsworth to William Jeffs, French bookseller, Burlington Arcade, London, England.

mssHM 13062-13118

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Crichton

Manuscripts

A signed, autograph manuscript; an incomplete rough draft, versos contain cancelled versions. Chapter 15, Book II is complete, the balance is fragmentary; the lyric "DuGuesclin" is in another hand, with corrections by Ainsworth.

mssHM 14960

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Crichton. Chapter VIII

Manuscripts

An autograph manuscript; incomplete and fragmentary, without continuity. The two lyrics: "The Legend of Valdez" and "Dirge of Bourbon" are included. Also included is a black and white engraving of William Harrison Ainsworth from a painting by Daniel Maclise; engraved for Campbell's Foreign Semi Monthly Magazine by J. Sartain.

mssHM 14959

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Maria Edgeworth letter to Walter Scott

Manuscripts

Also enclosed in the volume: William Wordsworth letter to R. Shelton Mackenzie, October 18, 1842, and A. MacGeorge, Jr., letter to Maria Edgeworth, October 21, 1842. With typewritten transcriptions bound into volume and a second typewritten transcription laid into the back of the volume.

mssHM 84511

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Croly-Yates; ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 161 letters by William Harrison Ainsworth, correspondence of individuals associated with Ainsworth, and 20 letters from his biographer, Stewart Marsh Ellis, to collector Adrian Hoffman Joline.

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To a Young Italian Lady: poem

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