Manuscripts

Robert Southey letters and poems

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Description: Also enclosed: Nahum Tate document, December 19, 1707 (mssHM 2731); Caroline Ann Bowles Southey letter to Robert Southey, January 19, 1821 (mssHM 2732).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1798-1830.
Call number: mssHM 2728-2732
Creator: Southey, Robert (1774-1843)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1930.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Robert Southey letters to Margaret Holford Hodson

Manuscripts

Also enclosed: letters with the call numbers mssHM 2366-2386, mssHM 2591.

mssHM 2866-2899

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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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Robert Southey collection

Manuscripts

mssHM 4815-4876

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Autograph Letters of Robert Southey to William Taylor: original binding

Manuscripts

mssHM 4815-4876

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On a Spiteful Letter: poem

Manuscripts

Also enclosed: Alfred Tennyson letter to Dear Sir, December 24, 1867 (mssHM 22256).

mssHM 1325

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Barry Cornwall letter to Robert Browning ; poems

Manuscripts

Barry Cornwall was the pen name of Bryan Waller Procter. Also enclosed: To My Child, poem (mssHM 3103); Cornwall letter to Handleby (mssHM 3104). King & Slave (mssHM 3105); Grief, (mssHM 3106), poems by Adelaide Anne Procter, daughter of Bryan Waller Procter.

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Robert Southey letters and poems

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