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Maria Edgeworth collection

Description: A collection of correspondence related to Maria Edgeworth, her family and friends. The collection includes letters by Maria Edgeworth to Frances Dorothea Hoare, Mary Leadbeater, and Sir Francis Beaufort. The collection also includes letters from Maria Edgeworth's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth to Sir Francis Beaufort, and letters from Beaufort to his wife, Alicia Magdalena Beaufort.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1782-1837
Call number: mssHM 28586-28618
Creator: Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: purchased from Sotheby's Phillipps sale, lot 84, June 1965.; purchased from Beaufort-Palmer, London, 1965.

Maria Edgeworth collection

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence related to Maria Edgeworth, her family and friends. The collection includes letters by Maria Edgeworth to Frances Dorothea Hoare, Mary Leadbeater, and Sir Francis Beaufort. The collection also includes letters from Maria Edgeworth's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth to Sir Francis Beaufort, and letters from Beaufort to his wife, Alicia Magdalena Beaufort.

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Maria Edgeworth letter to Walter Scott

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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.

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Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849. To Philip Crampton Esq / Surgeon General of Ireland / With a fountain Pen: [poem]

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(2 p.). On verso: "To Maria Edgeworth's Pen," copied out by Edgeworth but signed "PC." Also enclosed: another copy of Maria Edgeworth's poem, copied out in a different hand (2 p.). Subject: Crampton, Philip, Sir, 1777-1858.

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Miscellaneous obituaries including Frances Beaufort Edgeworth and John Beaufort

Manuscripts

Diaries, journals, account books and correspondence of Sir Francis Beaufort and members of the Beaufort family: his father Daniel Augustus Beaufort, first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson Beaufort (d. 1834), and others.

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Sir Francis Beaufort papers addenda

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Sir Francis Beaufort papers addenda

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One box of correspondence, documents, photographs, poems and wills; arranged chronologically (1797-1858), FBA 1-28. Notable correspondents include: Daniel Augustus Beaufort (son of Sir Francis), Harriet Henrietta Beaufort, Lady Honora Beaufort, Charles Sneyd Edgeworth, Frances Anne Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth, Archer Thomas Upton, and Lestock P. Wilson. Also included are poems by Maria Edgeworth, one of which is written to Sir Philip Crampton, Surgeon General of the Forces of Ireland. The photographs are mainly of Edgeworthstown House, the Edgeworth family home in Co. Longford, Ireland. The wills and legal documents include the will of Daniel Augustus Beaufort (father of Sir Francis), an autograph 1843 codicil by Sir Francis and copies of various other wills. Apparently, there was a dispute between the Beaufort and Edgeworth families concerning the wills and codicils of Sir Francis, who died in 1857, and his second wife, Lady Honora, who died in 1858. Some of the correspondence and the legal memorandum, notes and opinions relate to this dispute and involve family members and lawyers.

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