Manuscripts

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans papers

Description: The collection consists of manuscripts by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans and also letters both to and from her. The materials in the collection mostly concern literary subjects, though several offer observations on the political situation in Ireland and the tensions between the Catholics and Protestants. A substantial amount of material in the collection is written both by and to Robert Perceval Graves and other Graves family members.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1819-1893
Call number: mssHM 42508-42558
Creator: Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, 1975.
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: Graves (Family); Graves, Robert Perceval,
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Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of manuscripts by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans and also letters both to and from her. The materials in the collection mostly concern literary subjects, though several offer observations on the political situation in Ireland and the tensions between the Catholics and Protestants. A substantial amount of material in the collection is written both by and to Robert Perceval Graves and other Graves family members.

mssHM 42508-42558

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Procida; or, Sicilian Vespers. Tragedy, 5 acts. Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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Application Oct. 20, 1823, Charles Kemble, C.G. Prod. (as The Vespers of Palermo) Dec. 12. MS: dated by Larpent Oct. 23; prologue and epilogue give title as Procida; or, Vespers of Palermo. Comp. The Vespers of Palermo, 1823 (K-D 534): MS prologue and epilogue not printed; numerous lines and two complete scenes printed not in MS; other, slighter discrepancies.

LA 2375

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Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne, 1793-1835. 1 letter to [Mrs.] ----- Gower, A.L.S. (4 p.), ([ca. 1830?], Mar. 13)

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HM 69321

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John Kenyon Autograph Album

Manuscripts

The majority of the collection consists of manuscripts and letters written by leading British Victorian political, scientific, and literary figures; there is also a small amount of material by American, French, German, and Polish writers. The manuscripts include poems by Daniel Webester, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Helen Maria Williams. The political correspondents include John Bright, Hugh McCalmont Cairns (Earl Cairns), George William Villiers (Earl of Clarendon), Frances Power Cobbe, Richard Cobden, William Ewart Gladstone, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Temple (Viscount Palmerston), and George Frederick Robinson (Marquess of Ripon). The artist, scientific, and literary correspondents include Charles Babbage, Sara Coleridge, Charles Eastlake, Maria Edgeworth, Robert Fitzroy, John Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Grace Greenwood, Felicia Hemans, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton), Edwin Landseer, William Macready, Harriet Martineau, Roderick Impey Murchison, Caroline Norton, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

mssHM 69273-69383

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William James McDermott papers

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Miscellaneous papers, chiefly official documents and correspondence related to McDermott's career, particularly his military service. Included are orders, appointments, commissions, reports, requests and bills for medical supplies, and correspondence. The papers contain a report on the examination and treatment of those wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a letter to his father describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg. There are also McDermott's credentials, his Masonic diplomas and correspondence, passports, certificates, and other documents. Also included are poems and an essay on the history of the City University of New York, written by McDermott, as well as, scattered family records, some daguerreotype portraits, an 1873 notebook containing formulas for medicines kept by Dr. John B. Crosby, and a petition signed by "Her Majesty's Protestant subjects" of St. John, New Brunswick, about a ban on secret societies, which was allegedly sought by "Roman Catholics" in order to "prevent Protestants meeting together to hold loyal associations," dated 1844.

mssMcDermott

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William A. Brown papers

Manuscripts

Collection includes correspondence by the Brown family from 1849 to 1855. In the letters, William A. Brown discusses his trip to San Francisco via Panama, his brief mining experiences, and the establishment of his mail and express service. The collection also includes some business papers.

mssHM 26407-26462

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