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Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans papers


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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

    Manuscripts

    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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    Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.

    mssHM 82902

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

    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).

    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

    Manuscripts

    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