Manuscripts

Queen Victoria letter to Sir George Scovell and others

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Description: Collection of letters: Queen Victoria to Sir George Scovell, 1847 December 18. Volume also includes correspondence by Sir Henry William Paget, Duke of Kent, Lady Sarah Churchill, and Lord Thomas Erskine.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1721-1847.
Call number: mssHM 4556-4566
Creator: Victoria (1819-1901)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1977.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Queen Victoria papers

Manuscripts

Letters, with a few documents reflecting personal and family affairs of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Court, including some routine royal letters and single letters from various members of Albert's family. The correspondents include Mary Louise Victoria, Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria.

mssQueenv

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Frances Power Cobbe letters

Manuscripts

Thirty-one of these letters were written by Cobbe. The letters relate to a variety of topics including: Cobbe's work with the anti-vivisection movement, literature, politics, Mary Somerville, the Ethnological Society of London, and other personal subjects. She mentions her partner Mary Lloyd several times (Mary is also the addressee of one letter). Addressees include author Sarah Sharp Heaton Hamer (Phyllis Browne); British novelist James Payn (letter mentions Sir Leslie Stephen); English surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget; Lady Deborah Bowring; Dr. Reinhold Rost; surgeon Dr. Robert Dunn; Reverend Henry Allon; Archdeacon F. W. Farrar; and fellow suffragette Helen Taylor. There are also two letters by English religious philosopher James Martineau (one to Frances and one to Mary) and one letter by British scholar Francis William Newman to Frances.

mssHM 77966-77999

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Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani letters to William Lee

Manuscripts

The letters authored by Queen Liliuokalani were written to her husband's cousin William Lee, of Lee and Shephard Publishers, while she was visiting Washington D.C. These letters deal chiefly with her book Hawaii's story by Hawaii's Queen. Liliuokalani asks Lee questions about copyright and strategies for selling the book. She also writes that she is going to sign three copies and send them to Queen Victoria, President William McKinley and Grover Cleveland; one letter mentions Gerrit P. Judd and Richard Armstrong

mssHM 59567-59570

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[Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901]. Letter to Sir Graham Eden Hamond-Graeme, 1845-1920

Manuscripts

Osborne House, Isle of Wight. (3 p.). Written on behalf of the Queen; signature illegible.

mssHamond

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[Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901]. 1 letter to George Peabody, 1795-1869, A.L. (6 p.), (1866, Mar. 28), Windsor (Eng.)

Manuscripts

With envelope. Note: written by a secretary on behalf of the Queen.

KAL 1365

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Matthey, Georges. 2 letters and 1 note to Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1821-1890, ([1878?]), London (Eng.)

Manuscripts

Collection of Burtoniana -- correspondence, manuscripts, research papers, and ephemera -- assembled by Edwards H. Metcalf over more than thirty years. The collection contains personal, official, business, and social correspondence and manuscripts of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Lady Isabel Burton, chiefly covering the period of Burton's consulship in Trieste and Lady Burton's life after her husband's death.

RFB 712-714

Queen Victoria letter to Sir George Scovell and others

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