Manuscripts

Mary Russell Mitford letters to William Cox Bennett

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1847-1854.
Call number: mssHM 6355-6415
Creator: Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from G. W. Michelmore library sale, lot 138, 1919.
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Letters of Mary Russell Mitford. 2d ser

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472486

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The dramatic works of Mary Russell Mitford

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16264

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The works of Mary Russell Mitford : prose and verse, viz Our village, Belford Regis, Country stories, Finden's tableau, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the First

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472483

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Mitford, John-Mitford, Mary Russell

Manuscripts

The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (mssFI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (mssFI 4098, mssFI 4099).

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