Manuscripts
Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence (1843-1931)
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Volumes and Documents (Approx. 1575-1822)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of two boxes. Box 1: Volumes and Documents, approx. 1575-1822, HM 83505-83510; significant authors include Thomas Day, Francesco Dolce, Colin Mackenzie, and Giovam Batista Muzio. Box 2: Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1843-1931, HM 83511-83529; significant authors and correspondents include John W. Ballantyne, Samuel W. Butler, Robert P. Harris, Richard H. Horne, William T. Howard, Madame Viviane Jeannin, William G. MacCallum, Edward E. Mackenzie, James W. Mandigo, Richard Owen, Francis R. Packard, George C. Peachey, William S. Playfair, J. Whitridge Williams, and Leroy M. Yale.
mssHM 83505-83529
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Manuscripts, Correspondence & Documents
Manuscripts
The majority of the collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, drawings and ephemera directly related to James Robinson Planché and his work in the theatre, antiquarian pursuits, and costume expertise. Among the authors and correspondents are: John Baldwin Buckstone, William E. Gladstone, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Leigh Hunt, Ellen Kean, Frances Maria Kelly,Charles Kemble, Albert Denison (Baron Londesborough), Rosina Bulwer Lytton (Baroness Lytton), William Charles Macready, Richard Brinsley Peake, Jane Porter, David Roberts, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Carl Maria von Weber. The other main part of the collection is material, including fragments and clipped signatures, which were collected for the autograph value only, and have no relation to Planché or his work. Among these authors and correspondents are: Adelaide, Queen consort of William IV, William Blanchard, Richard Daly, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, George III, Edwin Henry Landseer, Robert Peel, William Pitt, Lucia E.B. Vestris, and Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington). There is also a small group of letters written to Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, mainly regarding Planché and his work and family. The ephemera consists of printed material, including printed play texts, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and printed musical scores.
mssJP 1-361
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Manuscripts, Correspondence & Documents
Manuscripts
The majority of the collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, drawings and ephemera directly related to James Robinson Planché and his work in the theatre, antiquarian pursuits, and costume expertise. Among the authors and correspondents are: John Baldwin Buckstone, William E. Gladstone, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Leigh Hunt, Ellen Kean, Frances Maria Kelly,Charles Kemble, Albert Denison (Baron Londesborough), Rosina Bulwer Lytton (Baroness Lytton), William Charles Macready, Richard Brinsley Peake, Jane Porter, David Roberts, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Carl Maria von Weber. The other main part of the collection is material, including fragments and clipped signatures, which were collected for the autograph value only, and have no relation to Planché or his work. Among these authors and correspondents are: Adelaide, Queen consort of William IV, William Blanchard, Richard Daly, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, George III, Edwin Henry Landseer, Robert Peel, William Pitt, Lucia E.B. Vestris, and Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington). There is also a small group of letters written to Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, mainly regarding Planché and his work and family. The ephemera consists of printed material, including printed play texts, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and printed musical scores.
mssJP 1-361
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Manuscript, Correspondence, Documents and Photographs
Manuscripts
This collection consists of one manuscript by Richard F. Burton, and letters and documents, by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, William Marcus Coghlan, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Quentin Keynes, Alexander William Kinglake, David Livingstone, Mary Lovell, Victoria L. Maylor, Edwards H. Metcalf, Edward Henry Palmer, Bernadette Rivett, Stephen Tabachnick, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley, and William H. Wood. The collection also includes artwork, lithographs, maps, photographs, printed material and Burton related research material gathered by Burke Casari.
mssHM 78795-78885, 80305-80324
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Manuscript Volume; Correspondence; Ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection of correspondence, documents, engravings, and ephemera of the Westall brothers assembled at the Huntington Library. Included are the correspondence of William and Richard Westall, a bound volume of Richard Westall's illustrations, and printed pieces and photograph reproductions of various and paintings and illustrations.
mssHM 54281-54318, HM 63286
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Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript ; correspondence, manuscripts, poems and printed material
Manuscripts
This material includes a commonplace book and a miscellaneous group of letters, manuscripts, poems and printed material; some of the miscellaneous material may have been bound together at one time. The miscellaneous material includes: Francis Atterbury letter to Alexander Pope (HM 83576) ; List of book titles by John Bradshaw (HM 83577) ; note by Alexander Chalmers (HM 83578) ; verses by Charles Caleb Colton (HM 83579) ; poem by Alexander D'Arblay (HM 83580) ; printed poem by William James Linton (HM 83581) ; note and letter by Alexander Pope (HM 83582-83583) ; verses by Robert Vansittart ; poem by Edward Waller (HM 83585) ; and a poetical commonplace book with marbled paper covers (HM 83586).
mssHM 83576-83586