Manuscripts

Maria Edgeworth letter to Walter Scott

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Description: Also enclosed in the volume: William Wordsworth letter to R. Shelton Mackenzie, October 18, 1842, and A. MacGeorge, Jr., letter to Maria Edgeworth, October 21, 1842. With typewritten transcriptions bound into volume and a second typewritten transcription laid into the back of the volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1814 October 23.
Call number: mssHM 84511
Creator: Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1990.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Maria Edgeworth collection

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence related to Maria Edgeworth, her family and friends. The collection includes letters by Maria Edgeworth to Frances Dorothea Hoare, Mary Leadbeater, and Sir Francis Beaufort. The collection also includes letters from Maria Edgeworth's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth to Sir Francis Beaufort, and letters from Beaufort to his wife, Alicia Magdalena Beaufort.

mssHM 28586-28618

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Maria Edgeworth collection

Manuscripts

mssHM 28586-28618

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Walter E. Scott [Death Valley Scotty] letter to "Dear friend Miss Irean [Irene?]"

Manuscripts

In this letter, Scott acknowleges Irene's letter of October 20th and thanks her for the invitation to visit. He promises to call on them when he gets in to Los Angeles. He writes that he has been in the mountains with the pack mules, but has been laid up due to injuries. He asks Irene to tell Willard that he is okay. Scott writes that he hears that Johnson is bankrupt and that the government has taken possession of the castle. He's not sure because he doesn't see Johnson very often and hasn't seen him at all since last Thanksgiving. Scott mentions the Borax works and the "so called 'National Park.'" He also declares that he refuses to do anymore "ballyhooing jest for that D.V. [Death Valley] hot dog joint" and says that they are all jealous because he has the castle. Scott writes that there is no one at the castle save himself and the house boy. He relates that he is doing fine and to tell Willard that he can weather any storm. Cover envelope is addressed to Willard c/o City Editor--Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles, Cal. and is postmarked possibly Barstow, Calif., Nov, 15 1928. A second and third postmark on the verso is from Los Angeles, Calif., 8PM, Nov 15, 1928.

mssHM 30947

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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. 57 letters and 1 postcard to W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby, 1844-1912, (1885-1890), London (Eng.) and Trieste (Austria)

Manuscripts

Note: bound volume, with envelopes; two letters (9a & 53a) laid into volume. Letters bound together with essay (15 p.) and notes by Norman M. Penzer. Also enclosed: four Isabel Burton letters to W. F. Kirby, (1887-1891), one W. F. Kirby letter to Richard Burton (1887, Dec. 18), one W. F. Kirby letter to Oliver Notcutt, (1888, Jan. 5). Cataloger's note: a bound volume of typewritten transcriptions cataloged separately in Ephemera; pencilled page numbers supplied by an earlier cataloger.

RFB 306

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Maria Fitzherbert letter to William Porden

Manuscripts

An autograph, signed letter addressed to "Sir" and dated on the verso, "1803 dec 12;" on the top of the page, in pencil in another hand, is written "To Wm Porden." The letter only briefly mentions the Prince of Wales and is mainly about the installation, placement and use of a stove in a house that is being built. William Porden was the architect who designed Steine House in Brighton, England, for Fitzherbert; she lived there from 1804 until her death in 1837. The letter was mounted on board by a previous owner.

mssHM 84133

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Sir Walter Scott letter to "Dear Laidlaw,"

Manuscripts

In the letter Scott talks about greyhounds and a "Mr. Mathews." The letter is undated (the date is written as August 1822 in another hand).

mssHM 78390

Maria Edgeworth letter to Walter Scott

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