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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley letters to Sir John Bowring


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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 139 letters written by Mary Shelley from 1817 to 1849. The majority of the letters are to her stepsister Clair Clairmont (1798-1879), but there are also several letters written to English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) and his wife, Marianne Hunt (1788-1857), and one letter to English publisher and author Charles Ollier (1788-1859). There is a bound volume containing letters from Mary Shelley to British politician, writer, and literary translator Sir John Bowring, from 1828 to 1837, while he was editor of the Westminster Review.

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    1817-1843

    Manuscripts

    A collection of letters written by Mary Shelley from 1817 to 1849. The majority of the letters are to her stepsister Clair Clairmont (1798-1879), but there are also several letters written to English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) and his wife, Marianne Hunt (1788-1857), and one letter to English publisher and author Charles Ollier (1788-1859). There is a bound volume containing letters from Mary Shelley to British politician, writer, and literary translator Sir John Bowring, from 1828 to 1837, while he was editor of the Westminster Review.

    mssShelley

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    1844-1849

    Manuscripts

    A collection of letters written by Mary Shelley from 1817 to 1849. The majority of the letters are to her stepsister Clair Clairmont (1798-1879), but there are also several letters written to English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) and his wife, Marianne Hunt (1788-1857), and one letter to English publisher and author Charles Ollier (1788-1859). There is a bound volume containing letters from Mary Shelley to British politician, writer, and literary translator Sir John Bowring, from 1828 to 1837, while he was editor of the Westminster Review.

    mssShelley

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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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    Mary Cadwalader Jones travel documents and letters

    Manuscripts

    This small group of items include several travel documents belonging to Mary Cadwalader Jones, including passports, visas, etc., for travels to France in 1914 and 1915. One of the documents is a permit to "travel by motor vehicle," in France, for Edith Wharton, critic Percy Lubbock (whose signatures are on the document), Mary Cadwalader Jones, and their chauffeur Charles Cook (1915, September 13). There are also two letters by Walter H. Page, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom: one letter to Jones and a letter of introduction for Jones to present to people she meets on her trip to France. There is also a "Four-leaved clover from Verdun" in an envelope. There are items in English and French.

    mssHM 81398 (a-k)