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    1825 June-1830 August

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.

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    Correspondence

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.

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    1813-1825 May

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.

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    1830 September-1837

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.

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    William Sotheby letters

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Sarah Siddons, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.

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    Photographs, Engravings, Prints and Ephemera

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of a small number of manuscripts by and about Gladstone, as well as photographs, engravings, prints and ephemera. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters by Gladstone, which deal mainly with British politics and business; there is also a small amount of personal letters by various other members of the Gladstone family. Other correspondents represented in the collection include: A.J.B Beresford Hope, Patrick William Campbell, Sir John Cowan, John Nielson Gladstone, Abraham Hayward, Henry and Catherine Holiday, Stafford Henry Northcote (Earl of Iddesleigh), George Cornewall Lewis, Henry William Primrose, Archibald Philip Primrose (Earl of Rosebery), and Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke).

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