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Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd letters, (bulk 1835-1836)

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Description: The collection consists of letters addressed to Talfourd regarding his play, Ion ; a tragedy. Most of the letters were written in 1835-36, and the collection includes nine letters from Leigh Hunt. All 194 of the letters in the collection are bound in two volumes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1835-1844.
Call number: mssTA 1-194
Creator: Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Mary W. T. Dickinson, 1953.
Associated people: Dickinson, Mary W. T.,

1835-1836

Manuscripts

A collection of 574 items from 1825 to 1890, which consists of the correspondence of Thomas Lyon Hamer, his political speeches and notes, and some papers relating to the Mexican War; Hamer's presentation sword and an oil portrait of him are included in the collection. The correspondence includes 240 letters by Hamer to his first wife Lydia Bruce Higgins Hamer (-1845), and family and friends, chiefly during his congressional service. The letters discuss family matters and Hamer's professional life and political career. There are also approximately 200 letters addressed to Hamer from his friends and colleagues, discussing his legal practice and business affairs, political views, and state and national politics. Correspondents include Lewis Cass, Thomas Corwin, James Hall, Robert Lucas, John McLean, Wilson Shannon, and others. Also included is Hamer's letter to President Andrew Jackson (February 17, 1837) discussing the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 to 1842. Materials created by US presidents in this collection include James Buchanan autograph letter signed to Thomas Lyon Hamer, 1842 Janaury 20; Andrew Jackson autograph note signed to Thomas Lyon Hamer, 1837 January 11; James K. Polk autograph letter signed to Thomas Madison Hamer, 1847 May 14; James K. Polk appointment of Thomas Lyon Hamer as Brigadier General, 1846 July 2 (contemporary copy); Martin Van Buren invitation to Thomas Lyon Hamer, approximately 1834 January.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley letters to Sir John Bowring

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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.

mssHM 2759-2770

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Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836-1917. 1 letter to [My dear Sir], A.L.S. (1 p.), ([ca. 1900?]), London (Eng.)

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This collection is what is known as an autograph collection and Kane spent years, not only collecting autographs of famous people on his own, but also acquiring the collections of other autograph seekers. This material spans multiple centuries and formats: from a 15th century manuscript on vellum to a 1951 typewritten letter. The collection includes accounts, letters, photographs, poems, government papers and royal proclamations, signed by, among others, actors and actresses, authors, explorers, kngs, magicians, queens, politicians, scientists, singers, and soldiers. Many of the famous people in this collection are also to be found in other manuscript collections in the Huntington Library.

KAL 194

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Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. 1 letter to [Mr. ----- Alliston], A.L.S. (1 p.), (1835, Jan. 26), London (Eng.)

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.

JP 218

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Blanchard, William, 1769-1835. [Signature], A.D.S. (1 p.), ([before 1835])

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JP 33

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1835 July-1836 June

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A collection of approximately 3000 items from 1770 to 1871, it consists of the personal and professional papers of John Arnold Rockwell, chiefly his incoming and outgoing correspondence. The papers document Rockwell's legal career; the development of the U.S. Court of Claims; politics; the Constitutional Union Party of 1860; land development, particularly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan; transportation, including land grants in aid of canals and railroads such as the Illinois Central and the projected Pacific Railroads; mining; and banking. Correspondents include, among others, John William Allen, Reverdy Johnson, Charles William Rockwell, and Dixwell Lathrop, who was a member of the Rockwell Land Company and one of the founders of Rockwell Colony in La Salle, Illinois. Also included are a letter book, plats, Dixwell Lathrop's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and the 1857 legal brief in the case of the United States, appellants vs. Charles Fossatt, regarding the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines. The earliest portion of Rockwell's correspondence includes letters from his father Charles Rockwell and brother Charles William Rockwell who had moved to Savannah, Georgia in 1817 to run a shipping business. The post-1861 part of the collection consists mainly of the incoming correspondence of John A. Rockwell's youngest son Alfred Perkins Rockwell, a Yale graduate, mining engineer, Civil War veteran, and businessman. Also included is correspondence of the Perkins and Tisdale families, including Rockwell's father-in-law Joseph Perkins who died in 1832 and was a Revolutionary War soldier, a Major in the Connecticut militia, physician, and businessman; also, Simon Perkins, John Tisdale, Elkanah Tisdale, and others. This correspondence deals chiefly with the properties in Connecticut and the Western Reserve.

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Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd letters, (bulk 1835-1836)

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