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Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846. Letter : King's Bench Prison, to Messrs. Smith and Elder, Cornhill, [18--].

Title: Letter : King's Bench Prison, to Messrs. Smith and Elder, Cornhill, [18--].

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 19 x 23 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28280265 View

Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01782/catalog View

Webbe, Cornelius. Letter : London, to Messrs. Smith and Elder, London, 1841 Feb. 1.

Title: Letter : London, to Messrs. Smith and Elder, London, 1841 Feb. 1.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 19 x 23 cm., folded to 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28295959 View

Smith, Elder, and Co. Smith, Elder, and Co. records, 1850-1923 [manuscript].

Title: Smith, Elder, and Co. records, 1850-1923 [manuscript].

Autograph letters from the files of the London publishing firm of Smith, Elder and Co. Letters are from writers and artists chiefly to George Smith (1824-1901); his mother, Elizabeth Murray Smith (1797-1878); or his wife, Elizabeth Blakeway Smith. The subject matter is, with a few exceptions, social in nature. Correspondents include Robert Browning (three letters); Wilkie Collins (two); Charles Dickens (one); Arthur Conan Doyle (one); Thomas Hardy (one); Leigh Hunt (one); Henry James (one); Florence Nightingale (one); John Ruskin (one); John James Ruskin (father of John Ruskin), concerning financial arrangements of John Ruskin (three); Alfred Tennyson (one); Leigh Hunt (one); and Frederick William Burton (1816-1900) (eight).

ArchivalResource: 67 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26661102 View

Business Correspondence of Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850-1908

Title: Business Correspondence of Smith, Elder, and Co. 1850-1908

Consists, for the most part, of business correspondence of George Smith relating to the , which he founded in 1859, and other publishing business of Smith, Elder, and Co., the London publishing firm. Cornhill Magazine

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear feet; 1 archival box

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3r074v012 View

Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904. Sir Edwin Arnold letters, 1861.

Title: Sir Edwin Arnold letters, 1861.

Consists of fifteen letters of the English author Sir Edwin Arnold addressed to the London publishers Smith, Elder, and Co. regarding publishing his THE BOOK OF GOOD COUNSELS.

ArchivalResource: .20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320899601 View

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. Autograph letter signed : Davos-Platz, to Smith, Elder, and Co., 1881 Aug. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Davos-Platz, to Smith, Elder, and Co., 1881 Aug. 6.

Requesting that vols. 4 & 5 of "Renaissance in Italy" be sent to W[illiam] J[ohn] Courthope, Esq., The Croft, West Wickham, Beckenham; also requesting that they be sent to the Pall Mall Gazette, if they have not already, as Mr. Mosley writes that "he would have the book well attended to there."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 21.9 cm. + envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/603590715 View

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1863 July 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1863 July 2.

Noting that he can walk better after visiting the baths in Germany; saying that he is waiting to determine whether his gout is better before commiting to another serialized novel for Smith & Elder; describing his travel plans for the summer and autumn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.) ; 18.2 cm. + envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436878766 View

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Autograph letter : Whitby, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 Aug. 7.

Title: Autograph letter : Whitby, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 Aug. 7.

Describing his lodgings at Whitby and the train trip over the Yorkshire moors; informing her that the "five thousand pound negotiation" with Smith & Elder is settled; asking her to "keep all this a profound secret from everybody"; expressing his belief that [Sampson] Low, his former publisher, is "finely exasperated at losing" him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436872308 View

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Autograph letter signed : Whitby, to Charles Ward, 1861 Aug. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Whitby, to Charles Ward, 1861 Aug. 22.

Briefly describing summer travels from Broadstairs to London to Whitby. Discussing Collins's intention to leave All the Year Round (with Dickens's full approval), noting that Smith & Elder have signed agreements to give Collins £5,000 for the copyright of a new work (i.e., No Name). Noting that "no living novelist (except Dickens) has had such an offer as this for one book." Asking Ward to keep this "a profound secret from everybody," especially as [Sampson] Low "is so exasperated at losing" Collins. Inquiring as to the state of his accounts, and sending kind regards from Caroline [Graves].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 18.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435495258 View

Webbe, Cornelius. Letter : to [Smith, Elder, and Co.] [1836?].

Title: Letter : to [Smith, Elder, and Co.] [1836?].

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 19 x 23 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28296126 View

Jerdan, William, 1782-1869. Letter, 1830, November 9, Grove House, Brompton, to [Messrs. Smith & Elder].

Title: Letter, 1830, November 9, Grove House, Brompton, to [Messrs. Smith & Elder].

Jerdan thanks Messrs. Smith & Elder for their offer of [cuts] and lists his request for four "of which I shall have much pleasure in introducing what I can in the Literary Gazette ... and if the blocks are not at hand you will, perhaps, be so obliging as to say when you will send them to him ..."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52634169 View

Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive);, 1738-1866 (bulk).

Title: Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive); 1738-1866 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01781/catalog View

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. Letters of John Addington Symonds [manuscript], 1878-1881.

Title: Letters of John Addington Symonds [manuscript], 1878-1881.

Symonds writes to his publisher Smith, Elder & Co. requesting that dedication copies of his books be sent to friends including Charles Walston, Alessandro D'Ancona, and Lord Carlingford, and discusses his "Vagabunduli libellus" and Symonds family genealogy. Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Oldport days" are mentioned.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820234 View

Edward FitzGerald collection, 1863-1883

Title: Edward FitzGerald collection 1863-1883

Includes commonplace book of FitzGerald; letters from FitzGerald to Herman Biddell (1863-81), Joseph Fletcher, Francis Hindes Groome, Robert Hindes Groome, Mssrs Smith and Elder, and four unidentified recipients.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 1; Linear Feet: 0.25

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fitzgera View

Smith, Elder, and Co. Records, 1850-1923

Title: Smith, Elder, and Co. Records, 1850-1923

The collection contains autograph letters from the files of the London publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. Letters are from writers and artists chiefly to George Smith (1824-1901); his mother, Elizabeth Murray Smith (1797-1878); or his wife, Elizabeth Blakeway Smith. The subject matter is, with a few exceptions, social in nature. Correspondents include Robert Browning (three letters); Wilkie Collins (two); Charles Dickens (one); Arthur Conan Doyle (one); Thomas Hardy (one); Leigh Hunt (one); Henry James (one); Florence Nightingale (one); John Ruskin (one); John James Ruskin (father of John Ruskin), concerning financial arrangements of John Ruskin (three); Alfred Tennyson (one); Leigh Hunt (one); and Frederick William Burton (1816-1900) (eight).

ArchivalResource: 67; 0.5

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Smith,Elder,and_Co.html View

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. Autograph letters signed (9), autograph postal cards signed (2) : Clifton, Bristol and Davos Platz, Switzerland, to George Smith and Smith, Elder & Co., 1872 Mar. 14-1884 Nov. 28.

Title: Autograph letters signed (9), autograph postal cards signed (2) : Clifton, Bristol and Davos Platz, Switzerland, to George Smith and Smith, Elder & Co., 1872 Mar. 14-1884 Nov. 28.

Concerning publication of his works.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (23 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270580398 View

Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. John Addington Symonds letters and poem, 1859-1884.

Title: John Addington Symonds letters and poem, 1859-1884.

The collection consists of one manuscript poem and seven letters, including: to My dear sir, 26 Feb. 1859, thanking him for a book, praising the clever drawings, and offering a copy of his book on Beauty; four letters to John Chapman, 9 Feb. 1871-3 Oct. 1871, about his own work and about Walt Whitman, and Chapman's Westminster Review; to Dear sirs, Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Jan. 1878, about his book of translations of Michael Angelo's sonnets, with a list of people to whom he would like a copy sent; to Dear sir, W. S. Appleton, 13 July 1884, giving genealogical information about his family. Also, signed manuscript of Four Popular Songs of Italy, undated but circa 1883, apparently an original poem based on Italian influences.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62589803 View

Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/catalog View

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Ms. of "The White Company" [manuscript] / by A. Conan Doyle ; "Cornhill magazine" January-December 1891 and 3 volumes 1891.

Title: Ms. of "The White Company" [manuscript] / by A. Conan Doyle ; "Cornhill magazine" January-December 1891 and 3 volumes 1891. [1890-1891]

Original holograph ms. of "The White Company," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel of the Hundred Years War between England and France.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (531 leaves) ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44945333 View

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 July 31.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 July 31.

Gloating that Smith & Elder have offered him £5000 for "a work of fiction a little longer than The Woman in White"; telling her that no one but [Charles] Dickens "has made as much" for what he thinks will be "nine months or, at most, a year's work"; asking her to keep this news a secret until the agreements are signed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 p.) ; 17.7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436872629 View

Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920. Mrs. Humphry Ward papers, 1863-1919.

Title: Mrs. Humphry Ward papers, 1863-1919.

The collection contains correspondence to and from Mrs. Ward's publishers, notably Smith, Elder, and Co. of London; notebooks relating to her novels and publishers, also containing observations on current events and social life of the period; and manuscripts of nine novels.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft. (21 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54540446 View

Brontë family. Correspondence and literary manuscripts of, or relating to members of the Brontë family.

Title: Correspondence and literary manuscripts of, or relating to members of the Brontë family. 1812-1925.

Comprises a substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family, as follows: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discussing the truth of the Bible; (B) by Branwell Brontë, 'Letters from an Englishman', stories (some in miniature format), and poems, all autograph, and autograph and transcribed letters; (C) by Charlotte Brontë, poems transcribed by her husband, A.B. Nicholls, two autograph manuscripts in French, and numerous autograph letters; together with Elizabeth Gaskell's autograph manuscript describing a visit to Charlotte Brontë, letters from A.B. Nicholls relating to Charlotte Brontë, letters and manuscripts by Ellen Nussey, and transcripts of letters written to her, concerning members of the Brontë family, and letters written by the publishing firm Smith, Elder and Co. to C.K. Shorter and T.J. Wise; (F) by Maria Brontë, an autograph manuscript of 'The advantages of poverty in religious concerns', and an autograph letter to her husband, the Rev. Patrick Brontë; and an autograph letter from the latter.

ArchivalResource: ca. 20 v., 12 folders, and 1 box; manuscript and typescript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55107809 View

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1867 Sept. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1867 Sept. 12.

Discussing the work being done on his new house; telling her about a dinner with [Charles] Dickens; saying he has written to Smith & Elder to say he "will give evidence if needful against the ruffian who has taken [his] name and [his] books in vain"; mentioning that a stray kitten "is galloping over [his] back and shoulders, which makes writing difficult."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm. + envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437034595 View

Correspondence and literary manuscripts of, or relating to, members of the Bronté family, 1812-1925

Title: Correspondence and literary manuscripts of, or relating to, members of the Bronté family 1812-1925

ArchivalResource: ca. 20 vols, 12 folders, and 1 box; manuscript and typescript.

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb206-brothertoncollectionms19cbront View