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William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items, 1778-1836

Title: William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items 1778-1836

William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist. Godwin achieved celebrity at the end of the eighteenth century with the philosophical treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and the novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams. His first wife was Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer for women's rights, and their only child together grew up to become Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Godwin's philosophies greatly influenced the political mind of his son-in-law, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter); Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law); Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament.

ArchivalResource: 383 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/21908 View

Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01426/catalog View

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Letter to Henry Colburn [manuscript], 1822 February 12.

Title: Letter to Henry Colburn [manuscript], 1822 February 12.

The collection contains a letter from Washington Irving to Henry Colburn. The book to which Irving refers is Dominique-Dufour Pradt's "Europe and America in 1821." The translation was done by J. D. Williams and published in London in 2 vols. in 1822. The publisher, however, was not Henry Colburn, to whom Irving's letter is addressed, but G. Cowie & Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647978285 View

Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834. Autograph letter signed : Brighton, to Mr. Colburn, [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brighton, to Mr. Colburn, [n.d.].

Cocnerning an offer made to Mr. Harrison of the African Institution.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270466284 View

Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869. Thomas Medwin manuscript material : 38 items, 1821-1865

Title: Thomas Medwin manuscript material : 38 items, 1821-1865

The Thomas Medwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph essay, "Gossip on Smoking in General, & Smokers in particular"; autograph emendations for a next edition in a copy of his Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley; and several poems, including translations from Catullus. The bulk of the correspondence is from between 1821 and 1847. Correspondents include: the printer and publisher Richard Bentley; German poet and translator Ferdinand Freiligrath; publisher, writer and editor Charles Ollier; Jane Williams, of the Shelley circle; and over a dozen others.

ArchivalResource: 38 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/771033344 View

Godwin, William, 1756-1836. Autograph letter unsigned to: Henry Colburn, Esq. August 20, [s.d.].

Title: Autograph letter unsigned to: Henry Colburn, Esq. August 20, [s.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815388 View

Neale, W. Johnson, 1812-1893. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Colburn, 1859 Mar. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Colburn, 1859 Mar. 28.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270845943 View

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859. Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 327 items, 1801-1859

Title: Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 327 items, 1801-1859

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others.

ArchivalResource: 327 items

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Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828. Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828

Title: Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828

The Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material in the Pforzhiemer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a holograph poem, "Lines," and a draft fragment on Napoleon. The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1819 and 1827. Correspondents include the poet Lord Byron (her former lover); her estranged husband, William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister); the political economist T. R. Malthus; the novelist Lady Morgan; and over a dozen others.

ArchivalResource: 48 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707758437 View

Henry Colburn manuscript material : 9 items, 1840-1841

Title: Henry Colburn manuscript material : 9 items 1840-1841

To John Philippart (1784?-1874), military writer : 9 autograph letters signed : (S'ANA 0232) : mostly discussing business and financial matters.

ArchivalResource: 9 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19360 View

Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881. Letters, [1829-1877?].

Title: Letters, [1829-1877?].

Correspondence concerning invitations sent and received; social communications. Discussing books, writing and art work.

ArchivalResource: 97 items (321 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/148539919 View

Leigh Hunt collection of papers, 1772-1883, 1813-1859

Title: Leigh Hunt collection of papers 1772-1883 1813-1859

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 151 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19187 View

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882. Autograph letter signed : Brighton, to [Henry Colburn], 1853 July 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brighton, to [Henry Colburn], 1853 July 25.

Defending his action in allowing Routledge to bring out a new edition of that work, and concerning an edition of his collected works.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270131484 View

Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877. Letters, 1835-1876.

Title: Letters, 1835-1876.

Concerning her writing; discussing her health and family; mentioning the death of Herbert of Lea.

ArchivalResource: 47 items, (164 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233117069 View

Thomas Campbell manuscript material : 66 items, 1803-1844

Title: Thomas Campbell manuscript material : 66 items 1803-1844

Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet. He achieved fame with the publication of his Pleasures of Hope (1799), a long poem denouncing slavery and oppression, and served as editor of the New Monthly Magazine from 1820 to 1830. Campbell wrote biographies of the actress Sarah Siddons (1834) and Petrarch (1841), and did much work to promote British support for Polish independence. The manuscript material by Thomas Campbell in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: an incomplete draft of his Life of Petrarch; a holograph poem, "Verses on a Fan," written for Lord Byron's mistress, Teresa Guiccioli; and laundry and expense lists. The bulk of the correspondence is from 1840-1841, and discusses publishing matters, family issues, and his efforts toward the liberation of Poland. Correspondents include: Richard Bentley, publisher; the Rev. William Harness, literary scholar; John Murray, publisher; and over two dozen others.

ArchivalResource: 66 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19509 View

Sydney Morgan, Lady Morgan manuscript material : 22 items, 1809-1858

Title: Sydney Morgan, Lady Morgan manuscript material : 22 items 1809-1858

To Maria Bowring, wife of the politician and writer John Bowring : 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 4023.24b) : from 11 William Street : begins, "I give up the pleasure (as I am [?] thanks) of waiting on you on Saturday Eve.g ..." Within the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 22 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22172 View

Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874. Letters, 1818-1867.

Title: Letters, 1818-1867.

Discussing his poetry, writings and family; concerning travels, books sent and received, politics and social activities. Includes thanks for various items and deeds.

ArchivalResource: 100 items (172 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122654617 View

Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849. Letter to Henry Colburn. Dorset, Eng. 1830 Oct. 5.

Title: Letter to Henry Colburn. Dorset, Eng. 1830 Oct. 5.

Concerning publishing matters and travel abroad.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Lady Sydney Morgan letter to Henry Colburn, undated

Title: LadySydney Morgan letter to Henry Colburn undated

Letter from Lady Sydney Morgan to Henry Colburn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pp.)

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Crabbe, George, 1754-1832. Letter to Mr Colburn. Wiltshire, Eng. 1815 Dec. 29.

Title: Letter to Mr Colburn. Wiltshire, Eng. 1815 Dec. 29.

Thanking him for persuading a publisher to delete a reference to Crabbe's father.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553281 View

Upcott, William, 1779-1845,. Original letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution : Vol. XXX : Eminent women, 1824.

Title: Original letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution : Vol. XXX : Eminent women, 1824.

Album, with handwritten half-title, title page, and index, containing 43 tipped-in original letters from notable women, mostly writers, among them Lucy Aikin, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Lady Caroline Lamb,

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 21.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122378627 View

Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885. Letters concerning John Keats, 1794-1958 (inclusive), 1822-1895 (bulk).

Title: Letters concerning John Keats, 1794-1958 (inclusive), 1822-1895 (bulk).

Primarily letters to Richard Monckton Milnes and Henry Buxton Forman concerning the English poet John Keats. Also includes letters from Harry Buxton Forman, as well as materials extracted from his Works of Keats, letters from Horatio Smith to Henry Colburn, a few letters to and from Amy Lowell, poems and other writings about Keats, and transcripts of the parish registers recording the marriage of Keats' parents and his baptism, among other items.

ArchivalResource: 4 cases (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83565072 View

Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844. Thomas Campbell manuscript material : 63 items, 1809-1844

Title: Thomas Campbell manuscript material : 63 items, 1809-1844

The manuscript material by Thomas Campbell in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: an incomplete draft of his Life of Petrarch ; a holograph poem, "Verses on a Fan," written for Lord Byron's mistress, Teresa Guiccioli ; and laundry and expense lists. The bulk of the correspondence is from 1840-1841, and discusses publishing matters, family issues, and his efforts toward the liberation of Poland. Correspondents include: Richard Bentley, publisher ; the Rev. William Harness, literary scholar ; John Murray, publisher ; and over two dozen others.

ArchivalResource: 63 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81897520 View

Maria Benson manuscript material : 1 item, 1821

Title: Maria Benson manuscript material : 1 item 1821

Maria Benson, British writer. She is the author of a few published novels and the pedagocial essay Thoughts on Education. Benson's sister was Anna Dorothea Montagu -- third wife of Basil Montagu. To Henry Colburn, publisher : 1 autograph letter third person : 18 Dec 1821 : (MISC 2009) : requesting he send her more translation work. Tipped in to William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19433 View

Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874. Autograph letter signed : Middle Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire, to H. Colbourne, [no year] Aug. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Middle Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire, to H. Colbourne, [no year] Aug. 20.

Instructing to whom copies of her "Lives of the Queens of England" be sent, referring to its reception, and mentioning Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection of manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270575049 View

Godwin, William, 1756-1836. William Godwin manuscript material : 338 items, 1778-1836

Title: William Godwin manuscript material : 338 items, 1778-1836

The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers ; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer ; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law) ; Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet ; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Various other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament. A fair amount of The Pforzheimer Collection's Godwin manuscript material dated before 1822 is published, with extensive commentary, in Shelley and His Circle.

ArchivalResource: 338 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/153321362 View

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830,. Autograph letters signed from William Hazlitt to various people [manuscript], 1823-[1830].

Title: Autograph letters signed from William Hazlitt to various people [manuscript], 1823-[1830].

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281537381 View

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859. Leigh Hunt collection of papers, 1772-1883 bulk (1813-1859).

Title: Leigh Hunt collection of papers, 1772-1883 bulk (1813-1859).

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts and correspondence by, to, and about Hunt and the Hunt family.

ArchivalResource: 118 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465659 View

Smith, Horace, 1779-1849,. Autograph letter signed from Horatio Smith, Brighton, to Henry Colburn, London [manuscript], 1839 October 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Horatio Smith, Brighton, to Henry Colburn, London [manuscript], 1839 October 6.

Smith requests two copies of the new edition of Zillah.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/417075246 View

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items, 1815-1850

Title: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items 1815-1850

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer. The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and transcripts. The writings include drafts of poems ("The Choice" and "To the Dead") and several short stories ("The Sisters of Albano," "The Dream," "Transformation," and others). The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1822-1849. Correspondents include Claire Clairmont, her stepsister; Leigh Hunt, the journalist and critic; Lord Byron's last mistress, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli; Edward Moxon, the publisher and poet; and over seventy-five others. The transcripts are chiefly comprised of her handwritten copies of letters originally by her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

ArchivalResource: 414 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22142 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1805-1844.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1805-1844.

Letters sent from various correspondents, to English author andhumorist Richard Harris Barham, who used the pseudonym ThomasIngoldsby.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (.33 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01272/catalog View

Benson, Maria. Maria Benson manuscript material : 1 item, 1821

Title: Maria Benson manuscript material : 1 item, 1821

· To Henry Colburn, publisher : 1 autograph letter : 18 Dec 1821 (MISC 2009), third person, requesting he send her more translation work. Tipped in to William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76894085 View

Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 332 items, 1801-1859

Title: Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 332 items 1801-1859

Leigh Hunt, English poet, journalist, and literary critic. The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others.

ArchivalResource: 332 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19615 View

Lachlan, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Appleton manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. 1815-1824]

Title: Elizabeth Appleton manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. 1815-1824]

Autograph letter signed. CORRESPONDENCE · To Henry Colburn, publisher : 1 ALS ; 11 Aug. [between 1815 and 1824] (MISC 2003), reminding him that she will soon be in London, and that if he is not interested in her book that she will take it to Longman. The letter is addressed to Colburn at Conduit St., from which he moved in 1824. Tipped in to William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75208087 View

Jerdan, William, 1782-1869. William Jerdan manuscript material : 6 items, 1832-1867

Title: William Jerdan manuscript material : 6 items, 1832-1867

· To Henry Colburn, publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jun 1815 : (MISC 3475) : from Sun Office : begins, "IN the Sun this afternoon is a review of Chateaubrian ..." · To Thomas Hood, poet and humorist : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec 1832 : (MISC 2243) : from Grove House [Brompton] : defending the brevity of a review in the Literary Gazette (15 Dec 1832) of Hood's Comic Annual for 1833; begins, "If I cannot write with equal pleasantry, I must acknowledge yours at least with sincerity." Cf. Morgan's Letters of Thomas Hood, p. 145, for the letter that prompted this response. · To Charles Kent, writer and journalist : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar 1867 : (MISC 2830) : from Bushey Heath : begins, "Accept my warm thanks for the very favourable notice you have taken of my Volume in the Sun of yesterday ..."; with the envelope. · To Alaric Alexander Watts, journalist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul [no year] : (MISC 3474) : [no place] : begins, "As you have not called I give you your choice of two various subjects from the pen of a young modest & (in my opinion) beautiful writer ." · To "Dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Sep [no year; w/m = 1815] : (MISC 2384) : [no place] : begins, "I hope you will be able to make out this painful scrawl. How happens it that out of the four poems which Ellis inserts as specimens of Southwell, only two, 'The Vale of Tears' & 'Image of Death' are in your collection?" · To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph note signed : 9 Dec [no year] : (MISC 2383) : from 38 Craven St.; begins, "I send in Roper's pamphlet agreeably ..."

ArchivalResource: 6 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/444747643 View

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889,. Autograph letter signed from J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Islip, Oxfordshire, to Henry Colburn [manuscript], 1845 March 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed from J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Islip, Oxfordshire, to Henry Colburn [manuscript], 1845 March 29.

Refers to certain projects of [Frederic] Shoberl. He, Halliwell-Phillipps, is collecting royal letters and has copies of some love letters from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230392626 View

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Autograph Collection of Alexander Irvine.

Title: Autograph Collection of Alexander Irvine.

This is an autograph collections of several famous men and women from 18th and 19th Century Europe. It consists of letters in English, French, German, and Italian. It also contains clipped signatures and envelope fronts.

ArchivalResource: 77 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122639346 View

Colburn, Henry, d. 1855. Autograph memorandum of an agreement between Henry Colburn and Frederick Marryat : London, 1837 Feb. [day unknown].

Title: Autograph memorandum of an agreement between Henry Colburn and Frederick Marryat : London, 1837 Feb. [day unknown].

Publishing agreement concerning Marryat's novel "Snarley-Yow, or The dog fiend" and the purchase of rights to "a series of original tales and sketches, portions of which are in the hands of Mr. Grattan's solicitor."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 31.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/603535302 View

Plumptre, James, 1770-1832,. Autograph letter signed from James Plumptre, Great Gransden, to Henry Colburn, London [manuscript], 1819 September 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed from James Plumptre, Great Gransden, to Henry Colburn, London [manuscript], 1819 September 1.

Letter concerns Plumptre's hope for a new edition of his Observations on Hamlet. Sent from Great Gransden Vicarage near Caxton. Integral addresss leaf addressed to Mr. Colburn, bookseller, Conduit Street, London.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 23 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456566317 View