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Archives of The Longman Group, 1718-1974

Title: Archives of The Longman Group 1718-1974

ArchivalResource: 1025 boxes, 315 ledgers and other bound records, about 1000 books

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Longman, Thomas, 1804-1879. Thomas Longman manuscript material : 3 items, 1842-1843

Title: Thomas Longman manuscript material : 3 items, 1842-1843

· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Nov 1842 : (BLES 3.258a) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "I beg your acceptance of a little work we have just published which may afford you some amusement..."; with an excised stamped envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jul [watermark = 1843] : (BLES 3.260b) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "If it were not for the annoyance occasioned to you by the insane writer of the letter you enclose me, I should consider his statements and letter of no consequence whatever. I believe Mr. Day to be really insane ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jul 1843 : (BLES 3.261a) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "We forwarded to Mr. Tauchnitz the agreement on the 18th of this month, which was the first opportunity after having received it. A copy of Meredith shall be sent to Mr. Rosenberg." -- All letters to Lady Blessington in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 3 items

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Abell, Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe, d. 1871. The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856

Title: The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856

Chiefly comprised of correspondence addressed to the Irish-born writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington, the Blessington Papers were compiled by Richard Robert Madden for the composition of his Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (1855). Notable correspondents among the several hundred include the English novelist Charles Dickens, the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and the English poet Walter Savage Landor. Also included are literary manuscripts; over forty are by Lady Blessingtion herself, while others are by submitters to the journals she edited. Much of the correspondence is published, both in Madden's life of Blessington, and in The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Fomred by Alfred Morrison (2nd ser., 1882-1893), "The Blessington Papers" (1895).

ArchivalResource: 6 volumes (containing 748 items)

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Dundas, George, 1802-1869. Letter: 1842 Mar. 16, 32 Charlotte Square [Edinburgh], to David Laing / George Dundas.

Title: Letter: 1842 Mar. 16, 32 Charlotte Square [Edinburgh], to David Laing / George Dundas. 1842.

An enquiry in connection with an illustrated edition of Thomson's Seasons, being prepared by Longman and Bolton.

ArchivalResource: [2] p.

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Thomas Longman manuscript material : 3 items, 1842-1843

Title: Thomas Longman manuscript material : 3 items 1842-1843

Thomas Longman, English publisher. He was the older son of Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842), and the brother of William Longman (1813-1877), both of whom were his business partners at the Longman & Co. publishing firm. From 1842-1850 the company's imprint was "Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans" (cf. Maxted's London book trades). To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Nov 1842 : (BLES 3.258a) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "I beg your acceptance of a little work we have just published which may afford you some amusement..."; with an excised stamped envelope address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jul [watermark = 1843] : (BLES 3.260b) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "If it were not for the annoyance occasioned to you by the insane writer of the letter you enclose me, I should consider his statements and letter of no consequence whatever. I believe Mr. Day to be really insane ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jul 1843 : (BLES 3.261a) : from Pater Noster Row : begins, "We forwarded to Mr. Tauchnitz the agreement on the 18th of this month, which was the first opportunity after having received it. A copy of Meredith shall be sent to Mr. Rosenberg." -- All letters to Lady Blessington in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 3 items

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