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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

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. William Wordsworth manuscript material : 14 items, 1804-1846

Title: William Wordsworth manuscript material : 14 items, 1804-1846

· To John Gardner, medical writer and practitioner : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar 1832 : (MISC 0178) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "Mr. Quillinan has staid longer here than he intended, or your would have seen the Bearer of this, my Nephew, earlier." · To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1833 : (MISC 0179) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "I have to thank you for your valuable present the translation of Faust ..." · To Walter Farquhar Hook, dean of Chichester : 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday morning" [1838] : (MISC 0174) : from 41 Upper Grosvenor Street : begins, "Last night I found your card, and truly sorry I am that I cannot return your obliging call ..." · To Dr. Howe, Ambleside : 1 autograph note third person : [no date] : (MISC 0156) : from Rydal Mount : saying he "will be glad to see Dr. & Mrs. Howe." · To Jane Anderson Merryweather, née Loy, poet, the "Authoress of the Hermit of Eskdaleside" : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Sep 1833 : (MISC 3971) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "The present with which you have honored me was recd. a few days ago ..." Tipped into the Pforzheimer grangerized copy of Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Hazlitt." · To Basil Montagu, author and legal reformer : 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Dec 1812 : (MISC 0058) : from Ambleside : with news of the death of young Thomas Wordsworth : begins, "I have not been able to reply to your affectionate note I have been so anxious with respect to little Tom's health ..." · To Edward Moxon, publisher and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 0176) : [no place] : thanking him for a gift to his daughter and writing of his publications; includes, "I shall now proceed to correct the Excursion and the Poems regularly, and trust that the work will advance at a good pace..." · To Samuel Rogers, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : [3 Apr 1842] : (MISC 0175) : [no place] : begins, "I see no reason for changing my mind about sending the Reviews ..." · To Robert Southey, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : [late Dec 1821] : (B'ANA 0708) : [no place] : relating to Southey's quarrels with Lord Byron, including verses poking fun at Byron's Cain; begins, "The only part of the charge you are any way upon to notice is that of slander, as this is given with his name, we think it ought to be met." · To Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, writer, judge and politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Apr 1843 : (MISC 0180) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "Thanks for your little Vol. : which I have looked over with much pleasure ..." · To John Thelwall, political reformer and lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : [mid-Jan 1804] : (MISC 0173) : [from Grasmere] : regarding the attacks made on Wordsworth by the periodicals of the day; begins, "I received your letter a few minutes ago, and as it will be utterly impossible for me, from the nature of my present engagements, to answer it minutely as you seem to wish, I cannot refuse myself, at least, the satisfaction of being as expeditious as may be." · To unidentified recipients : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed : [?Sep 1826] : (MISC 0177) : begins, "I have no news from this Quarter, but that our trees are of foliage this year unusually luxuriant; so much so that many of the Dwellings of this neighbourhood seem packed in green leaves like precious trinkets in cotton ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed, addressed to "My dear Sir" : 18 Nov 1845 : (MISC 0181) : from Rydal Mount : begins, "I enclose a page which I will thank you to have bound up with the Vol. to be presented to Lady [?] ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed, addressed to "Sir" : 8 Jan 1846 : (MISC 0927) : from Rydal Mount : "You are quite at liberty to make such use of my Essay upon Epitaphs ..." Tipped into the Pforzheimer copy of the first edition of Coleridge's journal, The Friend. Shelved as *Pforz A-LU 03.

ArchivalResource: 14 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/693718157 View

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Letters : to Joseph Cottle, 1796-1797.

Title: Letters : to Joseph Cottle, 1796-1797.

Eight letters to Cottle concerning the publishing of the first and second editions of Coleridge's collection of poems; The watchman; Coleridge's financial difficulties; and his wife's health. Also mentioned in the letters are Isaac Cruikshank, Thomas Poole, and the poetry of Charles Lamb. Two of the letters include some verse.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (21 leaves) ; 42 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612876368 View

Thelwall, John. Papers, 1834.

Title: Papers, 1834.

A letter from Thelwall (1764-1834), reformer and lecturer, to his children about his health, the sale of his writings, and his career; and a fragment of a letter from Thelwall to the Gazette mentioning Quaker approval of his lectures.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41040409 View

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834. Autograph letters signed (2) : Allfoxden and Penrith, to his wife, Stella Thelwall, 1797 Jul. 18 and 1803 Nov. 29.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) : Allfoxden and Penrith, to his wife, Stella Thelwall, 1797 Jul. 18 and 1803 Nov. 29.

With references to Coleridge.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (8 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270571920 View

Frances Dorothy Cartwright manuscript material : 1 item, 1829

Title: Frances Dorothy Cartwright manuscript material : 1 item 1829

Frances Dorothy Cartwright, English biographer. She is best remembered as the biographer of her uncle, John Cartwright, the political reformer. To John Thelwall, political reformer and lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Feb 1829 : (MISC 2277) : from 20 Park Place, Regents Park : about her special copy of her biography of her uncle; begins, "I fear you must have thought me bvery negligent in not having sooner replied ...".

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Cartwright, F. D. (Frances Dorothy), 1780-1863. Frances Dorothy Cartwright manuscript material : 1 item, 1829

Title: Frances Dorothy Cartwright manuscript material : 1 item, 1829

· To John Thelwall, political reformer and lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Feb 1829 : (MISC 2277) : about her special copy of her biography of her uncle.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81895439 View

Gully, John. Letter : London, to D.W. Harvey, London, 1841 Sept. 8.

Title: Letter : London, to D.W. Harvey, London, 1841 Sept. 8.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 23 x 37 cm. folded to 23 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28435246 View

Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

Title: Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

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: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01443/catalog View

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834. Autograph letter signed : Halifax, to a Mr. Brooke, 1830 Mar. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Halifax, to a Mr. Brooke, 1830 Mar. 23.

Describing his lecture courses and inquiring about the possibility of giving some in his neighborhood, on his way to Wakefield.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270571925 View

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834. Incle and Yarico or ingratitude rewarded, a farce in two acts, [ca. 1787].

Title: Incle and Yarico or ingratitude rewarded, a farce in two acts, [ca. 1787].

Endorsed by Thelwall on the title-page: Written during the intervals of office in a single week while I was an articled clerk to an attorney, & retained for three months in the hands of the late Mr. Coleman prior to the announcement of his son's [George Colman (1762-1836)] opera upon the same subject.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (45 p.) ; 20 x 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175052 View

Crompton, Peter, 1765?-1833. Autograph letter signed : Eton, near Liverpool, to John Thelwall, 1800 Sept. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Eton, near Liverpool, to John Thelwall, 1800 Sept. 11.

Discussing Coleridge, and other mutual friends.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270518839 View