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Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850,. Copy of letter (fragment) from Lord Jeffrey, Edinburgh, to Lady Gifford, ca. 1836 [manuscript], ca. 1839.

Title: Copy of letter (fragment) from Lord Jeffrey, Edinburgh, to Lady Gifford, ca. 1836 [manuscript], ca. 1839.

Copy in the hand of Charles Kean and signed "C. Kean." Extract concerns Jeffrey's admiration of Kean's talents. Kean includes a note along with the copied excerpt that reads: "Extract of a note written by the [Lord] Jeffrey at Edinburgh to Lady Gifford - there is unfortunately no date except 'Sunday 23rd' - but it must have been in 1836 or 7." Also accompanied by envelope labeled, in Kean's hand, "Extract of a note from Ld. Jeffrey to Lady Gifford at Edinburgh ... in letter from him to me on my departure for America in 1839." With envelope.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462079159 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

Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850. Scotch law, 1792.

Title: Scotch law, 1792.

Autograph notebook containing extensive notes on lectures in Scots law attended by Jeffrey during his preparation for the Scottish bar. "Lect. 1st" sets out the major differences between Scots law and English law. The remainder of the volume is devoted to notes on family law topics, including domestic relations, master-servant relations, and the Poor Laws. There are several pages of notes on "the state of Negro slaves imported from the colonies," which cite the 1778 case of Joseph Knight v. John Wedderburn, among others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (86 p.) ; 21 x 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702179901 View

Jeffrey, Francis, Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph letter signed : [London?], to Mr. Colquhoun, [no year] Nov. 26.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London?], to Mr. Colquhoun, [no year] Nov. 26.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270881176 View

Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph letter signed : Clarges St., to Geo. Lamb, 1832 May 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Clarges St., to Geo. Lamb, 1832 May 3.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 1/2 p.) ; (16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270486940 View

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers, 1791-1894 bulk (1798-1838).

Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers, 1791-1894 bulk (1798-1838).

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, a journal for 1798, notebooks kept for 1814 through 1832, legal documents, and a commonplace book.

ArchivalResource: 183 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597033 View

Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1836-1977.

Title: Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1836-1977.

Additional papers of Massachusetts printer and publisher Henry Oscar Houghton. Alsoincludes some family papers, especially those of Boston Museum of Fine Arts Curator,Francis Stewart Kershaw.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00091/catalog View

Craig, James T. Gibson (James Thomson Gibson), 1799-1886. Letter: [1850?], 24 York Place [Edinburgh], to David Laing / J. T. Gibson Craig.

Title: Letter: [1850?], 24 York Place [Edinburgh], to David Laing / J. T. Gibson Craig. [1850?]

Returning books. Acknowledging receipt of paintings bought at Lord Jeffrey's sale. Gibson Craig promises to send prints on his return from Ireland.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40240311 View

Jeffrey, Francis, Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh and [n.p.], to unidentified recipients, [no year], "Tuesday 29th", [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh and [n.p.], to unidentified recipients, [no year], "Tuesday 29th", [n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.) ; (8vo) and (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270881167 View

Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph legal document signed "F. J.", 1816.

Title: Autograph legal document signed "F. J.", 1816.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7.5 p.) ; (4to)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270485162 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

Buchanan, David, 1779-1848,. Autograph letters signed from David Buchanan to Charles John Kean [manuscript], 1836-1858.

Title: Autograph letters signed from David Buchanan to Charles John Kean [manuscript], 1836-1858.

In (1) he discusses the acting of Montague Stanley. (4) was written on the occasion of the death of Kean's mother. Lord Jeffrey's reaction to Kean's acting and box office receipts of his 1837 Edinburgh tour and 1842 Glasgow tour are mentioned in (5). In (6) Buchanan praises Kean for his interpretation of Lear.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311262065 View

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986,. Literary and historical letters and documents, [ca. 1661]-1976.

Title: Literary and historical letters and documents, [ca. 1661]-1976.

Letters written to Frank Topham, ca. 1879; letters from various 19th century artists including Wyke Bayliss, G. Bowers Edwards, and Carl Haag; letters to Jerome Milkman, 1925-1958; letters to Howes Norris, 1908-1930; letters from various 20th century artists including Sir D.Y. Cameron, Sir John Collier, and Sir Gerald Kelley; and letters and a few manuscripts and documents of various American and British authors. Also, a group of French documents and letters from immediately following the French Revolution, 1793-1812, mostly dealing with military and governmental matters. Correspondents and signers include Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, Jean Jacques Regis Cambacérès, Jean Etienne Championnet, and Jean Baptiste Michel Saladin. Letters, 1814-1832, written to United States ministers to France including William Harris Crawford, Albert Gallatin, William Cabell River, and Nathaniel Niles. The correspondents include Elie Decazes, Antoine René Charles Mathurin, comte de La Forest, and Armand Emmanuel du Plesis, duc de Richelieu. The letters deal with a variety of diplomatic matters such as the exchange of war prisoners and refuge for the ship DECATUR.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,100 items (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122622159 View

Neal, John, 1793-1876. Papers, 1803-1880

Title: John Neal papers, 1803-1880

Letters to Neal from Park Benjamin, Sir John Bowring, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Pierpont, Ann S. Stephens, and others concern authors and writing, payment for Neal's work, health concerns, slavery in the south, interpretations of poetry, comments about Portland, Maine, and thank-you letters. In addition, correspondence from the Sun Times in New York, the Boston Literary Gazette, and other publications write to Neal soliciting submissions. Also included in the collection are two dime novels written by Neal: Little Moccasin and the White-Faced Pacer, and several bound scrapbooks containing clippings of his work.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01698/catalog View

Jeffrey, Francis, Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph letter signed : Wimbledon, to Rev. Bancroft, 1831 Nov. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Wimbledon, to Rev. Bancroft, 1831 Nov. 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270881162 View

Jeffrey, Francis, Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to James, 1830 Nov. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to James, 1830 Nov. 29.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270881168 View

Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Title: Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Collection of images concerning the life of the English poet, John Keats, as well as papers relating to the collection. Collection assembled by American Louis Arthur Holman. Holman was a Keats expert, an artist, writer on art, and a staff member at Goodspeed's Book Shop who established a print department, but later became the owner of Holman's Print Shop.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02040/catalog View

Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 1773-1850. Autograph letter signed : 13 Clarges St., to Mrs. Marryat, 1832 Jan. 18.

Title: Autograph letter signed : 13 Clarges St., to Mrs. Marryat, 1832 Jan. 18.

Giving a criticism of Frederick Marryat's "Newton Forster".

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270485453 View

Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers, 1791-1894, 1798-1838

Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers 1791-1894 1798-1838

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, a journal for 1798, notebooks kept for 1814 through 1832, legal documents, and a commonplace book.

ArchivalResource: 189 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19170 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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297235105 View