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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

Bicknell, Henry. Album of British artists' letters, ca. 1810-1890.

Title: Album of British artists' letters, ca. 1810-1890.

An autograph collection devoted to British art and incorporating ca. 200 letters, primarily of painters and engravers, with occasional sculptors and architects. It was apparently compiled mostly prior to 1890 and from many sources, but includes archives surrounding the print publishers, dealers and engravers Samuel Cousins, J. Hogarth, Henry Bicknell, and Hurst and Robinson (most of such letters dating between 1820 and 1870).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (150 p.); ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77576230 View

Thompson, John, 1785-1866. Letter, 1853, February 8, London, to Messrs [George & Edward] Dalziel.

Title: Letter, 1853, February 8, London, to Messrs [George & Edward] Dalziel.

Requests wood-engravings for a collection he is making for "a member of the present government."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122471081 View

Thompson, John, 1785-1866. Letters received, 1825-1851.

Title: Letters received, 1825-1851.

Mostly single letters to Thompson (and to his partner J. van Voorst), from painters, illustrators, and architects, primarily relating to the reproduction of their work. Letters refer to the examination of proofs, the delivery of drawings for reproduction, subjects for illustrations commissioned, and occasionally other professional matters. Of particular interest are single letters of Edmund Sharpe on engraving techniques, Charles Joseph Hubbell on his claims to the invention of lithotint, and John Pye on a case before the Artists' Benevolent Fund. Other letters of some content include those of Robert Smirke, E. H. Corbould, William Simson, David Roberts' collaborator William Brockedon, Thomas Sidney Cooper, John Calcott Horsley, Richard Redgrave, Edwin Landseer, and the engraver William Harvey. With two letters of Thompson to his children, 1849, on social matters.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83912768 View

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. Album, [1851-1873].

Title: Album, [1851-1873].

Contains approximately 70 original watercolor, pen-and-ink, and pencil sketches and many notes, addressed envelopes (no letters), and 1 ALS from John Thompson to George Cruikshank, Kensington, May 24, 1851.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (25 leaves) : ill. ; 21 x 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/177509214 View

Thompson, John, 1785-1866,. Hudibras : a drama founded on the poem of Butler : manuscript, [18--]

Title: Hudibras : a drama founded on the poem of Butler : manuscript, [18--]

Manuscript in an unidentified hand, by an unidentified author, illustrated with engravings by John Thompson and G. P. Wainwright mounted onto the pages.

ArchivalResource: [6], 131 p., bound : ill. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612821801 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