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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Album, 1853-1898.

Title: Album, 1853-1898.

Letters, literary fragments, and portrait sketches by, to, and about Alfred Tennyson and members of his family and Julia Margaret Cameron and her family, who were his friends and neighbors in the Isle of Wight. Thirty letters and other items by members of the Tennyson family (several to the Camerons) and thirteen letters to Julia or Henry Cameron by other people. Principal topics of the letters include the writings of Tennyson and other authors; photographs by Julia Cameron and portraits of Tennyson by other artists; personal business; and news of family and friends. Correspondents include Alfred Tennyson, his wife Emily, their sons Hallam and Lionel, Alfred's brother Frederick, and his brother-in-law E.L. Lushington; Julia Cameron and her son Henry Herschel Hay Cameron; W. Davenport Adams, William Cox Bennett, Richard Doyle, James Everett, Holman Hunt, Alexander Ireland, Henry S. King, Samuel Laurence, Edward lear, Julian Marshall, Joseph Parker, Tom Taylor, Ellen Terry, George Frederick Watts, and Thomas Woolner. Also present are two pages of verse fragments by Alfred Tennyson; AMs final leaf of a play, "Essex," by Hallam Tennyson; a printed sheet of hymns from Hallam Tennyson's wedding; two sketches of Alfred Tennyson, one signed with the monogram "EMS" or "SEM"; an envelope addressed to John Gordon Crawford, and two short verses written directly on leaves of the album, by Joseph Parker and James Everett.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (45 items) ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541902 View

Autograph File, M

Title: Autograph File, M

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: 10.5 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01436/catalog View

Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826-1884. Letter to W. C. Bennett. [Eng.]. [1867?] Apr. 23.

Title: Letter to W. C. Bennett. [Eng.]. [1867?] Apr. 23.

Asking for support in the establishment of his new journal.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122557772 View

Amy Lowell autograph collection, 1523-1930. Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to [Mary] Berry; Bourges, 1843 September 1.

Title: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to [Mary] Berry; Bourges, 1843 September 1.

Autograph letters and manuscripts of authors, artists, and others collected by the American poet Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01636/catalog View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Bennoch, Francis, 1812-1890. Papers, 1839-1890.

Title: Papers, 1839-1890.

Chiefly letters to Bennoch and his wife, Margaret, from such literary and artistic friends as William Cox Bennett, Thomas Binney, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Peter Cunningham, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1810-1869), Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789-1864), Joseph Durham, Thomas Faed, Samuel Carter Hall, Benjamin Robert Haydon, William Howitt, William Jerdan, William Blanchard Jerrold, Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, George Lance, Robert Lemon, Samuel Lover, James Russell Lowell, Charles Mackay, William Calder Marshall, Sir Theodore Martin, Thomas Miller, Samuel Morely, George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer, Francis Wilson Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, James Paget, Julia Pardoe, Marguerite A. Power, John Saunders, Franics Sibson, Thomas Sibson, Samuel Smiles, Albert Richard Smith, Charles Swain, Tom Taylor, and Robert Thorburn.

ArchivalResource: 437 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28409538 View

Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910. Letter to the President and Council of the Historical Society of Maine, 1884 Dec.

Title: Letter to the President and Council of the Historical Society of Maine, 1884 Dec.

Letter (1884) from the Prince of Wales, also signed by Dr. W.C. Bennett, secretary, and Francis Bennoch, treasurer, presenting to the Maine Historical Society a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow recently placed in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743051193 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

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: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Mary Russell Mitford collection, 1822-1854

Title: Mary Russell Mitford collection 1822-1854

The collection includes professional correspondence regarding Mitford's book "Our Village" and other writings, personal correspondence, and manuscripts of poems and dramatic works. Correspondents include W. C. Bennett, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Thomas Noon Talfourd, William Morgan Kinsey, Abraham John Valpy, and Julia Rattray Waddington.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 1; Linear Feet: 0.20

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mitford View

Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877. Letter to W. C. Bennett. [s.l.] 1851 Mar. 5.

Title: Letter to W. C. Bennett. [s.l.] 1851 Mar. 5.

Thanking Mr. Bennett for his letters and kind attentions.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122603763 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855. Letters, 1838-1854, Reading, England.

Title: Letters, 1838-1854, Reading, England.

[1] n.d., to Mrs. Dickinson, Reading, England [2 p.].--Sends some advice about a cow; says she enjoyed the visit to her home and invites a return visit. [2] 1838, to D[on] Boyne [pseud.] [3 p.].--Discusses business connected with the publication of [Finden's Tableaux] and its contributors. She praises especially the work of Elizabeth Barrett, John Kenyon, Bryan W. Procter, and John Chorley. [3] 1847, February 1, to W[illiam] C[ox] Bennett, London [2 p. with envelope. Fragment]--Discusses a forthcoming edition of Our Village. [4] 1848, April 12, to W. C. Bennett [2 p. with envelope].--Thanks him for obtaining some books for her. Comments on his last poem. [5] 1849, August 16, to W. C. Bennett [2 p. with envelope].--Discusses the liberal ideas of William Godwin and Lord Nugent. Says that her cause is the extension of education. [6] 1850, March 21, to W. C. Bennett [2 p. with envelope].--Discusses the books he sent her and some others. [7] 1852, February 27, to W. C. Bennett [4 p. with envelope].--Suggests that he is the author of the poem "Verdicts." Discusses poetry and mutual friends. [8] 1854, May 25, to W. C. Bennett [2 p.]. Invites him to her home to meet some friends.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122480395 View

Bennoch, Francis, 1812-1890. Correspondence, 1838-1886.

Title: Correspondence, 1838-1886.

Concerning Bennoch's own writing and that of others, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Mitford, and Bret Harte; mentioning some of the social causes with which Bennoch was involved, such as refugee relief, certain public works, and education; discussing the Crimean War and its veterans; regarding his membership in the antiquarian group called the Noviomagus Society.

ArchivalResource: 319 items (789 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233127263 View

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Letters of Alfred Tennyson, 1859-1876.

Title: Letters of Alfred Tennyson, 1859-1876.

Tennyson sends unidentified correspondents thanks for a book and photographs of a house and the "Holy Grail"; asks Edward Moxon to forward some letters; tells an unidentified correspondent to apply to King & Co. for permission to include "Lotus-eaters" in a publication; and thanks Theodore Martin for a volume of his biography of the Prince Consort. Of interest is a [draft?] of a letter to Charles Kegan Paul expressing Tennyson's displeasure that a volume of his poems were incorrectly illustrated with views of his houses rather than vignettes applicable to the poems, an error he calls a "Yankeeism." In an 1868 letter, Emily Tennyson thanks an unidentified correspondent for his "brave & kind & flattering defence." In an 1869 letter she thanks W.C. Bennet for a poem. In an 1869 letter, Lionel Tennyson thanks W.C. Bennett for a book. In an 1869 letter, Hallam Tennyson thanks an unidentified correspondent for a present.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49334640 View

Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898,. Autograph letters signed from Mary Cowden Clarke to various recipients [manuscript], 1843-1896.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Mary Cowden Clarke to various recipients [manuscript], 1843-1896.

Many concern her concordance to Shakespeare; others refer to her famous friends, especially Keats, Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Gounod (28). (39) includes an autograph copy of one of her sonnets, and (33) and (56) include sheets from the manuscript of the concordance.

ArchivalResource: 56 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436215745 View

Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869,. Letters from Alexander Dyce to various people [manuscript], 1827-1868.

Title: Letters from Alexander Dyce to various people [manuscript], 1827-1868.

Most are autograph letters signed. In (4) he denies editing Marlowe's works; (9) is a note of sympathy written to Kean on the death of his mother, Mary Kean; (17) and (18) concern his work on Peele; (19) is a memorandum of a copyright agreement between Dyce and Pickering, 1830. Also included are directions to an agent, a receipt, and a poem, all signed. Correspondents: W[illiam] C[ox] Bennett, Fraser's Magazine, [William] Harness, [Charles John] Kean, E[dward] Moxon, [William] Pickering, [Richard John] Raymond, [Thomas?] Rodd, and unidentified persons.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281730907 View

Armsby, James H., 1809-1875,. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1787-1914.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1787-1914.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. Gerald Massey writes to Osgood & Co. and [James T.?] Fields on book sales, a publishing venture and American lectures. Dabney Herndon Maury sends an autograph and writes to the Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance Company on a business matter and expressing concern on the business situation in New Orleans. Matthew Fontaine Maury to James H. Armsby, Bond & Son, and John D. Simms accepts an invitation to visit the Dudley Observator and Meet O. M. Mitchell, reports on the trial of varaious chronometers and recommends an appointment. Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett, Frances Trollop and others criticize the work of Henry Chorley and John Hughes, discusses her "Recollections of a literary life...."; solicit the patronage of Lord Nugent; recommends Bennett to Mrs. Acton Tindal, describes a packet containing work by John Greenleaf Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes; a bad fall suffered by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; a production of her play by [Charles?] Kemble; and mentioning Digby Starkey, the widow of Eliot Warburton, Joseph Hume. Letters of John S. Mosby to Eben Swift and Marcus J. Wright discuss Civil War incidents including his "closest call" and the objective of Pleasonton's attacks on Stuart at Brandy Station together with an autograph and a signed photograph. Also a letter of John Ware Mosby to George S. Palmer arranging a safe conduct pass for Mosby in May of 1865 so he can obtain a parole from General Halleck. Letters of his sister Victoria P. Mosby convey Richmond social news of 1842. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton to Dana Estes, C. C. Hazewell, Oliver Johnson, Andrew P. Peabody, Winslow Warren and others are chiefly brief social and business notes but include a letter about an archaelogical dig in Cotrone, Italy, conducted by Berlingieri and Clarke. Single letters of interest include Miles D. McAlester to Erasmus D. Keyes, 1862 August 25 concerning work parties for fortifications at Yorktown; W. Gordon McCabe to John Esten Cooke on a literary notice for a novel; Henry McKenzie to [Thomas?] Cadell on sales of "The Lounger"; Katharine Sarah Gadsden Macquoid to Roberts Brothers on the publication of "Dolly's grandfathers" in the U. S.; William H. McGuffey declining a request. Also William C. Macready to Mary Russell Mitford on publishing her play and his performance in "Julian"; Richard Kidder Meade to Samuel Pickens on the sale of Alabama land; James Montgomery sending thanks for a musical composition; Samuel McDowell Moore to John Letcher, 1861 September 3, on poor condition of roads which will hinder army transport and volunteering to supervise repair if given supplies and slave labor. Robert Nares to Thomas Cadell the Younger and reply on proofs for the completion of Macklin's Bible, together with engraving of Nares; and Yoné Noguchi to Madison Cawein on an evening with Joaquin Miller. The collection also contains an autograph of Joaquin Miller; a fragment by James Monroe on the acquisition of Florida.

ArchivalResource: circa 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014586 View

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

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

Chiefly letters of Keats scholars Richard Monckton Milnes and Buxton Formanconcerning the English poet John Keats.

ArchivalResource: 4 cases (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01676/catalog View

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. James Russell Letters [manuscript], 1866-1883.

Title: James Russell Letters [manuscript], 1866-1883.

Collection includes two letters from James Russell Lowell: J. R. L. to J. Lorimer Graham (2 pp.) 1866 March 24; J. R. L. to Dr. W. C. Bennett [with envelope] (1 p.) 1883 December 18.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647977751 View

Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1813-1904.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne [manuscript] 1659-1963 (bulk 1839-1864).

The collection contains literary manuscripts, correspondence, business papers, portraits and other items pertaining to Hawthorne. Collection contains the manuscripts of "Chiefly about war matters," "Consular experiences," "A description of a tragedy" by H. Aldrich, "Jonathan Cilley," fragment of "Our old home," fragment of "Septimus Felton, "A sketch or two in Warwick," a fragment of "Times Portraiture," annotated by Elizabeth P. Peabody, an 1815 copybook, an essay for "Homes of American Authors" beginning "I passed by the Old Manse...."and "Cuban Journal" by Sophia Peabody. The collection also contains an electrostatic copy of the original manuscript of "A wonder book for boys and girls." Correspondents include Catharine Ainsworth, George Bancroft, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Cox Bennett, Francis Bennoch, Dr. John Brown, Zachariah Burchmore, Henry Colman, Evert Duyckinck, Lydia Tuttle Fessenden, James T. Fields, Samuel G. Goodrich, Rufus W. Griswold, E. W. Gurney, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, George S. Hillard, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Alexander Ireland, George Payne Rainsford James, George Parsons Lathrop, Henry W. Longfellow, Horace Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., Robert Manning,Herman Melville (copy), James Miller, J. L. O'Sullivan, George P. Putnam, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, C.H. Peirce, Franklin Pierce, Roberts Brothers, Stephen Pleasonton, William Buell Sprague, George Nicholas Sanders, John Sartain, Alexander Strahan, Charles Sumner, L.A. Surette, Howard Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor, Ticknor & Co., William A. Tiffany, Martin Van Buren, C. W. Webber, Sidney Webster, William A. Wheeler, and E. P. Whipple, Topics include his the customhouse in Boston (1839-40), Brook Farm, 1841, customhouse in the District of Salem and Beverly (1847-54), and consul at Liverpool (1853-60). Also health of self and family, pet dog, wife and children, current writing, lecturers for the [Boston?] Lyceum, London social life, Delia Bacon's book on Shakespeare, life in Italy, horse racing in England, and pessimistic outlook on the Civil War. Of interest are in depth letters concering religion and spirituality from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to General E. A. Hitchcock. In addition there are brief mentions of Louis Agassiz, Barry Cornwall, George Curtis, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood, Jean Ingelow, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Russell Mitford, John Lothrop Motley, and Albert Smith. The collection also contains various Custom House receipts consular affidavits and certification, shipping certificate, and royalty check of Hawthorne. In addition the collection contains miscellaneous legal documents pertaining to the Hawthorne family including a fragment of a legal document, 1659, a survey, 1675, a warrant, 1707, and an account 1800. In addition the collection contains portraits of Hawthorne including two ambrotypes, a carte-de-visite, a cabinet card, and several engravings, together with three pencil drawings by Sophia Hawhtorne and an engraving of the Hawthorne residence. Of interest is "Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tributes by American Authors on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth" containing letters and brief manuscripts solicited by Ralph Waldo Stoddard in 1904. The collection also contains photostatic and typescript copies of Hawthorne items elsewhere. There are several twentieth century letters concerning provenance of some of the letters, and a post 1955 compilation of notes and excerpts pertaining to Una Hawtorne.

ArchivalResource: 215 items.

https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03997.xml View

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903,. Autograph letters signed and intialled from Richard Henry Stoddard, New York, Long Island and elsewhere(?), to various people [manuscript], 1852-1892.

Title: Autograph letters signed and intialled from Richard Henry Stoddard, New York, Long Island and elsewhere(?), to various people [manuscript], 1852-1892.

Correspondents: W.C. Bennett, Mrs. Horace Silsby, William Winter and another. In (1) Stoddard thanks Bennett for his "boke" of songs and writes of British and American authors. In (2) he thanks Mrs. Silsby for including his Shakespeare verses in her book. In (3) he comments on his ode to Abraham Lincoln. In (4) he wishes Winter would hear the Shakespearean readings of Sydney Woollett. Also, a poem to James Lorimer Graham, Jr. accompanying a volume of Shakespeare's sonnets and beginning, What can I give him, who so much hath given, 1864. Poem listed in the Folger card index of first lines. 2 essays, "The English Laureates" and "Romeo and Juliet", 1892; the title-page to "The Lion's Cub", 1890; and an obituary notice.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244111367 View

Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877. Letter to W. C. Bennett. [s.l.] 1855 July 12.

Title: Letter to W. C. Bennett. [s.l.] 1855 July 12.

A short thanks for Mr. Bennett's kindness and the promise of a longer letter later.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122371621 View

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881. Autograph letter signed Jas. T. Fields to: "My Dear Mr. Bennet" March 20, 1851.

Title: Autograph letter signed Jas. T. Fields to: "My Dear Mr. Bennet" March 20, 1851.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70814238 View

John F. Glaser collection of historical autograph letters and manuscripts, 1739-1933.

Title: John F. Glaser collection of historical autograph letters and manuscripts, 1739-1933.

Correspondence of William Eward Gladstone as well as other letters written by British royalty, various British prime ministers, and other prominent persons, collected by John F. Glaser.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00500/catalog View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Bright, John, 1811-1889. Autograph letter signed John Bright to: Sir December 26, 1846.

Title: Autograph letter signed John Bright to: Sir December 26, 1846.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. + 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813638 View

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881. James T. Fields letters, 1854-1870.

Title: James T. Fields letters, 1854-1870.

The collection consists of fifteen letters, dated 1854-1870. Includes seven letters to James Lorimer Graham, full of personal news and talk of literature. Most of the remaining letters are of a personal nature, some including news of the publishing business, as well as several informal notes. Includes letters to William Bennett Cox, George Putnam, and to Bayard Taylor, detailing the publication of Taylor's Faust, written for Fields by his wife, Annie.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53432958 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883,. Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various people [manuscript], 1818-1882.

Title: Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various people [manuscript], 1818-1882.

216 mostly autograph letters signed and initialed; also, newspaper clippings. Letters include references to various literary figures: several refer to E. Alleyn; (173) to Collier's copy of a masque with emendations in Chapman's hand; (26) to information about Churchyard; (32, 156) discuss his editions of Coleridge lectures; (127) to his having Drayton's copy of the Faerie Queene; (153) to [Forman's] diary describing Shakespearean performances; (34) to Greene's Menaphon; some to his work on John Bunyan; (126, 127) to a misplaced Southey manuscript. Shakespearean references include: authorship of Edward III; biographical information; facsimiles of plays; alleged forgeries; his house; his knowledge of law; monuments; portraits, and criticism. Scattered references to attacks on Collier occur in the Ebsworth letters and elsewhere; several concern the Perkins Folio; enclosed in (167) are copies of 16 title pages taken from the "corrected folio of 1632." Letters contain numerous references to his associations with the Camden Society, the Percy Society, and the Shakespeare Society. (216-223) are newspaper clippings, 1859-1860, discussing the authenticity of emendations in the Perkins Folio; with them is Collier's unpublished draft of his reply, March 25, 1860, to Sir Frederic Madden's letter in the Times.

ArchivalResource: 224 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/461319741 View

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Letter, 1869 Apr. 29 : Colchester, to W.C. Bennett, Greenwich.

Title: Letter, 1869 Apr. 29 : Colchester, to W.C. Bennett, Greenwich.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 23 cm. folded to 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24779020 View

Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826-1884. Letter to W. C. Bennett, Torrington Square, Eng. [1867?] Apr. 23.

Title: Letter to W. C. Bennett, Torrington Square, Eng. [1867?] Apr. 23.

Asking for support in the establishment of his new journal.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553164 View

Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855. Letters : to W. C. Bennett, 1847-1854.

Title: Letters : to W. C. Bennett, 1847-1854.

Letters chiefly concern Bennett's work as a poet. There are some printed copies of Bennett's poetry with Mitford's autograph corrections and annotations.

ArchivalResource: 71 leaves ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612766438 View

Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855. Mary Russell Mitford letter to W.C. Bennett : ALS, [ca. 1850 Sept. 19].

Title: Mary Russell Mitford letter to W.C. Bennett : ALS, [ca. 1850 Sept. 19].

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 11 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26284753 View

Victorian poets, extra-illustrated.

Title: Victorian poets, extra-illustrated.

Manuscripts inserted into Edmund ClarenceStedman, Victorian poets (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1887), including letters, compositions,and notes.

ArchivalResource: 51 itemsinserted in 2 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01523/catalog View

Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877,. Autograph letters signed from Charles Cowden Clarke to various people [manuscript], 1845-1874.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Charles Cowden Clarke to various people [manuscript], 1845-1874.

Correspondents: W.C. Bennett, [Edward] Moxon, Samuel Timmins, Dawson Turner, J. Reynell Wreford, and an unidentified person. Most items to Bennett, (1-10) praise his poems; several mention Leigh Hunt and John Keats; (13-16) concern the Clarke concordance to Shakespeare; (17) contains 3 newspaper articles, 1847-1851, about the sale of Shakespeare's Birthplace. Enclosed in (4) is a printed poem by Bennett, entitled "Thou, O God, art love." Also includes a letter from J.P. Collier to Cowden Clarke, April 18, 1845, endorsed by Clarke.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299094219 View

Mary Russell Mitford manuscript material : 10 items, 1814-1854

Title: Mary Russell Mitford manuscript material : 10 items 1814-1854

To William Cox Bennett, journalist and author : 1 autograph letter signed : [6 Sep 1851] : (MISC 0006) : from [Reading] : begins, "What should I do without you my dear kind friend! -- & how inimitably stupid it was in me to go looking in the Index for Sir Philip Sidney instead of the Table of Contents ..."; with the postmarked envelope.

ArchivalResource: 10 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22162 View