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Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846,. Autograph letters signed from Benjamin Robert Haydon to various recipients [manuscript], 1814-1825.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Benjamin Robert Haydon to various recipients [manuscript], 1814-1825.

Correspondents: [James] Elmes, Robert Hawkes, and Leigh Hunt. Letter (2) asks for two portraits as one of his pictures will be shown at the British Gallery. Mentions [Edmund] Kean's problems with "drinking brandy and water." "He never can recover his character." (3) describes Bullock's bust of Shakespeare, copied from the Stratford bust and the impression it left on him. He has also drawn a sketch of this bust from recollection on the front of the letter.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892. Papers, 1826-1877 1826-1854.

Title: Papers, 1826-1877 1826-1854.

Papers consist of a number of formats--artistic and architectural drawings, lithographs, watercolors, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, letters, etc.--that document the architectural training and career of A.J. Davis. A significant part of these papers relates to the house Davis designed for William J. Rotch in New Bedford, MA., including letters, watercolors, drawings, blueprints, and exterior and interior photographs of the place. There are also letters to Davis from D.S. Swain, a North Carolina governor, that reveal friendship between the writer and the recipient and that discuss house plans. In addition, there are three floor plans drawn by Bela Hubbard, a Michigan real estate operator, geologist, and lumberman. Identifiable public buildings represented by material in this collection are chiefly in New York City and include the Branch Bank of the United States, Merchant's Exchange, Phenix Bank, Masonic Hall, Washington Institute, Bowery Theater, Second Congressional Church, Trinity Church, St. Paul's Church, St. Thomas Church, and St. John's Chapel. There is one depiction of the Indiana state capitol building. Finally, Davis kept a slim volume on Fonthill Abbey, located in Wiltshire, England. Miscellaneous items include a scrapbook, presumably kept for sources of design, unidentified elevations and floor plans of a variety of dwellings and public buildings, three drawings of furniture, the Davis family crest, and a copy of Metropolitan Improvements : Or London in the Nineteenth Century, by James Elmes (London: Jones and Co., 1829). A diary kept by Davis from 1827 to 1853 is also available on microfilm at this repository, Mic. 90. A microfilm copy of Davis' catalog of his library is on Mic. 717. (The original of this catalog is held by the New York Public Library.).

ArchivalResource: 155 items : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84666002 View

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846. Letters, 1806-1846.

Title: Letters, 1806-1846.

Regarding Haydon's financial difficulties; asking for assistance and loans. Concerning his work as an artist and teacher. Discussing his relationships with others and apologizing for his behavior.

ArchivalResource: 47 items (80 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584545 View

Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845. Elizabeth Gurney Fry manuscript material : 4 items, 1817-1830

Title: Elizabeth Gurney Fry manuscript material : 4 items, 1817-1830

· To James Elmes, writer on architecture : 1 autograph letter : 13 Aug 1817 : (MISC 2021) : third person respects for his Hints on the Improvement of Prisons (1817). Mounted in the William Upcott album of letters by Eminent Women. Shelved under "Upcott" with bound manuscript volumes. · To Amelia Opie, novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1829 : (O'ANA 0019) : returning a borrowed Robert Southey letter (possibly O'ANA 0013) and requesting a copy of it "because I think that there is much truth in its contents." Mounted in the grangerized copy of Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. · To a "Dear friend" : 30 Apr 1823 : (MISC 3646) : responding to a request for advice in obtaining positions at Millbank Penitentiary and one other unnamed institution as a consulting surgeon. · To an "Esteemed Friend" : 24 Apr 1830 : (B'ANA 0041) : regarding her request for a sermon of J. Venn's to be printed, and commenting on the slow production of her forthcoming Texts for Every Day in the Year.

ArchivalResource: 4 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226237390 View

Papers, 1808-1888.

Title: Papers, 1808-1888.

Diaries and correspondence of English historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

ArchivalResource: 35 v. and 2 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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