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Timmins, Samuel, 1826-1902,. Autograph letters signed to Samuel Timmins from various correspondents, London and Walsall [manuscript], 1870-1887.

Title: Autograph letters signed to Samuel Timmins from various correspondents, London and Walsall [manuscript], 1870-1887.

Correspondents: (1) James Bain; (2) and (5) Alfred Russell Smith; (3) Basil Pickering; (6) F.S. Ellis; (7) C.J. Stewart and (8) William Henry Duignan. The letters all concern book selling business and auctions. (1) mentions a list of Shakespeare plays; (2) mentions a "list of Shakespeariana" Timmins inquired about; (4) consists of a face of an envelope addressed to Sam. Timmins, Esq., Elvertham Lodge, Birmingham, with a list of names and numbers written on the back; (5) contains a list of books with prices that Timmins requested, including Hamlet and Othello; (6) mentions Pope's Shakespeare and Locke's Music to Macbeth; (8) discusses old roads and travel routes around Stratford and London in Shakespeare's time. All are addressed from London except (8), which is addressed from Walsall.

ArchivalResource: 7 items ; 23 x 18 cm.

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Smith, Alfred Russell. Letters and receipts to Horace Howard Furness, 1872.

Title: Letters and receipts to Horace Howard Furness, 1872.

ArchivalResource: 72 items (72 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155884091 View

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912. Letters and notes, 1843-1912, n.d.

Title: Letters and notes, 1843-1912, n.d.

Consists of 47 folders. Contains letters of Horace Howard Furness to the following correspondents: E. W. Ashbee; Austin Baldwin & Co.; Edwin Booth; Henry S. Borneman; J. J. Buchey; "Buck" or "Burk"; W. H. Bueler; James Davie Butler; W. Camac; J. Carlyle; Rufus J. Childress; George W. Childs; "Clärchen"; Alice Cushman; Richard Henry Dana; Nathan Haskell Dole; Charles Edmonds; "Mr. Edwards"; Fannie Fassit Furness; Horace Howard Furness, Jr.; Frederick James Furnivall; Henry Giles; J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps; W. W. Harding; John W. Haseltine; W. U. Hensel; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Hunt; George W. Hunter; Robert Underwood Johnson; J. P. Lamberton (Editorial Research Co.); "Mr. Lindsay"; Dr. Adolph Lippe; J. B. Lippincott & Co.; C. P. B. Jefferys; James Russell Lowell; Katherine Elizabeth McClellan; Leon Mead; Clara Millard; A. Sydney Millward; "Dr. Nichols"; Joseph Parker Norris; Alexander Pallis; "Mr. Partington"; Bernard Quaritch; "Mr. Rawlins" (J. B. Lippincott & Co.); Edward Richard Russell; Archibald Rutledge; John Sartain; Felix Emmanuel Schelling; Alfred Russell Smith; A. G. Snelgrove (New Shakspeare Society); "Mr. Starr"; E. Steinbruck; C. Stetson; Alfred Stillé; Volney Streamer; Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum; Franz J. L. Thimm; I. L. Ullery; Edward Payson Vining; Wilfred Michael Voynich; Annis Lee Wister (Furness' sister); C. H. Witty; Horatio Charles Wood; and William Aldis Wright. Also includes one cancelled check to Westcott and Thomson.

ArchivalResource: 347 items (410 leaves + 1 bound v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155883310 View

Kinsman, John. Letter to Alfred Russell Smith, 1872.

Title: Letter to Alfred Russell Smith, 1872.

Concerns the purchase of some Shakespearean books from the library of Rev. John Collins. Collins had obtained these books from his friend Edward Capell, a scholar who edited Shakespeare. Included with Kinsman's letter is a book flyleaf containing Collin's autograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155884858 View