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William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items, 1778-1836

Title: William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items 1778-1836

William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist. Godwin achieved celebrity at the end of the eighteenth century with the philosophical treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and the novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams. His first wife was Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer for women's rights, and their only child together grew up to become Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Godwin's philosophies greatly influenced the political mind of his son-in-law, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter); Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law); Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament.

ArchivalResource: 383 items

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Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

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Godwin, William, 1756-1836. William Godwin manuscript material : 338 items, 1778-1836

Title: William Godwin manuscript material : 338 items, 1778-1836

The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers ; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer ; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law) ; Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet ; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Various other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament. A fair amount of The Pforzheimer Collection's Godwin manuscript material dated before 1822 is published, with extensive commentary, in Shelley and His Circle.

ArchivalResource: 338 items

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Graham, James, Sir, 1792-1861. Sir James Graham manuscript material : 1 item, 1859

Title: Sir James Graham manuscript material : 1 item, 1859

· To Joseph Parkes, election agent and reformer : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 May 1859 : (MISC 0549) : on political subjects.

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The Junius Collection, 1763-1841

Title: The Junius Collection 1763-1841

ArchivalResource: 53 items

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873. Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872

Title: Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872

· To Eliza Benzon, wife of Ernst Benzon, German-born business man and art collector : 1 autograph letter signed "E B Lytton" : 11 Jan 1865 : (MISC 1737) : from 2 Pulteney [?], Bath : begins, "I am very glad to hear you are returned to town ..." · To John Bowing, politician, diplomat, and writer : 1 autograph letter signed "E L Bulwer" : [17 Jan 1831] : (MISC 0416) : from Athenaeum : begins, "I send you a little pamphlet of which -- if you remember -- I spoke to you & to which you may perhaps be able to spare a page or two in your next number." · To Edward H. Finch-Hatton, Esq.: 1 autograph letter signed "Lytton" : "Saturday Night" [watermark = 1871] : (MISC 0414) : from Argyle Hall : on stationery bearing embossed crowned Bulwer-Lytton monogram; begins, "I return with many thanks the Papers you have so kindly lent me -- they are deeply interesting -- I know not when I have been equally attracted by any biographical study -- for the letters of Lady Hamilton are the epitomized history of a very remarkable woman ..." H. Gamlin identifies the recipient and publishes the entire letter in her Nelson's Friendships, v. 2, p. 255-256. · To William Godwin, philosopher and novelist : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "E L Bulwer" : [2 Apr 1830] : (G'ANA 0025) : [no place] : regarding his review of Godwin's Cloudesley; begins, "In an article in the N. M. Magazine called the 'Lounger' you will see the few observations I have made on your Book ..." Docketed with the received date in Godwin's hand. -- 1 autograph letter signed "E L Bulwer" : [14 May 1830] : (G'ANA 0026) : [no place] : begins, "Believe me truly grateful for your kindness, & deeply touched by it. That you should even have read my book is an honor, that you should like it a triumph." Docketed with the received date in Godwin's hand. -- 1 autograph letter signed "E. L. Bulwer" : [25 May 1830] : (G'ANA 0027) : from Hertford St. : begins, "You must know that I am too glad to go with you not to take your day & hour ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "E. Lytton Bulwer" : 17 Sep 1830 : (G'ANA 0028) : from [B---?] Sussex : begins, "I am greatly obliged & pleased by your letter -- and I am unexpectedly rejoiced that my Address to the people of Southwark should produce one effect -- an encrease of your good opinion ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "E L Bylwer" : 14 Jan 1832 : (G'ANA 0029) : Hertford St. : begins, "On my return to Town I found that Mr. Villiers had not replied to my letter concerning you ..." · To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 7 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "E. B. Lytton" : 16 Nov 1861 : (HWD 2.002) : from Ventor : begins, "I should have thanked you for your note, but waited till I could read your new edition ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "L" : 10 Jan 1868 : (HWD 7.106) : from Argyle Hall, Torquay : begins, "I have not seen Lord Russell's letter in the P.M. Gazette ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "L" : 24 Dec 1869 : (HWD 7.108) : from Argyle Hall, Torquay : on stationery bearing embossed crowned Bulwer-Lytton monogram; begins, "Thanks for your letter & obliging opinion of Walpole ..." -- 1 autograph letter (fragment) : [30 Jun 1871] : (HWD 7.109) : from G[rosvenor] Sq. : begins, "Many thanks for your clever brochure. You do wisely to shift the scene of battle from land to sea ..." Entire letter, with ending (now missing), printed in H. E. Carlisle's Selection from the Correspondence of Abraham Hayward, v. 2, p. 229-230. Carlisle prints the missing ending as follows: "... which we could safely spare such a contingent to the aid of allies as would render our alliance valuable and our honour safe. However, all this is pure matter of opinion. Ever yours, Lytton." -- 1 autograph letter signed "Lytton" : [5 Aug 1872] : (HWD 7.107) : from Knebworth : on mourning stationery; begins, "If you would not object to a small tho airy bachelor room upstairs ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "E. B. Lytton" : [no date] : (HWD 4.003) : from Athenaeum : begins, "I believe, my dear Hayward, that I have to thank your generous and friendly influence, for certain recent articles in the Chronicle ..." -- 1 autograph note signed "L" : [no date] : (HWD 6.005) : from Knebworth House, Stevenage (embossed stationery) : begins, "I see no objection to this being used, with the omissions I have marked ..." · To Mary Hunter of Belfast : 1 autograph letter signed "E Bulwer Lytton" : 9 Sep 1844 : (MISC 0870) : from Hertford St., London : begins, "I make it a general rule not to answer letters requesting autographs ..." With the autograph envelope, bearing a postage stamp, postmarks, and a red wax seal with a tiny image of two birds in a birdbath. · To John Richardson Major, headmaster of King's College School : 1 autograph letter signed "E L Bulwer" : 11 Jun 1833 : (MISC 0413) : from 36 Hertford St. : begins, "Will you allow me to inquire what punishments are established at King's College School ..." · To the Reverend Thomas Maude : 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed "E L Bulwer" : [1830?] : (MISC 1585) : [no place] : begins, "... No. 5 Upper Seymour St. next Thursday June 3d to hear the Prague Minstrels." · To Charles Ollier, publisher, writer, and editor : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed "E Bulwer" : 3 Nov 1828 : (MISC 0411) : from Weymouth : begins, "It is now time to decide on the motto. What think you of the one I sent to Mr. Colburn ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "E. L. Bulwer" : 22 Oct 1830 : (MISC 0415) : from Haydon Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk : begins, "I am in doubt whether to consider conveying a satisfactory or an ominous opinion of the fate of the 'Siamese Twins' -- and in my own mind, I have decided that you have not yet found time to read the poem." -- 1 autograph letter signed "E. Lytton Bulwer" : "Saturday" [ca. 1830's] : (MISC 0410) : from Hertford St. : begins, "I am quite vexed at my stupidity in forgetting to put the day -- it is the 23d of May -- 7 o'clock ..." · To Joseph Parkes, election agent and reformer : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph note signed "E. L. Bulwer" : [ca. 1834?; watermark = 1833] : (MISC 0409) : [no place] : begins, "I send you a copy of my pamphlet just out ..."; the mentioned pamphlet could possibly be Lytton's Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Present Crisis (1834). -- 1 autograph letter signed "E B Lytton" : "Thursday" [after 20 Feb 1844] : (MISC 0408) : from Hertford St. : marked "Private & confidential"; begins, "I am sure you will kindly excuse me in asking you to give the benefit of your advice & experience on railway matters to my Solicitor W. Loaden the bearer of this ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed "E B L" : "Wednesday" [after 20 Feb 1844] : (MISC 0407) : from 35 Pall Mall : begins, "What of Horsham? Any chance there -- During the next few days I am here, 35 Pall Mall." · To Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed "E L Bulwer" : 23 Jul 1832 : (S'ANA 0039) : from London : begins, "I beg to thank you for your kind letter. I fear that in the present sheet of Lady Blessingtons Journal there are a few words about you ..."; also including, "But there is not a syllable the most fastidious could object to, being merely a Compliment to your talents from Byron & a remark on your despair at the death of Mr. Shelley. · To an unidentified recipient : 1 autograph letter signed "E B Lytton," to "Dear Sir" : 16 Jan 1849 : (MISC 0412) : begins, "My Saturday depends on Mr. [Wadehamer's?] final input which I expect to hear in a day or two ..."

ArchivalResource: 26 items

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Parkes, Joseph, 1796-1865. Joseph Parkes and Edward John Stanley correspondence, 1834-1860 (bulk 1835-1843).

Title: Joseph Parkes and Edward John Stanley correspondence, 1834-1860 (bulk 1835-1843).

Joseph Parkes and Edward John Stanley correspondence contains letters between British election reformer Joseph Parkes and British politician Edward John Stanley. In also includes a small amount of correspondence between Parkes and other correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear foot (1 boxes).

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Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867. Papers, 1768-1866

Title: Charles G. Loring papers, 1768-1866

Papers of Boston lawyer and state senator Charles Greely Loring primarily relating to the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

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Vol. LVI (ff. 433). Dec. 1857-Nov. 1860.Royal Institution; London: Lectures on art delivered at, by Sir A. H. Layard: 1859.includes:f. 1 Bhau Dájí, formerly Secretary of the Bombay Association: Letter to Sir A. H. Layard: 1857. ff. 1-173 passim, 35...

Title: Vol. LVI (ff. 433). Dec. 1857- Nov. 1860.Royal Institution; London: Lectures on art delivered at, by Sir A. H. Layard: 1859.includes:f. 1 Bhau Dájí, formerly Secretary of the Bombay Association: Letter to Sir A. H. Layard: 1857. ff. 1-173 passim, 35... Dec 1857-Nov 1860

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Title: Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Letters and other documents relating to Charles Sumner, largelyfrom Sumner's own archive of correspondence, but excluding original letters to andfrom him.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)

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Vol. II. (ff. 145). Miscellaneous letters; 6 Dec. 1826-16 Aug. 1832.Francis Place: Correspondence: 1813-1852.includes:ff. 1, 103, 117 Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 2nd Baronet; Baron Broughton: Letters to F. Place: 1823-1838, n.d. f. 3 Thomas Snelson: Lette...

Title: Vol. II. (ff. 145). Miscellaneous letters; 6 Dec. 1826-16 Aug. 1832.Francis Place: Correspondence: 1813-1852.includes:ff. 1, 103, 117 Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 2nd Baronet; Baron Broughton: Letters to F. Place: 1823-1838, n.d.f. 3 Thomas Snelson: Lette... 6 Dec 1826-16 Aug 1832

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Parkes Papers, 1634-1865

Title: Parkes Papers 1634-1865

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes

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Correspondence of James Wilson and family, 1840-1924

Title: Correspondence of James Wilson and family 1840-1924

ArchivalResource: 2 shelfmarks

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Vol. LV (ff. 350). May, 1856-Nov. 1857.includes:ff. 1, 7, 115, 172, 193 Rep.. Daniel Dewar, Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1855-1858. ff. 1-229 passim University of Aberdeen: Correspondence of Sir A....

Title: Vol. LV (ff. 350). May, 1856- Nov. 1857.includes:ff. 1, 7, 115, 172, 193 Rep.. Daniel Dewar, Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1855-1858. ff. 1-229 passim University of Aberdeen: Correspondence of Sir A.... May 1856-Nov 1857

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872

Title: Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items 1828-1872

To Eliza Benzon, wife of Ernst Benzon, German-born business man and art collector : 1 autograph letter signed "E B Lytton" : 11 Jan 1865 : (MISC 1737) : from 2 Pulteney [?], Bath : begins, "I am very glad to hear you are returned to town ...".

ArchivalResource: 26 items

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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Vol. I. (ff. i. + 460). Letters of "men of political and literary reputation, probably selected by Francis Place, junior"; Sept. 1813-21 June 1852.Francis Place: Correspondence: 1813-1852.includes:ff. 1-3 Maps and Plans: Walk from London to Northampt...

Title: Vol. I. (ff. i. + 460). Letters of "men of political and literary reputation, probably selected by Francis Place, junior"; Sept. 1813-21 June 1852.Francis Place: Correspondence: 1813-1852.includes:ff. 1-3 Maps and Plans: Walk from London to Northampt... Sep 1813-21 Jun 1852

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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