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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers, 1791-1894 bulk (1798-1838).

Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers, 1791-1894 bulk (1798-1838).

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, a journal for 1798, notebooks kept for 1814 through 1832, legal documents, and a commonplace book.

ArchivalResource: 183 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597033 View

Taylor, John, 1781-1864. Autograph letter unsigned (a retained draft) : London, to J.A. Hessey, 1820 Aug. 31.

Title: Autograph letter unsigned (a retained draft) : London, to J.A. Hessey, 1820 Aug. 31.

Telling of an interview with Mr. Blackwood concerning the publication of the attacks on Keats in "Blackwood's Magazine."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270579213 View

Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842. Autograph letter signed : Chichester, to John Taylor, 1820 Sept. [i.e. October] 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Chichester, to John Taylor, 1820 Sept. [i.e. October] 5.

Regarding Keat's health on his departure for Italy; mentions Severn as journeying with him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270902981 View

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Autograph letter signed with initials : Edinburgh, to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, 1822 Apr. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : Edinburgh, to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, 1822 Apr. 16.

Sending them an article on Hugh Williams's "Views in Greece."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270474459 View

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Letters to a young man whose education has been neglected, Letter V, 1823 Dec. 3.

Title: Letters to a young man whose education has been neglected, Letter V, 1823 Dec. 3.

Autograph letter from De Quincey addressed to J.A. Hessey, dated London, Dec. 3, 1823.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 39 x 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49374291 View

Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842. Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to John Taylor, [1821] Mar. 18.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to John Taylor, [1821] Mar. 18.

Notifies him of the death of Keats and saying he will send the sad news to Rice, Dilke, Abbey and Haslam.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270902985 View

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Letter : to [J.A. Hessey], 1825 May 17.

Title: Letter : to [J.A. Hessey], 1825 May 17.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p. on double sheet) ; 19 x 23 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24886132 View

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Autograph letter signed : Fox Ghyle, to [J.A. Hessey], 1824 Apr. 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Fox Ghyle, to [J.A. Hessey], 1824 Apr. 19.

His publishers, about some proofs and a manuscript, and referring to his opium addiction: " ... I have been reduced to this miserable dilemma: if I take no laudanum, I am in a state of semi-distraction--and cannot arrange my old thoughts, still less pursue fresh trains of thought: --on the other hand, if I take some 12 or 15 drops of laudanum--a violent indigestion comes on in 2 or 3 hours, and after that a return of bilious symptoms ..." In a postscript he discusses recent work of Lamb and Hazlitt.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870639 View

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Letter : to J.A. Hessey, [18--] Sept. 8.

Title: Letter : to J.A. Hessey, [18--] Sept. 8.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 25 x 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24831275 View

Keats, John, 1795-1821. Sonnet, A dream, after reading Dante's Paolo and Francesca : manuscript in autograph of Hessey, 1819 Apr.

Title: Sonnet, A dream, after reading Dante's Paolo and Francesca : manuscript in autograph of Hessey, 1819 Apr.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270484093 View

Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Title: Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Collection of images concerning the life of the English poet, John Keats, as well as papers relating to the collection. Collection assembled by American Louis Arthur Holman. Holman was a Keats expert, an artist, writer on art, and a staff member at Goodspeed's Book Shop who established a print department, but later became the owner of Holman's Print Shop.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02040/catalog View

Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842. Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to J.A. Hessey, 1821 July 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to J.A. Hessey, 1821 July 24.

Concerning the return of some borrowed books found in Keats' trunk, and MS copies of poems by Keats made by Brown.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270902987 View

Clare, John, 1793-1864. Autograph letter signed : [Helpstone?], to James A. Hessey of the publishers Taylor and Hessey, [postmark 1824 May 19].

Title: Autograph letter signed : [Helpstone?], to James A. Hessey of the publishers Taylor and Hessey, [postmark 1824 May 19].

About his health, and saying that will come to London to consult Dr. Darling.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870527 View

Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852. Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds, 1816-1821.

Title: Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds, 1816-1821.

Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds to his publishers, Taylor & Hessey, regarding his poems.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510279 View

Clare, John, 1793-1864. Autograph letter signed John Clare to: "My Dear Hessey"

Title: Autograph letter signed John Clare to: "My Dear Hessey"

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813922 View

Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844. Letter : Chiswick, to James Gillman, Highgate, 1821 July 7.

Title: Letter : Chiswick, to James Gillman, Highgate, 1821 July 7.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 23 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25249232 View

Clare, John, 1793-1864. Autograph letter signed John Clare to: "My Dear Hessey" December 12], 1822.

Title: Autograph letter signed John Clare to: "My Dear Hessey" December 12], 1822.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813921 View

Hessey, J. A. (James Augustus), 1785-1870. J. A. Hessey manuscript material : 1 item, 1818

Title: J. A. Hessey manuscript material : 1 item, 1818

· To John Taylor, publisher and writer (his business partner) : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Mar 1818 : (H'ANA 0091) : relating to the copyright and profits of Leigh Hunt's Story or Rimini; Hunt's money had been sent via Bessie Kent, who explained that Shelley had neglected to tell Hunt the money was due immediately. With a copied extract of a letter from Shelley to Hunt relating to the situation. Filed with (LH 0076), along with other letters relating to Hunt's business with Taylor and Hessey.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/326879010 View

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Letter : to [Taylor & Hessey], [1820 or 1821].

Title: Letter : to [Taylor & Hessey], [1820 or 1821].

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p. on 1 leaf) ; 23 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24832244 View

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Thomas De Quincey manuscript material : 11 items, 1811-1853.

Title: Thomas De Quincey manuscript material : 11 items, 1811-1853.

· Holograph essay, "Continuation of the Note XYZ" : [w/m = 1821] : (S'ANA 0011) : 3 p. ; begins, "I take this opportunity of mentioning a favorite scheme of mine ..." · To a Miss Agnes : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Mar 1853 : (MISC 0661) : begins, "Florence is writing to you ..." · To James Brown, Penrith bookseller : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Feb 1811 : (MISC 2001) : regarding Coleridge and The Friend. Brown published The Friend in Penrith. · To Florence Bairdsmith, De Quincey's youngest daughter : 1 autograpgh letter signed : 23 Feb 1847 : (MISC 1782) : begins, "You say - 'How goes Bunny?'" · To J.A. Hessey, headmaster and clergyman : 2 autograph letters signed : -- [no date] : (MISC 1303) : begins, "I was so ill last night from want of Dr. Darling's Medicines ..."--19 Jan [1823?] : (MISC 1884) : begins, "I feel quite unable to come out at present ..." · To John James Morgan, friend of Coleridge : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Jan 1813 : (MISC 1913) : asking after a copy of the syllabus for Coleridge's lectures at the Surrey Institution. · To a J.J. Smith : 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Feb 1836 : (MISC 0103) : regarding the raising of a loan. · To Thomas Noon Talfourd, writer, judge, and politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Mar 1840 : (MISC 0104) : regarding Coleridge ; concerning his personality, writings, and plagiarism charges. A small bust photograph of De Quincey has been affixed to the letter. · To John Wilson [pseud. Christopher North], author and journalist : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Jun 1826 : (MISC 0200) : regarding his money troubles and low amount of literary output. · To unknown recipients : 2 autograph signatures : (MISC 3467) : one with his Oxford address in Latin, on blue paper pamphlet cover ; one apparently cut from a letter, mounted on to a small slip of paper.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173667651 View

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items, 1815-1850

Title: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items 1815-1850

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer. The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and transcripts. The writings include drafts of poems ("The Choice" and "To the Dead") and several short stories ("The Sisters of Albano," "The Dream," "Transformation," and others). The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1822-1849. Correspondents include Claire Clairmont, her stepsister; Leigh Hunt, the journalist and critic; Lord Byron's last mistress, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli; Edward Moxon, the publisher and poet; and over seventy-five others. The transcripts are chiefly comprised of her handwritten copies of letters originally by her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

ArchivalResource: 414 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22142 View

Clare, John, 1793-1864. Autograph letter signed John Clare to: "My Dear Hessey" April 8, 1822.

Title: Autograph letter signed John Clare to: "My Dear Hessey" April 8, 1822.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813920 View

Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974. Letters, : Oxford and London, to Seymour Adelman, Chester, Pa., 1936-1952.

Title: Letters, : Oxford and London, to Seymour Adelman, Chester, Pa., 1936-1952.

5 ALsS.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (together 6 1/2 p.) ; varying sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28563354 View

Hessey, J. A. (James Augustus), 1785-1870. Autograph letter signed : to John Taylor, 1818 Mar. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to John Taylor, 1818 Mar. 6.

Mentions Keats' "Third Book", his departure for Devonshire "on the night of the storm on the outside of the coach"; also mentions Hazlitt and Reynolds.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270473488 View

Clare, John, 1793-1864. Letters : Helpstone, to James Hessey, London, 1820 and 1823 July 17.

Title: Letters : Helpstone, to James Hessey, London, 1820 and 1823 July 17.

2 ALsS.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (7 p. on 2 double sheets) ; 23 x 37 cm. folded to 23 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28303428 View

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Charles Lamb manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1800-1829

Title: Charles Lamb manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1800-1829

· Manuscript notes in Thomas Fuller's The Holy State : no date : (S'ANA 1018) : Lamb's annotations (mostly very brief) are on p. 7, 180, 186, 270, 279, [340], [342], 387, and 486. The book is shelved as *Pforz (BT) Lamb 01. · Manuscript note on the playbill for Antonio, by Wililam Godwin : [ca. Dec 1800] : (G'ANA 0005) : reading, "Damned with universal consent." Published with commentary, including a photo reproduction, in Shelley and His Circle, vol. I, p. 243. · Holograph essay, "Jews, Quakers, Scotchmen, and Other Imperfect Sympathies" : ca. 1820-1822 : (S'ANA 0034) : signed "Elia" ; 4 folio leaves, final leaf bearing address to Taylor & Hessey, publishers. Bound in brown morocco. Filed in SC oversized manuscript drawer. · To Charles Cowden Clarke, writer and public lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Feb 1829 : (S'ANA 0036) : thanking him for some books and discussing his own and Mary Lamb's taste in literature. · To William Harness, literary scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Jan 1823 : (S'ANA 0035) : signed "Elia" ; returning a rejected manuscript he had submitted to the London Magazine. · To Mr. J. A. Hessey of Taylor & Hessey, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Sep 1823 : (S'ANA 0892) : announcing Mary Shelley's interest in contributing to the London Magazine. · To Mary Morgan, née Brent, wife and sister-in-law of John James Morgan (d. 1820), lawyer turned cheesemonger and tobacconist, friend of Coleridge and Southey : 2 autograph letters : -- 18 Mar 1812 : (S'ANA 1019) : providing the recipe for a marble-cleaning solution. -- 22 May 1815 : (S'ANA 0994) : fragment ; also addressed to Mary's sister, Miss [Charlotte] Brent. The larger portion of the letter is written by Mary Lamb.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/162505245 View

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Letters to a young man whose education has been neglected, Letter V, 1823 Dec. 3.

Title: Letters to a young man whose education has been neglected, Letter V, 1823 Dec. 3.

Autograph letter from De Quincey addressed to J.A. Hessey, dated London, Dec. 3, 1823.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 39 x 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82745553 View

Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers, 1791-1894, 1798-1838

Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers 1791-1894 1798-1838

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, a journal for 1798, notebooks kept for 1814 through 1832, legal documents, and a commonplace book.

ArchivalResource: 189 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19170 View

Thomas De Quincey manuscript material : 15 items, 1811-1853

Title: Thomas De Quincey manuscript material : 15 items 1811-1853

Holograph essay, "Continuation of the Note XYZ" : [w/m = 1821] : (S'ANA 0011) : 3 p. ; begins, "I take this opportunity of mentioning a favorite scheme of mine ...".

ArchivalResource: 15 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19591 View