Letters from various correspondents, 1851-1874.

Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Lyell, Mary Horner, 1808-1873

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Mary Horner Lyell (9 October 1808 – 24 April 1873) was a conchologist and geologist. She was married to geologist Charles Lyell and assisted him in his scientific work. She never became widely known in her own right, although it is believed by historians that she likely made major contributions to her husband's work. Her own known independent work includes her studies in the Canary Islands, in which she studied land snails in 1854....

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), nursing pioneer and reformer, is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Born in Florence, Italy, she dedicated her life to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria and a year later studied at the institute for Protestant deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany. In 1854, she organized a unit of 38 nurses for service in the Crimean War. I...

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898

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William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister and author, was born in Liverpool, on Dec. 29, 1809; the fifth child and youngest son of Sir John Gladstone and Anne Mackenzie Gladstone. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in preparation for a future in the British political world. He married Catherine Glynne, whom he met in Rome, in 1839, and together they had eight children. Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in January 1833, and over the next sixty years was involved i...

Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess, 1780-1863

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British politician and Irish peer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to an unidentified recipient, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 593760516 ...

Vaughan, Ellen Twisleton Parkman, 1853-1934

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, born in 1800 in Leicestershire, England, was an historian and author. He was educated at Cambridge. After the success of an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review in 1925, he contributed regularly to that journal. He was called to the bar in 1826 and elected to Parliament in 1830. After various distinguishing public duties, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley in 1859. He also continued to write during these public appointments, primarily on histo...

Clive, Caroline (Wigley), 1801-1873

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...

Twisleton, Edward, 1809-1874

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Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton was a British public official who served on several government commissions. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1851-1874. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390066 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1851-1874., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Milman, Mary Ann (Cockell)

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Twisleton, Edward, 1809-1874

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Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton was a British public official who served on several government commissions. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1851-1874. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390066 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1851-1874., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

George Moberly; bp. of Salisbury

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George Stovin Venables

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Brodie, Benjamin, Sir, 1783-1862

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Brodie was an English author and physician. From the description of Letter, 1812. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78614800 English surgeon. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unnamed correspondent, 1858 Mar. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133442 From the description of Benjamin Brodie papers, 1821-1862, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34848013 ...

Lee, Henry, 1782-1867

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Cornelius Conway Felton

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Grote, Harriet, 1792-1878

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English biographer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : East Burnham, Berkshire, and [n.p.], to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1855 Sept. 14 and, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270879255 ...

Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868

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Epithet: Reverend; Professor of Poetry, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0001fd Henry Hart Milman, historian and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. From the guide to the Henry Hart Milman manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1828-1839, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur E301 British Library...

Grote, George, 1794-1871

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Threadneedle Street", to W.W. Hickson [William Edward Hickson?], 1835 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503892 From the description of Trial and death of Socrates : autograph manuscript, ca. 1832. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270881620 George Grote was born on 17 November 1794. He was educated at a school in Sevenoaks, Kent and Charterhouse, where he remained for six years. At Charterho...

Ford, Richard, 1796-1858

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Epithet: of Add MS 38310 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x0003a1 Richard Ford, English art connoisseur and author of several books about Spain. From the description of Richard Ford manuscript material : 1 item, 1849 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 218604844 From the guide to the Richard Ford manuscript material : 1 item, 1849, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pfo...

Austin, Sarah Taylor, 1793-1867

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Merivale, Caroline (Robinson).

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Lewis, George Cornewall, Sir, 1806-1863

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English statesman and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to "Madam" [Blaze de Bury], 1854 Feb. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270846758 Sir George Cornewall Lewis, second baronet, British politician and author. From the guide to the George Cornewall Lewis manuscript material : 17 items, 1847-1863, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: Secretary of ...

Blanc, Louis, 1811-1882

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French socialist theorist, deputy, journalist, and historian of the French Revolution. From the description of Letter, post-dated 1850 Sept. 22, to M. Escudier, Paris. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571773 From the description of Letter, 1859 Apr. 4, to Noël Parfait. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448444 From the description of Letter, 1859 Aug. 15, to Noël Parfait in Brussels, Belgium. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866740 French socialist and p...

Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878

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Scottish historical writer. From the description of Autograph letters signed "William Stirling" (3) : London, to Mr. and Mrs. William Wetmore Story, 1862 May 30-1862 Jun. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580409 Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000444.0x000256 Epithet: of Add MS 36055 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:...

Twisleton, Ellen Dwight, 1828-1862,

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Francis Parkman

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Sherbrooke, Robert Lowe, Viscount, 1811-1892

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English politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials and without salutation : [n.p.], to an unidentified correspondent, 1864 Apr. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664091 Lawyer, arrived in Sydney in 1842. Member of N.S.W. Legislative Council, 1843-1844, 1845-1849. Chairman of Select Committee on Education, 1844. Contributed to the Atlas ... Lowe returned to England in 1850. From the description of Letters. (Libraries Australia). ...

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Charles Dickens, English novelist. From the guide to the Charles Dickens manuscript material : 7 items, 1842-1851, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the Victorian novelist. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Correspondence of Charles Dickens, with related material, ca. 1834-1955, (Leeds University Librar...

Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1890

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Mrs Cleveland

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Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910

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History professor and journalist. From the description of Wellington [manuscript], post 1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647922784 Goldwin Smith was a British-Canadian educator, historian and journalist. From the description of Goldwin Smith Papers [manuscript]. 1875-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225564891 British-Canadian historian and journalist. From the description of Berlin and Afghanistan : autograph manuscript...

Wordsworth, Charles, 1806-1892

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Charles Wordsworth (1806-1892), Scottish Episcopal bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, nephew of William Wordsworth, poet. From the guide to the Scrapbook of Charles Wordsworth, 1881-1892., 1881-1892, (University of St Andrews) Charles Wordsworth (1806-1892), Scottish Episcopal bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, nephew of William Wordsworth, poet. John Henry Overton (1835-1903) was a Church of England minister, and church historian, ...

Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902

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Governor-General of India; resident of "Clandeboye," County Down, Northern Ireland. From the description of Papers, 1870-1895; (bulk 1886-1888). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19212583 ...

Venables, George Stovin, 1810-1888.

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Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864

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English economist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6) : various places, to Madame Blaze de Bury, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270853641 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to M. Leganz. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663817 From the description of Autograph letter : to John Horsley Palmer, Esq. [Gov. of Bank of England]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664118 Epithet: of Add MS 28512 British Library...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892

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The recipient was Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, with whom Tennyson had an extensive correspondence. From the description of Alfred Tennyson letter to Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1867 Oct. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865322 British poet. From the description of Papers, 1831-1909. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188602 Tennyson was Poet Laureate of England during much of the latter part of...

Tocqueville, Alexis ˜deœ 1805-1859

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter unsigned : Louisville, to [Ernest de Chabrol-Chaméane], 1831 Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572695 Tocqueville, political scientist, historian, and politician, who wrote Democracy in America (1835-40). From the description of Yale Tocqueville manuscripts, ca. 1802-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79763433 From the description of Yale Tocqueville manuscripts, ca. 1802-1840. (Unknown)....

Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874

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Sir James Clark

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Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861

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Arthur Hugh Clough, English Victorian poet. From the description of Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122379976 From the guide to the Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Downing Street [London], to A...

Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893

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English author and art critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Lady Rawlinson, 1864 Apr. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742854 Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake was an English essayist and translator, who published "Five Great Painters" (1883) and other works. Her husband was Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), director of the National Gallery, 1855-1865. From the description of Letters, 1866-1869 [manuscript]. WorldCat record...

Smith, William, 1813-1893

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Ellen (Dwight) Twisleton

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Keble, John, 1792-1866

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John Keble, Church of England clergyman and poet. From the description of John Keble manuscript material : 2 items, 1830-1859 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 502708787 English divine and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed; incomplete : Hursley, to an unidentified correspondent, "Whitsunday", 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487661 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hursley, to an unidentified lady, ...

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861

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Arthur Hugh Clough, English Victorian poet. From the description of Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122379976 From the guide to the Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Downing Street [London], to A...