Charles Dickens manuscript material : 7 items, 1842-1851.

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Charles Dickens manuscript material : 7 items, 1842-1851.

· To William Allingham, poet : 2 autograph letters : -- 5 Jul 1850 : (MISC 1401a) : 3rd person note of presentation, and permission to publish verses from the Household Words journal. -- 29 Dec 1851: (MISC 1401b) : note of receipt of his paper, and praise. Both letters mounted in the album of 59 letters to William Allingham. Shelved under "Allingham" with bound manuscript materials. · To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 4 letters : -- 7 Jul 1842 (MISC 0914) : printed circular with holograph salutation and signature. -- 8 Dec 1844 : (MISC 0915) : an affectionate letter regretting his delay in visiting. -- 6 Dec 1844 : (MISC 0916) : regarding delays for proofs of The Chimes. -- 23 Jun 1847 : (MISC 0917) : lithographed circular with holograph salutation and signature. All letters mounted in v. II of the Lady Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. · To Sir John Bowring, politician, diplomat, and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Jul 1843 : (MISC 1767) : explaining an inability to meet.

7 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6922697

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Bowring, John, 1792-1872

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John Bowring was an English statesman and author, renowned as a polyglot. Born in Exeter and raised as a Unitarian, he began working at the age of thirteen, and actively sought to learn languages from travellers. He established a mercantile firm, and travelled extensively, meeting Jeremy Bentham; a controversy over some Greek loans affected his reputation and financial status, but Bentham helped by appointing him political editor of Westminster Review. Bowring published several volumes of verse,...

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

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Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born British writer. Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, she was active in British literary circles of the first half of the 19th century. From the guide to the Lady Blessington manuscript material : 92 items, 1820-1849, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Irish writer and wife of the Earl of Blessington. From the description of L...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Allingham, William, 1824-1889

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William Allingham, Irish poet, protegé of Leigh Hunt. From the description of William Allingham manuscript material, 1848-1856. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 72918490 English poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Ballyshannon and London, to Mrs. Howitt, 1857 June 16 and 1862 Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131855 Poet. From the description of William Allingham correspondence, undated. (Unkno...