Elizabeth Gurney Fry manuscript material : 4 items, 1817-1830

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Elizabeth Gurney Fry manuscript material : 4 items, 1817-1830

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226237390

· To James Elmes, writer on architecture : 1 autograph letter : 13 Aug 1817 : (MISC 2021) : third person respects for his Hints on the Improvement of Prisons (1817). Mounted in the William Upcott album of letters by Eminent Women. Shelved under "Upcott" with bound manuscript volumes. · To Amelia Opie, novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1829 : (O'ANA 0019) : returning a borrowed Robert Southey letter (possibly O'ANA 0013) and requesting a copy of it "because I think that there is much truth in its contents." Mounted in the grangerized copy of Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. · To a "Dear friend" : 30 Apr 1823 : (MISC 3646) : responding to a request for advice in obtaining positions at Millbank Penitentiary and one other unnamed institution as a consulting surgeon. · To an "Esteemed Friend" : 24 Apr 1830 : (B'ANA 0041) : regarding her request for a sermon of J. Venn's to be printed, and commenting on the slow production of her forthcoming Texts for Every Day in the Year.

4 items

New York Public Library System, NYPL

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7079281

New York Public Library System, NYPL

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Elmes, James, 1782-1862

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g17pxj (person)

Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67p9gtv (person)

Opie was an English Quaker author. From the description of ALS, [18]52 May 26 : Norwich [Eng.] to "Dear friend" / A. Opie. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 46956520 Amelia Opie was an English Quaker. From the description of ALS, 1824 September 29, Norwich, [Eng.] / Amelia Opie. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 262363074 Amelia Opie, née Alderson, English novelist and poet. From the guide to the Amelia Opie man...

Venn, John, 1759-1813

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xq1cpb (person)

British divine. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Clapham [London], to Lady Teignmouth, 1808 Jan. 2-1809 June 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872397 ...

Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht30hm (person)

Elizabeth Fry was a philanthropist and prison reformer. From the description of Letter [manuscript]. 1838. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225718240 Elizabeth Gurney Fry, English penal reformer and philanthropist. From the description of Elizabeth Gurney Fry manuscript material : 4 items, 1817-1830 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 226237390 Fry was a prison reformer in England. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Ha...

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v40s48 (person)

English poet, literary scholar, historian and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified man, 1836 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 603582965 English poet and man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to Moxon, 1837 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662734 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 Mar. 2....