Mary Howitt letters and poems, 1832-1887.

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Mary Howitt letters and poems, 1832-1887.

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The collection contains 121 letters, eight poems ("The summer fields;" "Morning thoughts," August 1838; The dead--two different versions), two fragments of her writing, four engravings (two with William Howitt) and one photograph. Correspondents include Fredrika Bremer, James Goudy Clark, Joseph Cundall, Amelia Edwards, Myles Birket Foster, W.J. Fox, Margaret Gillies, Charles Gilpin, Grace Greenwood, Leander Lippincott, John Payne, W.M. Rossetti, Frederic Shoberl, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others. Topics include her writings, translating, and travels. Howitt writes to Mrs. S.C. Hall, 16 April 1836, apologizing for not sending illustrations; to James Fields, 22 December [1854?] with corrections for William Howitt's A Boy's adventures in the wilds of Australia; to Fredrika Bremer, 27 April 1860 (with envelope), about finishing a translation of her work; and to Ticknor and Fields, 13 July [1860], sending Bremer's work, and 6 January 1861, about translating Bremer's work. Also, includes one engraving of Bremer. Also, includes sixteen letters to Mrs. Barnett, 1851-1852, n.d.; one from William Howitt to Barnett, 10 September 1867; and one from Mary Gillies to Mary Howitt, n.d., asking her to bring Barnett to visit; also, to Dear sir, 20 Dec., inquiring about a position as German professor at London University for her friend Freiligrath. Howitt received a letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, 1876, about Louise C. Moulton.

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