Mary Hyde Eccles papers concerning the Charlotte Lennox correspondence, 1964-1966.

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Mary Hyde Eccles papers concerning the Charlotte Lennox correspondence, 1964-1966.

Includes correspondence between Mary Hyde Eccles, James Lowry Clifford, Dan Davin at the Clarendon Press, Michael Francis Gilbert, Arthur Amory Houghton, Donald Frizell Hyde, Mary Lascelles, Robert F. Metzdorf, Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, and others. Also includes photocopies of page proofs of Mary Hyde Eccles's "Not in Chapman," and a typescript of "Unpublished letters by Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries : a collection of letters addressed to Mrs. Charlotte Lennox" by Duncan E. Isles.

1 box (.2 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7798467

Houghton Library

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Isles, Duncan.

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Powell, Lawrence Fitzroy, 1881-1975

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Houghton, Arthur Amory, 1906-1990

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Severn was an English artist and friend of the poet John Keats. From the description of Arthur Amory Houghton collection of manuscripts concerning Joseph Severn, 1845-1881. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612728506 From the guide to the Arthur Amory Houghton collection of manuscripts concerning Joseph Severn, 1845-1881., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Epithet: American bibliophile British Library Archives and Ma...

Lennox, Charlotte, ca 1729-1804

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000270.0x0001fc Epithet: wife of Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000270.0x0001fd Epithet: American writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000270.0x0001fa ...

Davin, Dan, 1913-1990.

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D.M. Davin : The Clarendon Press, Oxford. From the description of [Letters] 1951 June 11 - November 7, Oxford [to] R.M. Dawkins / D.M. Davin. - 1951. (University of Oxford). WorldCat record id: 44831859 ...

Lascelles, Mary, 1900-1995

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Clifford, James L. (James Lowry), 1901-1978

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography. From the guide to the James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography. ...

Eccles, Mary Hyde

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Mary Hyde Eccles was one of the world's leading collectors of books and manuscripts from the 1940s until her death in 2003. She was also a distinguished literary scholar, and an important benefactor to numerous libraries and cultural institutions. This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters. As this project neared completion in 1964, a new cache of letters from Samuel Johnson to Charlotte Lennox was discovered in the vault of the British...

Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966

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Epithet: first husband of Mary Viscountess Eccles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000188 ...

Metzdorf, Robert F. (Robert Frederic), 1912-

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