Common place book : manuscript, [18--]

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Common place book : manuscript, [18--]

Contains poems, excerpts, and quotations from Alfred Tennyson, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, James Russell Lowell, and others; also a transcription of "Scholars of the House" from the Yale Library Magazine, Feb. 1852, concerning the foundation of the Berkeleian Scholarship at Yale University.

1 v. (80 leaves) ; 22 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799342

Houghton Library

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Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

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Charles Lamb was born to John and Elizabeth (Field) Lamb in London on February 10, 1775. Two of his siblings survived to adulthood, John (1763-1821) and Mary Ann (1764-1847). Charles Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital but left the school at the age of fifteen due to his chronic stammering. He began working as a secretary and later entered the mercantile trade, joining the East India Company as a clerk in the accounting department in 1792. Mental illness ran in the Lamb family, and C...

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...

Yale University.

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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

Yale University. Berkeleian Scholarship.

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Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

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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....

Whitney, James Lyman, 1835-1910

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As Chief of Cataloging at the Boston Public Library, edited the Ticknor Catalogue; Librarian-in-Chief at B.P.L., 1899-1903. From the description of ALS : [Boston] to B.H. Beedham, 1880 May 27. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 39730265 ...