Fryer family papers, 1797-1912.

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Fryer family papers, 1797-1912.

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The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, botanical drawings, and offprints and clippings relating to the life and research of Alfred Fryer. There are 25 letters from Coventry Patmore to Alfred Fryer, most written between 1845 and 1850. Subjects include Patmore's courtship of and marriage to Emily Augusta Andrews; Patmore's self-analyses and views of friendship; and his study of Coleridge and Schiller and meetings with Tennyson and Henry Septimus Sutton. Patmore also frequently comments on his own poetry, and 3 of the letters include short poems: "O, swiftly speeds the clear tide;" "I say, 'I must amend me" ("To Edith"); and "Think of cloudlets, light and tender." An 1857 letter notes that Patmore is "vexed that you do not like" The Angel in the House. Other correspondence includes childhood letters by Fryer's siblings; a few letters from friends of the Fryers; and a 1912 letter from the British Museum thanking Fryer's daughter for his herberarium. Family Papers includes pencil drawings of mollusks, insects and birds; a manuscript of "Notes of a Lecture Read in Nottingham by Ralph Waldo Emerson...1848;" manuscript copies of William Allingham's 1850 Poems and a sonnet by Sarah Pritchard; and several offprints of articles on botany.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Allingham, William, 1824-1889

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Patmore, Coventry, 1823-1896

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Fryer, Alfred

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Fryer family.

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Alfred Fryer (1826-1912), born in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, as a young man befriended Coventry Patmore after reading his Poems (1844). Despite this literary connection, Fryer devoted most of his life to the study of British botany. Elected to the Linnean Society in 1898, Fryer began publishing his definitive The Potamogetons (Pond Weeds) of the British Isles in the following year, but died impoverished before he could complete it. He bequeathed his herbarium of pondweed specimens t...

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Pritchard, Sarah.

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Sutton, Henry Septimus

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