Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828

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Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828

The Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material in the Pforzhiemer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a holograph poem, "Lines," and a draft fragment on Napoleon. The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1819 and 1827. Correspondents include the poet Lord Byron (her former lover); her estranged husband, William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister); the political economist T. R. Malthus; the novelist Lady Morgan; and over a dozen others.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8036962

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Rosina [Lady Lytton], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871221 Lady Caroline Lamb, English novelist. From the description of Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 707758437 British writer. From the description of Sketch, ca. 1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79211312 Caroline ...

Colburn, Henry, ?-1855

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Henry Colburn was a British bookseller and publisher, known for his assertive marketing practices; he issued works by William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Benjamin Disraeli, among others. Colburn also founded and edited the New Monthly Magazine (1814), the Literary Gazette (1817), and the United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine (1829). From the guide to the Henry Colburn manuscript material : 9 items, 1840-1841, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection...

Palgrave, Francis, Sir, 1788-1861

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Deputy Keeper of the H.M. Record Office and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], Agnes Strickland, 1858 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864957 Epithet: archivist and historian Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0000d8 ...

Morgan, Lady, (Sydney), 1783-1859

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Sydney Morgan, née Owneson, Lady Morgan, Irish-born novelist and socialite. From the guide to the Sydney Morgan, Lady Morgan manuscript material : 22 items, 1809-1858, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Sydney Owenson Morgan, Irish novelist, published her first volume of verse in March 1801 and her most famous novel, The wild Irish girl, in 1806. She married surgeon Sir Thomas Charles Morgan on 20 January 1812. They moved...

Taylor, John, 1757-1832

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English miscellaneous writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Golden Square [London], to J.B. Nicholls [sic], 1826 Sept. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574766 ...

Porter, Jane, 1776-1850

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Jane Porter (1776-1850) was a best selling British historical novelist and the author of Thaddeus of Warsaw (1804) and The Scottish chiefs (1810). From the description of Papers of Jane Porter, 1760-1850. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122559985 Francis Legatt Chantrey was a popular and successful sculptor who made portrait busts of many of the most distinguished men of his time, including George IV, Sir Walter Scott, Willi...

Malthus, T.R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834

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English economist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : E. Hull, to Robert Cottle, 1829 Dec. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844696 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "St. Catherine's near Bath," to William Otter, 1830 June 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844700 Thomas Malthus was the author of the "Essay on the Principle of Population" (1798). From the guide to the Thomas Robert Malthus letter, undated, (David M. ...

Glossop, Joseph, -1835

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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834

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London publisher best known for his fine color plate books such as The Microcosm of London, and the monthly magazine The Repository of Arts. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Jane Porter. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 72823177 German art publisher and bookseller in London. From the guide to the Rudolph Ackermann letter to Stephen Elliot, 1822, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Rudolph Acke...

Foscolo, Ugo, 1778-1827

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Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet. His novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis was published in 1802, and from 1816 until his death he lived in London. Foscolo was chiefly responsible for a controversial essay on contemporary Italian literature which appeared in John Cam Hobhouse's Historical Illustrations to Childe Harold, Canto IV (1818). From the description of Ugo Foscolo manuscript material : 1 item, 1822 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 225851634 Italian ...

Des Voeux, Sophia, Lady, d. 1875.

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Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848

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English prime minister. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, [no year] Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845175 William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne, British prime minister from 16 July to 14 November of 1834. From the guide to the William Lamb, Lord Melbourne manuscript material : 11 items, 1827-1842, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Me...