Letters from celebrated authors and other eminent men, 1847-1887.

Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868

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Epithet: writer, painter and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0000e6 Author of presently known words of The girl I left behind me. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Brighton, 51 A King's Row, to my dear Sibley, 1852 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270903916 Irish novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to "My D...

Kent, Charles, 1823-1902

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English journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Athenaeum Club, 1884 Apr. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486358 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Hall, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270490900 Charles William Mark Kent (1823-1902), English Catholic author, Liberal newspaper editor and anthologist. His works include Aletheia (1850); The Works of Charles Lamb (1874); Corona Catholica (1880); and The Humour and...

Phipps, Edmund, 1808-1857

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Epithet: 3rd son of Henry Phipps British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x000014 Epithet: General; MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x000034 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x000015 Epithet: Major-General; son ...

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Scarlett, Peter Campbell, 1804-1881

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Epithet: Secretary of Legation at Florence British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000492.0x0003ac Epithet: son of James Scarlett British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000492.0x0003ad Epithet: Envoy Extraordinary to Greece British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000492.0x0...

Butt, Isaac, 1813-1879

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James, Henry, 1811-1882

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Henry James Sr. and his wife Mary Walsh James (1810-1882) were the parents of the novelist Henry James Jr., the philosopher William James, the diarist Alice James, Robertson James, and Garth Wilkinson James. From the guide to the Letters from Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James to various correspondents, 1827-1878., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James Sr. was an American philosophical theologian. He and his wife Mary Robertson Walsh J...

Jephson, Henry Lorenzo

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Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892

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Thomas Adolphus Trollope was the eldest son of novelist Frances (Fanny) Trollope and barrister Thomas A. Trollope, and the elder brother of novelist Anthony Trollope. He was born in London, educated at Oxford, and travelled abroad with his mother. He taught briefly, and settled in Florence and later Rome, where he wrote history, biography, novels, and the memoir, What I Remember. From the description of T. Adolphus Trollope letter to My dear sir, 1875 July 18. (Pennsylvania State Uni...

Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872

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British novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Bregenz], to Edward Chapman of Chapman and Hall, publishers, 1847 Jan. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590332 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Florence, to Mr. Chapman of Chapman and Hall, 1854 Feb. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590629 Irish novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : La Spezia, to Charles Dickens, 1860 Oct. 21. (Unknown). ...

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

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Trollope was born on Apr. 24, 1815 in London, England; attended Winchester and Harrow; worked as a junior clerk in the General Post Office and was then transferred as a postal surveyor to Ireland; in 1859 he moved back to London, resigning from the civil service in 1867; stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1868; became a novelist, known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series of novels, among others; individual novels include: Barchester Towers (1857), Can you forgive h...

Waller, John Francis, 1810-1894

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0001a5 ...

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860

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British novelist. Note included states that James was "led to an appointment about 1850 as consul to Massachusetts, where the present story must have been written." From the description of Christian Lacy : tale of the Salem witchcraft, [ca. 1850]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29353551 English novelist and historian G. P. R. James wrote nearly a hundred novels, such as RICHELIEU (1825), THE GYPSY (1835), ATTILA (1837), and THE MYSTERIOUS CHEVALIER (1843), as w...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of, 1826-1893

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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to W. Collins, [no year] Mar. 13, 15, or 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270522511 British statesman. From the description of Papers, 1866. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 23371575 ...

McGlashan, James,

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Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1899,

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Smith, George, 1824-1901

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The publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. was founded by George Smith (1789–1846) and Alexander Elder (1790–1876). Upon the death of his father, George Smith (son) took control and under his stewardship, the company flourished. Its first major success was the publication of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in 1847, under the pseudonym of "Currer Bell." The firm is perhaps best known for publishing the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, widely popularized as the DNB. ...

Lever, Anne,

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Whiteside, James, 1804-1876

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Irish lawyer; Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1866-1876. From the description of Italy in the nineteenth century, [ca. 1848-1849]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702146233 From the description of Italy in the nineteenth century, [ca. 1848-1849] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82461080 ...

Grattan, Thomas Colley, 1792-1864

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Thomas Colley Grattan, Irish journalist and novelist. The first series of his collection of stories titled High-ways and By-ways was aided to publication by Washington Irving. From the description of Thomas Colley Grattan manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1824 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 244252716 Thomas Colley Grattan, Irish journalist and novelist. Washington Irving assisted in seeing the first series of High-ways and By-ways (stories) to publication. ...

O'Sullivan, Mortimer, 1792 or 1793-1859

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Spencer, Alexander,

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

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Lytton was an English statesman and writer. From the description of Lithograph of Lord Lytton, circa 1800s-1870s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367947106 Edward Bulwer Lytton, first Baron Lytton, writer and politician. From the description of Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 718729173 From the guide to the Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872, (The New...

Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897

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Scottish novelist and historial writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Windsor, to Mr. Grove, 1877 Mar. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611471 Margaret Oliphant was born in Scotland, and published her first novel at age twenty-one. After the death of her husband, she took to writing to support her young family, and showed remarkable industry, ultimately publishing more than one hundred books and more than two hundred articles, chiefly in Blackwood's E...

Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891

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Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) trained as a barrister, but was more interested in literature. He became famous after the publication of Eothen in 1844, a narrative of his travels in the Middle East. He was fascinated by military action, and went to Algeria in 1845 to witness the French campaign. In August 1854 he set off from London to follow the British Army to the Crimea, where he witnessed the Battle of the Alma (20 September), before falling sick and leaving for England on 18 October...

Blackwood, Johnny

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Yates, Edmund, 1831-1894

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Epithet: of Fairlawn, Tonbridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x0001b8 Yates was an English novelist, and founded THE WORLD, a weekly society newspaper in 1874. From the description of Edmund Yates collection, 1874-1926 (bulk 1876-1894). (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 609870494 Edmund Yates was a Victorian journalist, novelist, lecturer, comic versifier and pla...

Lear, Edward, 1812-1888

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English painter and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 61 Promenade des Anglais [Nice], to Lady Duncan, 1865 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129778 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Cairo, Cannes, Paris, San Remo, and Botzen, to Mrs. (later Lady) Digby Wyatt, 1866 Dec. 30-1871 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598498 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Villa Tennyson, San Remo, to Wilkie [Col...

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x00036a Irish novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Dublin], possibly to James Fernandez Clarke, 1869 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270595714 Irish author. From the description of Letter, 1871 September 7 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647827086 ...

Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907

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Journalist, war correspondent for the TIMES (London). From the description of Letters and clipping, 1863-1895 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24778365 Irish author and journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, Aug. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634492 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 167 Victoria Street, s.w., 1891 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633339 Epi...

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000026 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a British novelist, playwright, and short story author. Over his career he wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name . From the guide to the Wilkie Collins Lette...

Forster, John, 1812-1876

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John Forster was born and raised in Newcastle by Unitarian parents, and educated at Cambridge and London's Inner Temple. He became an important literary critic and editor, and wrote numerous books of his own, notably several biographies. Forster's greatest contribution may have been as literary adviser and advocate for some of the key authors of his day, including Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, and Carlyle. His support, advice, and promotion of authors and writing helped define Victorian taste. Fo...

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000024 Wills was born in 1810 in Plymouth, England; became a contributor to the Penny and Saturday magazines and McCulloch's geographical dictionary; served as one of the original literary staff of Punch; began a lifelong association with Charles Dickens as a contributer and sub-editor of the Daily news in 1846; became contributor and asst. editor of ...

Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850

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Maxwell was a Irish soldier in the Napoleonic wars who retired to minister to a remote Irish parish, where he began to write Irish military and sporting novels. After some success he moved to London in the 1830s, where he produced novels, military histories and biographies, and Irish and Scottish travel-books. While he did have some success, he died in poverty on December 29, 1850 in Musselburgh near Edinburgh. From the guide to the Papers of William Hamilton Maxwell, ca 1844?, Decem...

Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, Earl of, 1807-1889

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Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849

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Irish novelist and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edgeworth's Town, Ireland, to August Louis, Baron de Staël-Holstein and Achille-Léon-Victor, Duc de Broglie, 1826 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270994866 Irish-English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Dominique François Jean Arago, the French scientist, [n.d., paper is watermarked 1818]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742984 ...

Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir, 1828-1865

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Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895

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George Augustus Sala was a journalist, travel writer, and essayist, and had worked as a painter and illustrator before turning to journalism. He was the London Daily telegraph correspondent during the American Civil War and was a contributor to Dickens' Household words. From the description of George Augustus Sala papers, 1892. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70247622 Sala published My diary in America during the Civil War in 1865. ...

O'Sullivan, John L. (John Louis), 1813-1895

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Nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, O'Sullivan became a defender of slavery, a champion of reforms for women, labor, criminals, and public schools, and ended his life promoting spiritualism. From the description of Letter, July 15, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53167553 ...

Hudson, James,

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