Beschreibung:

Manuscript miscellany, comprising letters etc by literary figures, scholars, etc., including Sir Walter Scott (to his printers, discussing proof corrections and asking for a list of presentation copies), William Cobbett, Anthony Panizzi (fine letter to Benjamin Hawes MP, who had written to congratulate him on his appointment to the British Museum Library, 1837 – "the Public will not, I fear, be pleased with my firm opinion with respect to classed Catalogues"), T.F. Dibdin, Coventry Patmore (to Truebners, announcing American publication of 'The Espousals', the second part of The Angel in the House, 1856), Felicia Hemans (written to her aunt and signed "F Browne" from Gwrych, shortly before her eighth birthday in 1801), Henri Bergson (on Spinoza), Thomas Campbell ("...The horrors of the Poles appear to be thickening. Their enemies are driving them out of patience into suicide. Above 5000 children from 3 to 8 years old have been torn from their parents – to people Siberia..."), Alexandre Dumas fils, Henry Mackenzie, Florence Baird Smith, née De Quincey (five letters, with references to her father and the "great pile" of his manuscripts), George Meredith, Fanny Trollope, J. Adolphus (Tom) Trollope (signed autograph transcript from Paul the Pope and Paul the Friar, 1860), Sydney Smith (3), John Coltman (on his pictures by Titian, etc., 1779), Thomas Hood father and son, Harriet Martineau, P.M. Roget, J. Keble (group), James Martineau, E.B. Lytton, E.B. Cowell (on the problems of translating Don Quixote into an Indian vernacular language), W.H. Ainsworth, R.D. Blackmore, Allan Cunningham, Jane Porter, Edmond de Goncourt (autograph notice of Daudet's literary criticism Les Idées en marche), Thomas Hughes, Thomas Moore (ordering rubber-soled walking shoes), Emile Zola Walter Scott Senior, Hilaire Belloc, Sir James Murray (about the OED), Lumley Skeffington (to a bookseller), W.S. Gilbert, and others; plus an album of free fronts and letters