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SUSANNA BEEVER PAPERS 1876 - 1913[bulk dates:1889-1893]
HM 62832-62915
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Title: Susanna Beever papers,
Date (inclusive): 1876-1913
Date (bulk): [bulk dates: 1889-1893]
Collection number: HM 62832-62915
Creator:
Beever, Susanna
Extent:
874 pieces
Repository: The Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Language:
English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information
please go to following
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In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission
from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical
property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances,
the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate
curator for further information.
Susanna Beever Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The collection was donated by Mr. Stephen Weissman on October 21, 1994 (acquisition number 1721).
The collection has been fully processed and available for research. The Library also holds the Ruskin-Beever-Fleming correspondence
(874 pieces, 1870-1909); cataloged separately (JR 1 - 874), Summary Report available.
The collection numbers 84 cataloged items plus ephemera.
Call numbers: HM 62832 - 62915.
1. The items in this collection were originally bound together in one volume but it was decided to disbind the volume and
catalog each item separately. The original binding has been retained and is stored in Ephemera Box 2(47); at the time the
items were disbound page numbers were penciled onto the upper right hand corner of each item.
2. Susanna Beever was well known for the beautiful garden of her cottage, the Thwaite, and filled her letters with descriptions
of flowers, plants, birds and animals that inhabited her world. The descriptions are so pervasive it was decided not to give
each letter separate subject headings but rather catalog the entire collection under several appropriate subject headings.
These subject headings are listed individually in this report under Indexing: Subjects.
3. At the time these letters were written, the Thwaite, Susanna Beever's cottage, stood in the county of Lancashire but in
1974, when the county boundaries were redrawn, the cottage became part of the county of Cumbria. It was decided to catalog
the letters as being from Cumbria in order to conform with current, standard cataloging procedures.
Susanna Beever was born November 27, 1805 in the north of England. She lived almost her entire life in the Lake District town
of Coniston, in a cottage called the Thwaite. The Beever family became known for being authorities on local botany and, as
well, Susanna Beever was interested in poetry, drawing, and painting; in 1870 she published:
A Book of Reference to Remarkable Passages in Shakespeare. She met John Ruskin in 1873 and they became close friends, writing each other almost every day about their shared interests
in nature, art and a love for animals; and in 1887, Albert Fleming edited and published a selection of these letters. They
remained close friends in spite of Ruskin's health problems until Susanna Beever's death, at the age of 88, in Oct. 1893.
Close friends in death as they were in life, John Ruskin and Susanna Beever are buried near each other in Coniston, Cumbria,
England.
The papers consist of the following series:
1. Manuscripts & Correspondence (Boxes 1-2), are arranged alphabetically by author. There are only two manuscripts, which
are interfiled with the correspondence. The correspondence series is mainly letters from Susanna Beever, written in the last
few years of her life, to William and Rosa Tuckwell. There are also several letters to and from Albert Fleming, fellow resident
of the Lake District, and friend of John Ruskin. The letters are mainly about Susanna Beever's friends, good works, and garden
but the letters also have several references to John Ruskin.
2. Ephemera (Box 2), are arranged alphabetically by author and title. The ephemera consists of reproductions of two drawings,
a poem, and the original binding from the disbound volume of Beever letters.
Beever, Susanna, d. 1893. In Albert Fleming, letters to William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, (1891 - 1893), Cumbria (England).
HM 62908 - 62914.
Beever, Susanna, d. 1893. In William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, [Reminiscences of Susanna Beever:] [memoir], ([ca. 1913?]).
HM 62833.
Beever, Susanna, d. 1893. In William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, letter to Maurice Tuckwell, (1913, [Dec. 25]).
HM 62915.
Bird Watching - England. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters (1890 - 1893), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62832 - 62915.
Botany - England. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters, (1890 - 1893),Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62832 - 62915.
Cooke, Isaac, 1846-1922. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters to William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, (1890, Oct.-Nov.), Coniston (Cumbria,
England).
HM 62869 - 62870.
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. In William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, [Reminiscences of Susanna Beever:] [memoir], ([ca. 1913?]).
HM 62833.
Lake District (England). In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters (1890 - 1893), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62832 - 62915.
Nature Study - England. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters (1890 - 1893), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62832 - 62915.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters to William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, ([1890, Jan.-Feb.]), Coniston
(Cumbria, England).
HM 62861 - 62862.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letter to William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, (1891, Oct. 23), Coniston (Cumbria,
England).
HM 62880.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letter to William Tuckwell, 1829-1919 and Rosa Tuckwell, (1890, Jan.
8), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62894.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. In William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, [Reminiscences of Susanna Beever:] [memoir], ([ca. 1913?]).
HM 62833.
Tuckwell, William, 1829-1919.
Tongues in Trees. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters toWilliam Tuckwell, 1829-1919, (1890, Oct.-Nov.), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62869 - 62870.
Tuckwell, William, 1829-1919. Tongues in Trees. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letter to William Tuckwell, 1829-1919 and Rosa
Tuckwell, (1891, Jan. 30), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62896.
Women botanizers - England. In Susanna Beever, d. 1893, letters, (1890 - 1893), Coniston (Cumbria, England).
HM 62832 - 62915.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. In William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, [Reminiscences of Susanna Beever:] [memoir], ([ca. 1913?]).
HM 62833.
-----. Early Rising: [poem], [ca. 1891]. HM 62842. Note: A five page poem included with a letter from Susanna Beever to Rosa
Tuckwell (1890, Sep. 29); not in Susanna's hand and could possibly be the beautiful lines copied out by Rosa for Susanna.
The poem was not adjacent to this letter but rather bound with letters from 1891.
Tuckwell, Rosa. Joint addressee with William Tuckwell, 1829-1919, (1889 - 1893),Coniston (Cumbria, England). HM 62893 - 62907.
Indexing: Form and Genre Terms
Correspondence
Drawings
Ephemera
Manuscripts for publication
Poems
The information for the Biographical Note was obtained from a newspaper clipping of the obituary for Susanna Beever from an
unnamed newspaper, possibly from Kendal, Cumbria, ca. 1893. This clipping is cataloged with the Albert Fleming to William
Tuckwell letter, (1893, Oct. 30). HM 62911.