Guide to the F. L. Swayne autograph collection, [ca. 1820-1922]

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Guide to the F. L. Swayne Autograph Collection, [ca. 1820-1922]

Collection number: BANC MSS 71/196 z

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1971
Encoded by:: James Lake

Collection Summary

Collection Title: F. L. Swayne Autograph Collection,

Date (inclusive): [ca. 1820-1922]

Collection Number: BANC MSS 71/196 z

Compiler: Swayne, F. L.

Extent: Number of containers: 1 box

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Primarily letters from famous English authors and clergymen; some autographs and portions of letters also included.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], F. L. Swayne autograph collection, BANC MSS 71/196 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Cataloged Separately

Portraits have transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library
Identifier/Call Number: (BANC PIC 1971.002)

Scope and Content

The collection consists primarily of letters written by famous English authors and English clergymen, with a few other nationalities represented also. In some instances there are autographs only, or portions of letters. The collection, originally mounted in two volumes, was transferred to The Bancroft Library from the Rare Books and Special Collections Department in 1970.

Most of the portraits were removed and cataloged separately as BANC PIC 1971.002

A list of the more important people represented in the Collection follows.

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882

Portion of an envelope addressed by him

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 1832-1904

Letter to Edward Walford, n.d.

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

Letter to unidentified correspondent, n.d.

Bennett, William James Early, 1804-1886

Letter to Mr. Randall, July 6, 1870

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

Letter to Mrs. Plumptre, June 21, 1880

Church, Richard William, 1815-1890

Letter to Mr. Cone [?], May 14, n.y.

Campbell, T[homas?]

Letter to Mrs. Miller and the Misses Percivals, n.d.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

Sample of his handwriting

Denison, George Anthony, 1805-1896

Letter to Mr. Swayne, Jan. 25, 1893

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Autograph

Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849

Portion of a letter with signature

Edwards, Amelia

Letter to Dr. Swayne, Oct. 18, n.y.

Ferrero, Guglielmo [?] 1871-1942

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Feb. 10, 1909

Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Aug. 15, 1879

Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Apr. 24, n.y.

Goulburn, Edward Meyrick, 1818-1897

Letter to Dr. Copeman, June 16, 1874

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von, 1774-1856

Untitled poem

Harrison, Frederic, 1831-1923

Letter to Miss Gould, Dec. 15, n.y.

Keble, John, 1792-1866

Autograph

Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891

Letter to Mrs. Burke, Jan. 30, 1867

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875

2 letters, 1857 & 1867

Knowles, Sir James Thomas, 1831-1908

Letter to R. A. Swayne, Mar. 13, 1890

Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790-1869

À Angelica [poem]

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Oct. 6, n.y.

Liddell, Henry George, 1811-1898

Letter to Dr. Copeman, July 25, 1874

Liddon, Henry Parry, 1829-1890

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Apr. 29, 1885

Lockhart, John Gibson, 1794-1854

Portion of a letter

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

Letter to Mrs. Middleton, Oct. 15, 1869

Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892

Letter to P. W. Randall, Aug. 13, 1851

Marryat, Florence, 1838-1899

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Apr. 25, n.y.

Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848

Letter to his wife, Catherine, Nov. 29, n.y.

Matthew, Frederic David

Letter to Charles Kingsley, incomplete

Max-Müller, Friedrich, 1823-1900

Letter to Mr. Swayne, Feb. 6, 1890

Maxwell, Mary

Letter to E. Scott, Feb. 27, 1875

Mistral, Frédéric, 1830-1914

Facsimile signature [?] on postcard

Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

Portion of a letter with signature

Newman, Francis William, 1805-1897

Letter to Mr. Swayne, May 20, 1869

Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890

Autograph

Norton, Caroline

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Feb. 27, n.y.

Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant (Wilson), 1828-1897

Letter to Mrs. Swayne, Apr. 12, n.y.

Payn, James, 1830-1898

Letter to unidentified correspondent

Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 1800-1882

Letter to Mr. Dunn [?], n.d.

Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855

Letter to Lady Harriet Herbert, n.d.

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Feb. 15, 1873

Sayce, Archibald Henry, 1845-1933

Letter to Miss Edwards, Feb. 21, 1880

Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906

Letter to Mr. Core, June 20, 1871

Shorthouse, Joseph Henry, 1834-1903

Letter to Mr. Swayne, May 23, 1882

Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910

Letter to Mr. Coxe, n.d.

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

Letter to Robert H. Inglis, Apr. 15, 1820. Also included: poem, The Paupers Funeral.

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881

Letter to Mr. Cone [?], 1871

Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874

Letter to unidentified correspondent, Sept. 6, 1866

Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard von, 1816-1895

Letter to Mrs. Mongiardi, Mar. 18, 1891

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892

Autograph

West, Rebecca, pseud., 1892-

Letter to Mr. Haas, June 18, 1922

Williams, Isaac, 1802-1865

Letter to unidentified correspondent

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

Autograph

Weyman, Stanley John, 1855-1928

Letter to Mrs. Swayne, Jan. 2, 1901 [?]

Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901

Letter to Mr. Freeman, Jan. 24, 1873

Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926

Letter to Sir Thomas Holdrich, Jan. 19, 1918