Letters of British authors, 1770-1915

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Summary

Creators:
Getty Research Institute. Research Library
Abstract:
This collection, assembled by the repository, comprises 150 letters sent by 73 persons between 1770 and 1915 with the bulk sent between the 1840s-1890s. The authors of the letters include British editors, publishers, writers, art critics, politicians, archaeologists, scientists, writers on architecture, and writers of dictionaries.
Extent:
150 letter(s)
Language:
Collection material is in English .

Background

Scope and content:

The collection comprises 150 letters sent by 73 persons. The letters are dated from 1770 to 1915, with the bulk from the 1840s to the 1890s. Three letters are dated from 1770, 1791 and 1798, and 24 are from the first quarter of the 20th century. The authors of the letters cover a large variety of activities and professions, including British editors, publishers, lecturers, writers, art critics, politicians, mathematicians, archaeologists, antiquarians, botanists, naturalists, educational writers, authors on architecture and of dictionaries.

Among the most significant letters are those signed by the biographer Mackenzie Bell to William Michael Rossetti (1), the art historian John Britton (4), the lecturer William Kingdon Clifford (a manuscript page), the writer Louisa Stuart Costello (6), the publisher Robert Duncan(?) (1), the archaeologists Sir Arthur John Evans (2) and Sir John Evans (5), the biographer James Granger (1), the antiquarian Thomas Leman (1), the biographer Henry Currie Marillier (2), the author on architecture John Henry Parker (1), the popular science lecturer John Henry Pepper (2), the archaeologist Frederick George Hilton Price (2), the art dictionaries author Samuel Redgrave (2), the Irish poet and lecturer George William Russell (5), the editor William Noel Sainsbury (2), the biographical dictionary author Thomas Humphrey Ward (7), the archaeologist Albert Way (6), the poet Frederick Edward Weatherby (1), with verses and illustration, and the art critic and writer Sir Frederick Wedmore (7).

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically.

Acquisition information:
Assembled by the repository from many acquisitions, 1983-1990
Physical location:
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