Rickman-Southey Collection mssRS
Gayle Richardson
The Huntington Library
August 2020
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Rickman-Southey collection
Creator:
Rickman, John,
1771-1840
Creator:
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Identifier/Call Number: mssRS
Physical Description:
18.5 Linear Feet
(16 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1798-1839
Abstract: A collection of correspondence between
the English poet Robert Southey and John Rickman.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Southey-Rickman collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown. In Library as of 1941.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Southey (1774-1843) was an English Romantic poet and Poet Laureate from 1813 till
his death in 1843. Southey was friends with John Rickman (1771-1840) who was an English
government official and statistician.
Scope and Contents
A collection of 1,278 items from 1798 to 1839, it consists of the correspondence between
John Rickman and Robert Southey during their 41-year friendship. Box 16 also contains a few
letters by other authors including four by James Burney, English Naval officier, and two by
George Dyer, English classicist, poet and editor.
Processing Information
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1945; finding aid created by Brooke M. Black
in April 2014. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the electronic finding aid.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
General
Individual call numbers included in the collection: mssRS 1-1258.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poets, English -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Burney, James,
1750-1821
Dyer, George,
1755-1841
Box 8
Robert Southey
1831-1834, May
Box 9
Robert Southey
1834, June-1839
Box 16
John Rickman and miscellaneous
1832-1839
