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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton, letters
Creator:
Lytton, Edward Bulwer
Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873
Identifier/Call Number: mssLytton
Physical Description:
6.05 Linear Feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1822-1886
Abstract: A collection related to Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, English
novelists.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton, letters, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Anderson sale (lot 447), 1916; Bixby sale (lots 2502-2503), 1918; Harry A.
Levinson, April 1953; Sotheby's sale (lot 491), April 1959; W. P. Wreden, 1961; Sotheby's
sale (lot 311), June 1975; gift of Lee Harlan, July 1969.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron of Lytton (1803-1873) was an English
statesman, novelist and poet. His wife, Rosina Doyle Wheeler Bulwer-Lytton, Baroness Lytton,
(1802-1882), was an English novelist.
The collection consists of letters and the manuscript of "Godolphin." The letters are
mainly written by and addressed to Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton,
and his wife, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton, Baroness Lytton.
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, 1920-1975; in November 2023, Gayle M. Richardson
created the finding aid. The Edward Bulwer-Lytton letters and manuscript were assembled at
the Library as the Bulwer-Lytton File from various purchases and gifts from 1916 to
1975.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Novelists, English -- 19th century
Statesman -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Women novelists, English -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness, 1802-1882