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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: S. Austin Allibone papers
Creator:
Allibone, S.
Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889
Identifier/Call Number: mssAL
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(6 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1848-1887
Abstract: The correspondence and manuscript
notebooks belonging to American librarian, lexicographer, and compiler Samuel Austin
Allibone.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. S. Austin Allibone papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown. In library as of 1932.
Samuel Austin Allibone (1816-1889) was an American lexicographer, librarian and compiler.
He produced a critical dictionary documenting the lives of approximately 46,000 writers,
composed religious tracts, and compiled indexes of quotations. Allibone worked as a
librarian at the Lenox Library in New York from its endowment until 1888.
The collection contains correspondence and five manuscript notebooks. The vast majority of
the correspondence was not penned by Allibone, and a good portion of it was neither authored
by him nor addressed to him. Three of the five manuscript notebooks are by Edward Everett,
one was written by Baron Thomas Babington Macauley and one was composed by Allibone and his
wife, Mary. Everett's manuscripts include a biography of Baron George Gordon Byron (AL 394)
and of Sir Walter Scott (AL 395) as well as a copy of his speech "In Defense of the Webster
Statue" (AL 398). Macauley's manuscript is a version of his unpublished History of England,
and Allibone's manuscript contains, among other items, A visit to Washington Irving, as well
as an autograph copy of his letter to Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Significant
correspondents include George Bancroft, Henry Ward Beecher, Sir David Brewster, Elihu
Burritt, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Everett, Millard
Fillmore, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Thomas Babington Macauley, R.
Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie, William Hickling Prescott, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
Sigourney, Baron Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Ticknor and Robert C.
(Robert Charles) Winthrop.
Processed by Huntington Library staff. In 2020, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid. In
2022, Melissa Haley enhanced description of the presidential material present in the
collection as part of the American Presidential Papers Project.
Former call number: mssAL 1-401.
Arranged in the following order: I. Correspondence; II. Manuscript notebooks.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- 19th century
Authors, English -- 19th century
Webster Statue (Concord, N.H.)
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
-- Sources
Letters (correspondence) -- 19th century
Manuscripts -- 19th century
Allibone, Mary
Bancroft, George,
1800-1891
Brewster, David,
1781-1868
Burritt, Elihu,
1810-1879
Byron, George Gordon Byron,
Baron, 1788-1824
Carlyle, Thomas,
1795-1881
Dickens, Charles,
1812-1870
Disraeli, Benjamin,
1804-1881
Everett, Edward,
1794-1865
Fillmore, Millard,
1800-1874
Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
1809-1894
Horne, Thomas Hartwell,
1780-1862
Irving, Washington,
1783-1859
Lincoln, Abraham,
1809-1865
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
1807-1882
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton,
Baron, 1803-1873
Macauley, Thomas Babington Macauley, Baron
Mackenzie, R. Shelton (Robert
Shelton), 1809-1880
Prescott, William Hickling,
1796-1859
Scott, Walter,
1771-1832
Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia
Howard), 1791-1865
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,
Baron, 1809-1892
Thackeray, William Makepeace,
1811-1863
Ticknor, George,
1791-1871
Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain, 1819-1901 -- Correspondent
Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert
Charles), 1809-1894