Finding Aid for the Trollope Family Papers, 1825-1915

Folder 1

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Letters, signed, to various persons.

Physical Description: 7 items.

Note

1 letter to Sir Theodore Martin (May 4, 1874).

1 letter to Sir Squire Bancroft (January 30, 1878).

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

Letters, Signed, from Various Persons

Physical Description: (2 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 2

Paget, Sir James, 1st. bart.. 1814-1899. London, 12 July 1878.

Folder 2

_____. Utrecht Transvaal, September 24, 1877.

Trollope, Mrs. Frances (Milton) 1780-1863

Letters, Signed, to Various Persons

Physical Description: (12 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 3

Bartley, Mrs. London, 1833.

Folder 3

Bernard, Lady Catherine. v.p., n.d.

Folder 3

Darby, Miss. n.p., n.d.

Folder 3

Murray, Mrs. Hadley. March 31, 1836.

Folder 3

Nicholson, Mr. n.p., n.d.

Folder 3

Ricketts, Miss A. Ambleside. August 13, 1839.

Folder 3

Tyres (Tycors?) Mrs. Madrid. n.d.

Folder 3

Whittaker, G.B. Harrow. January 7, 1834.

Folder 4

Miford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855. Clifton. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Folder 5

Fragments and unidentified letters, signed. Envelopes.

Physical Description: 6 items. In envelopes.

Note

2 Letters, envelopes, Missing, as of October 27, 1965. BW.

Letters, Signed, from Various Persons

Physical Description: (4 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 6

Bartley, George, 1782(?)-1858. London. January 29, 1833.

Folder 6

Buonarroti, C. n.p., 1845.

Folder 6

D'Arusmont, Mme. Frances (Wright) 1795-1852. Paris. September 17, 1827(?).

Folder 6

Grattan, Thomas Colley, 1792-1864. Boston. July 30, 1840.

Folder 7

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865. London. August 3, 1843.

Physical Description: 7 items.

Folder 7

Hall, Basil, 1788-1844. v.p., 1832-1833.

Physical Description: 6 letters.

Folder 8

Jamieson, Anna. Casa Guidi. 1858.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Folder 8

La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834. La Grange, Paris. 1828.

Physical Description: Copy of the original letter.

Folder 8

Lytton, Rosina Doyle (Wheeler) Bulwer-Lytton, baroness, 1802-1882. Paris. July 20, 1840.

Folder 8

Nott, George Frederick, 1767-1841. Winchester. 1825.

Garrow, Theodosia (Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope) 1825-1865

Folder 9

2 letters, signed, from Lady Blessington, 1789-1849. London. April 17 & July 31, 1840.

Garrow, Joseph, d. 1860

Physical Description: (1 item)

Folder 10

Sonnet and letter, signed, from G.N. Pepoli, 1825-1881. Bologna. November 12, 1859 or 1860.

Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892

Letters, Signed, to Various Persons

Physical Description: (6 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 11

Chapman, Frederic, 1823-1895. Florence. June 15, 1861.

Folder 11

Dickinson, Mrs. Kent. 1887.

Folder 11

Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879. Florence. November 29, 1855.

Folder 11

Horner, Miss Susan, d. 1900. Florence. September 27, 1866.

Folder 11

Robinson, George Wharton. Rome. May 28, 1889.

Folder 12

Fragments and unidentified letters, all signed. v.p., v.d.

Physical Description: 4 items; 3 fragments.

Folder 13

Nelly (Ellen Lawless Ternan, Mrs. George Wharton Robinson) 1839-1914. v.p., 1889-1892.

Physical Description: 5 items.

Letters, Signed, from Various Persons

Physical Description: (6 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 14

Blumenthal, Jacques [Jacob] 1829-1908. London. n.d.

Folder 14

Burton, Sir Frederick William, 1816-1900. London. n.d.

Folder 14

Coquelin, Charles, 1803-1852. Paris(?) n.d.

Folder 14

Dalling and Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, baron, 1801-1927. Florence. 30 June 1852.

Folder 14

Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879. Turin. n.d. London. 1863.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 15

Hall, Samuel Carter, 1800-1889. London. n.d.

Physical Description: 2 letters, 8 items.

Folder 15

Hayward, Abraham, 1801-1884. London. n.d.

Folder 15

Hillebrand, Karl, 1829-1884. Florence. 1876.

Folder 15

Howitt, Mary (Botham) 1799-1888. n.p., n.d.

Folder 15

Howitt, William. 1792-1879. Rome. 19 April 1876. Rome. May 1, 1876.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 15

Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910. Florence. November 18, 1868.

Folder 16

Layard, Sir Austen Henry, 1817-1894. Paris. December 18, 1880.

Physical Description: 12 items.

Folder 16

Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878, and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880. London. September 26, 1862. Genoa. March 17, 1879(?).

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 16

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of, 1831-1891. 1857-1868.

Physical Description: 6 letters.

Folder 16

Lytton, Rosina Doyle (Wheeler) Bulwer-Lytton, baroness, 1802-1882. Paris. July 11, 1840, and n.d.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Scope and Content Note

On the blank side of the letter (July 11, 1840) is a page from Mrs. Frances Milton Trollope to her son.

Folder 16

Nicholson, Isaac, 1789-1848. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: Incomplete letter.

Folder 17

Pulszky, Ferencz Aurel, 1814-1897. Budapest. March 27, 1869. Italy. 1869(?).

Physical Description: 2 letters, 8 items.

Folder 17

Ricasoli, Bettino, barone Ricasoli, 1809-1880. Brolio. October 4, 1864.

Folder 17

Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895. n.p., n.d.

Folder 17

Tennyson, Frederick. 1807-1898. Jersey. December 4, 1865.

Folder 17

Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, 1787-1863. Alban Hall. n.d., (2) Palace. February 24, 1834.

Physical Description: 3 letters:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. n.p., July 21, 1869.

Scope and Content Note

Envelope Addressed to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Rochester.

Note

Missing October 27, 1965 (BW).

Folder 19

Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. Copper plate for calling cards bearing address, Cliff Corner, Budleigh Salterton. French passport, signed. 1846.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Trollope, Mrs. Frances Eleanor (Ternan) 1835-1913

Letters to Various Persons

Physical Description: (5 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 20

Barret-Lennard, Mrs. C.E. v.p., 1907-1912.

Physical Description: 5 letters:

Folder 21

Locker, Arthur, 1828-1893. Devon. December 17, 1889.

Physical Description: 10 items.

Folder 21

Robinson, Geoffrey Wharton, 1879- . Southsea. 1911-1913.

Physical Description: 3 letters:

Scope and Content Note

Also, unidentified letters (3).

Letters from Various Persons

Physical Description: (7 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 22

Austin, Alfred. 1835-1913. Kent. May 5, 1896.

Folder 22

Blumenthal, Jacques [Jacob] 1829-1908. London. June 25, 1878.

Folder 22

Bonaparte, Joseph Napoleon, prince de Musignano Rome. January 21, 1868.

Folder 22

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley, bart., 1833-1898. London. n.d.

Folder 22

Burne-Jones, Sir Philip, 2nd. bart., 1861- . Westgate. 1906.

Folder 22

Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden-Clarke, 1809-1898. Genoa. April 6, 1892. Genoa. November 16, 1896.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 23

Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879. London. January 13, 1860.

Physical Description: 6 items.

Folder 23

Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892. Somerset. March 16, 1883.

Folder 23

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882. Florence. 23 February 1867. Rome. March 13, 1876.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 23

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906. Hampstead. January 7, 1902.

Folder 23

Gibson, John, 1817-1892(?). n.p., n.d.

Folder 24

Hatton, Joseph. 1841-1907. London. October 8, 1901.

Physical Description: 6 items.

Folder 24

Hughes, Thomas. 1822-1896. London. n.d.

Folder 24

Kirkup, Seymour Stocker. 1788-1880. Lungarno Torrigiani. n.d.

Folder 24

Lee, Sir Sidney, 1859-1926. London. December 25, 1901.

Folder 24

Linton, Mrs. Elizabeth (Lynn), 1822-1898. London. January 1, 1880. Rome. May 5, 1883.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 25

Maxse, Leopold James, 1864-1932. London. 1905-1906.

Physical Description: 2 letters, 6 items.

Folder 25

Morley, John Morley, viscount Morley of Blackburn, 1838-1923. London. May 7, 1880. London. October 4, 1881.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 25

Novello, Clara Anastasia, countess Giglucci, 1818-1908. Rome. Good Friday, 1893.

Folder 26

Peard, John Whitehead, 1811-1880. Naples. January 24, 1867.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Folder 26

Rutland, Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th. duke of, 1852-1925. London. December 24, 1910.

Folder 26

Schneiter. Paris. August 23, 1877.

Scope and Content Note

Poem in a different hand, unsigned, on last page.

Folder 26

Somerville, Mary (Fairfax) 1780-1872. n.p., n.d.

Folder 27

Ternan, Mrs. Frances Eleanor (Jarman) 1803(?)-1873. n.p., July 15, 1830.

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Letter, signed, from Edmund Kean, 1787-1833.

Folder 28

Ternan, Thomas Lawless. d. 1846. Newcastle on Tyne. April 25, 1831.

Scope and Content Note

Letter, signed, with Lord Byron's hair.

Note

Hair missing, presumed stolen.

Folder 29

Ternan, W.R. Chatham. August 14, 1895.

Scope and Content Note

Letter, signed, from Charles William Beresford, 1846-1919.

Taylor, Maria (Ternan), 1836-1838(?)

Letters from Various Persons

Physical Description: (7 items)

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include:

Folder 30

Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, first marquis of. 1826-1902. British Embassy, Rome. January 1889.

Physical Description: 3 letters.

Folder 30

Dyson, Emily. Rome. March 2, 1897.

Folder 30

Mathews, Charles James, 1803-1878. Liverpool. March 9, 1897.

Folder 30

Novello, Clara Anastasia, countess Gigliucci, 1818-1908. Rome. February 3, 1893.

Folder 30

Paget, Mrs. Augustus Berkeley. Vienna. December 25, 1891.

Folder 31

Robinson, Mrs. George Wharton (Ellen Lawless Ternan) 1839-1914. Letter from E. and Captain Jesse. Margate. n.d.

Folder 32

Robinson, Reverend George Wharton. signed, to the Reverend G.W. Robinson, v.p., v.d.

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Folder 33

Robinson, Geoffrey Wharton, 1879- . Letter, signed, from Henry Merivale Trollope, 1846-1926. Minchinhampton Strand. March 10, 1921.

Miscellaneous Letters

Physical Description: (3 letters)

Scope and Content Note

Signed, to and/or from Persons Not Related Directly to the Trollopes:

Folder 34

Bancroft, Sir Squire Bancroft, 1841-1926. Letter to Miss Georgina Hogarth. December 10, 1895.

Folder 34

Dana, Richard H., 1787-1879. Letter to Mrs. James Fields (Annie Adams) 1834-1915. n.p., ca. 1868.

Folder 34

Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832. Letter to John Richardson, 1780-1864. Abbotsford. July 4, 1825.

Physical Description: Holograph copy.

Folder 35

Miscellaneous Letters. Fragments and unidentified.

Physical Description: 14 pieces.

Literary Manuscripts

Physical Description: (3 items)

Scope and Content Note

Holograph poems, signed:

Folder 36

Howitt, Mary (Botham) 1799-1888. Memorial poem on the death of her husband William. Rome. April 27, 1873.

Folder 36

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st. earl of. 1831-1891. Cintra. n.p., March 24, 1868.

Physical Description: 4pp.

Folder 36

Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892. Poem, n.p., n.d.

Folder 37

Drawings, Hervieu, A. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 12 items.

Scope and Content Note

Sepia sketch of the German sculptor Dannecker.

Folder 37

_____. 2 pen and brush portrait heads, unidentified. n.p., n.d.

Folder 37

M.S.T. (Maria Ternaa?) 8 pen-ink and pencil sketches of contemporary scenes, Rome. Addressed to Frances Eleanor Trollope Rome. n.d.

Folder 38

Letters dealing with the Royal Naval Exhibition. v.p., 1891-1892.

Physical Description: 16 pieces.

Trollope, Mrs. Frances Eleanor (Ternan) 1835-1913

Physical Description: (1 item)

Folder 39

Notebook of anecdotes. n.p., 1879-1890.

Physical Description: Holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Humorous episodes related to Mrs. Trollope by her sisters and friends.

In a later hand are some stories known to Aunt Fanny or Uncle Tom.

Also, interleaved, are some fragments of letters, bearing signatures of various persons, Apparently collected as autographs.

Folder 40

Autograph Album.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

Contains signatures and fragments of letters from members of the Trollope circle.

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