Box Main file 100, Folder 12-13
Manuscripts and correspondence
A Christmas Carol: 3 stanza poem HM 42764
Invocation to the Gods: 13 stanza poem HM 42765
The Island of the Dead: 5 stanza poem HM 42766
Kind Nature, how are all thy ways with me...: sonnet HM 42767
Mary Magdalen: sonnet HM 42768
Notes: on allusions in her own poetry HM 42769
O gentle maidens that with snowy hands...: sonnet HM 42770
To - with Autumnal Violets: sonnet HM 42771
Letters to William Henry Harrison HM 42772-42816
Scope and Contents
44 signed handwritten letters and 1 incomplete handwritten letter to Harrison concerning her efforts to have a volume of her
poetry published in the latter part of 1851. Letters after the publication in 1851 of her Poems discuss possible strategies
for advertising the volume and the possible publication of some of her translations of the poetry of Johann Ludwig Uhland.
In the course of the letters Eliza Fall decides on her nom de plume Mary Maynard and she insists that her real identity be
kept a secret, especially from her father, who was apparently incapable of appreciating poetry. John Ruskin and his work are
frequently the subject of the letters. See Ruskin's Praeterita for his opinion of Eliza Fall.
