Henry Hallam collection, 1792-1859

Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English