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1.
Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several occasions, by the wits of the last and present age

Published / Created:
1718.
Call Number:
Haq85 L7 718f 1
Container / Volume:
v. 1
Image Count:
287
Description:
BEIN Haq85 L7 718f: Bookplate of Harry Buston Forman. Autograph of A.H. Holdsworth (v. 2).
Publisher:
Printed for S. Briscoe
Subject (Topic):
Letters and Erotic literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several occasions, by the wits of the last and present age, viz. Mr. Butler ... Mr. Flatman, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Wycherley [and others] ... : together with Mr. T. Brown's Remains, not printed in his works : the whole in two volumes compleat

2.
Letter to Elizabeth Vassall Fox, baroness Holland, 1835 Jan 6.

Creator:
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841
Call Number:
Osborn fd16
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Wilkie asking Lady Holland to accept his gift of "two small and imperfect sketches, made from recollection, on my way back from Falmouth, of the two Portraits by Vandyke, of the Earl of Warwick and the Ea...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845., Holland family., and Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Letters, Portrait painting, Watercolor painting, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter to Elizabeth Vassall Fox, baroness Holland, 1835 Jan 6.

3.
Letters to Paolo Giovio

Creator:
Este, Ippolito d', 1509-1572
Published / Created:
8 Mar 1542.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 726
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (1509-1572), Letters, in the hand of his secretary, to Paolo Giovio
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Este, Ippolito d', 1509-1572.
Subject (Topic):
Letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters to Paolo Giovio

4.
Mrs. Delany correspondence, 1780-1788

Creator:
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 75
Image Count:
87
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of 51 letters from Delany to her friend, Mary (Hamilton) Dickenson; several of them have been annotated by Dickenson. Some of the letters are in Delany's hand; others are in the hand of her niece Georgina Mary Anne Port...
Description:
Mary Delany (1700-1788), courtier and artist, married Alexander Pendarves (1660-1725) in 1718. After his death in 1725, she lived in London, going to court functions, the opera, and the theater. She made many important friendships during this time,...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788. (Mary),, Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788 (Mary),, and Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Letters, Women authors, Court and courtiers, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Delany correspondence, 1780-1788

5.
[Scrapbook], 1832 Sep 22 [begun].

Creator:
Grimstone, Mary Leman (Rede)
Call Number:
Osborn fd56
Image Count:
334
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a multiple hands, of a collection of newspaper articles, prints, drawings, letters, and autobiographical text, primarily relating to Grimstone's published writing. The volume includes "my first prose [which] was the following letter in...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Grimstone, Mary Leman (Rede)
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Letters, Music, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, Periodicals, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Scrapbook], 1832 Sep 22 [begun].