A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figures are interspersed with observations about current political topics and prominent social figures. His strong interest in art is reflected in the predominance of his observations on architecture, painters, paintings, prints, and printmakers; descriptions of fine houses, their contents and owners; clippings from newspapers: notices of forthcoming auctions and newly published books of or about art and artists; poems celebrating artists; death notices of artists and printmakers as well as poetry celebrating the lives of artists. The volume for 1786 also includes observations about books that Walpole is reading, generally on antiquarian topics, English history, etc.; anecdotes about his friends and prominent society figures; comments on historical events, including debates on the slave and trade and the events in France; thoughts on Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Lady Lyttleton, Lord North, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Clive, and other prominent public figures of the period; fragments of epigrams and poems
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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figures are interspersed with observations about current political topics and prominent social figures. His strong interest in art is reflected in the predominance of his observations on architecture, painters, paintings, prints, and printmakers; descriptions of fine houses, their contents and owners; clippings from newspapers: notices of forthcoming auctions and newly published books of or about art and artists; poems celebrating artists; death notices of artists and printmakers as well as poetry celebrating the lives of artists. The volume for 1786 also includes observations about books that Walpole is reading, generally on antiquarian topics, English history, etc.; anecdotes about his friends and prominent society figures; comments on historical events, including debates on the slave and trade and the events in France; thoughts on Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Lady Lyttleton, Lord North, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Clive, and other prominent public figures of the period; fragments of epigrams and poems
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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figures are interspersed with observations about current political topics and prominent social figures. His strong interest in art is reflected in the predominance of his observations on architecture, painters, paintings, prints, and printmakers; descriptions of fine houses, their contents and owners; clippings from newspapers: notices of forthcoming auctions and newly published books of or about art and artists; poems celebrating artists; death notices of artists and printmakers as well as poetry celebrating the lives of artists. The volume for 1786 also includes observations about books that Walpole is reading, generally on antiquarian topics, English history, etc.; anecdotes about his friends and prominent society figures; comments on historical events, including debates on the slave and trade and the events in France; thoughts on Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Lady Lyttleton, Lord North, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Clive, and other prominent public figures of the period; fragments of epigrams and poems
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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
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Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
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
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Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
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
Description:
Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
James Osborn classifies this MS as "F" of the Spence MSS - see p. xlii of Joseph Spence. Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men. and (Ed. by James M. Osborn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. and Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
Description:
In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
