Holograph commonplace book containing excerpts from books, magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including antiquities; recent history and politics; voyages of discovery; agriculture and agricultural improvement; natural history; methods ...
Description:
Richard Bailye of Lichfield (b. 1718) was a schoolfellow of Peter and David Garrick at the Lichfield Grammar School, and joined them in the wine trade for several years in the 1760s. Bailye probably continued his father's bookselling business in Lich...
The collection contains nineteen letters written by the Marquess of Sligo during his travels in Greece and Asia Minor. Subjects include his planned itineraries; travel expenses; his elaborate entertainment by Veli Pasha; impressions of and experiences...
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Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788-1845) was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he befriended Lord Byron. After succeeding to his father's title in 1809, in 1810-11 he toured the Mediterranean and the Levant, sending home...
Subject (Geographic):
Greece., Mediterranean Region., Greece, Istanbul (Turkey), Mediterranean Region, and Turkey
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, Sligo, Howe Peter Browne, Marquess of, 1788-1845., and Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Travel, Classical antiquities, Collectors and collecting, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, Pashas, Description and travel, and History
Letters from Olga Rudge to Linda Melton, accompanied by a small group of papers relating to Ezra Pound. The letters date from between 1947 and 1960 and are almost entirely concerned with Rudge's efforts to win Pound's freedom from American custody in ...
Description:
Olga Rudge (1895-1996), musician and friend of Ezra Pound.
Subject (Name):
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 (Thomas Stearns),, Melton, Linda., Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972, Pound, Isabel Weston, 1860-1948., and Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Public opinion, American literature, American poetry, and Authors, American
The collection consists of 45 letters to Dudley Ward and 33 to Frances (Darwin) Cornford, who was also a poet. The letters discuss in detail Brooke's complicated romantic relationships with "Ka" Cox, Noel Olivier, Cathleen Nesbitt, and the Tahitian wo...
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Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge, was a member of the Georgian Poets. His most famous work, the sonnet sequence 1914 and Other Poems, appeared in 1915. Brooke joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915., Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915, Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960., Cox, Katherine Laird., Nesbitt, Cathleen, 1888-1982., Olivier, Noel, 1892-, Taata-Mata., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Relations with women, Poets, English, Poets, Georgian, World War, 1914-1918, History, and Social life and customs
Manuscript in a single hand, with examples of bookplates of Horace Walpole's friends and correspondents, arranged alphabetically and mounted on leaves interspersed with brief biographies of the bookplate owners and excerpts from Walpole's letters abou...
Description:
W.R. Townley, bookplate collector and contributor to The miscellany.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Sundon, Charlotte Clayton, Baroness, d. 1742., Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761., Townley, W. R. b. 1861. (Wellington Reid),, and Walpole, Horace, 1727-1797
Manuscript notebooks: includes an account of Bruce's meeting with Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), and a letter referring to Bruce from Daines Barrington (1727-1800) to an unnamed recipient
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Bruce, James, 1730-1794., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Murray, Alexander, 1775-1813.
