Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876

Abstract: The Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection is a mixed-provenance collection of material by and related to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Series I, Robert Browning Papers, contains a few manuscripts by him, as well as many letters, most written after 1870. Recipients include Mrs. Bayne; Isabel Jane Blagden; Moncure Conway; Charles Deschamps; Frank Hill; William Charles Macready; Felix Moscheles, and William Wetmore Story. Letters to Browning include an...

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Two engraved portraits of Martineau.

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A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.

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Two fragments consisting of closings and signatures clipped from letters.

Removed from her Autobiography (Boston, 1877), vol. 1.

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ALS to "Dear Madam."

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ALS to "Dear Friend," a sister of Lady Strangford.

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ALS regarding a visit from Miss Evans.

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ALS.

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ALS to Edward Walford, assistant editor of Once a Week.

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ALS.

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ALS.

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ALS.

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Autograph manuscript letter, signed, discussing the delivery of various parcels.

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ALS.

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Autograph manuscript letter, signed, introducing the recipient to a friend.

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ALS, Tynemouth, to Mrs. Marshall, Sep 29, [1840]; 15 ALS, with three envelopes, Ambleside, to Arthur Allen, [1850-1852], 1855-1856, and n.d.; and three ALS, with one envelope, to Allen, written on behalf of Martineau by her niece, Maria Martineau, [1855-1856].

Part of an ALS to Allen, Apr 22, 1856, is missing.

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ALS, Tynemouth, to an unidentified recipient, Feb 1, no year; and ALS, Ambleside, to Joseph Toynbee, n.d.

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Two ALS to Mrs. John A. Murray, Sep 20, [1838?], and n.d.; and ALS to John A. Murray, Feb 13, [1845?].

Accompanied by notes of a former owner.

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ALS, to Robert Chambers, Oct 10, [1844], proposing that Chambers' Journal publish her article on mesmerism; ALS to Thomas Gordon, Jun, 1852; ANS to an unidentified recipient, Mar 5, 1856; ALS to Sara Sophia Hennell, Jun 16, 1867; ALS to Mary Carpenter, n.d.; and two engraved illustrations: the Knoll, Ambleside, with brief holograph notes; and Martineau's birthplace.

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Two ALS, one with envelope, inlaid on sheets.