Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871
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Richard Bentley (1794-1871), British publisher
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
James Fenimore Cooper Collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 415
Abstract:
The collection provides evidence of the personal and professional life of James Fenimore Cooper, and to a lesser degree, the Cooper family, between 1792 and 1976. The collection documents Cooper's writing career, service in the United States Navy, and travels through Europe, and consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, legal and financial documents, clippings, artwork, and objects. As an author who was engaged in the process of printing and publishing his works, and who was...
Dates:
1792-1976, bulk 1792-1894
Maria Edgeworth collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 330
Abstract:
Collection includes Bertha Coolidge Slade's collection of Edgeworth materials, including correspondence between Edgeworth and Richard Bentley and others; copies of letters by Edgeworth, including correspondence with Rachel Mordacai Lazarus and John Murray; letters by Richard Lovell Edgeworth; holograph poem entitled "Enigma"; drawing of Edgeworth's Library by F. W. Fairholt; and Slade's research files, gathered during research for her book, "Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, a...
Dates:
1791-1940
Abraham Hayward collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 553
Abstract:
Correspondence, printed materials, other papers, and photographs related to Abraham Hayward, as well as the research materials of Hayward biographer Brian Roberts. Outgoing correspondence includes letters to Hayward's sisters Fanny and Mary Anne Hayward, as well as publisher Richard Bentley. Incoming correspondence primarily consists of letters from members of Hayward's literary and political circles, including George Bentley; John Thaddeus Delane; Edward Everett; Alexander William Kinglake;...
Dates:
1791-1962
Letter : London, to William Hepworth Dixon, 1859 Jul 13
Part of Collection — Box 38: [Barcode: 39002137225133], Folder: GROUP 909, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS.
Dates:
1859 Jul 13
Florence Marryat collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 994
Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, printed ephemera, photographs, drawings and watercolors, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting the life and career of English author and actress Florence Marryat. Visual materials include a wide selection of portraits of Marryat, and drawings and photographs from her time living in South Asia with her first husband; among those are a watercolor portrait of the martyred Sergeant-Major John Lilley (died while imprisioned in Mhow,...
Dates:
1833-1905
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