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Authors, English -- 19th century

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Florence Marryat collection

William Makepeace Thackeray collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1101
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and drawings by or related to William Makepeace Thackeray. Correspondence includes letters written by Thackeray to colleagues such as Connop Thirlwall and William Webb Follett Synge, and letters to Thackeray from potential conributors to Cornhill Magazine. Writings include an autograph manuscript of a chapter of The Adventures of Philip, an autograph poem parodying Goethe's Werther, and an autograph manuscript notebook with memoranda,...
Dates: 1846-1912
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Makepeace Thackeray collection