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Miscellaneous correspondence and cuttings, [1763]-1925


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL438

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence and cuttings, [1763]-1925

Date(s): [1763]-1925

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 volume (c 108 pages)

Name of creator(s): Hutchinson | Thomas | fl c 1880-1925 | collector

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Details of the creator were unknown at the time of the compilation of this finding aid.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bound volume containing approximately 100 letters and other miscellaneous writings, c 1763-1925, comprising copies of poems; newspaper cuttings; cuttings from booksellers' catalogues and biographical dictionaries; handwritten notes; and engraved and photographic portraits. The following items have been inserted at the front of the volume: 4 newspaper cuttings; catalogue number 46 of P J and A E Dobell, booksellers (Jul 1925); and the address portions of 2 envelopes, 1837-1838.

The majority of the correspondents are poets, authors, academics or clergymen, mainly from the 19th century. Letter-writers include the following: Charles Hamilton Aidé; Archibald Alison (later Sir Archibald); Edwin Atherstone; James Atlay, Bishop of Hereford; Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham; Peter Bayne (Ellis Brandt); Arthur Christopher Benson; Rev Edward Bickersteth (?Dean of Lichfield); Robert Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon; Professor John Stuart Blackie; Professor John James Blunt; Thomas George Bonney; Oscar Browning; Edward Capern; Edward Daniel Clarke; George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta; Charles Henry Olive Daniel; John Disney; John Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle; Reverend Henry Drury; Robert John Eden, Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells; Rev John Wogan Festing, Bishop of St Albans; Rev James Fleming; Francis Fulford, Bishop of Montreal; William Nugent Glascock; Rev Sabine Baring-Gould; Eugene Jacob Lee-Hamilton; William Hayley; Charles Harold Herford; John Hoole; William Howitt; William Jerdan; Augustus Jessopp; Edmund Keene, Bishop of Chester; Charles Mackay; Halford John Mackinder (later Sir Halford); John Richard Magrath; Herbert Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough; Thomas Gerald Massey; Hugh Boyd McNeile, Dean of Ripon; John Miller Dow Meiklejohn; Rev Charles Merivale, Dean of Ely; Rev Frederick Brotherton Meyer; Richard Monckton Milnes (later Lord Houghton); Rev John Murray Mitchell; William Mitford; James Montgomery; Robert Montgomery; Thomas Moore; Rev John Morison; John Henry Muirhead; Professor Friedrich Max Müller; the Hon Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel; Charles Evelyn Pierrepont, Viscount Newark; Professor James Pillans; Sir Lyon Playfair (later Lord Playfair); Professor Richard Potter; John Critchley Prince; John Edmund Reade; William Stewart Rose; John Towill Rutt; Anna Seward (the 'Swan of Lichfield'); Mary Montgomerie Singleton (Violet Fane, afterwards Lady Currie); William Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen; George Barnett Smith (Guy Roslyn); Robert Payne Smith, Dean of Canterbury; Robert Southey; Charles Swain; Sir Henry Taylor; John Timbs; Sir George Pretyman Tomline, Bishop of Winchester; Rev Henry Baker Tristram; John Matthias Turner, Bishop of Calcutta; Patrick Fraser Tytler; Aubrey Thomas de Vere; Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (later Sir Paul); Edwin Waugh; Gerald Valerian Wellesley, Dean of Windsor; Stanley John Weyman; Joseph Blanco White; Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen; Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta; Rev Christopher Wordsworth (later Bishop of Lincoln); and William Aldis Wright. Many of the letters are autograph and bear signatures. Some of the letters were purchased or solicited from their writers or owners by one Thomas Hutchinson, who may also have compiled the whole volume.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

See hard copy catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to individual items in Senate House Library archives collections may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

See archivist

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Saudek Graphological Collection (a gift from Dr Dingwall) within the Harry Price Library, 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Presumably, Miss Treadwell retained the original letters after relinquishing these copies; the current whereabouts of the original letters is unknown.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academics | People by occupation | People
Clergy | Religious groups
Eighteenth century | Centuries
Nineteenth century | Centuries
Poets | Writers | Authors
Twentieth century | Centuries

Personal names
Aide | Charles Hamilton | 1826-1906 | author and musician
Alison | Sir | Archibald | 1826-1907 | 2nd Baronet | General
Atherstone | Edwin | 1788-1872 | poet and writer
Atlay | James | 1817-1894 | Bishop of Hereford
Barrington | Shute | 1734-1826 | Bishop of Durham
Bayne | Peter | 1830-1896 | journalist and author x Brandt | Ellis
Benson | Arthur Christopher | 1862-1925 | writer
Bickersteth | Edward | 1814-1892 | Dean of Lichfield
Bickersteth | Robert | 1816-1884 | Bishop of Ripon
Blackie | John Stuart | 1809-1895 | university teacher and writer
Blunt | John James | 1794-1855 | Church of England clergyman and theological writer
Bonney | Thomas George | 1833-1923 | geologist
Browning | Oscar | 1837-1923 | educationist, historian and mountaineer
Capern | Edward | 1819-1894 | poet
Clarke | Edward Daniel | 1769-1822 | antiquary and mineralogist
Cotton | George Edward Lynch | 1813-1866 | Bishop of Calcutta
Currie | Mary Montgomerie | 1843-1905 | nee Lamb | Lady Currie | poet and writer x Fane | Violet x Singleton | Mary
Daniel | Charles Henry Olive | 1836-1919 | printer and college head x Daniel | Henry Olive
Douglas | John | 1721-1807 | Bishop of Salisbury and writer
Drury | Henry | 1812-1863 | Church of England clergyman
Eden | Robert John | 1799-1870 | 3rd Baron Auckland | Bishop of Bath and Wells
Festing | John Wogan | 1837-1902 | Bishop of St Albans
Fleming | James | 1830-1908 | Church of England clergyman
Fulford | Francis | 1803-1868 | Bishop of Montreal
Glascock | William Nugent | c 1787-1847 | naval officer
Gould | Sabine Baring- | 1834-1924 | Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector x Baring-Gould | Sabine
Hamilton | Eugene Jacob Lee- | 1845-1907 | poet and novelist x Lee-Hamilton | Eugene Jacob
Hayley | William | 1745-1820 | poet and biographer
Herford | Charles Harold | 1853-1931 | Professor of English
Hoole | John | 1727-1803 | translator
Howitt | William | 1792-1879 | writer
Jerdan | William | 1782-1869 | journalist and antiquary
Jessopp | Augustus | 1823-1914 | schoolmaster and historical writer
Keene | Edmund | 1714-1781 | Bishop of Ely
Mackay | Charles | 1812-1889 | poet and journalist
Mackinder | Sir | Halford John | 1861-1947 | Knight | geographer and politician
Magrath | John Richard | 1839-1930 | college head
Marsh | Herbert | 1757-1839 | Bishop of Peterborough and biblical critic
Massey | Thomas Gerald | 1828-1907 | poet and writer x Massey | Gerald
McNeile | Hugh Boyd | 1795-1879 | Dean of Ripon
Meiklejohn | John Miller Dow | 1836-1902 | Professor of Education and writer of school books
Merivale | Charles | 1808-1893 | historian and Dean of Ely
Meyer | Frederick Brotherton | 1847-1929 | Baptist minister
Milnes | Richard Monckton | 1809-1885 | 1st Baron Houghton | author and politician
Mitchell | John Murray | 1815-1904 | missionary and orientalist
Mitford | William | 1744-1827 | historian of ancient Greece
Montgomery | James | 1771-1854 | poet
Moore | Thomas | 1779-1852 | Irish poet
Morison | John | 1791-1859 | Congregational minister
Muirhead | John Henry | 1855-1940 | philosopher
Müller | Friedrich Max | 1823-1900 | Sanskritist and philologist
Noel | Roden Berkeley Wriothesley | 1834-1894 | poet and essayist
Pillans | James | 1778-1864 | university teacher and educational reformer
Playfair | Lyon | 1818-1898 | 1st Baron Playfair | chemist
Potter | Richard | 1799-1886 | university professor
Prince | John Critchley | 1808-1866 | poet
Reade | John Edmund | 1800-1870 | poet and novelist
Rose | William Stewart | 1775-1843 | poet and translator
Rutt | John Towill | 1760-1841 | politician and writer
Seward | Anna | 1742-1809 | called the Swan of Lichfield | poet and correspondent x Lichfield | Swan of
Skinner | William | 1778-1857 | Scottish Episcopal Bishop of Aberdeen
Smith | George Barnett | 1841-1909 | author and journalist x Roslyn | Guy
Smith | Robert Payne | 1818-1895 | orientalist and theologian
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist and biographer
Swain | Charles | 1801-1874 | poet and engraver
Taylor | Sir | Henry | 1800-1886 | Knight | poet and public servant
Timbs | John | 1801-1875 | author
Tomline | Sir | George Pretyman | 1750-1827 | 5th Baronet | Bishop of Winchester and political adviser x Pretyman | George
Tristram | Henry Baker | 1822-1906 | geologist and naturalist
Tytler | Patrick Fraser | 1791-1849 | historian
Vere | Aubrey Thomas de | 1814-1902 | poet x de Vere | Aubrey Thomas
Vinogradoff | Sir | Paul Gavrilovitch | 1854-1925 | Knight | historian and jurist x Vinogradov | Pavel Gavriilovich
Waugh | Edwin | 1817-1890 | poet
Wellesley | Gerald Valerian | 1809-1882 | Dean of Windsor
Weyman | Stanley John | 1855-1928 | novelist
White | Joseph Blanco | 1775-1841 | author x Crespo | José María Blanco y
Wiffen | Jeremiah Holmes | 1792-1836 | poet and author
Wilson | Daniel | 1778-1858 | Bishop of Calcutta
Wordsworth | Christopher | 1807-1885 | Bishop of Lincoln
Wright | William Aldis | 1831-1914 | literary and biblical scholar

Corporate names
P J and A E Dobell | booksellers x Dobell, P J and A E

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