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Letters addressed to the firm of Smith, Elder and Company by R D Blackmore, G M Fenn, S Baring Gould, H A Vachell and others.
File
Identifier: MS.23229
Dates:
1861-1910.
Letters, chiefly addressed to Archibald Constable, publisher, with a few copies of letters written by him.
File
Identifier: MS.7200
Scope and Contents
The correspondents include Basil Hall, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Alexander Henderson, David Herd, James Hogg, John Home, Francis Horner, Rowland Hunter and Thomas Hurst. There are some annotations by Thomas Constable, who made use of the material in his ‘Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents’ (Edinburgh, 1873).
Dates:
1801-1827.
Letters from Archibald Constable and Company to Messrs Hurst, Robinson and Company.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23618-23620
Scope and Contents
Includes many letters to Joseph O Robinson from Archibald Constable in person and from Robert Cadell, and a number of other, related, letters and papers. The correspondence concerns business matters, especially the publication and sale of Sir Walter Scott's works, the technicalities connected with their publication, and the financial complications and difficulties which led eventually to the bankruptcy of Archibald Constable. Most of the correspondence was written between January 1819 and...
Dates:
1813-1827.
Papers of the Boyd family, connected with the publishing firm of Oliver and Boyd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9544
Dates:
1752-1950.