Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of and concerning Arthur and Augusta Stanley., 1867-1881.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42562-42564
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1867-1881.
Two poems concerning Augusta Stanley., Circa 1876.
File
Identifier: MS.42564
Scope and Contents
(i) Manuscript of a poem, "Dying Words", by an unknown author, ?inspired by an observation made by Augusta Stanley; and,
(ii) printed poem, "In memory of the Lady Augusta Stanley", by Elizabeth "Bessie" Charles. The poem has been inscribed to Madame
Loyson.
Dates:
Circa 1876.