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Hobhouse, John Cam, Baron Broughton (politician)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1786-1869. - 1869

Found in 88 Collections and/or Records:

Page proofs of 'Don Juan: Cantos I and II' by Lord Byron, with corrections by John Cam Hobhouse and Lord Byron., 1819, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.43394
Scope and Contents The volume here contains proofs, 1819, for Cantos I and II of ‘Don Juan’ as follows:Notes relating to the proofs: folios 1-2;Proofs of the supressed Dedication stanzas I-XII: folios 3-6;Proofs of Canto I, stanzas numbered I-CCXVII with notes, additions and corrections by Lord Byron and John Cam Hobhouse: folios 7-43;Proofs of Canto I, stanzas numbered LIV-LXXI with annotations: folios 44-46;Proofs of Canto I, stanzas numbered...
Dates: 1819, undated.

Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse., 1800-1958.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42285-42304
Scope and Contents Politician John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, (1786-1869) was part of the circle of John Murray [II], largely through his friendship with the poet Lord Byron. Hobhouse also had works published by Murray throughout his life.The material in this sequence contains numerous letters, manuscripts, proofs and miscellaneous papers relating to John Cam Hobhouse. There is correspondence with John Galt, John Hanson, Thomas Moore, John Murray [II] and John Murray [III] among others. ...
Dates: 1800-1958.

Privately printed publication, 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron's Memoirs', by John Cam Hobhouse., 1870.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42300
Scope and Contents This is a privately printed work of John Cam Hobhouse. It gives his account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron and the burning of the memoirs of the poet in 1824.The pages have not been cut and are stored folded together in the correct order. The loose binding in which the pages are contained seems to have been originally intended for another publication, but a manuscript note has been added to reflect the current content. The printed pages and the binding...
Dates: 1870.

Proofs and printed editions of poems by or relating to Lord Byron, 1811-1818, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43390
Scope and Contents Part proofs of the first edition of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, by Lord Byron including title, preface, contents and errata of, with annotations, 1812: folio 1;Part proofs ‘Don Juan’s Expostulation, with notes by a friend’, by Lord Byron, with an annotation in the hand of John Cam Hobhouse, undated: folios 2-3;Part proofs of ‘Hints from Horace’ by Lord Byron, including title-page and half-title, with annotations, 1811: folios 4-7; Part proofs of ‘Congiura di Marin...
Dates: 1811-1818, undated.

Proofs, and privately printed edition of, 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron`s memoirs', by John Cam Hobhouse., 1870.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42299-42300
Scope and Contents

The proofs and printed edition of this work by John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, detail two of the most controversial moments in life and reputation of Byron - the breakdown of his marriage and the burning of his memoirs. The work was originally privately printed in 1870, but then included in 'Recollections of a long life', which was edited by Lady Dorchester (the daughter of Hobhouse) and published by Murray between 1909 and 1911.

Dates: 1870.

Two manuscript copies of the satirical verse, 'My boy Hobby' by Lord Byron in an unidentified hand., Circa 1832, undated.

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Identifier: MS.42296
Scope and Contents There are here two manuscript copies of the poem 'My Boy Hobbie O', which was sent in a letter of Lord Byron to John Murray [II] in 1820. Hobhouse was upset by the poem and the fact that Murray had allowed it to circulate.The first copy is annotated with the phrase 'an imperfect recollection' and there are indeed differences between the poem as it exists in other places and that which appears on both copies here.Neither manuscript is dated, but one copy has a...
Dates: Circa 1832, undated.

Two portraits of John Cam Hobhouse., 2nd quarter 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.42302
Scope and Contents

Printed, coloured caricature of Hobhouse, ‘Earl Hobby and Viscount Harangue, City of Westminster’: folio 1;

Printed portrait, ? 1836, "Sir John Cam Hobhouse", with a biographical sketch: folio 2.

Dates: 2nd quarter 19th century.

Typescript transcriptions of letters, 1814-1829, between John Cam Hobhouse and John Murray II., 1994-? 1999.

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Identifier: MS.42293
Scope and Contents This file includes transcriptions of letters in the John Murray Archive and the British Library. The transcriptions are heavily footnoted. The transcriptions and footnotes were created by Peter Cochran and many are available on his website.Transcriptions of letters, dated 1815-1821, between John Cam Hobhouse and John Murray [II], most of which are housed in the British Library, with a letter of Peter Cochran to Virginia Murray, 1994: folios 1-6;Transcriptions of...
Dates: 1994-? 1999.

Typescripts and photocopies relating to John Cam Hobhouse., 1958, undated.

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Identifier: MS.42304
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typescript list entitled ‘Hobhouse and Broughton MSS at Monkton Farleigh in the possession of Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bt.’. The list was compiled by Mrs Doris Langley Moore in September 1958: folios 1-3;

Photocopies of material concerning Hobhouse, with reference to the Roe-Byron collection, undated: folios 4-10.

Dates: 1958, undated.

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Archival Object 87
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Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 60
Copies. Derivative objects. 26
Notes. 11
Manuscripts. 10
Drafts. Documents. 7