Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents A number of the letters are addressed to members of the family of William Blackwood the publisher (died 1834), and the correspondents include literary celebrities and eminent soldiers of the nineteenth-century. It includes: two pages of a manuscript by Fitzgerald Ross (no. 15) and letters of Roderick Murchison (no. 17), Elizabeth Gaskell (no. 50), Agnes Strickland (no. 52) and George Henry Lewes (no. 53). It also includes a certificate appointing George Frederick Blackwood a lieutenant in...

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The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.

Scope and Contents The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...

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Much of the material is from letters to H F Lloyd written between 1838 and 1850 by members of the theatrical profession.