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 Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS AinsworthGuide to the William Harrison Ainsworth collection of papers,[1836]-1889 The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Staff 2006 Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded through a gift from Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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 Descriptive Summary William Harrison Ainsworth collection of papers, [1836]-1889 Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882. Berg Coll MSS Ainsworth131 items The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
New York, New York
 This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks dating from 1843 to 1845, and pictorial works. Subjects Personal Names Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871. Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. Harrison, James Bower. Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845. Kent, Charles, 1823-1902. Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), former owner. Young, Owen D., 1874- former owner. Eccles, Mary Hyde, donor. Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966, donor. Subjects Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882. Document Types Correspondence. Notebooks. Administration Information Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. The notebooks were a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. A. A. Berg.

 Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

 Biography

William Harrison Ainsworth was an English novelist.

 Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks dating from 1843 to 1845, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include poems and portions and drafts of novels. The pictorial works include drawings by George Cruikshank for Ainsworth's novels. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from [1836] to 1889, to Richard Harris Barham, George Cruikshank, his cousin Dr. James Bower Harrison, William Charles Mark Kent, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from [1839] to 1841, between Richard Harris Barham and Richard Bentley.

 Series Descriptions Manuscripts Oversize (+) In: Moran, Mrs. E. R. Album of autographs and sketches Bacchanalian song. Holograph poem 1839 Jan. 19 ms. 1 p.

Signed Y.

Manuscript box [Beatrice Tyldesley. Book the third, chapters 10-13, book the fourth, chapters 1-2] Holograph n.d. ms. 29 p.

Differs from the text of the [188-?] edition of the John Dicks serial H.

Manuscript box [The good old times; the story of the Mansfield rebels of '45]. Holograph n.d. ms. 6 p.

Y.

Manuscript box [Jack Sheppard]. Holograph draft (mutilated) of a plan probably for the first edition in part of Jack Sheppard, arranged in two columns, the number and month in the first column and the corresponding chapter headings in the second column n.d. ms. 3 p.

H.

Manuscript box [Jack Sheppard]. Four holograph fragments n.d. ms. 4 items

H.

Manuscript box [Old Saint Paul's] Holograph n.d. ms. 1 p.

H.

Oversize (+) In: Moran, Mrs. E. R. Album of autographs and sketches Pleasure and virtue. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Signed with initials Y.

Manuscript box [Preston fight, or The insurrection of 1715]. One page of holograph n.d. ms. 1 p.

H.

Barham, Richard Harris. Holograph notebook and commonplace book. Poems, anecdotes, jokes, etc. Includes some journal entries. Pages 50-51 cut out. 9 pages at end in R. H. Dalton Barham's and Caroline Frances Barham's hand. Mentions Ainsworth, etc. 1843 - 1845(?) notebooks 1 v.

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. A. A. Berg

Correspondence Outgoing Manuscript box Ainsworth, Fanny. ALS to his daughter 1847 Aug. 20 corr. out 3 p. Manuscript box [Ainsworth], Fanny. ALS to his daughter 1847 Oct. 11 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box Ainsworth, Ann Harrison. ALS to his mother 1841 Aug. 16 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box [Argus]. ANS to the [editor (?)] 1839 Dec. 31 corr. out 1 p.

Y.

Inserted in: [Barham, R. H.] The Ingoldsby legends. 2nd series. London, 1842. 1st ed., 2d issue. Copy 4 Barham, Richard Harris. ALS [n.y.] Feb. 4 corr. out 1 item Manuscript box Browne, Hablot K. ALS 1858 Feb. 14 corr. out 1 item

With an ANS from H. K. Browne on the 3rd page Y.

Inserted in: Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London. London, 1840. 1st edition in book form. Copy 2, p. 143 Cruikshank, George. ALS [n.d.] corr. out 1 item Manuscript box [Fraser, Thomas]. ALS 1840 Nov. 3 corr. out 1 p.

Y.

Manuscript box [Fraser, Thomas]. ALS 1840 Nov. 15 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box [Garland, John]. ALS 1856 Jan. 3 corr. out 3 p.

Y.

Manuscript box Gilbert, John. ALS 1861 July 25 corr. out 3 p. Manuscript box [Harrison]. 32 ALS and a memorial card to his cousin Dr. James Bower Harrison. 3 letters mutilated 1838 Mar. 20 - 1881 Dec. 28 corr. out 33 items in 7 folders

Also a copy of Ainsworth's letter to his cousin, April 23, 1879, made by Daniel F. Howorth and sent to J. B. Harrison's son, Howard, in a letter Nov. 15, 1909 B.

Manuscript box Hood, Thomas [?]. ALS 1843 Oct. 19 corr. out 1 item Manuscript box Hunt, Leigh. ALS 1843 Dec. 13 corr. out 3 p.

H.

Manuscript box Kent, William Charles Mark. ALS 1850 Nov. 20 corr. out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box Kent, William Charles Mark. ALS 1851 Nov. 30 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box Kent, William Charles Mark. ALS 1857 [ie. 1858] Jan. 1 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box Kent, William Charles Mark. ALS 1861 Dec. 28 corr. out 3 p.

Y.

Manuscript box Kent, William Charles Mark. ALS 1862 Jan. 30 corr. out 1 p.

Y.

Manuscript box Kent, William Charles Mark. ALS 1870 July 7 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box Macrone, John. AL. Relates to Dickens and Bentley [1836 Nov. 11] corr. out 5 p.

Signed with initials Published in: Ellis, S. M. William Harrison Ainsworth and his friends. London, 1911. Vol. 1, p. 305 B.

Manuscript box Maidment [?], James. Copy of ALS 1838 Jan. 16 corr. out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box Ollier, [Charles]. ALS 1840 Dec. 4 corr. out 1 item

On p. 3: ALS from Ollier to Sir John Philippart, enclosing Ainsworth's AN (in the third person) to Sir John Philippart, Dec. 3, 1840 Y.

Manuscript box Philippart, Sir John. AN (in the third person) 1840 Dec. 3 corr. out 1 p.

With his: ALS to Charles Ollier, Dec. 4, 1840. 1 l. Y.

Inserted in: Ainsworth, W. H. The miser's daughter. London,, 1848 [Sharpe, Charles K.]. 3 ALS 1842 Feb. 16 - 1842 May 6 corr. out 3 items Manuscript box Smith, [Horace (?)]. ALS 1846 Oct. 17 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box Tisdale, Dr. [C. G.]. ALS 1874 Sept. 14 corr. out 1 p.

Encloses holograph of the opening lines of The tower of London and of the same passage in Spanish, German, Dutch and French from translations of the work, 1 p. H.

Manuscript box [Young, Murdo]. ALS 1849 Dec. 6 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box [Young?, Murdo]. ALS 1849 Dec. 13 corr. out 3 p.

Y.

Manuscript box [--?]. ALS 1840 Dec. 19 corr. out 1 item

Y.

[--?]. ALS 1841 Feb. 2 corr. out 1 p. Manuscript box [--?]. ALS 1850 May 19 corr. out 1 item

Y.

Manuscript box [--?]. ALS. Cut in half so that one line of text is concealed 1859 May 23 corr. out 1 p.

H.

Manuscript box [--?]. ALS. Relates to Leigh Hunt 1859 Aug. 4 corr. out 3 p. Manuscript box [--?]. ALS 1861 Mar. 26 corr. out 1 item (Thackeray)-B. Inserted in: Benjamin, L. S. The life of William Makepeace Thackeray. [Extra illustrated] London, 1899. Vol. 1, p. 172 [--?]. ALS 1872 May 24 corr. out 1 p. Incoming Manuscript box Barham, Richard Harris. ALS to Ainsworth. Mentions Dickens quarrel [1839? Feb.?] or [1839? Mar.?] corr. in 1 item

B.

Manuscript box Barham, Richard Harris. ALS to "Harry-Starkus" [Harrison Ainsworth?] [1840?] Oct. 13 corr. in 1 item

B.

Manuscript box Barham, Richard Harris. ALS to Ainsworth [1841?] May 4 corr. in 3 p.

B.

Manuscript box Barham, Richard Harris. ALS to [Ainsworth] [1845] July 4 corr. in 1 item

B.

Manuscript box Barham, Richard Harris. ALS (incomplete) to [Ainsworth?] [1845] July 7 corr. in 3 p.

B.

Manuscript box Barham, Richard Harris Dalton. ALS to [Ainsworth?] Relates to his father Rev. R. H. Barham [1845] July 9 corr. in 1 item

B.

(Thackeray)-B. Inserted in: Benjamin, L. S. The life of William Makepeace Thackeray. [Extra-illustrated] London, 1899, vol. 1, p. 169 Blanchard, Laman. ALS to Ainsworth 1843 Dec. 14 corr. in 1 p. Oversize (+)(Dickens)-B. In: Kitton, F. G. Charles Dickens by pen and pencil. London, 1890-1892. Copy 2, vol. 2 Costello, Dudley. 2 ALS to Ainsworth. One dated Aug. 24 [n.y.] [n.d.] corr. in 2 items Inserted in: Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London. London, 1840. 1st ed. in book form. Copy 2 Cruikshank, George. ALS to Ainsworth 1840 Mar. 11 corr. in 1 item Manuscript box Cruikshank, George. 3 ALS to Ainsworth 1840 May 16 - 1944 May 13 corr. in 3 items

Y.

Manuscript box Dickens, Charles. ALS to Ainsworth [1837 May 17] corr. in 3 p.

Engraved card of thanks for condolences on the death of Mary Hogarth, filled out in Charles Dickens' hand, enclosed H.

Oversize (+) Lamb, Charles. ALS to Ainsworth [1823 Dec.] 9 corr. in 1 item

In case with his: The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple. Holograph

Manuscript box Southey, Robert. ALS to Ainsworth 1828 Feb. 21 corr. in 1 item

B.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. ALS to Ainsworth 1843 Sept. 27 corr. in 1 p.

H.

Manuscript box Thackeray, William Makepeace. ALS to Ainsworth [1857] Jan. 11 corr. in 3 p.

Y.

Inserted in: Ainsworth, W. H. The Tower of London. London, 1840. Copy 2, part 1 Thackeray, William Makepeace. ALS to Ainsworth 1857 Jan. 13 corr. in 2 p. Manuscript box Thackeray, William Makepeace. ALS to Ainsworth [n.y.] June 30 corr. in 5 p.

Y.

Related Manuscript box Barham, R. H. ALS to [Richard] Bentley. Mentions Dickens and Ainsworth [1839] Jan. 30 corr. About 1 item

B.

Manuscript box Barham, R. H. ALS to [Richard] Bentley. Relates to Dickens and Ainsworth [1839 Jan. - 1839 Mar.] corr. About 3 p.

B.

Manuscript box Barham, R. H. ALS to R[ichard] Bentley. Relates to Ainsworth [1839?] corr. About 3 p.

B.

Manuscript box Barham, R. H. ALS to Richard Bentley. Mentions Ainsworth 1841 June 25 corr. About 1 p.

B.

(Thackeray) 13 letters, relating to W. M. Thackeray, from W. H. Ainsworth, G. W. Curtis, George Du Maurier, John Leech, Tom Taylor, and others 1854 - 1889 corr. About 2 v.

H.

Pictorial Works Manuscript box Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. Guy Fawkes] Two original colored drawings: Guy Fawkes arrested by Sir Thomas Knevett and Topcliffe, and Death of Viviana. For Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes, 1st ed., 1841, v. 3, p. 46 and 324 respectively n.d. pictorial works 2 items

Signed Y.

Inserted in: Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London. London, 1840. 1st edition in book form. Copy 2, p. 33 Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London] Original pencil sketch of an illustration for Ainsworth's The tower of London n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Signed

Inserted in: Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London. London, 1840. 1st edition in book form. Copy 2, p. 112 Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London] Original of an illustration for Ainsworth's The tower of London with the artist's ms. caption n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Signed drawing in sepia

Manuscript box Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. The tower of London] Five original colored drawings for Ainsworth's The tower of London, 1st ed., 1840 n.d. pictorial works 5 items

Y.

Oversize (+) Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. St. James's] Eleven original pencil and watercolor drawings for Ainsworth's "St. James's; or, The court of Queen Anne," with the words "Original sketch" and the captions written by the artist n.d. pictorial works 11 items

Signed 9 of the illustrations published in the 1st ed. in book form, 1844; the other 2 published in the serial publication in Ainsworth's magazine Y.

Manuscript box Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. Our library table] Two original pencil sketches of illustration used as heading for Our library table department of Ainsworth's magainze. 23 x 19 cm. At bottom of drawing in Cruikshank's hand, "G. C. and Ainsworth." n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Signed H.

Manuscript box Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. The miser's daughter] An original colored drawing: The supper at Vauxhall. For vol. 2 of Ainsworth's The miser's daughter n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Signed Y.

Manuscript box Cruikshank, George. [Ainsworth, W. H. Jack Sheppard] Four original pen-and-ink drawings sent to The City Rembrancer, Guild Hall n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Signed H.