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The Blessington papers : manuscript albums

Title: The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856.
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

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6 volumes (containing 749 items)

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Authors, English > 19th century > Correspondence
English poetry > 19th century > Manuscripts > Specimens
Politicians > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence

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Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, Marguerite Gardner, Countess of Blessington, was active in British literary circles of the first half of the nineteenth century. She published several novels, and edited a handful of literary journals, including The Keepsake and The Book of Beauty. Richard Robert Madden had been a friend of Blessington's since 1821. His memoir of her, published six years after her death, has been criticized for its confusing arrangement and factual errors.

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Pforz MS

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702167656

Title

The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856.

Summary

Chiefly composed of correspondence addressed to the Irish-born writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington, the Blessington Papers were compiled by Richard Robert Madden for the composition of his Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (1855). Notable correspondents among the several hundred include the English novelist Charles Dickens, the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and the English poet Walter Savage Landor. Also included are literary manuscripts; over forty are by Lady Blessingtion herself, while others are by submitters to the journals she edited. Much of the correspondence is published, both in Madden's life of Blessington, and in The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Formed by Alfred Morrison (2nd ser., 1882-1893), "The Blessington Papers" (1895).

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Biography

Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, Marguerite Gardner, Countess of Blessington, was active in British literary circles of the first half of the nineteenth century. She published several novels, and edited a handful of literary journals, including The Keepsake and The Book of Beauty. Richard Robert Madden had been a friend of Blessington's since 1821. His memoir of her, published six years after her death, has been criticized for its confusing arrangement and factual errors.

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Abell, Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe, -1871.

Anderson, William, 1805-1866.

Arlincourt, vicomte d' (Charles Victor Prévôt), 1789-1856.

Athlumney, William Meredyth Somerville, Baron, 1802-1873.

Beattie, William, 1793-1875.

Berkeley, Grantley F. (Grantley Fitzhardinge), 1800-1881.

Bernal, Ralph, 1783-1854.

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849.

Bostock, J. (John), 1808-1872.

Calcraft, Emily.

Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Viscount, 1780-1845.

Cattermole, George, 1800-1868.

Chester, Harry, 1806-1868.

Chesterfield, George Stanhope, Earl of, 1805-1866.

Chiavere, Louis.

Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872.

Clanricarde, Ulick John De-Burgh, Marquis of, 1802-1874.

Clarke, Alured, Sir, 1744 or 1745-1832.

Cooper, Anne, active 1834-1849.

Cowper, Spencer, 1816-1879.

Craven, Keppel Richard, 1779-1851.

Denison, W. J. (William Joseph), 1770-1849.

D'Este, Augustus Frederick, Sir, 1794-1848.

D'Ghies, Hassuna, approximately 1792-

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881.

Donoughmore, John Hely Hutchinson, Earl of, 1787-1851.

Drummond, William, Sir, 1770?-1828.

Du Pasquier, John.

Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840.

Erskine Norton, Mrs. (Eliza Bland Smith), 1795-1862.

Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.

Farrer, Thomas, 1787-1833.

Fergusson, R. Cutlar.

Fonblanque, Albany, 1793-1872.

Fonblanque, J. S. M. (John Samuel Martin), 1787-1865.

Freeling, Francis, Sir, 1764-1836.

Fuller, John, 1757-1834.

Funchal, Conde de.

Galt, John, 1779-1839.

Gambardella, Spiridione, -1886.

Glover, John Hulbert.

Goodwyn, John Edwards.

Graham, Thomas.

Gramont, Anne Quintina Albertine Ida d'Orsay, duchesse de, 1802-1882.

Greville, Charles, 1794-1865.

Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873.

Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889.

Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881.

Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1753-1829.

Hill, George, Sir, 1804-1845.

Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841.

Horseman, John, 1775-1844.

Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885.

Ilchester, William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, Earl of, 1795-1882.

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860.

Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837.

Jerdan, William, 1782-1869.

Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874.

Kemeys-Tynte, Charles John, 1800-1882.

Kenyon, John, 1784-1856.

Lamington, Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Cochrane-Baillie, Baron, 1816-1890.

Landon, Whittington Henry, 1804-1883.

Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.

Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872.

Londesborough, Albert Denison, Baron, 1805-1860.

Londonderry, Frederick William Robert Stewart, Marquess of, 1805-1872.

Longman, Thomas, 1804-1879.

Longman, William, 1813-1877.

Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863.

MacCarthy, Denis Florence, 1817-1882.

Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873.

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886.

Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.

Mathews, Mrs. (Anne Jackson), 1782?-1869.

Mathias, Thomas James, 1754?-1835.

Matuschewitz, Count, 1790-1842.

Millingen, James, 1774-1845.

Mitchell, John, active 1832-1889.

Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866.

Mount-Temple, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron, 1811-1888.

Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of, 1797-1863.

Octogenarius (a.k.a. "The Old Pilgrim," of Mount Radford, Exeter)

O'Flanagan, J. Roderick (James Roderick), 1814-1900.

Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, comte d', 1801-1852.

Osborne, Ralph, 1808-1882.

Osuna, Mariano Téllez-Gíron y Beaufort, 12. duque de, 1814-1882.

Osuna, Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin, 11. duque de, 1810-1844.

Peel, Robert, 1788-1850.

Prentis, Stephen, 1800-1862.

Quin, Frederic Hervey Foster, 1799-1878.

Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, -1850.

Roberts, Emma, 1791-1840.

Rosslyn, James St. Clair Erskine, Earl of, 1762-1837.

Rutland, John James Robert Manners, Duke of, 1818-1906.

Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844.

Sheridan, Louisa Henrietta, -1841.

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.

Simmons, Bartholomew Bootle, 1806-1850.

Smith, Albert, 1816-1860.

Smith, James, 1775-1839.

Soltykoff, Alexis, prince, 1806-1859.

Soutzo, Marie.

Soutzo, Michel, 1784-1864.

John William Henry Dalrymple, Earl of, 1784-1840.

Stepney, Catherine Pollock Manners, Lady, -1845.

Stopford, Edward A. (Edward Adderley), 1809-1894.

Swifte, Edmund Lenthal, 1777-1875.

Talbot, C. R. M. (Christopher Rice Mansel), 1803-1890.

Tankerville, Corisande Armandine Leonice Sophie, Countess of, 1783-1865.

Thompson, Henry, 1797-1878.

Tinsley, Annie, 1808-1885.

Trollope, Theodosia, 1816-1865.

Turner, Alfred, 1797-1864.

Vespucci, America, Countess.

Villiers, George Child-, 1773-1859.

Wellington, Arthur Richard Wellesley, Duke of, 1807-1884.

Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872.

Westmorland, John Fane, Earl of, 1759-1841.

Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867.

Anglesey, Henry William Paget, Marquis of, 1768-1854. Addressee

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849. Addressee

Donoughmore, John Hely Hutchinson, Earl of, 1787-1851. Addressee

Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840. Addressee

Farrer, Thomas, 1787-1833. Addressee

Hare, Julius Charles, 1795-1855. Addressee

Longman & Co. Addressee

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886. Addressee

Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848. Addressee

Newby, Thomas Cautley. Addressee

Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825. Addressee

Power, Marguerite A., 1815?-1867. Addressee

Smith, James, 1775-1839. Addressee

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS

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