Series 1: Correspondence
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Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.
Correspondence reveals collegial and familial connections between members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their contemporary Victorian literary and artistic circles.
- Language:
- English
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Correspondence arranged in alphabetical order by letter writer's last name. Folders with multiple letters from the same writer are arranged chronologically.
- Names:
- Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928
Blind, Karl, 1826-1907
Blind, Mathilde, 1841-1896
Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893
Buchanan, Robert Williams, 1841-1901
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920
Caine, Hall, 1853-1931
Douglas, James, 1867-1940
Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows), 1828-1885
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
Groome, Francis Hindes, 1851-1902
Hardinge, William Money, 1855-
Hardy, Iza Duffus
Hardy, Duffus, Lady, 1825?-1891
Harrison, Frederic, 1831-1923
Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Ingram, John H., 1842-1916
Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864
Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898
Longman, C. J. (Charles James), 1852-1934
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
Mackay, Eric, 1851-1898
Marston, Philip Bourke, 1850-1887
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885
Elliot, Frances, 1820-1898
Morley, John, 1838-1923
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Nichol, John, 1833-1894
O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar, 1844-1881
Patmore, Coventry, 1823-1896
Pattinson, Mark, 1813-1884
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
Poel, William, 1852-1934
Procter, Anne Benson, 1799-1888
Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Robinson, F. Mabel (Frances Mabel)
Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919
Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906
Solomon, Simeon, 1840-1905
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
Sandys, Frederick, 1829-1904
Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886
Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Baroness, 1813-1896
Thomas, William Cave, 1820-1884
Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir, bart., 1838-1928
Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown, 1843-1894
Norman, Henry, 1858-1939
Whymper, Frederick
Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914
Wilkinson, James John Garth, 1812-1899
Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
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