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A Look at Rare Letters: How Personal Correspondences Portray Tennyson’s Public Image

Letters: 7 February 1885 Alfred Lord Tennyson to Roden Noel 13 February 1887 Alfred Lord Tennyson to Roden Noel Rare Item Analysis: A Look at Rare Letters: How Personal Correspondences Portray Tennyson’s Public Image by Drake Osborn Lord Alfred Tennyson was one of the…

The Reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh: A Rare-Item Analysis of Four Letters

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to John Kenyon, mid-March, 1855 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jane Wills-Sanford, 2 March, 1857 Robert Bulwer Lytton to Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, 26 December 1856 John Ruskin to Robert Browning, 27 November, 1856 The Reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s…

Coleridge, Politics, and the Role of Government

Unpublished Letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “1813, Oct. 2, Samuel Taylor Coleridge to T.G. Street” Rare Item Analysis: Coleridge, Politics, and the Role of Government By Daniel Adams Presentation: Adams Rare Item Presentation The rare item is a letter written by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor…

Insights from Wordsworth’s Personal Correspondence

Correspondence from William Wordsworth: To Allen Cunningham, January 8, 1827 To John Abraham Heraud, June 10, 1834 To Francis Merewether, August 7, 1829 Rare Item Analysis: Insights from Wordsworth’s Personal Correspondence by Becca Craigen  By examining a few of Wordsworth’s letters housed in…

Unpublished Letter: Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua and John James Watson

Unpublished Letter: Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua and John James Watson, 2 June 1820 Rare Item Analysis: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Letter and Its Significance by Crystal Wu This post shall spotlight Dorothy Wordsworth’s unpublished letter “1820, June 2, Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua Watson and John…

Transcribed Letters: Tennyson to Roden Noel; Tennyson to Sir Edwin Arnold

Letters: Tennyson to Roden Noel, 13 Feb. 1887 Tennyson to Sir Edwin Arnold, 25 March 1891 Description and Transcriptions: by Mackenzie Sarna In the first letter, Tennyson congratulates poet and essayist Roden Noel on his recently published volume (probably his edition of The…

Victorian Letter: Michael Field to [John] Lane, ca. 1892

Victorian Letter: Michael Field to [John] Lane, ca. 1892 Acquired July 2015 with letter from Field to [Charles Elkin] Mathews, 22 December [1896]

Victorian Letter: Michael Field to [Charles Elkin] Mathews, 22 December [1896]

Victorian Letter from Michael Field to [Charles Elkin] Mathews, 22 December [1896] Acquired July 2015 with letter from Field to [John] Lane, ca. 1892

Letter: Edmund Gosse to Dear Sir, 28 November 1924

Letter from Edmund Gosse to Dear Sir, 28 November 1924 Acquired July 2015

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Letter: to Nelly Bordman, [March 1846]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Letter: to Nelly (Eleanor Page) Bordman, [March 1864] Acquired July 2105