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Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Archive Collection: BC MS 19c Barton

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC MS 19c Barton

Creator(s): Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)()

Date(s): 1818-1848

Language: English

Size and medium: 3 envelopes in 1 box, containing 35 letters, manuscript poems, portraits and drawings

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7335

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of literary figures (Envelope 2) 7 letters from Barton, 1820-1848; 3 poems by Barton; drawing of Barton's house at Woodbridge; silhouette portrait (Envelope 3) 3 letters from Barton, 1833-1845; 4 poems by Barton [1840s]; typed transcript of letter from Barton (manuscripts included).


Includes:

Letters from Barton to:

M.A. Alexander - 25 Sept. 1847

Arthur Clothier - 8 May 1820

Archibald Constable - 11 Apr. 1809; 27 Feb. 1812; n.d.

George Crabbe Jr. - 12 Dec. 1843; 10 Feb. 1845

W.S. Fitch - 20 Apr. 1833

Mrs A.M. Hall - 1 June 1829

Benjamin Head - 23 Oct. 1848; 3 Nov. 1848

Mrs Hunt - 29 Apr. 1835

"Dear Libby" - 20 May 1843

William Pearson -.1 Feb. 1827


Letters to Barton from:

J. Bowing - 17 Aug. 1826

Nathan Drake - 31 Oct. 1829

William Ellis - 22 Nov. 1832

S.C. Hall - 28 May [IB—]

Mrs F. Hemans . 31 Jan. 1827

James Hogg - 18 Aug. 1813

Mary Hewitt 9 Feb. 1832; 12 Aug. 1833

William Jerdan - 13 Oct. [18—]

L.E. Landon - 27 [ 1826

Charles Lloyd - 13 Sept. 1821

James Montgomery - 7 June 1826

Edward Maxon - 10 March 1836

Amelia Opie 17 July 1828

Robert Peel - n.d.

Thomas Pringle - 8 July 1828

E. Romilly - 28 Oct. 1828

J.E. Roscoe - 5 Nov. 1824

W. Roscoe - 17 June 1818

Agnes Strickland n.d.

T.N. Talfourd - 15 Feb. 1836

B. Taylor - 6 April 1835

J. Wiffen 3 May 1824

Biography or history

Bernard Barton was born in Carlisle in 1784 and attended a Quaker school in Ipswich, before being apprenticed to a shopkeeper at Halstead in Essex in 1798. In 1806 he moved to Woodbridge in Suffolk and went into business with his brother. Apart from a short time spent in Liverpool following the death of his wife, Barton remained in Woodbridge until his death in 1849. He was a minor poet, the friend of Lamb and Southey, and author of ten volumes of verse and also of a number of hymns.

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