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Total number of records: 7
Sender: Dickens, Charles
Recipient: Forster, John
Letters: 3
Date(s): [1838] - 22 Dec 1868
Location: BC MS 19c Dickens.
Note: As described in the manuscript catalogue by Dr. Eric G. Millar, kept with the letters.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Forster, John
Letters: 2
Date(s): 8 Oct 1849 - 28 Nov 1849
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 11, in volume lettered "Two Autograph Letters from Mrs E.C. Gaskell to John Forster"
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: Two autograph letters plus typescript copies of three others. Asks Forster to beg Tennyson to send a copy of his works to Samuel Bamford, the Lancashire poet; thanks for the copy of Tennyson and her own pleasure in his works. Letter of 7 Dec 1849: humorous description of Bamford receiving the Tennyson poems; desire for criticism of her latest novel, her series of articles for "All the Year Round", on Madame de Sevigne and a request to see Miss Kavanagh's book on the same subject. Undated letter: acknowledgement of reviews.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Forster, John
Letters: 20
Date(s): 19 Feb 1851 - 18 Apr 1854
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 11, in volume lettered "Two Autograph Letters from Mrs E.C. Gaskell to John Forster"
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Typescript copies of 20 extracts from letters.
Sender: Forster, John
Recipient: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Letters: 2
Date(s): 20 Dec [1845]; 14 Jul [1851]
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Sender: Crabbe, Revd George, senior
Recipient: Forster, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): Jan 1832
Location: BC MS 19c Crabbe 1. In "Extra illustrated life of Crabbe", vol.4, p.190
Note: Draft of a letters, written within 10 days of Crabbe's death (23 Jan 1832).
Sender: Forster, John
Recipient: Crabbe, Revd George, senior
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 Jan 1832
Location: BC MS 19c Crabbe 1. In "Extra illustrated life of Crabbe", vol.4, p.189
Sender: Forster, John
Recipient: Chapman, Edward
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Jun [18--]
Location: BC Miscellaneous letters, PRI (Pringle album)