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BC 1890's

1890s

Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...

Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Crabbe

1726-1816

Additional items listed Sep 2017: 'Letter and Watercolour' [BC MS 19c Crabbe/6].

Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Ellis

08 Oct 1894

Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...

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BC MS 19c Arnold

1810-1894

Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...

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BC MS 19c Tebb

c.1873-1898

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BC MS 19c Barton

1818-1848

(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 lite...

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BC MS 19c Bennett

c.1840-1866

The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...

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BC MS 19c Brooks

1867-1872

Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...

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BC MS 19c Browning

c.1820-1866

Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...

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BC MS 19c Collins

c.1860-1876

Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain

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BC MS 19c Dalton

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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BC MS 19c Egan

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose