Translation by Thomas Love Peacock of the last five lines of Euripides' Alcestis. An addendum by 'R. Garnett' (presumably Richard Garnett) notes this. A pencilled note on the verso suggests that the manuscript was given by Garnett to 'J. Everson'...
Manuscript poem by Thomas Love Peacock from a letter to Lord Broughton, Nov. 13, 1862, on mourning paper. Cf. Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, v. 2, 1828-1866, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Letter no. 327.
Manuscript of de Quincey's essay 'Anecdotage', which was first published in The London Magazine, March 1823. Available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=gtcYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA244.
Manuscript copy of Browning's 'Human Life's Mysteries', here entitled 'Life'. The poem was first published in the 1850 London edition of Browning's Poems.
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 7 January 1843. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 16, pp. 9-10. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 3 November 1840. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 12, p. 312. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 24 January 1838. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 10, pp. 10-11. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 24 February 1837. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 9, p. 157. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 4 December 1837. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 12, pp. 393–94 (but see note in the Carlyle Letters Online edition)....
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 5 February 1838. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 10, pp. 22-3. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 3[?] February 1837. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 9, pp. 137-8. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his publisher, James Augustus Hessey. The watermark of the paper reads 'Cowan 1822'. The letter discusses the publication of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, which was...
Letter from Longfellow to Newhall recommending a particular Portuguese dictionary, 29 July 1847. Newhall had never met Longfellow, and in the letter that occasioned this one--Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am 1340.2 (4103)--he asks...
Letter from Charles Russel to Frank Linderman, dated 5 November 1917 with envelope from the Lewis Glacier Hotel (Lake McDonald Lodge) in Glacier National Park.