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Mathilde Blind to Theodore Watts

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 11
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Asks to see Watts for "a chat" before she goes out of town. Address is Caroline House, Hampstead, N.W.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Brown, Ford Madox

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Letter dated 1 January 1892. Responds to Elizabeth Procter Brockbank letter: “Dear Miss Brockbank, I recognized with great pleasure your beautiful writing and felt touched at your father’s remembering me with his rare and charming flowers this first day of the year. I hope it is not too late for me to return, you all, my heartiest wishes for your happiness all this year and many others. Some time back you kindly sent me a magazine with some really sweet poetry of your in it and I have ever...
Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Buchanan, Robert

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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Folder contains brief letter descriptions from seller.

Dates: 1854-1932

Robert Buchanan to F. Chapman

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 1
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Mentions a visit to discuss “that novel” and its publication in book form. Sender's address is from 25 Maresfield Gdns, S. Hampstead. Letter dated Easter Monday 1891.

Dates: 1854-1932

Robert Buchanan to Roden Noel

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 2
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Letter dated 10 July. Invites Noel to visit, mentions a libel case involving an article by George Moore in the Evening News. Sender's address is 9 Gower Street, W.C.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Burne-Jones, Edward

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.Correspondence...
Dates: 1854-1932

Edward Burne-Jones to "Dear Sir"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7, Item: 1
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Letter dated 18 March 1890. Apologizes for late response, thanks receipient for "friendly expressions" but states "it is quite improbable" for him to send "a picture for exhibition at the Grovesnor Gallery." Sender's address is printed The Grange, West Kensington, W.

Dates: 1854-1932

Edward Burne-Jones to Theodore Watts

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7, Item: 2
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Letter dated 22 May 1896. Mentions an enclosure that "I shall write back and say 'rubbish'" to; promises to come by "one day before long - for the years are fleeting; adds that he sent Swinburne "a copy of our Chaucer." Sender's address is printed The Grange, 49, North End Road, West Kensington, W. Stamped envelope included.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Burne-Jones, Georgiana

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.Correspondence...
Dates: 1854-1932

Georgiana Burne-Jones to Lucy Clifford

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 1
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Letter dated 18 July 1898. Thanks Clifford for her "sympathy" and mentions "the gift he [husband Edward Burne-Jones] has been to me and us all, and that no infirmity ever touched his noble powers." Sender's address is Brook, Godalming.

Dates: 1854-1932

Georgiana Burne-Jones to Lucy Clifford

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 2
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Letter dated 10 May 1905. Declines invitation to Clifford's daughter Ethel's wedding but writes: "She inherits from her mother a high tradition of love in marriage and of courage in Life, and I pray that neither of those may ever fail her." Sender's address is printed Rottingdean, Sussex.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Caine, Hall

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Folder contains a small black and white photograph of Caine.

Dates: 1854-1932

Hall Caine to "My Dear Sir"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 1
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Letter dated 13 December 1905. Typed and marked "Private," mentions that the letter includes a copy of Swinburne’s “Queen’s Carol, which is to be published on Monday for the benefit of the Queen’s Fund for the Unemployed.” In a postscript, suggests it be published with “good type and prominence and to add to it the little foot-note which I have ventured to make.” Sender's address stamped Whitehall Court S.W.

Dates: 1854-1932

Hall Caine to "Dear Mr. Paget"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 2
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Letter dated 21 September 1897. Apologizes for not seeing Paget when he was in London. Sender's address is stamped Greeba Castle, Isle of Man.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Crawshay, Rose Mary

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Letters are addressed to "Mrs. Rossetti" [Lucy Madox Ford Rossetti] and annotated in pencil by William Michael Rossetti.

Dates: 1854-1932

Rose M. Crawshay to Lucy [Madox Brown] Rossetti

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 1
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Letter dated 5 March 1890. Mentions a bronchitis treatment used by Rossetti (per William Michael Rossetti annotation).

Dates: 1854-1932

Rose M. Crawshay to Lucy [Madox Brown] Rossetti

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 2
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Letter dated 26 July 1890. Mentions prize essays on Byron, Shelley, and Keats (from William Michael Rossetti's annotation).

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Douglas, James

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.Correspondence...
Dates: 1854-1932

James Douglas to "Mr. [St. John] Adcock"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 1
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Letter dated 2 May 1909: “Dear Mr. Adcock, I can’t say no: so I’ll let you have the article by the 10th. I only wish L.S.D. didn’t enter into writing at all! Yours sincerely, James Douglas.” Address stamped Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park, W, in black ink.

Dates: 1854-1932

James Douglas to "Dear St. John Adcock"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 2
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Letter dated 16 June 1914: “I have just got your note on my return from a country week-end. I’ll gladly send you the Watts-Dunton article. With kind regards, Sincerely yours, James Douglas.” Address stamped 96, Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park, W, in black ink.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Gilchrist, Anne

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Letter dated 4 March 1876, addressed to Lucy [Madox Ford] Rossetti, and annotated in pencil by William Michael Rossetti.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Gosse, Edmund

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Letter dated 27 January 1910 to W. Isaac Levine, responds to Levine's questions about his work and remarks: "Your acquaintance with [Gosse's work] seems to be truly remarkable and I wish I could boast more of such careful and enthusiastic readers." Address printed 17, Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, N.W.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Groome, F.H. [Francis Hindes]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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Letter dated dated February 23, 1897, to Theodore Watts-Dunton, mentions a lingering illness and his hopes to travel south; Groome also mentions how his brother, “captain of the H.M.S. Aeolus, is coming back from China in April” and he might join his ship “at Port Said.” Sender's address is 3 Whitehouse Loan Edinburgh.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Hardinge, William Money

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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Letter dated 28 June 1892, addressed to and annotated by William Michael Rossetti.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Hardy, Iza

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series: Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.Correspondence...
Dates: 1854-1932