Research Catalog

Title

Anne Cooper manuscript material : 6 items, 1853-1854.

Author

Cooper, Anne, active 1834-1849.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886.

Found In

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

6 items

Summary

· To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 6 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [1853] : (BLES 5.455d) : from 57 St. Giles's, Oxford : begins, "A. Cooper presents her duty to Doctor Madden, and can assure him his name and writings are both familiar to her. Knowing also Doctor Madden were one of my ladies most valued and intimate friends, I think it better to make you acquainted with my position in that family. I was her Ladyship's maid the last 15 years of her life ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Apr 1853 : (BLES 5.455f) : from Churchill Heath, Chipping Norton : begins, "Fearful of being troublesome, I have delayed writing ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [1854] : (BLES 5.455e) : [no place] : begins, "I am indeed sorry I should have troubled you in your illness ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday" : (BLES 5.455a) : from 87 Eaton Place : begins, "I am sorry not to have answered your letter sooner, but I have been so very much occupied." -- 1 autograph note third person : "Monday" : (BLES 5.455b) : from 87 Eaton Place : saying she "received Dr Madden's letter from Oxford and hastens to forward her address ..." -- 1 autograph note third person : 28 May [no year] : (BLES 5.455c) : from 57 St. Giles's, Oxofrd : saying she "is grieved that Doctor Madden should have had so much trouble with her parcel ..." -- All letters to Madden in v. 5 of the Blessington correspondence. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

Subjects

• Cooper, Anne, active 1834-1849 > Correspondence
• Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849 > Employees
• Household employees > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Anne Cooper, British domestic servant. She worked as a maid for Lady Blessington for the last fifteen years of the novelist's life.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

701395251

Author

Cooper, Anne, active 1834-1849.

Title

Anne Cooper manuscript material : 6 items, 1853-1854.

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Anne Cooper, British domestic servant. She worked as a maid for Lady Blessington for the last fifteen years of the novelist's life.

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Added Author

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886. Addressee

Found In:

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS