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Frances Trollope manuscript material
- Title
- Frances Trollope manuscript material, 1838?-1844
- Author
- Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- · To Sarah Bartley, actress : 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 3916) : 2 pages (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "What a weather cock is a woman!"
- · To "my dear Caroline" : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 May [1838?] : (MISC 4056) : from Hadley : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : begins, "Many thanks my dear Caroline for your amiable billet. Have the kindness to tell Mr. and Mrs. Drury that it will give Cecelia and me great pleasure to dine with them . . . ." Glued to an autograph letter of Anna Jameson (MISC 4057), both letters clearly having been removed from an autograph album.
- · To Mrs. Duff : 1 autograph letter signed : 26 May 1840 : (MISC 0210) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Paris : begins, "Many thanks for your kind remembrance of me. If I get across that torturing little herring pond in tolerable condition . . .;" closes with "best compliments to Capt. Duff . . . ."
- · To Theodosia Garrow [later married name Trollope] and her half-sister Harriett Fisher : 1 autograph letter signed : [between spring of 1844 and 3 Apr 1848] : (MISC 3917) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I really feel as if I could not say enough to you for the great flattering kindness of which your most elegant present gives proof."
- · To Adele d'Henin, daughter of French general le Vicomte D'Henin : 12 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Jun 1840 : (MISC 0211) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Wyndam Street, Bryanston Square : begins, "Gratefully and effectually do I thank you my sweet Adele for your delightful letter." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Jul 1840 : (MISC 0212) : 5 pages (1 double sheet, 1 single sheet) : [from London] : begins, "I have time but for a line dearest Adele, but I will not neglect the opportunity . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Sep 1840 : (MISC 0213) : 3 1/4 pages (double sheet) : from Fell Side, Penrith : begins, "What a life have I been leading dearest Adele since the receipt of your last letter!" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Aug 1840 : (MISC 0222) : 3 1/4 pages (double sheet) : from The Fell Side, Penrith, Cumberland : begins, "Your letter, dearest Adele was a true joy to me, and mother-like, I determined that my son should share it . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Oct 1840 : (MISC 0214) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Penrith : begins, "I have this moment received a hasty line from Tom, dear friend, announcing his immediate departure for your troubles capitol . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [no date] : (MISC 0215) : 3 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "If not beave dearest Adele, I am reasonable . . . and I herewith transmit to my dear son post post haste a rescinding of the interdict I so cruelly laid upon him -- Thank God!" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 March 1841 : (MISC 0216) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Penrith : begins, "I could not, and I would not write to you (not even to thank you for all the jocund jestings produced by your exhilerating cup) till I could tell you dearest Adele whether there was any chance of my embracing you in my way through your belle ville." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Mar 1842 : (MISC 0217) : 3 1/4 pages (double sheet) : from Penrith : begins, "To prove to you beyond the possibility of a doubt, oh! fair and fathless! "que je vous bien plus que vous," I set down your letter beside me . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Aug 1842 : (MISC 0218) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Carlton Hill, Penrith : begins, "I will not tell you, dear Adele how greatly I grieve for my disappointment -- for it will only vex you . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Dec 1842 : (MISC 0219) : 3 1/4 pages (double sheet) : from Carlton Hill, Penrith : begins, "It was a very sad disappointment to me when I received your last letter announcing the impossibility of your coming to Carlton Hill . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Apr 1843 : (MISC 0220) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Clifton : begins, "I do well believe my fair friend that you will be sorry to hear how greatly I have been invalided since I last wrote to you. Alas!" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Feb 1844 : (MISC 0221) : 4 pages (2 single sheets) : from Florence : begins, "Alas! my dear young friend, what desperate enemies are age and indolence to all good intentions . . . ."
- · To "my dear Madam" : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Jul 1841 : (MISC 3918) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Hotel de Russie [Rome] : begins, "I cannot thank you enough, my dear Madam, for the kindness with which you address me. I too have been meditating on the evanescent value of mortal fortnights . . . ."
- · To "Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 May 1840 : (MISC 4023.48b) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Paris : begins, "In reply to your letter of the 5th instant received this morning I subjoin the following list which is, I believe, correct." Followed by a list of her publications dating from 1832 to 1840. Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.
- · To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Jun [no year] : (MISC 1342) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Hadley : begins, "Will you and your family give me the great pleasure of dining with me any day after Thursday 6th July?" Closes with "compliments to the ladies and your son . . . ."
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Frances Trollope, née Milton, English travel writer and novelist.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 950545782
- Author
- Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863.
- Title
- Frances Trollope manuscript material, 1838?-1844
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Frances Trollope, née Milton, English travel writer and novelist.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bartley, Sarah, 1783-1850, addressee.Fisher, Harriett Theodosia, 1811-1848, addressee.Henin, Adele Eleonore d', 1815-1885, addressee.Trollope, Theodosia, 1816-1865, addressee.
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS