Henry William Herbert collection, 1833-1960Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858engThe collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, drawings, printed materials, and family and personal papers relating to nineteenth-century English author Henry William Herbert. Correspondence in the collection features autograph letters, signed, from Herbert to Asher B. Durand, Rufus W. Griswold, Algernon Herbert, James Russell Lowell, and Herbert family members, as well as American publishers Carey & Hart and Lea & Blanchard. Third-party correspondence consists chiefly of letters from Fred E. Pond and Harry Worcester Smith to Percy Charles Dryden Mundy. Also present are Herbert family genealogical notes, graphite drawings of birds by Herbert, his passport and first marriage license, newspaper clippings regarding his life and writings, and printed material related to Caldrees Manor in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, a Herbert ancestral home owned by Herbert's grand-nephew Percy Charles Dryden Mundy (1879-1959).In addition to photographs, images of Herbert in the collection include one portrait (oil on panel, unsigned and undated) of the author seated in his library at "The Cedars," his home on the banks of the Passaic River near Newark, New Jersey, and a portrait (oil on canvas, undated) by the New Jersey artist George Gates Ross (1814-1856). A small portrait of Herbert's daughter-in-law Emily Elizabeth Falkines Herbert (1843-1911) is a paper photograph overpainted in watercolor and framed to resemble a miniature. All three works were the bequest of Percy Charles Dryden MundyHenry William Herbert (1807-1858), English sportsman, author, historian, and translator also know by the pseudonym Frank Forester. The son of the Reverend William Herbert (1778-1847), he was educated at Eton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating in 1830. Herbert moved to the United States in December 1831, and married Sarah Barker (1822-1844) of Portland, Maine, in 1839. The breakup of Herbert's short second marriage to Adela Budlong of Providence, Rhode Island, prompted his suicide in New York on May 17, 1858. Herbert had one son, William George Herbert (1841-1920), who moved to England after his father's death.Box 1 contains correspondence, family papers, photographs, drawings, and printed material. 2 (Broadside) contains oversize newspaper clippings. Box 3 contains portraits of Herbert at "The Cedars" and Emily Herbert. 4 (Art) is an oil portrait of Herbert.In English.