Henry William Herbert collection, 1833-1960

The 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 Mundy