Collection contains approximately 30 pieces of correspondence between Miller and French publisher Maurice Girodias, dating from the mid to late 1970s, and drafts, corrected, of several pieces of writing, including a fragment from Nexus and four essays...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)
Subject (Name):
Fraenkel, Michael, 1896-1957., Girodias, Maurice., Man Ray, 1890-1976., and Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Intellectual life
Album containing the correspondence of Benjamin Strutt of Colchester and John Pattison Jr. of Witham. The letters are highly literary in nature, and contain many references to, playful imitations of, and comments on MacPherson's <title>Ossian</title>,...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796, Pattison, John Jr., 1758-1782., Strutt, Benjamin, 1754-1827., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Classical studies, English literature, English poetry, Friendship, Sentimentalism in literature, Students, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
The collection contains scientific, political and personal correspondence of the Earl of Morton and the first Lady Morton; a travel diary kept by Sholto, Lord Morton in 1784; and a few folders of letters to George Douglas, Earl of Morton (1761-1827). ...
Description:
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (1702-1768) was educated in Edinburgh and at King's College, Cambridge. An amateur scientist and mathematician, Morton was the first President of the Edinburgh Society for Improving the Arts and Sciences; served as P...
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland., France, Great Britain, and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761., Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788., Clairaut, M., 1713-1765., Decker, Matthew, Sir, 1679-1749., Douglas, Robert, -1745., Douglas, William, -1747., Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782., Farquharson, Francis., Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse Rodet, 1699-1777., Hoey, Abraham van, 1684-1766., Irwin, Anne, Viscountess, 1696-1764., König, Samuel, 1712-1757., Le Monnier, Louis Guillaume, 1717-1799., Le Monnier, M. 1715-1799. (Pierre-Charles),, MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746., Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755., Morton, George Douglas, Earl of, 1761-1827., Morton, James Douglas, Earl of, 1702-1768., Morton, Sholto Charles Douglas, Earl of, 1732-1774., Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757., Saint-Germain, comte de, -1784., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., West, Benjamin, 1730-1813., Bastille., Royal Society (Great Britain), and Select Society.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Enlightenment, Influence, Natural history, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Philosophes, Telescopes, Design and construction, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Civilization
Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and printed material documenting aspects of the scholarly career of Percy Simpson, particularly his edition of Ben Jonson's Works (1925-52) and his professional relationships with his colleagues, especially C. H. H...
Description:
Percy Simpson (1865-1962) graduated from Cambridge but spent the most productive years of his scholarly career at Oxford. He is best-known as an editor of Ben Jonson's Works (1925-52), first with C. H. Herford and, from 1937, with Evelyn Spearing Sim...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Abraham, Charles John, 1814-1903., Bang, W. 1869-1934. (Willy),, Chambers, E. K. 1866-1954. (Edmund Kerchever),, Chapman, R. W. 1881-1960. (Robert William),, Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962., Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937., Garrod, H. W. 1878-1960. (Heathcote William),, Greg, W. W. 1875-1959. (Walter Wilson),, Herford, C. H. 1853-1931. (Charles Harold),, Jackson, William A. 1905-1964. (William Alexander),, Jenkinson, Hilary, Sir., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Masefield, John, 1878-1967., Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952., Raleigh, Walter, 1861-1922., Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962., Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943., and University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):
Criticism and interpretation, Faculty, Intellectual life, Learning and scholarship, and Scholars
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of about 36 essays and verse translations on various subjects. The collection begins with an essay titled "Character & Design of the Author," which compares his collection of works to the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1720-1790., Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius., and Theocritus.
Subject (Topic):
English periodicals, English poetry, Philosophy, Theater, and Intellectual life
Manuscript, in a single hand, consisting primarily of scientific and travel notes. The manuscript begins with Blagden's notes during his service as a surgeon in the army during the American Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1780. Stationed in the C...
Description:
Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), was a physician and secretary of the Royal Society. In 1772, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 he became a surgeon in the army and served on a hospital ship during the American Revolutionary War....
Subject (Geographic):
United States., France, Great Britain, England, and United States
Subject (Name):
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Science, History, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Intellectual life, Social life and customs, and Personal narratives, British
