Manuscript and printed items, tipped into album in approximate chronological order. Includes letters to Eardley-Wilmot from Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart. (1735-1807), George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813), John Moore, abp. of Canterbury (1730-1805), the Bishop of Leon, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, lady Crewe (d.1818), Mark Noble (1754-1827), Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st bart. (1748-1825), Hannah More (1745-1833), John Milner (1752-1826), John Wills (1741-1806), John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), William Eden, 1st baron Auckland (1744-1814); other manuscript items include financial records, records of council proceedings, and a copy of a letter from Pope Pius VI to the Bishop of Leon.The printed items include newspaper clippings, lists of subscribers, minutes and resolutions from committee meetings, a printed document in Latin issued by Pope Pius VI praising "even non-catholic princes and people" who give asylum to French clergy, and an unrecorded separate printing of the "Case of the Suffering Clergy of France" by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), which first appeared in the Evening Mail, 1792 Sep 19 (see Todd, Bibl. Edmund Burke, No. 60). Some letters praise Eardley-Wilmot for his charitable pursuit, and others criticize him as a papal sympathizer. Table of contents outlines dates and names of correspondents in page order.
Alternative Title:
Case of the suffering clergy of France, refugees in the British dominions
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Refugees--Sources, and Great Britain--Foreign relations--France--1789-1815
Subject (Name):
Eardley-Wilmot, John,--1750-1815
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism--Great Britain, Anticlericalism--France, and Clergy--France--Political activity--History
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. These letters mainly document social and personal activities, such as news of Clemy's husband and children and the health of their mother. Many of Louisa Siefert's letters to her sister describe her own ailing health and advancing tuberculosis, and her doctors' advice. Letters to Siefert's mother also describe the dinners Siefert attends; visits with acquaintances, including Victor Hugo, Charles Blanc, and Paul Chenevard; and operas she sees. Other correspondents in the collection include Siefert's friends such as Charles Asselineau, Chenevard, and Emmanuel des Essarts; admirers of her poetry; the Journal de Lyon concerning her publications; and family members to each other after her death. Also in the collection are Siefert's wedding announcement and death notice; several accounts and receipts; and a manuscript, with numerous corrections, of Adele-Adrienne Siefert's memoirs of her daughter. and Series II contains eight volumes of poetry, primarily in Siefert's hand. Two volumes contain collections of other poets' works, one of which includes, dos-a-dos, a juvenile play by Siefert titled En Automne. Other volumes include a set of notes taken during a course on French poetry taught by Charles Asselineau, and four collections of original poetry dated between 1865 and 1872, which include many sentimental or dedicatory poems to friends and family members. The original poems are annotated with the dates of their composition, and occasionally with publication information; and laid in a volume titled Poems d'amour are two pages of comments on the poems in Asselineau's hand. Also included in the collection is a volume of reviews of Siefert's works, copied in her hand.
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other collections published during her lifetime include L'Année républicaine (1869); Les Stoïques (1870); Les Saintes Colères (1871); and Comédies romanesques (1872); as well as a novel, Méline (1875). Through her friendship with Charles Asselineau, she became well acquainted with other literary and artistic figures, including Victor Hugo, Emile Deschamps, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul Chenavard. In 1876, she married Jocelyn Pene, secretary to Emilio Castelar; a year later, she died of tuberculosis in Pau, France. After her death, her mother published Souvenirs, Poésies inédites. and Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Edwin J.Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists--France--19th century--Correspondence and Authors, French--19th century--Correspondence
Manuscript in a single hand of a series of Convulsionist meditations written while the author was in devotions at the foot of a crucifix. The meditations are often repetitive and concern the merit of suffering along with Christ; the justice, mercy, and love of God; and the value of ecstatic and convulsive experiences during prayer.
Description:
"Frère Pierre" has been identified as the pen name of Pierre Olivier Pinault, the jurist and Jansenist who wrote Histoire abrégée de la derniere persécution de Port Royal (Paris, 1758)., Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, rebacked; spine lettered in gilt; silk book ribbon markers bound in., In French., Purchased from Justin Croft on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009., and The Convulsionists, or Convulsionaires, were part of the Jansenist movement that rejected the papal bull Unigenitus after 1713. Their public and private devotions were marked by ecstatic convulsions and spasms, indifference to physical pain while in trace, occasional speaking in tongues, and claims of miraculous cures.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Pinault, Pierre Olivier,--d. 1790
Subject (Topic):
Convulsionaries, Devotional literature, French--Early works to 1800, Jansenists, and Meditations--Early works to 1800
Emblemes sacrez svr le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'evcharistie and Orpheus eucharisticus. French
Description:
"Acheué d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 20. Ianuier 1666"--Colophon., Binding: green morocco, with interior dentelles., Chesneau identified as author in censors' permission and in privilege. His Orpheus eucharisticus (published by Lambert in 1657) was translated into French and shortened by Augustin Lubin., Signatures: pi² [dagger]⁴ A-M⁸ N⁶., and The "embleme dedicatoire" and 100 numbered emblems were etched by Albert Flamen. Cf. Landwehr.
Publisher:
Chez Florentin Lambert ...,
Subject (Name):
Flamen, Albert, active 17th century., Lambert, Florentin, -1693 or 1694, printer., and Lubin, Augustin, 1624-1695.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics--Early works to 1800. and Emblems--Early works to 1800.