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Authors, English -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton drawings

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289211]
Identifier: Vault MSS 370
Scope and Contents

Original color drawings to illustrate Lytton's novels. They are entitled: The Caxtons, The Coming Race, Devereux, Eugene Aram, Falkland, Godolphin, Kenelm Chillingley, Lucretia, Zanoni, and A Strange Story.

Dates: 1849

Pink and Lily Inn visitor's book

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232543444]
Identifier: Vault MSS 379
Scope and Contents

Visitor's book containing notes, poems, autographs, and sketches. The item has entries made by visitors to the inn including Rupert Brooke, the English poet. Also included are poems by Ivor Gurney (p. 142), Lance Sieveking (p. 141), and Wallis Mansford (p. 237) and numerous illustrations by Hanslip Fletcher.

Dates: 1910-1938

Poetics

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289187]
Identifier: Vault MSS 372
Scope and Contents

Handwritten poems dedicated to Mrs. Eliza Touchet. Ainsworth made twenty-one monor revisions and corrections in the texts of these items and supplied a line omitted by a copyist in the poem titled "To Eliza."

Dates: 1823

William Sansom papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1977
Scope and Contents

Fifteen typewritten short stories with handwritten corrections, a script for a television play, essays, photographs, and articles. The materials document some of Sansom's writing career.

Dates: 1969-1972

Henry Williamson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1714
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten and typescripts of writings, reports, correspondence, postcards, notes, and miscellaneous documents. These materials shed light on many of Williamson's publications, his ideas, personality, temperament, and relationships.

Dates: 1934-1966