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Literary Letters Collection LITERARY LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PORTRAITS COLLECTION Literary Letters, Manuscripts and Portraits collection ........................................................ 5 Custodial history ............................................................................................................. 5 Scope and content ........................................................................................................... 5 Series and Sub-series .......................................................................................................... 6 Series One: Letters .......................................................................................................... 6 Aikin, Lucy ................................................................................................................. 6 Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving, 1900-1979 ........................................................... 6 Armstrong, Harry ........................................................................................................ 6 Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 ..................................................................... 6 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia .............................................................................................. 7 Batten, John Dickson, 1871-1932 ............................................................................... 7 Bawden, Edward, 1903- .............................................................................................. 7 Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909 ............................................................................... 7 Betham-Edwards, Mathilda Barbara, 1836-1919 ....................................................... 7 Binyon, Laurence 1869-1943...................................................................................... 8 Boyle, Eleanor Vere 1825-1916 ................................................................................. 8 Brooke, Leonard Leslie, 1862-1940 ........................................................................... 8 Burrage, Edwin Harcourt ............................................................................................ 8 Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886 ................................................................................ 8 Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924 ............................................................................................. 9 Crane, Lionel............................................................................................................... 9 Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 ........................................................................................... 9 Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 ............................................................................... 10 D’Orleans, J.L. .......................................................................................................... 10 Dalby, Thomas .......................................................................................................... 10 Davis, Mary Gould.................................................................................................... 10 De la mare, Walter John, 1873-1956 ........................................................................ 11 Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898 .................................................................. 11 Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 ....................................................................................... 11 Duvoisin, Roger 1904-1980 ...................................................................................... 12 Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885 ................................................................. 12 Farjeon, Eleanor 1881-1965...................................................................................... 12 Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903 ........................................................................ 12 1 Fenn, Lady Eleanor, 1743-1813 ................................................................................ 12 Fryer, Alfred C. ......................................................................................................... 13 Garnett, Eve 1900-1991 ............................................................................................ 13 Gatty, Margaret ......................................................................................................... 13 Goddard, Julia d. 1896 .............................................................................................. 13 Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932 ................................................................................. 13 Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 ................................................................................... 13 Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786 ....................................................................................... 14 Hardie, E ................................................................................................................... 14 Harnett, Cynthia ........................................................................................................ 14 Hendry, Hamish ........................................................................................................ 14 Hofland, Mrs. Barbara 1770-1844 ............................................................................ 14 Holling, Clancy Holling, 1900- ................................................................................ 14 Hood, Dora, 1885- .................................................................................................... 15 Houghton, Frank ....................................................................................................... 15 Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888 ............................................................................ 15 Howitt, William ........................................................................................................ 15 Jaques, Faith Heather, 1923- ..................................................................................... 15 Jamison, Cecilia Viets, 1837?-1909.......................................................................... 15 Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875................................................................................... 15 Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 ............................................................. 15 Lang, Leonora Blanche, (Mrs. Andrew Lang) .......................................................... 16 Linder, Leslie ............................................................................................................ 16 Little Folks, editor ..................................................................................................... 16 Low, Joseph, 1911- ................................................................................................... 17 Manning, Caroline .................................................................................................... 17 Marcet, Jane Haldimand, 1769-1858 ........................................................................ 17 Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 ................................................................................. 17 Mayo, Isabella Fyvie, 1843-1914 ............................................................................. 17 Milne, Alan Alexander, 1882-1956 .......................................................................... 17 Mogridge, George 1787-1854 ................................................................................... 17 Molesworth, Mary Louisa (Stewart), 1839-1921 ..................................................... 18 Montgomery, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942 ...................................................................... 18 More, Hannah, 1745-1833 ........................................................................................ 18 2 Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 ..................................................................................... 19 Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 ........................................................................... 19 Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853 .......................................................................... 19 Patmore, Coventry, 1823-1896 ................................................................................. 19 Potter, Beatrix ........................................................................................................... 19 Rackham, Arthur 1867-1939 .................................................................................... 20 Rands, William Brightly, 1823-1882 ........................................................................ 20 Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967 .................................................................................... 20 Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947 ................................................................................ 21 Sendak, Maurice ....................................................................................................... 21 Sherwood, Mary Martha, 1775-1851 ........................................................................ 21 Smith, Charlotte (Turner), 1749-1806 ...................................................................... 21 Smith, Sarah [Hesba Stretton], 1832-1911 ............................................................... 21 Takashima, Shizuye .................................................................................................. 21 Tennyson, Alfred, Baron 1809-1892 .......................................................................
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