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S. Austin Allibone papers mssAL

Brooke M. Black The Huntington Library October 2020 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org

S. Austin Allibone papers mssAL mssAL 1 Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library Title: S. Austin Allibone papers Creator: Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889 Identifier/Call Number: mssAL Physical Description: 6 Linear Feet(5 boxes and 5 volumes) Date (inclusive): 1848-1887 Abstract: The correspondence and manuscript notebooks belonging to American librarian, lexicographer, and compiler Samuel Austin Allibone. Language of Material: Materials are in English. Conditions Governing Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Conditions Governing Use The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. S. Austin Allibone papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Immediate Source of Acquisition Provenance unknown. In library as of 1932. Biographical / Historical Samuel Austin Allibone (1816-1889) was an American lexicographer, librarian and compiler. He produced a critical dictionary documenting the lives of approximately 46,000 writers, composed religious tracts, and compiled indexes of quotations. Allibone worked as a librarian at the Lenox Library in New York from its endowment until 1888. Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence and five manuscript notebooks. The vast majority of the correspondence was not penned by Allibone, and a good portion of it was neither authored by him nor addressed to him. Three of the five manuscript notebooks are by Edward Everett, one was written by Baron Thomas Babington Macauley and one was composed by Allibone and his wife, Mary. Everett's manuscripts include a biography of Baron George Gordon Byron (AL 394) and of Sir Walter Scott (AL 395) as well as a copy of his speech "In Defense of the Webster Statue" (AL 398). Macauley's manuscript is a version of his unpublished History of England, and Allibone's manuscript contains, among other items, A visit to Washington Irving, as well as an autograph copy of his letter to Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Significant correspondents include George Bancroft, Henry Ward Beecher, Sir David Brewster, Elihu Burritt, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Thomas Babington Macauley, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie, William Hickling Prescott, L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney, Baron Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Ticknor and Robert C. (Robert Charles) Winthrop. Processing Information Processed by Huntington Library staff. In 2020, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid. Arrangement Arranged in the following order: I. Correspondence; II. Manuscript notebooks. General Former call number: mssAL 1-401. Subjects and Indexing Terms Authors, American -- 19th century Authors, English -- 19th century Webster Statue (Concord, N.H.) Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources Letters (correspondence) -- 19th century Manuscripts -- 19th century

S. Austin Allibone papers mssAL mssAL 2 Allibone, Mary Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 Brewster, David, 1781-1868 Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Horne, Thomas Hartwell, 1780-1862 Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 Macauley, Thomas Babington Macauley, Baron Mackenzie, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton), 1809-1880 Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Correspondent Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894

Correspondence 1848-1887

Box 1 Agassiz-Dunglison Box 2 Everett-Francis Box 3 Gilpin-Lincoln Box 4 Longfellow-Smith Box 5 Sparks-Woolsey Manuscript volumes 1857-1872

Volume 1 "Recollections of Lord Byron, 1815" by Edward Everett AL 393-394 1858 Scope and Contents With letter by Edward Everett to S. Austin Allibone.

Volume 2 "Recollections of Sir Walter Scott, 1818" by Edward Everett AL 395 1857 Scope and Contents With Edward Everett letter to S. Austin Allibone.

Volume 3 "Defense of the Webster Statue" by Edward Everett AL 396-398 1859 Scope and Contents With Edward Everett letter to S. Austin Allibone, letter by Joseph Ames to Edward Everett, letter by Fletcher Webster to Edward Everett, a printed text, and pamphlet.

S. Austin Allibone papers mssAL mssAL 3 Manuscript volumes 1857-1872

Volume 4 "Memoranda of his unpublished 'History of England'" by Lord Macaulay AL 399-400 1860 Scope and Contents With letter signed by C. Macaulay, brother of Lord Macaulay.

Volume 5 Commonplace book by S. Austin Allibone and Mary Allibone AL 401 1872

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