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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Eng 1265.1

Papers by and concerning Thomas Love Peacock

Overview

Letters to the English novelist Thomas Love Peacock as well as correspondence concerning Peacock with Richard Garnett, editor of Peacock's Letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1849-1913

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Extent

.5 linear feet (1 box)

Includes letters to Peacock, and to Richard Garnett from Henry Wallis and other correspondents concerning Peacock. Also contains an unsigned annotated paper The works of Thomas Love Peacock by Edith Clarke (Mrs. Charles Clarke), an unsigned manuscript of Peacock's notes for Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley, a manuscript of Capture of Seringapatam, among other items.

Biographical / Historical

Peacock was an English novelist; Garnett edited Peacock's letters, published in 1910; Wallis was an art historian of ceramics and Italian majolica.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

  1. I. Letters to Thomas Love Peacock
  2. II. Letters to Richard Garnett
  3. III. Other letters and manuscripts

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

*66M-167. Gift of Hamill and Barker, 230 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601; received: 1967 May 29.

Title
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866. Papers by and concerning Thomas Love Peacock: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00716

Repository Details

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