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Title
Date(s)
- [1830x1831]-1888 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
28 ff. ; 210 x 135 mm. and less.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Purchased at auction by Llewellin-Taylour (letters accompanied by papers containing lot numbers).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
A. R. Llewellin-Taylour; Kensington, London; Donation; July 1961
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Fifteen holograph letters, [1830x1831]-1888, apparently brought together as a collection of autographs. They include nine in French from Eugène Sue, the novelist, to Camille Pleyel, the piano manufacturer, mostly personal correspondence, [1830x1851] (ff. 9-26), and one from Mélanie, wife of Metternich, the Austrian Chancellor, to an unnamed count, concerning her brother, 1854 (ff. 5-6).
There are also letters in English from Charles Bradlaugh, politician, to Emile Hatzfeld, music publisher, regarding political and religious matters, 1882 (ff. 1-2), Robert Browning to a Mrs Stanley, 1882 (f. 3), W. E. Gladstone to J. M. Davidson, 1888 (f. 4), the Marquess of Salisbury to Edouard Silas, composer, [c. 1860] (watermark 1858) (ff. 7-8), and Alfred Tennyson, to Silas, 1863 (ff. 27-28).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author at NLW.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- French
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
French, English.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 17820B.
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Name access points
- Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Pleyel, Camille, 1788-1855 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Silas, Edouard, 1827-1909. (Subject)
- Pleyel, Camille, 1788-1855. (Subject)
- Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891. (Subject)
- Hatzfeld, Emile, b. 1857. (Subject)
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. (Subject)
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898. (Subject)
- Davidson, John Morrison. (Subject)
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. (Subject)
- Salisbury, James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of, 1791-1868. (Subject)
- Metternich, Mélanie von, 1805-1854. (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
September 2008.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Cyprien Henry and Rhys Morgan Jones;