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Maria Edgeworth collection


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    Maria Edgeworth collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of correspondence related to Maria Edgeworth, her family and friends. The collection includes letters by Maria Edgeworth to Frances Dorothea Hoare, Mary Leadbeater, and Sir Francis Beaufort. The collection also includes letters from Maria Edgeworth's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth to Sir Francis Beaufort, and letters from Beaufort to his wife, Alicia Magdalena Beaufort.

    mssHM 28586-28618

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    Maria Edgeworth letter to Walter Scott

    Manuscripts

    Also enclosed in the volume: William Wordsworth letter to R. Shelton Mackenzie, October 18, 1842, and A. MacGeorge, Jr., letter to Maria Edgeworth, October 21, 1842. With typewritten transcriptions bound into volume and a second typewritten transcription laid into the back of the volume.

    mssHM 84511

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    Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849. To Philip Crampton Esq / Surgeon General of Ireland / With a fountain Pen: [poem]

    Manuscripts

    (2 p.). On verso: "To Maria Edgeworth's Pen," copied out by Edgeworth but signed "PC." Also enclosed: another copy of Maria Edgeworth's poem, copied out in a different hand (2 p.). Subject: Crampton, Philip, Sir, 1777-1858.

    FBA 3

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    Miscellaneous obituaries including Frances Beaufort Edgeworth and John Beaufort

    Manuscripts

    Diaries, journals, account books and correspondence of Sir Francis Beaufort and members of the Beaufort family: his father Daniel Augustus Beaufort, first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson Beaufort (d. 1834), and others.

    mssFB

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    Sir Francis Beaufort papers addenda

    Manuscripts

    One box of correspondence, documents, photographs, poems and wills; arranged chronologically (1797-1858), FBA 1-28. Notable correspondents include: Daniel Augustus Beaufort (son of Sir Francis), Harriet Henrietta Beaufort, Lady Honora Beaufort, Charles Sneyd Edgeworth, Frances Anne Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth, Archer Thomas Upton, and Lestock P. Wilson. Also included are poems by Maria Edgeworth, one of which is written to Sir Philip Crampton, Surgeon General of the Forces of Ireland. The photographs are mainly of Edgeworthstown House, the Edgeworth family home in Co. Longford, Ireland.

    mssFBA 1-28

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    Edgeworth, Frances Anne (Beaufort). Drawings of flowers [colored botanical illustrations]

    Manuscripts

    Diaries, journals, account books and correspondence of Sir Francis Beaufort and members of the Beaufort family: his father Daniel Augustus Beaufort, first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson Beaufort (d. 1834), and others.

    FB 59