Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876), writer

  • Harriet Martineau
Date:
c.1832-1866
Reference:
MS.7307
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

File of letters by Martineau formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Comprises:

  • MS.7307/1: Autograph letter, signed, to "Dear Eliza". On Martineau's health, criticising her physician, Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke (1782-1857). No year given (c.1832).
  • MS.7307/2-3: Autograph letters, signed, to Frederick Knight Hunt, Editor of the Daily News, on Florence Nightingale. No year given (c.1856).
  • MS.7307/4: Autograph letter, signed, to E. Bostock. On her precarious health, the death of friends such as Jane Carlyle (1801-1866), and the emancipation of slaves in the USA. 1866.

    • Publication/Creation

    c.1832-1866

    Physical description

    4 items

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    Acquisition note

    Purchased from Stevens, London, August 1931 and from Henry Bristow, February 1993.

    Finding aids

    Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

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    • accs. 68244 and 349142