Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library

Matthew Arnold

• Letter to Gorley [?]
  Dated June 5th, year uncertain. In the letter Arnold discusses an "Irish article".

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Pension signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, Lazare Carnot, and Secretary of State Maret, 7 October 1800
  Dated "quinze Vendemiaire de l'an neuf de la Republique francaise" (7 October 1800), this pension provides 100 francs annually to Marie Gaignard, widow of Rene Moulin, a volunteer in the 4th battalion of the Dordogne who died in the hospital at Bayonne.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Manuscript draft of the poem "Human Life's Mysteries"
  The poem was first published in the 1850 London edition of Browning's poems. It is here titled "Life", which is also the title of a prior Browning poem.

Robert Browning

• Letter to Moncure Conway, 10 February 1865.
  Includes envelope.
• Letter to H. Cholmondoley Pennel, 23 April 1866.
  Includes envelope.

Alexander Carlyle

• Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 30 January 1827.
  Letter sheet letter from Alexander Carlyle to his brother, Thomas Carlyle, 30 January 1827. Compare Thomas' letter to Alexander of 3 February, reprinted in The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Brother Alexander, Ed. Edwin Marrs, Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968, no. 61. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.

Thomas Carlyle

• Letter to Jane Wilson, 3[?] February 1837.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 9, pp. 137-8. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.
• Letter to Jane Wilson, 5 February 1838.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 10, pp. 22-3. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.
• Letter to Jane Wilson, 24 February 1837.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 9, p. 157. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.
• Letter to Jane Wilson, 4 December 1837.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 12, pp. 393–94 (but see note in the Carlyle Letters Online edition). Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online. 
• Letter to Jane Wilson, 24 January 1838.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 10, pp. 10-11. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.
• Letter to Jane Wilson, 3 November 1840.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 12, p. 312. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.
• Letter to Jane Wilson, 7 January 1843.
  See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 16, pp. 9-10. Transcription and more information available through Duke University's Carlyle Letters Online.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Letter to the publisher, Thomas Hessey
  The watermark of the paper reads 'Cowan 1822'. The letter discusses the publication of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, which was first published by Taylor and Hessey in 1825. The letter is not published in either The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or The Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (both edited by Earl Leslie Griggs). Compare references to Seneca in the letter to entry no. 5089 in The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ed. Coburn and Christensen).

Thomas De Quincey

• Draft of "On Anecdotage"
  Manuscript of de Quincey's essay "Anecdotage", which was first published in The London Magazine, March 1823. Available online through Google Books.

Edward Fitzgerald

• Letter to an unidentified recipient
  

Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Comte d’Orsay

• Lithograph of Edgar Allen Poe
  Dated May 1839
• Letter to an unidentified recipient
  Dated"Mercredi"

Thomas Gray

• Family tree of Trajan, drawn by Gray.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Letter to George Newhall, 29 July 1847.
  Letter from Longfellow to Newhall recommending a particular Portuguese dictionary. Newhall had never met Longfellow, and in the letter that occasioned this one—Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am 1340.2 (4103)—he asks Longfellow's forgiveness for his presumption in bothering him for advice.

Thomas Love Peacock

• Translation of lines from Euripides' Alcestis
  Translation by Thomas Love Peacock of the last five lines of Euripides' Alcestis. An addendum by "R. Garnett" (presumably Richard Garnett) notes this. A pencilled note on the verso suggests that the manuscript was given by Garnett to "J. Everson" in 1902.
• Poem, "Old friend, whose rhymes so kindly mix..."
  Manuscript poem by Thomas Love Peacock from a letter to Lord Broughton, Nov. 13, 1862, on mourning paper. Cf. Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, v. 2, 1828-1866, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Letter no. 327.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Manuscript fragment
  Fragments of a draft of Poe's review of The Literati of New York by S. Anna Lewis (published in The United States Democratic Review, 23.122, August 1848, pp. 158-60).

Charles M. Russell

• Letter to Frank Bird Linderman, 5 November 1917.
  Includes envelope from the Lewis Glacier Hotel (Lake McDonald Lodge) in Glacier National Park.

Jonathan Swift

• Will, 8 September 1718.
  In this document Swift lists amounts owed to him and expenses as of 8 September 1718.