archives.nypl.org -- Abraham Hayward correspondence files (original) (raw)

Creator

Hayward, A. (Abraham), 1801-1884

Call number

Pforz MS

Physical description

1063 items

Preferred Citation

Abraham Hayward correspondence files : 1063 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library

Repository

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

Location

Pforz MS

Access to materials

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Abraham Hayward, English essayist and translator. His many friendships with significant figures in the literary and political circles of Victorian London resulted in this collection of correspondence. The Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files are chiefly made up of letters addressed to Abraham Hayward by various English writers, politicians and society figures between 1831 and 1884. Among the correspondents represented are: Lord Brougham, lord chancellor; John Wilson Croker, politician and writer; Isaac D'Israeli, writer; W. E. Gladstone, prime minister and author; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet; Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer and politician; Lady Sydney (Owenson) Morgan, novelist and hostess; Count D'Orsay, man of fashion; Samuel Rogers, poet; and William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist. A few items in the Files are letters addressed to recipients other than Hayward, some apparently collected by him as autographs.