Abraham Hayward correspondence files : 1064 items, 1790-1889 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files are chiefly made up of letters addressed to Abraham Hayward by various English writers, politicians and socialites from between the years 1831 and 1884. Among the correspondents are: Lord Brougham, lord chancellor; John Wilson Croker, politician and writer; Isaac Disraeli, writer; W.E. Gladstone, prime minister and author; Letitia Landon, poet; Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer and politician; Lady Morgan, novelist and socialite; Count D'Orsay, man of fashion; Samuel Rogers, poet; and William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist. A few items in the Files are letters addressed to different recipients, some apparently collected by Hayward as autographs