Times (London, England):
An Inventory of Its Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
| Creator: | Times (London, England), 1785- | |
| Title: | Times (London, England) Collection | |
| Dates: | 1820-1960 (bulk 1870s) | |
| Extent: | 8 boxes (3.36 linear feet) | |
| Abstract: | Includes over 2,000 Victorian-era letters to the Times of London, primarily to editors John Thadeus Delane and William Stebbing. The letters were collected and organized into 13 bound volumes by Stebbing. Among the many notable correspondents are Matthew Arnold, P. T. Barnum, Robert Browning, Samuel Clemens, George Cruikshank, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Victor Hugo, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl Marx, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and Walt Whitman. A single index of correspondents is provided at the end of this finding aid. | |
| Call Number: | Manuscript Collection MS-4238 | |
| Language: | English, French, Greek, Ottoman Turkish (1 item), Spanish |
| Access: | Open for research |
Administrative Information
| Processed by: | Joan Sibley and Dylan Davidson, 2014 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. |
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