Papers of William Hamilton Maxwell
Overview
Letters regarding literary, artistic, daily life. Written in or addressed to London, England.
Dates
- Creation: December [1844?]
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
No access restriction
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of William Hamilton Maxwell
Maxwell was a Irish soldier in the Napoleonic wars who retired to minister to a remote Irish parish, where he began to write Irish military and sporting novels. After some success he moved to London in the 1830s, where he produced novels, military histories and biographies, and Irish and Scottish travel-books. While he did have some success, he died in poverty on December 29, 1850 in Musselburgh near Edinburgh.
Extent
1 folder : 3 letters
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
MS P591
Immediate Source of Acquisition
P.S. O'Hegarty.
Processing Information
Removed from endpaper by wlm January 1991.
Subject
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 (Person)
- Baker, Ernest E. (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the William Maxwell Letters
- Subtitle
- Papers of William Hamilton Maxwell
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by emg, January 15, 1991. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2005.
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/5631399351
- Preferred citation
-
William Maxwell Letters, Department of Special Collections, MS P591, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository