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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 24

Contains 18 Results:

Literary texts by O'Shaughnessy

 Series — Box: 1, Folder: A:1-4 (4 folders)
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Drafts and draft translations of poems and reviews. Incomplete, some items heavily corrected; some items in French.

Literary texts by others, 1860, 1866, undated

 Series — Box: 1, Folder: C
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"Aladdin's Ring" poem by Richard Garnett (1835-1906); untitled poem by Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik (1826-1887); and untitled poem by M.L.

Dates: 1860, 1866, undated

Photographs

 Series — Box: 1, Folder: D
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Cartes de visite, prints of sketches, and other photographic prints of what appear to be Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, Henri Regnault (1843-1871), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), as well as Hermann Vezin (1829-1910) and Adelaide Neilson (1846-1880).

Legal papers

 Series — Box: 1, Folder: E
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Contract between O'Shaughnessy and his publishers Ellis & Green.

Letters from O'Shaughnessy, 1873 - 1878

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Ba
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Written to Alfred [Deacon?], Miss Compton, Kathe [Freiligrath]-Kroeker (1845-1904), Miss Kortwright, R.H. [Richard Henry] Horne, and [John Henry?] Ingram.

Dates: 1873 - 1878

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, circa 1871-1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:1-9
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Correspondents in this file include George F. Armstrong, Philip James Bailey (1816-1902), Theodore Faullain de Banville (1823-1891), Mynie Bell, Camille B[ernard?], William Black (1841-1898), George Henry Boughton (1834-1905), and Oliver Madox Brown (1855-1874).

Dates: circa 1871-1879

Letters to Alfred W. Newport Deacon (1847-1915), [1870 or later], 1881, 1882, 1891, 1893

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bc:1-7
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Deacon was O'Shaugnessy's cousin and literary executor.

Correspondents in this file include include Mathilde Blind (1841-1896), Joseph Cox Bridge (1853-), Sir Hall Caine (1853-1931), Richard Garnett (1835-1906), Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), and John Henry Ingram (1842-1916).

Dates: [1870 or later], 1881, 1882, 1891, 1893

Letters from and to Eleanor (Marston) O'Shaugnessy, [1874], 1879, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bd
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Eleanor Marston was the daughter of Westland Marston; she married O'Shaughnessy in 1873 and died in 1879.

Correspondents in this file include "Nellie OS" to Alfred [Deacon?]; Gordon Hake (1809-1895), and Elizabeth Lynn Linton (1822-1898).

Dates: [1874], 1879, undated

Letters to John Westland Marston (1819-1890)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Be
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Marston was O'Shaugnessy's father-in-law and a dramatic poet.

Correspondents in this file include Charles Dickens (1812-1870), William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), W. Johnson [probably William Johnson Cory, 1819-1890?), and John Everett Millais (1827-1896).

Miscellaneous and unidentified correspondence, 1832, 1842, 1863, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bf
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Includes letters from L.D. Cintz (in French), John Forster (1812-1876), Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) (in French), and George Critchet.

Dates: 1832, 1842, 1863, undated

Autographs cut from letters, sometimes with some text (most addressed to Westland Marston)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bg
Scope and Contents Autographs from Philip James Bailey (1816-1902), Robert Browning (1812-1889), Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), Isabella Dallas Glyn (1823-1889), John Forster (1812-1876), W.J. [William Johnson?] Fox (1786-1864?), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Richard Henry Horne (1803-1884), Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862), Charles Mackay, Alex Munro, Margaret (Wilson) Oliphant (1828-1897), Geo [George] Patten (1801-1865), Henry White, Damier[?], [John Chippendall Montesquieu?]...

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, circa 1871, 1878, 1879, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:10-17
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Correspondents in this file include Henri Cazalis (1840-1909) (in French), Sir Sideny Colvin (1845-1927), Francois Coppee (1842-1908), Leon Dierx (1838-1912), Austin Dobson (1840-1921), and Agnes Mary Frances (Robsinon) Duclaux (1857-1944).

Dates: circa 1871, 1878, 1879, undated

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, 1873, 1875, 1878, 1879, 1880, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:18-23
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Correspondents in this file include M. Eberstadt, Ewin Ellis, Robert Edward Francillon (1841-1919), Iza Duffus Hardy, Augusta Mary Ann Holmès (1847-1903), and Richard Henry Horne (1802-1884).

Dates: 1873, 1875, 1878, 1879, 1880, undated

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, 1877-1880, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:24-31
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Correspondents in this file include Justin H. McCarthy, Norman Maccoll, Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Joaquin Miller (1841?-1913), George Moore (1852-1933), and Sir Lewis Morris (1833-1907).

Dates: 1877-1880, undated

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, 1864, [1871?], 1873, 1877

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:32-37
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Correspondents in this file include Adelaide Neilson (1846-1880), John Trivett Nettleship (1841-1902), Antonio Panizzi (1797-1879), John Payne (1842-1916), and Walter Herries Pollock (1850-1926).

Dates: 1864, [1871?], 1873, 1877

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, 1878, 1879, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:38-44
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Correspondents in this file include William Ralston Sheddon Ralston (1828-1889), Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) and William Michael (1829-1881) Rossetti, Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), William Bell Scott (1811-1890), Simeon Solomon (1841-1905), and Frederic George Stephens (1828-1907).

Dates: 1878, 1879, undated

Letters to O'Shaugnessy, 1873, 1875, 1879, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bb:45-49
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Correspondents in this file include Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914), Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929), Sir Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921), Ella (Wheeler) Wilcox (1855-1919), and William Gorman Wills (1828-1891).

Dates: 1873, 1875, 1879, undated

Letters to Deacon, 1879-1882, 1887, 1897

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Bc:8-17
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Correspondents in this file include Cecil Gordon Lawson (1851-1882), Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton (1831-1891), John Westland Marston (1819-1890), William Morris (1834-1896), Louise (Chandler) Moulton (1835-1909), Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897), Michale Charles Salaman (1855-1940), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), and an unknown author.

Dates: 1879-1882, 1887, 1897