Coventry Patmore Collection, 1818-1945, bulk 1818-1896.

Coventry Patmore Collection, 1818-1945, bulk 1818-1896.

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton,1823-1896.

Allingham, William,1824-1889.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,1806-1861.

Browning, Robert,1812-1889.

Carlyle, Thomas,1795-1881

Champneys, Basil,1842-1935.

De Vere, Aubrey,1814-1902.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882.

Gosse, Edmund,1849-1928.

Harris, Frank,1855-1931.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Lane, John,1854-1925.

Leslie, Shane,1885-1971.

Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson,1847-1922.

Meynell, Wilfrid,1852-1948.

Patmore, Emily,1824-1862.

Patmore, Harriet.

Patmore, Henry John,1860-1883.

Patmore, P. G.(Peter George),1786-1855.

Patmore, Tennyson.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,1828-1882.

Ruskin, John,1819-1900.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,Baron,1809-1892.

Thackeray, William Makepeace,1811-1863.

Thompson, Francis,1859-1907.

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The collection contains manuscripts by British poet Coventry Patmore, as well as letters by and to him from major 19th Century British literary figures including Alfred Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, and a number of letters from members of Patmore's family including Harriet Patmore, Tennyson Patmore and Peter Patmore. The collection also includes visual materials: a drawing of Emily Augusta Patmore, photographs of Marianne and Coventry Patmore, and reproductions of portraits of Coventry Patmore.

English poet.

Source unknown;

The bulk of the materials in the collection were acquired by the university through purchases from book dealers or through gifts from donors such as Seymour Adelman, Wilfred Meynell, Mrs. Edward C. Donnelly, Mrs. Sowerby, Ivor Poole, Mr. Muir, E. Mathews, and the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus. An Accession Register [BC1991-02, RG 7] is also available for a number of the items in this collection. It details the provenance for several individual letters within the correspondence.

Finding aid

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, 1823-1896.

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, 1823-1896

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, 1823-1896

Authors, English

Poets, English