Box Y.d.341(57-112)
Contains 56 Results:
Autograph letter signed from Alexander Dyce, Rosebank, Aberdeen, to John Payne Collier, 25 Euston Square, New Road, London, 1833 September 18-21
Explains he is suffering from an eye complaint, amaurosis, which impedes his reading and writing, and expresses fears that it will worsen. Two days later, he writes that he has had another attack, and reviews his activities over the last three months, "the most miserable of my life." Expresses his opinion of living poets.
Autograph letter signed from William Dyce to John Payne Collier, 25 Euston Square, New Road, London, 1839 February 5
Autograph letter signed from William Dyce, School of Design, Summit House, to John Payne Collier, 1839 April 27
Describes a lecture by William Cockerell, R.A., which Collier did not attend. It was the first lecture at the School of Design.
Autograph letter signed from George Dyer, 6 Cliffords Inn, to John Dyer Collier, [18th or 19th century]
Explains his lack of response to Collier's invitation to dine with him; Chooses not to address "the other matter," writing: "the less that is said the better."
Autograph letter signed from Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, Molash Vicarage by Ashford, Kent, to John Payne Collier, Riverside, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1875 March 22
Letter from Francis Egerton, first earl of Ellesmere, Oatlands, to John Payne Collier, [1837] March 29
Speaks of his miniature tragedy, Paria.
Collier's note: "Paria and Bridgewater."
Autograph letter signed from Francis Egerton, first earl of Ellesmere, Worsley, Manchester, to John Payne Collier, [1837] August 1
Requests that the copies of minutes be sent to the Lord Chancellor's Secretary, discusses business with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Autograph letter signed from Sir Henry Ellis, 79 Great Russell Street, to Thomas Amyot, 1844 April 29
Asks Amyot and Collier whether a "pageant of the time of Henry VIII" would be an appropriate publication submission for the Shakespeare Society, of which he is now a councillor. Describes and quotes a long passage from the 28-page manuscript, which, he writes, belonged to the king himself, and details his own plans to edit it.
Autograph letter signed from Sir Henry Ellis, British Museum, to John Payne Collier, 1855 February 19
Answers Collier's query about a letter of the Duke of Norfolk. Contains Collier's copy of T. Norfolk's letter to George - 1572.
Autograph letter signed from John Forster, 4 Barton Street, Barton Crescent, to John Payne Collier, 1832 June 12
Collier's note: "This was when he only assumed equality."