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Contains 199 Results:
Amyot, Thomas. To John Bruce. 1840 September 28. ALS discussing the formation of the Shakespeare Society, and particularly the composition of the original Council; reference to Collier, Thoms, and others. 4°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 125
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Botfield, Beriah. To William Henry Miller. 1844 April 19 postmark. ALS re J. P. Collier’s edition of Gaulfrido and Bernardo. 8°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 126
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Bruce, John. To Frederic Ouvry. 1867 December 19. ALS about C. M. Ingleby’s Was Thomas Lodge an Actor?, which accused J. P. Collier of forging an entry in Henslowe’s diary. 8°, 7 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 127
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Coxe, Henry Octavius, Bodley’s Librarian. To unknown recipient. 1865 February 3. ALS re Paradise of dainty devices, with reference to J. P. Collier. 8°, 1 p..
File — Container: 4, Folder: 128
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
[Drury Lane Theatre.] ALS (signature illegible) to E. Raleigh Moran of the Globe; 2 pp., 4to, undated (paper watermarked 1832)
File — Container: 4, Folder: 196
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Dyce, Alexander. To [Chapman Hall]. ‘Friday’. ALS, written from 33 Oxford Terrace, discussing his Shakespeare, of which at least one volume has appeared; reference to an article in the Times, and one in the Athenaeum, ‘written, in pure spite to me, by a person devoted to Mr Collier’. 8°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 129
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Fairholt, Frederick W. To unknown recipient. N.d [approximately 1844]. ALS, probably to a member of the Council of the Percy Society, about a prospective work by Fairholt (probably part two of his Lord Mayors’ pageants, 1844). Mentions J. P. Collier. 16°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 130
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Halliwell, afterwards Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard. To J. W. Ebsworth. 1884 December 10. Chatty ALS, reminiscing about Dyce, Collier, etc. 8°, 4 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 131
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield. To J. R. Smith. 1859 July 15. ALS about his Shakspeare Fabrications and erasures in the Perkins Folio. 8°, 3 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 132
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield. To Thomas Duffus Hardy. 1868 August 3. ALS, forwarding a copy of his Was Thomas Lodge a Player? and discussing its reception by Dyce and others; Ingleby also indicates that he considers the suspected pages in the Revels Accounts to be forgeries by John Payne Collier. 8°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 133
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Jervis, Swynfen. To Peter Cunningham. 1843 January 10. ALS, sending an emendation to Macbeth i.3 (of which he is very proud), to be passed on to Collier. 8°, 4 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 134
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Merivale, Herman. To [John Forster]. 1855 November 13. ALS about Collier’s offers of assistance with his article on the Perkins Folio, which Forster has suggested he accept. 8°, 3 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 135
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Mitford, John. To Jane Payne Collier. 1832 January 9. Affectionate ALS thanking her for a gift of bulbs and plants and discussing Gilbert White, books, religion, etc. 4°, 3 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 136
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Ouvry, Frederic. To Francisca Ingram Ouvry. 1848 April 28 p’mk (‘Friday’). Typed transcript of a letter from Ouvry to his sister, describing his trip to Stratford and a dinner at which ‘Mr Collier spoke admirably and was greatly applauded’. Refers to account of dinner in the Daily News.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 137
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Sutherland, Duke of. To Beriah Botfield. 1855 June 28. ALS, approving the printing, at the suggestion of the Roxburghe Club printing committee, of ‘the Poems he mentions, or any others that he [i.e., Sutherland] may happen to possess’, and sending the desired volume, with the remark that he ‘is glad that Mr. J. Payne Collier undertakes the editing’. 8°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 138
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Vaux, William Sandys Wright. To William Hepworth Dixon. [1860?]. Fragmentary ALS, giving an account of John Payne Collier’s ‘Perkins Folio’, as viewed at the British Museum. 8°, 4 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 139
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Collier, John Dyer. To John Thelwall. 1799 February 7. Letter sending ‘a few more extracts from my commonplace book’, taken principally from Camden and Gibbon. Most of the letter (including the signature) is written by Collier’s ‘female amanuensis’, but he has added a note in his hand at the end. 2°, 8 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 140
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Collier, John Payne. 1856 January 7. Scribal draft of John Payne Collier’s affidavit in his action action against J. R. Smith. With numerous corrections by Frederic Ouvry, and marked by him to be engrossed for swearing in the Court of Queen’s Bench on 8 January; on one blank quarter-sheet Collier has pencilled a list of the fifteen dates of Coleridge’s 1811-12 lectures on Shakespeare. Folio, 5 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 142
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Collier, John Payne. [1856 January]. Holograph copy of his affidavit in the action action against J. R. Smith, marked as having been sworn on 8 January 1856. Folio, 5 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 143
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
[Collier Family]. An indenture on vellum (counterpart, sealed and signed ‘John Collier’), dated 20 March 1710, regarding the purchase by ‘John Collier the Elder of Witney [Oxon.], clothier’, from ‘Edward Johnson of Witney, apothecary’, of local property--a ‘field by ye Alms-House’. For the ancestry of JPC in Witney, the cloth trade, and some residual property still in the family’s ossession in JPC’s lifetime, see Freeman and Freeman, Collier, pp. 4-5.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 144
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
‘The Confederate Translators’. N.d., but early C18. Anonymous poem of thirty-three lines first published by John Payne Collier in his Old Man’s Diary, i:101-02, and there attributed by him to Alexander Pope; earlier, in the MS continuation of HEDP, he had claimed it for John Gay, and it is most likely that is simply an anonymous MS of the early C18. Accompanied by two letters from John Wilson Croker (catalogued separately). See Freeman and Freeman, p. 1334 (QD A180.26). 8°, 2 pp.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 145
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Lemon, Robert. [1854]. Autograph MS, ‘Broadsides: Introductory Remarks’ [unpublished draft of introduction to catalogue of Society of Antiquaries broadsides], with marginal criticisms by John Payne Collier. 26 pp., 4°, with other notes and scraps, mostly in Lemon’s hand.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 146
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Marston, John, of Canterbury. To Lord Kimbolton. N.d. [17th c.]. ALS warning of a threat to Parliament; first published by John Payne Collier and long thought to be by Marston the dramatist. 4°, 1 p.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 147
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860
Collier, John Payne. ams request slip (undated) ordering ‘The Players Tragedy or Fatal Love’, 1693, from the library of the British Museum.
File — Container: 4, Folder: 195
Dates:
approximately 1840-1860