LETTERS FROM COLLECTIONS

The correct way to present the ‘Collected Letters of Robert Buchanan’ would be in chronological order, however, since they are scattered around the world, it is going to be a long time before I have gathered enough of them together to make such a presentation worthwhile. In the meantime I have decided to keep certain collections, such as the letters to Browning, Tennyson, Roden Noel, etc., separate and the letters  from various institutions will be added here as they are acquired. This is not the ideal way of doing things and I apologise, but since the majority of these letters have never been published I felt it was better to present them here immediately in this rather haphazard way, rather than wait until I could do the job properly. As ever, best guesses are rendered in italics.

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England:

1. Letter to Edmund Gosse - 17 February [1887] (University of Leeds Library)

2. 3 Letters to Marie Corelli - [1887 - 1898] (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

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Scotland:

Edinburgh - National Library of Scotland:

1. Letter to Mr. Blackwood (Blackwood’s Publishers) - [1859]
2. Letter to Le Chevalier de Chatelain - [1859]
3. Letter to Hepworth Dixon - [1860]
4. Letter to David Gray Snr. - 10 December, 1861
5. Letter to David Gray Snr. - 12  February, 1862
6. Letter to David Gray Snr. -  10 June [1862]
7. Letter to Professor John Stuart Blackie - 2 May, 1865
8. Letter to the Dalziel Brothers - 23 June, 1866
9. Letter to Professor John Stuart Blackie - 26 February, 1871
10. Letter to John Blackwood - 1 September, 1871
11. Letter to Professor John Stuart Blackie - 14 October, 1871
12. Letter to Professor John Stuart Blackie - 4 December, 1871
13. Letter to John Chapman - 1 September [1873]
14. Letter to Rev. Frederick Langbridge - 7 March [1882]
15. Letter to Alfred Henry Miles - 11 March [1891]
16. Letter to William Sharp - 18 September, 1892
17. Letter to Lord Rosebery - 9 July, 1894
18. Letter to Dr. A. Stodart Walker - 10 November [1894]
19. Letter to Mrs. Blackie - 4 March, 1895
20. Letter to Dr. A. Stodart Walker - 2 September, 1895
21. Letter to Dr. A. Stodart Walker - 14 January [1900]
22. Letter to Professor Blackie - [n. d.]
23. Letter to James S. Cotton - 23 April [n. y.]

The National Library of Scotland also has two letters of Harriett Jay to Blackwood’s Publishers:
1. Letter to [John Blackwood] - 5 November, 1878
2. Letter to John Blackwood - 3 January [1879]

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U.S.A.:

Washington:

1. 8 Letters to Augustin Daly - 1875-1893 (Folger Shakespeare Library)
2. Letter to William Hepworth Dixon [1862] (Folger Shakespeare Library)
3. Letter to Alexander Strahan - 1 February 1873 (Folger Shakespeare Library)
4. Letter to Nicholas Trübner [1877] (Folger Shakespeare Library)
5. Letter to the Press - 7 July [1888] (Folger Shakespeare Library)

6. Letter to Robert Browning - 13 May 1865 (Library of Congress)

7. Letter to Thomas Buchanan Read - 26 February 1871 (Smithsonian Institution)
 

University Libraries:

1. Letter to G. R. Sims - n.d. (Baylor University, Waco, Texas - Armstrong Browning Library)

2. Letter to Benjamin Webster Jr. - 28 June 1867 (Colorado College, Tutt Library)

3. Letter to Dr. Thomas King Chambers - 5 June 1870 (Harvard University, Houghton Library)
4. Letter to Nicholas Trübner - 27 February 1880 (Harvard University, Houghton Library)
5. Letter to Messrs. Fields & Osgood - 22 September [1884] (Harvard University, Houghton Library)

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