NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS

Part 2: The Correspondence and Records of Smith, Elder & Co from the National Library of Scotland

Contents of Reels

REEL ONE

Correspondence (MSS.23171-84) and Records (MSS.23185-92) of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder & Co, 1846-1924, nd, relating mostly to the publication of articles in The Cornhill Magazine (which he founded) and of books published by the firm.

MS.23171 - Correspondence:   Matthew Arnold, 1862-1875

MS.23172 - Correspondence:   Matthew Arnold, 1876-1886

MS.23173 - Correspondence:   Thomas Hardy

REEL TWO

MS.23174 - Correspondence:   John Ruskin

MS.23175 - Correspondence:   Sir Leslie Stephen, 1865-1887

MS.23176 - Correspondence:   Sir Leslie Stephen, 1888-1902

REEL THREE

MS.23177 - Correspondence:   William Makepeace Thackeray

MS.23178 - Correspondence:   Anthony Trollope and Queen Victoria

MS.23179 - Correspondence:   A - Bri

REEL FOUR

MS.23180 - Correspondence:   Bro - C

MS.23181 - Correspondence:   D - Ga

MS.23182 - Correspondence:   Gi - Lee

REEL FIVE

MS.23183 - Correspondence:   Lef - O

MS.23184 - Correspondence:   P - W

REEL SIX

MS.23185 - Account Books, January 1860 - December 1861

MS.23186 - Account Books, January 1862 - December 1863

MS.23187 - Account Books, January 1864 - December 1865

MS.23188 - Account Books, January 1866 - December 1867

MS.23189 - Account Books, January 1868 - December 1869

MS.23190 - Register of Contributors to The Cornhill Magazine, 1880-1901

REEL SEVEN

MS.23191 - George Smith’s The Recollections of a long and busy life, c1895.   -  - Unpublished.

MS.23192 - George Smith’s The Recollections of a long and busy life, c1895.   -  - Unpublished.

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