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Letter : New York, to Laurence Housman, Somerset, 1949 June 16.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (1 p.) ;
TLS. "We most certainly would have no objection to your republishing THE MIND of WORDSWORTH in your PROVOCATIVE LECTURES ON LIFE AND LITERATURE."

Letter : Anglesey, to Laurence Housman, 1948 Aug. 20.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (1 p.) ;
ALS. Johns sends Housman a photograph of a portrait of his great-grandfather, the Rev. Robert Housman, along with "some correspondence which bears upon it."

Letter : London, to Laurence Housman, [19--] Apr. 25.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (2 p.) ;
ALS. "I did enjoy playing [Giacomina] so ... In fact E.B. disappeared altogether & your beautiful character was there instead."

Letters : London, to Mabel Stephenson, Letchworth, Herts, 1910 May 17.

Bryn Mawr College
4 items ;
2 ALsS & 2 APcS. Writes that he longs to return to Letchworth to visit friends: "You must buy this month's Bookman and read what it says about me in it. It has reproduced my caricature of Zangwill." With 2 APcS sending greetings and two small sketches, one a self-portrait. Another sketch by another hand is included.

The art of Claud Lovat Fraser.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (2 p. on 2 leaves) ;
AMsS. Essay begins "Of the brilliant group of romantic painters" and ends "but the voice is the voice of the artist." Internal evidence dates the essay ca. 1916.

Letter : London, to E. Landseer Grundy, 1883 June 2.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ;
ALS. Thanks Grundy for "all the troubles you have taken to get a good price for my drawing."

Letters : New Brighton and Pensarn, to E.L. Grundy, 1882-1886.

Bryn Mawr College
4 items (12 p. on 4 double sheets) ;
4 ALsS. Stanton writes of domestic life and several bouts of illness which have affected output of his work. In the 1886 letter, Stanton thanks Grundy for a copy of the Mercury: "I was glad to read your remarks about the R.A. voting--you are right about the paintings, with a motive being the most popular and getting the greatest amount of votes." Several small sketches are integrated into the letters.

Letter : London, to Sergeant Talfourd, London, 1836 May 31.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ;
ALS. "I am going to have a new Raffle ... the great prize--the Heroine of Saragossa firing the cannon during the War of Independence ... May I hope you will try your chance a 3rd time."

Letter : Baden, to Miss Chew, New York, 1844 Aug. 13.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (together 7 p.) ;
ALS. Writing to her sister, Lizzie, in care of her father, Thomas J. Chew, Lewis describes her travels in Germany with her husband. Among other things, she comments on touring the Jewish ghetto of Frankfort. "I can comprehend now something of the persecution which the Jews have suffered in Europe but never before had fancied any thing so repelling for a dwelling as were the houses in their quarter."

Invoice : Port au Prince, to Joseph Gratz, Philadelphia, 1833 Sept. 27.

Bryn Mawr College
1 item (1 p.) ;
ADS. Invoice for 50 bags of coffee shipped on board the schooner "Fair play," to the Philadelphia merchant.

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