harvestingCity of Toronto Archives, NWT Archives. Results will grow as fonds arrive.
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The collection centres on Robert Southey and Bristol and gives an overview of the social, political, and literary upheaval which gave birth to the Romantic movement and shaped the rest of the nineteenth century. The collection also contains material on Spain, …
File consists of "A Note on Captain John Williams of the Chilean Navy" by an unknown author. The information was written up for Bertram R. Davis on the bequest of H.W.F. Usher, around the time of the Chilean war ship named for John Williams coming to Bristol u…
File consists of one item of correspondence from Bertram R. Davis to All American Cables.
File consists of a an excerpt from the original 1789 edition of William Barrett's "History & Antiquities of the City of Bristol." This excerpt relates to Chatterton, and includes inserted plates, some of which may be extraneous. Barrett was known to have belie…
File consists of one item of correspondence from William Batheitwell.
File consists of three items of correspondence from Whitfield Bell Jr.
File consists of one item of correspondence from Rhoda Bennett.
File consists of four items of correspondence from G.E. Bentley, Jr.
File consists of Bertram R. Davis' review of "Coleridge" by Walter Jackson Bate from an unknown journal.
File consists of a bibliography of works about Southey by an unknown author.
File consists of one item of correspondence from Edmund Blunden.
File consists of one item of correspondence from Boots Cash Chemists.
File consists of forty three items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Nellie A. Boult.
File consists of fifty items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and Nellie A. Boult.
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles (who became Mrs. Robert Southey). March 1, 1828. Says he would be glad to send her his "plain statements, of all the circumstances of the case of the poor woman whom I was able to deliver from her horrible doom." Deals with …
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. July 13, 1831. Informal, friendly letter discussing their name, speaking of his unfurnished house, their going with Mrs. Bowles to some destination.
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. June 5, 1832. Refers to the crisis facing the nation. Begs her to assure her friend of Bowles's esteem and respect. Bowles hopes that nothing he's said will offend her friend.
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. May 16, [1829?]. Forwards letter addressed to her but delivered to him by mistake. Compliments her as creative artist of letters. Refers warmly to Southey. Long, detailed letter.
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. June 30, 1831. Long letter beginning with reference to a book he has completed, one that should reach her soon. He speaks of their common friend Southey and his activities in literature and in the press.
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles. June 1, 1832. Apparently encloses poetry (ms.? or book?) Mentions someone to whom he alludes in the preface. Comments on "disgusting and stupid bards of the pantry and wash-house." Unpublished?