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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (poet, writer and diplomat)

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Biography

James Russell Lowell (1819-91)

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence from James Russell Lowell, 1 July 1880-5 July 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9225/1/30-37
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...
Dates: 1 July 1880-5 July 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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James Russell Lowell: Correspondence to F.J. Furnivall and E.F. Russell, 1880-1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/817-818
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1880-1884
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from James R. Lowell to John Willis Clark, 12 June 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8954/88
Scope and Contents

Do not invite guests specially to meet him

Dates: 12 June 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from James R. Lowell to John Willis Clark, 8 Jan. 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8954/89
Scope and Contents

Invitation to Clark

Dates: 8 Jan. 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from James R. Lowell to John Willis Clark, 28 May 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8954/90
Scope and Contents

Declines invitation because starting for Bologna

Dates: 28 May 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from James R. Lowell to John Willis Clark, 18 Oct. 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8954/86
Scope and Contents

A friend cannot advise whether to sell stocks in Reading road or to keep them

Dates: 18 Oct. 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from James R. Lowell to John Willis Clark, 28 May 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8954/87
Scope and Contents

Declines invitation

Dates: 28 May 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Photographs of other individuals (not family), c.1855-1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10452/4/14
Scope and Contents

1-2. Adam Sedgwick (Autumn 1860, January 1862); 3. Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1862); 4. Otto Struve, St Petersburg (1875); 5-7. Dr Whewell (pre-1866); 8. J. Russell Lowell (undated, c.1860-1880); 9. Robert Ransome of Ipswich (undated, c.1855-1864); 10. Baron Gorell of Brampton (Gorell Barnes) (undated, c.1870-1900).

Dates: c.1855-1900