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Vol. LVIII ( ff. 339 ). 30 Sept. 1854- 14 Dec. 1863.

Richard Bentley, publisher (I): Agreements with authors and others: 1829-1871.: Mostly signed.

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ff. 1, 2, 63, 64, 135, 136, 237 Comte Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri-Carrucci della Sommaia,; book collector: Letter and receipts to, and agreements with R. Bentley: 1852-1861.: Mostly signed.
ff. 1, 63, 135, 237, 271 François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, French statesman: Agreements with R. Bentley, and receipt: 1852-1861.: Mostly signed.
f. 3 Mary Anne Everett Green, née Wood; historian: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1854.: Signed.
f. 4 George Pycock Everett Green, painter: Receipt to R. Bentley: 1856.: Signed.
ff. 5 (signed), 7 Mrs Marianne Young, formerly Postans; writer on the East: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1854.
ff. 9, 298, 299, 324 George Bentley, of Richard Bentley and Son, publishers: Agreements with authors and others: 1854-1882.: Mostly signed.
f. 9 (signed) William Harrison Ainsworth, alias 'Cheviot Ticheburn'; novelist: Agreements with R., G. and F. Bentley: 1854, 1866.
f. 9 (signed) Frederick Bentley, publisher: Agreements with W. H. Ainsworth: 1854, 1866.
ff. 11-14 George Washington Chasseaud, writer on the Lebanon: Agreement with R. Bentley, and receipt: 1854-1855.: Signed.
ff. 15-17 Frederick Samuel Newell, printer, of London: Letter, etc., to E. S. Morgan: 1854.
f. 18 F. N. Dyer, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1854.
ff. 20, 34, 34b, 163 John Doran, author: Agreements with R. Bentley, and receipts: 1851-1858.: Signed.
f. 22 Montagu Lyon Phillips, scientific writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1854.: Signed.
f. 23 Richard Heber Wrightson, historical writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1855.: Signed.
f. 25 Andrew Richard Scoble, KCSI 1890: Agreements with and receipts to R. Bentley: 1851-1857.: Signed.
ff. 26 (copy), 37, 76 Frederick Nicholls Devey, attorney: Letters to R. Bentley: 1852-1859.
f. 27 Alfred Turner, attorney: Letter to F. N. Devey: 1855.: Copy.
f. 28 John William Cole, alias Calcraft; author: Letter, etc., to, and business transactions with R. Bentley: 1851-1861.: Partly signed.
ff. 30, 58, 86-90, 214, 283, 304, 319 Charles Duke Yonge, historical and miscellaneous writer: Letters, etc., to and agreements with R. Bentley: 1855-1863.: Signed.
f. 32 Anne Beale, novelist: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1855-1869.: Signed.
f. 36 (signed) Dominick McCausland, religious writer: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1855, 1864.
ff. 38-43 James Shaw Willes, Justice of CP and Knight 1855: Legal opinion, etc.: 1855.: Copy.
f. 44 Robert Boyd Kidd, Perpetual Curate of Butley, county Suffolk: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1855.: Signed.
f. 46 Charles Langdale, biographer of Mrs Fitzherbert: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1855.: Signed.
f. 48 Alonzo Money, author: Agreement with R. Bentley, and receipts: 1855, 1856.
f. 48 George Henry Money, author and barrister: Letter and receipts to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1855, 1856.: Mostly signed.
f. 50 Frederick Robinson, MD; author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1856.: Signed.
f. 51 Archibald Boyd, novelist: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1850-1856.: Signed.
ff. 53,55 Robert Howe Gould, translator: Agreement with R. Bentley, and receipt: 1856.: Signed.
f. 56 Alfred Wills, Knight and Judge of QB 1884: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1856.: Signed.
f. 60 Caroline Lucy Scott, widow of Admiral Sir G Scott; novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1856.: Signed.
f. 62 (signed) Frederic Saunders, American author: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1856, 1857.
ff. 65, 114 (signed) Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Atwell Lake, RE, Commanding Engineer during the siege of Kars; KCB 1875: Agreements with, and receipts to R. Bentley: 1856, 1857.
ff. 65, 67 Wiltshire Stanton Austin, barrister and author: Agreements, accompts, etc., with R. Bentley: 1852, 1856.: Mostly signed.
ff. 68 (signed), 70, 72, 74 (draft), 78 Peter Cunningham, author and critic: Correspondence, etc., with R. Bentley: 1848-1859.
f. 81 Edwin Keene, journalist: Agreement with R. Bentley, and receipt: 1856, 1857.: Signed.
f. 82 Edwin Keene, journalist: Letter on behalf of, to R. Bentley: 1857.
f. 84 Mary Catherine Jackson, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1856.: Signed.
ff. 91, 279, 326 Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton, widow of Sir W A Chatterton, Baronet, and wife (1859) of E H Dering: Agreements, partly on behalf of, with R. Bentley: 1836-1863.: Partly signed.
ff. 93 (Fr.), 94 (Fr.) Louis Christophe François Hachette and Co; publishers: Letter to, and agreements with R. Bentley: 1856-1870.: Mostly signed.
ff. 97, 99-102 Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet; historian: Letters to R. Bentley: 1856-1858.
f. 98 Grace Wallace, formerly Don; wife of Sir J M Wallace, KH; author: Letters to R. Bentley: 1856-1857.
ff. 104-105 Miss Harriette Amiel Chalcraft, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley and receipt: 1856-1857.: Signed.
f.106 Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and (1869) of Winchester: Letter to R. Bentley: [1856?].
f. 108 Charles Reade, novelist and dramatist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1856.: Signed.
ff. 110, 208,274 George Butler Earp, author: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1856-1861.: Signed.
ff. 112, 181 George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala, journalist: Agreements, partly on behalf of, with R. Bentley: 1857-1858.: Mostly signed.
f. 116 William Ashton Shepherd, travel writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 117 Andrew Steinmetz, author: Agreements with and receipt to R. Bentley: 1848, 1857.: Signed.
ff. 118, 213, 248 Francis Trevelyan Buckland, naturalist: Agreements with R. Bentley, and receipt: 1857-1865.: Signed.
f. 120 Thomas Stackhouse Burton, attorney: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1849, 1857.: Signed.
f. 123 William Johnston, of Ballykilbeg; novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 124 Reverend William Samuel Symonds, geologist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 125 Mrs Georgiana Malcolm, translator: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
ff. 126 (signed), 128 John D'Ewes, travel writer: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.
f. 130 James Hamilton, traveller in the Near East: Agreement on behalf of, with R. Bentley: 1857.
ff. 130-132 (signed) Fanny Aikin Kortright, author: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1857, n.d.
f. 133 Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan, afterwards Riddell; novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 137 William Orlando Markham, MD; FRCP: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 139 O. W. Wight, author and translator: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 140 James Baillie, MD: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f.140 Helen C. Mackenzie: Agreements with R. Bentley, and receipt: 1853, 1857.
ff. 141, 142, 217-219 Jemima Tautphoeus, née Montgomery; wife of Cajetan, Baron Tautphoeus; novelist: Letter to, and agreements with R. Bentley: 1849-1859.: Mostly signed.
f. 144 Charles Dickens, novelist: Agreement between C. W. S. Brooks and R. Bentley, signed by, as witness: 1857.
f. 144 Charles William Shirley Brooks, Editor of 'Punch': Agreement with, and receipt to R. Bentley: 1855, 1857.
f. 146 George Drought Warburton, writer on Canada: Letter to, and agreements and accompt with R. Bentley: 1847-1857.: Mostly signed.
ff. 148, 310, 318 Reverend Edward Bradley, alias 'Cuthbert Bede.': Correspondence and business transactions with R. Bentley and successors: 1857-1872.: Partly signed.
f. 150 Emma Newby, writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
ff. 152 (signed), 154 Anthony Trollope, novelist: Letters to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1837, 1857.
f. 155 Mrs Jane Carr Bateman, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1857.: Signed.
f. 157 Miss Madeline Anne Wallace Dunlop, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 159 Alexander Andrews, writer on journalism: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 161 Mrs Maria Freeman, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 165 Amélie Josephine Sleeman, widow of Major -General Sir W H Sleeman, KCB: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 167 Lieutenant-Colonel James John Graham, formerly 70th Regt. of Foot: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 169 Julia Tilt, novelist and versifier: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 171 Charles Hamilton Aïdé, novelist, poet, and composer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 172 Mrs Sarah Stickney Ellis, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
ff. 173, 331 Anne Manning, author: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1858-1868.: Signed.
f. 175 Charles Maurice Davies, DD; author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 176 M. F. Mahony, of Cork; novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 177 Coke Richardson, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 178 Martin Richard Gubbins, Indian official: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 179 Mrs Adelaide Maria Case, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 180 Christopher Tatchell Winter, writer on Burma: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 183 Charles Dickens, novelist: Letter to G. A. H. Sala: 1858.: Imperf.
f. 184 Robert Henry Wallace Dunlop, of the Bengal Civil Service; CB 1860: Agreement on behalf of, with R. Bentley: 1858.
f. 185 Captain Robert Dwarris Gibney, Indian Army: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 186 John Douglas Cook, journalist: Minutes signed by: 1858.
f. 186 Reverend William Scott, Perpetual Curate of Christ Church, Hoxton: Minutes of a meeting conc. 'Bentley's Quarterly Review', signed by: 1858.
f. 186 Richard Bentley, publisher (I): Minutes of a meeting conc. Bentley's Quarterly Review, signed by: 1858.
f. 186 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne; 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Prime Minister: Minutes of a meeting conc. 'Bentley's Quarterly Review', signed by: 1858.
f. 188 Reverend Edward Thomas William Polehampton, Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 189 Mrs Ph. Solms Boosey, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 190 Sidney Jane Morgan, née Owenson; wife of Sir T C Morgan; novelist: Receipt to R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 191 Rose Macqueen Piddington, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1858.: Signed.
f. 192 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; Prime Minister: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 194 Julius Froebel, German political writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 195 Caroline Woolmer Leakey, alias 'Oliné Keese'; religious writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f.196 Maria Theresa Lewis, formerly Lister; wife of Sir G C Lewis, 2nd Baronet; biographer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
ff. 196, 233, 242, 276 Emily Eden, daughter of William, 1st Baron Auckland: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1859-1866.: Mostly signed.
f.197 Reverend Leveson Venables Vernon Harcourt, Chancellorof York (1827): Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 199 William Scarth Moorsom, civil engineer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 199 Lieutenant-General Sir James Frederick Love, General 1864; GCB 1865: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 201 Captain George Wrottesley, RE; Major -General 1881; antiquary: Letter to R. Bentley: 1859.
f. 203 William Garrett Lewis, Baptist minister, of Westbourne Grove: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 204 Annie Webb, afterwards Webb Peploe; author: Agreements with and receipt to R. Bentley: 1849-1859.: Signed.
f. 205 Edward Adams Williams, naval chaplain: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 206 Julia Clara Byrne, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 210 (signed) Henry Stebbing, d 1883 DD; author: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.
ff. 211, 332 John Timbs, FSA; author: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1859-1866.: Signed.
f. 215 Walter Farquhar Hook, Dean of Chichester: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1859, 1864.: Signed.
f. 220 Miss A. M. Goodrich, novelist: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 221 W. J. Cockburn Muir, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 222 T. H. Staunton, geographer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 223 Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton, of the département of Manuscripts, British Museum: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
f. 223 Edward Levien, Assistant, Department of MSS., British Museum: Receipt to R. Bentley: 1859.: Signed.
ff. 225-229 Augusta Hall, wife of Benjamin, Baron Llanover: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1860, 1861.: Signed.
ff. 231, 232 Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, historian: Business transactions with R. Bentley: 1845-1869.: Mostly signed.
f. 235 Susan Bogert Warner, novelist: Letter to R. Bentley: 1860.
f. 239 Henry George Bohn, bookseller and publisher: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1836-1860.: Signed.
f. 241 Madame A. de Barrera, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1860.: Signed.
f. 244 Reverend John Cumming, DD; religious writer: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1860-1869.: Signed.
f. 245 Mrs Elizabeth Thiselton, of Ramsgate: Covenant with R. Bentley: 1860.: Imperf.
f.247 Nathan Davis, traveller: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1860.: Signed.
f. 250 (signed) Mayne Reid, novelist: Letter to, and agreements with R. Bentley: 1860, 1866.
f.252 Harriet Raikes, daughter of Thomas Raikes; author: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1849, 1860.: Signed.
f. 253 Alfred Hyman Louis, political writer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
f.254 Charles Forster, Rector of Stisted; author: Agreements, etc., with R. Bentley: 1851, 1861.: Signed.
f. 256 William Wilkie Collins, author: Letter to, and accompt and agreements with R. Bentley: 1850-1861.: Mostly signed.
f. 258 General Hon Charles Grey, private Secretary to Prince Albert and to Queen Victoria: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
ff. 260, 281 William Hurton, author: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1851-1862.: Signed.
f. 261 Maria Theresa Longworth, self-styled wife of William, 4th Viscount Avonmore 1873: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
f. 262 Christopher Pemberton Hodgson, traveller: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
f. 263 John Heneage Jesse, author: Letter to, and agreements with R. Bentley, etc.: 1839-1861.: Mostly signed.
f. 265 Reverend Professor William Purdie Dickson, of Glasgow University; translator: Agreements with R. Bentley, and R. Bentley and Son: 1861, 1885.: Signed.
f. 265 Theodor Mommsen, German historian: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
f. 266 Theodor Mommsen, German historian: Memorandum by, conc. the English translation of his History of Rome: 1865.
ff. 267, 286-288, 297, 328 Ellen Wood, wife of Henry Wood; novelist: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1861-1870.: Signed.
f. 268 Thomas Graham, attorney: Letter to R. Bentley: 1861.
f. 273 James Spence, iron merchant, of Liverpool; author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
f. 278 Hill Dawe Wickham, Rector of Horsington: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1861.: Signed.
f. 282 William Charles Baldwin, writer on Africa: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
f. 285 Arthur Polehampton, writer on Australia: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
f.289 Robert James Leslie McGhee, Chaplain to the Forces: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
ff. 290, 291 George Tugwell, Curate of Ilfracombe: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
f.292(signed) Mrs A. D. Pollard, alias 'John Pomeroy', novelist: Agreement with, and letters to R. Bentley: 1862, 1864.
f. 293 Charles Stretton, autobiographer: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
ff. 295 (signed), 296 Lady Rachel Evelyn Butler, née Russell; wife of Lord J W Butler: Agreement with, and letter to, R. Bentley: 1862.
f. 298 Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
f. 299 Miss Mabel Sharman Crawford, author: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1862, 1864.: Signed.
f. 301 William Wills, MD: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1862.: Signed.
f.303 William Henry Bowlestone Jessop, writer on Australia: Agreement on behalf of, with R. Bentley: 1862.
f. 305 (signed) James Pascoe, novelist: Letter to, and agreement with R. Bentley: 1862, 1864.
f. 306 Sir Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet: Business transactions with R. Bentley: 1851-1863.: Mostly initialled.
f. 308 Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur A'Court Fisher, RE; Colonel 1869: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 311 Lieutenant James Edward Alexander, Knight 1838; General 1881: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1832-1863.: Signed.
f.313 Captain William Henry Knight, 48th Regt.; Lieutenant -Colonel 1877: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 317 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist: Agreements with, and receipt to R. Bentley: 1863-1872.: Mostly signed.
f. 321 Alexander John Baylis, solicitor: Letter to R. Bentley: 1863.
f. 323 Martin Archer Shee, barrister: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 324 Alexandre Dumas, Père, French writer: Agreement on behalf of, with R. Bentley: 1863.
f. 324 Ferdinand Silas, French author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 330 Richard Seymour Conway Chermside, Rector of Wilton, county Hampshire: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 333 Miss Sophy Moody, author: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 334 Rose Greenhow, wife of R Greenhow, American scholar: Agreement with R. Bentley: 1863.: Signed.
f. 335 Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, author: Agreements with R. Bentley, and R. Bentley and Son: 1863-1893.: Signed.
f. 336 Miss Mary Renny, writer on cookery: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1863, 1865.: Signed.
f. 337 William Gayer Starbuck, author: Letters to, and agreements with R. Bentley: 1863, 1865.: Signed.
f. 338 (signed) Emma Robinson, writer: Correspondence and agreement with R. Bentley: 1863, 1864.
f. 339 Emily Anne Smythe, wife of Percy, 8th Viscount Strangford: Agreements with R. Bentley: 1863, 1869.: Signed.

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Add MS 46560-46682 : BENTLEY PAPERS. Records of the publishing house known successively as Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley ( 1829- Aug. 1832…
Add MS 46611-46631 : B. Agreements and records of agreements
Add MS 46611-46626 : BENTLEY PAPERS. Vols. LII - LXVII. Agreements with authors, publishers and others, together with letters and papers relating…

Add MS 46617 : Vol. LVIII ( ff. 339 ). 30 Sept. 1854- 14 Dec. 1863. Richard Bentley, publisher (I): Agreements with authors and others:…

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