
A select list of notable 19th-century British manuscripts collections available at the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. (Links are to finding aids only.)
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Paul F. Betz Wordsworth and English Literature collection GTM141121 -- This extensive collection of English literature is centered on the Wordsworth circle, but extends to English Romantic poetry in general, to the literature of the English Lake District, and to other late eighteenth century and nineteenth century poetry.
John C. Hirsh collection GTM130529 -- Contains miscellaneous 19th century British letters, scrapbooks and photograph albums.
John S. Mayfield papers -- Over a 40-year period, John S. and Edith S. Mayfield formed an extensive and textually important collection of works by and about the English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as other British 19th century literary material.


Montague Summers papers GTM110501 -- A collection of letters, manuscripts, and printed ephemera belonging to English author and clergyman Montague Summers (1880-1948). A significant portion of the collection consists of the papers of Summers' friend, the English author and literary biographer S.M. Ellis, which came into Summers' possession after Ellis' death in 1933. Both men shared interests in 19th-century Romantic literature and in the lore of the supernatural.
Arnold U. Ziegler Memorial Collection of Charles Dickens GTM150610 -- Manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera and realia relating to Charles Dickens collected by Arnold U. Ziegler. Includes records and publications of various branches of the Dickens Fellowship (c1921-1960s).
Playing Card collection GTA000584 -- Published by U.S. Playing Card Co., Cincinnati, U.S.A. Copyright, 1897. Authors represented include Will Carlton, Eugene Field, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Reade, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Buchanan Read, J. Feinmore Cooper, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Blafour Stevenson, William Mkaepeace Thackeray, Alexander Pope, Helen Hunt Jackson, Celia Thaxter, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Bret Harte, James Russell Lowell, General Lew Wallace, John Mitlon, Walt Whitman, Edward George Butler, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Shakespeare, George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Stanley John Weyman, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Carlyle, Washington Irving, Bayard Taylor, John Dryden, Charles Dickens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Wilkie Collins, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarance Stedman, George Elliot, and Anthony Hope Hawkins.