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Eric Mackay letters and manuscripts, 1885-1889, undated (inclusive)

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23 item
Abstract:
British poet Eric Mackay (1851-1898) was the son of journalist and poet Charles Mackay (1812-1889) and the half-brother of novelist Mary Mackay (1855-1924), who published under the pseudonym Marie Corelli. The collection consists of nineteen autograph letters from Eric Mackay to American editor of The Independent, John Eliot Bowen, and three undated autograph manuscripts of Mackay's prose and poetry. There is also one letter from Mackay to the unnamed editor of the Century Magazine.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Charles Mackay Correspondence, 1857-1872 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists chiefly of letters to Charles Mackay and George Routledge from 19th-century English and American poets giving permission for their poems to appear in the Mackay/Routledge illustratedd poetry anthology The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets (1858).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]