R. M. Ballantyne letters, 1806-1894.

0.42 linear feet (1 box)

English

In English.

Purchased from John Hart on the Albert H. Childs Fund, 2001, from Michael Silverman on the Albert H. Childs Fund, 2002, and from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. on the Albert H. Childs Fund, 2002.

This material is open for research.

R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish author of juvenile fiction and artist.

Contains 120 autograph letters, signed, from R. M. Ballantyne chiefly to his wife, Jane "Jeanie" Grant Ballantyne; other letters are addressed to his mother-in-law Mrs. Grant; one letter is to Reverend G. Bainton; and one is addressed to "Emma." There is one letter to Ballantyne from publisher Thomas Constable. The letters date 1867 to 1894. Included is a manuscript poem "(Reply to 'Father, dear father come home')," signed and dated Capetown, 1876; plates removed from an unidentified book; work for keyboard, autograph manuscript, 1806, titled "Miss Randall S. Grant's Strathspey," composed by Ballantyne's father, Alexander Thomson Ballantyne, for his mother, Miss Randall "Anne" Scott Grant, before their marriage in 1806; and several empty envelopes.

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March 13, 2015

R. M. Ballantyne Letters. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

R. M. Ballantyne Letters. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Authors 20th century Scotland.