Box 1
Contains 53 Results:
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 October 26
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere grapples with questions of scientists and faith and particularly takes issue with a Professor Clifford, likely W.K. Clifford, for taking a stance akin to atheism.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 October 28
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere notes that he is writing an article on Wordsworth and will continue to write the article even if the publisher refuses it.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 November 17
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. Contains De Vere's musing on the place of passion in poetry, particularly his reticence to engage with it.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 December 6
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. Primarily discussses previous letters he had to sent to Graves or Graves had sent him.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 December9
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere request that Graves return William Rowan Hamilton's correspondence to him when Graves is finished, particularly De Vere's own letters to Hamilton. De Vere was not fond of the idea that his letters might be read by someone to which they were not intended. Additionally contains a list of Hamilton's poems.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 December 12
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere notes he enclosed a copy of one of William Rowan Hamilton's sonnets, "Tis Sweet." De Vere goes on to discuss Hamilton's wife and suggests that Hamilton's poetry would have been better if Hamilton had not married her.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 December 26
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere notes that he has sent back to Graves all of William Rowan Hamilton's letters of 1833 that Graves had requested.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1879 December 30
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere discusses his letter to William Rowan Hamilton concerning Coleridge as well as Eliza Hamilton's poetry.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1880 January 8
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere describes some of his own works and notes in a postcript that he has come across more of William Rowan Hamilton's letters and will send them on to Graves.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1883 August
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere requests that Graves send him Edward O'Brien's letter again. Written from Mary O'Brien's lodgings, on stationary from 8 York Street, St. James Square, London with a black mourning border.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1883 August 26
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere thanks Graves for forwarding Edward O'Brien's letter ashe is going to send it to the editor of The Spectator.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1883 August 26
Contains a brief letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere notes that his sister has found the sonnets that Graves requested and that De Vere will send them on, with a request that Graves return them as De Vere's niece values them.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1885 June 22
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere thanks Graves for sending him acopy of the second volume of his biography of William Rowan Hamilton and is delighted to learn there will be yet a third volume.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1885 July 7
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere thanks Graves for forwarding him Graves' correspondence with the university and provost, likely at Trinity College Dublin. He further goes on to state that William Rowan Hamilton was far luckier to have Graves, his friend, as his biographer than Samuel Coleridge had been.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1885 July 31
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere notes that he will be glad to see the two letters which Graves' referred to previously, and that De Vere's eyesight is very poor now.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1885 August 4
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere thanks Graves for some interesting letters he had forwarded to De Vere.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves, 1888 May 31
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to Robert Perceval Graves. De Vere thanks Graves for his inclusion in William Rowan Hamilton's biography, as De Vere had just finished reading the concluding volume again.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Bishop Charles Graves?, 1891 May 1
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to an unidentified recipient, very likely Robert Perceval Graves' brother, Bishop Charles Graves. De Vere wishes to discuss with him the matter of a book lost by Trinity College Dublin over a century ago. It further mentions the recpient's daughter's long illness. If the recipient is Charles Graves, the daughter would likely be the writer Ida Margaret Graves Poore.
Letter, Aubrey De Vere to Bishop Charles Graves?, 1891 May 3
Contains a letter from Aubrey De Vere to an unidentified recipient, very likely Robert Perceval Graves' brother, Bishop Charles Graves. Discusses the recipient's daughter's health further.
Envelopes, 1879 December - 1885 July
Contains an assortment of envelopes all addressed to Robert Perceval Graves.
Letter, Elinor O'Brien to Robert Perceval Graves, 1882 November 8
Contains a letter from Elinor O'Brien to Robert Perceval Graves. O'Brien thanks Graves for sending his book to her brother Aubrey De Vere and praises what she has read of the book.
Letter, Elinor O'Brien to Robert Perceval Graves, 1883 April 13
Contains a letter from Elinor O'Brien to Robert Perceval Graves. O'Brien further praises Graves' book and passes along her son's praises as well. Written on stationary with a black mourning border.
Letter, Elinor O'Brien to Robert Perceval Graves, 1885 July 8
Contains a letter from Elinor O'Brien to Robert Perceval Graves. O'Brien thanks Graves for sending her a copy of the second volume of his biography of William Rowan Hamilton. She praises what she has read thus far and believes it to be an arduous undertaking.