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Seward, Anna, (1747-1809), poet and author

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Surname:	Seward
Forenames:	Anna
Gender:	Female
Date:	1747-1809
Biography:	ODNB link for Seward, Anna (1747-1809) Author
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P144171 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P25766 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Anna Seward

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1762-1804: literary MSS and papers (copies)	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.879-880
2	1784-1807: poems and letterbooks (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP4112	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
3	c1770-1808: corresp and literary MSS	Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4	1799: autograph manuscript of "Sonnet for the drawer in the thatched shed by the brook at Plas Newydd"	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 23981E	See Annual Return 2013
5	1784-1788: corresp with James Boswell	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	GEN MSS 89	NRA 22146 Boswell
6	1788-1796: letters (15) from Henry Francis Cary	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 83-908
7	1764-1804: letters (15) to the Dowdeswell family	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	AS	NRA 13198 Seward
8	1781-1785: letters (81) from William Hayley	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum	Hayley XII	See HMC visit, JRS 1992
9	1785-1801: letters (11) to John Nichols	Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum	MS45/2-12	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
10	1782-1806: letters (20) to Sophia Pennington	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	C 202	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
11	1787-1790: letters (11) to Hester Lynch Piozzi	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	Eng MS 565
12	1788-1807: letters (15) to Anne Parry Price	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46400	See HMC [15] Puleston MSS
13	1779-1809: corresp with Sir Walter Scott	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.851-938, 1549-1634, 1762
14	1802-1808: letters from Sir Walter Scott	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 37425 ff97-115
15	1765-1807: letters (29); literary MSS	Huntington Library		See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
16	1764-1807: letters (21) and literary MSS	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D262/1	NRA 17368 Lichfield RO misc

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