Richardson Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0279

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please contact woodson@rice.edu for access.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains letters and literary drafts of Samuel Richardson; letters of his daughter, Anne Richardson, to her sister (Martha Richardson Bridgen) and parents, and Sally Crowther Moodie. The collection also includes letters by Elizabeth (Leake) Richardson, Sally Crowther Moodie, and Jane Berthon regarding the Lisbon earthquake (1755); and correspondence from O.B. Kaiser to Samuel Richardson.

Dates

Creation: 1714 - 1802

Creator

Richardson, Anne (Author, Person)
Richardson, Samuel (Author, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from the Richardson Family Papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

Biographical / Historical

Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Outside of his writing career, Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works and various journals and magazines.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet ( (6 folders))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains letters and literary drafts of Samuel Richardson; letters of his daughter, Anne Richardson, to her sister Martha Richardson Bridgen, and parents, and Sally Crowther Moodie. The collection also includes letters by Elizabeth (Leake) Richardson, Sally Crowther Moodie, and Jane Berthon regarding the Lisbon earthquake (1755); and correspondence from O.B. Kaiser to Samuel Richardson.