Album containing letters to members of the Brunel and Hawes families
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Object number2014.03354.01
TitleAlbum containing letters to members of the Brunel and Hawes families
Creator Sophia Macnamara (Lady) Hawes (owner)
DescriptionAlbum containing 128 letters across 52 pages, addressed to members of the Brunel and Hawes families. The letters are contained in a brown hardback album belonging to Lady Sophia Macnamara Hawes. The cover is primarily light brown in colour with a dark brown strip of about 1 inch wide running beside the spine up the length of the cover. There are also two triangles of the same dark colour in either corner of the cover. All of these dark coloured sections are seperated from the lighter brown by gold thread trim. The lighter brown colouring which makes up the bulk of the cover is covered in a repeating circular pattern, each circle is about 10mm wide. The back is of the exact same design and the cover of the spine has been lost. The cover and the back of the album are well worn and have in fact detached from the album whole. The pages of the album, of which 52 remain inside the covers, are quite worn, frayed and torn and are in a range of colours - brown, green and yellow, all faded by now. The pages appear to be numbered but the meaning of these numbers is as yet unclear. The 128 letters which are dotted throughout these pages are also numbered but again the purpose of this numbering seems unclear. They have been neatly folded in order to make them fit on the page. They are in very good condition compared to the album itself and the vast majority remain affixed to their pages with glue. The letters vary in size from ones which take up the whole of the page (280mm x 240mm) to ones which are much smaller. The smaller ones constitute the majority of these letters and reveal the high ranking social circle to which the Hawes (and the Brunel family) belonged. A list of the authors and recipients of each letter in the album is given below in alphabetical order followed by the corresponding page number (in brackets) in the album wherever possible. Any page number marked with an ! indicates an approximate page number as the written numbers stop at page 74.
Baron Richard AIREY, autograph letter to Sir Benjamin Hawes. Kalsha [Crimean Peninsula] 24 September 1854, 10 a.m. [26]
ALLARD, 1849. To Isambard Brunel (2 letters) [97]
Charles BABBAGE, autograph letter to Sir Benjamin Hawes. Dorset Street, Manchester [not dated]. [27]
Charles BABBAGE, autograph letter to Sir Benjamin Hawes. Dorset Street, 2 July 1834. [12]
Sir Henry BARKLY, 48 Brook Street [London] Friday 24 June [1853].
Gustave de BEAUMONT, Hertford House 2 [August?] 1848. [39]
Gustave de BEAUMONT, Hertford House 2 November 1848. [38]
Maria Sophia BENTHAM, [neé Fordyce], autograph letter to Lady Brunel. Holly Mount Hospital Hampstead 17 Dec 1849. [54]
Sarah Jane BENTHAM, 5 Oct 1835.
Sarah Jane BENTHAM, letter to Mr Brunel, 21 Oct 1835. [55]
George BIRKBECK, 38 Finsbury Square, 2nd Aug 1835. 'My dear sir.' [95]
Jacques BLUMENTHAL, Coste Besente?, Algiers 10 Dec 1871. [3]
Baron de BODE, 3 Aug 1840. [94]
William Thomas BRANDE, Royal Mint, 1835. [95]
Sir David BREWSTER, Mrs Hawes. St. Leonards College, St. Andrews, 23 Dec 1854. [4]
Sir David BREWSTER, autograph letter to Sophia Hawes, Athenaeum, London, 7 June 1854. [17]
Sir Benjamin Collins BRODIE, Broome, Beckworth, Surrey, 11 October 1854. [86]
BROOKE, Sir James (1803-1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak. 30 July 1851. 'My dear Hawes', Sir Benjamin? [22]
BROOKE, Sir James (1803-1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak. Pirang Hill 29 April 1850. 'My dear Mr. Hawes.' [87!]
BROWN, General Sir George, GCB KH (1790-1865), British soldier, Peninsular war and Crimean War. ?? Hotel 18 June 1856. 'My dear Sir Benjamin Hawes.' [90!]
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859), civil engineer. To Hawes on shovel inscription. May 1828. [74]
BRUNEL, Sir (Marc) Isambard (1769-1849), civil engineer. 20 Oct 1826. 'Monsieur le Baron', presumably Sir Benjamin Hawes. [59]
BRUNEL, Sir (Marc) Isambard (1769-1849), civil engineer. Autograph letter signed 'To little Benjamin', his grandson. [n.p.] 11 Feb 1834. [89!]
BULLER, Charles (1806-1848), politician and wit. Saturday 8 July [????]. 'Sir'. [68]
BULLER, Charles (1806-1848), politician and wit. Troston Ixworth Saturday 23 Oct [1847]. 'My dear Hawes' [68]
BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias von, Baron von Bunsen in the Prussian nobility (1791-1860), diplomist and scholar. 4 Carlton Terrace 7 Nov 1848. 'Dear sir'. [32]
CALLCOTT [neé Dundas; other married name Graham], Maria, Lady Callcott (1785-1842), traveller and author. 15 Sept 1835. 'Dear lady Hawes'. [2]
CALLCOTT, Sir Augustus Wall (1879-1944), English landscape painter. 28 June ????. 'My dear sir'. [11]
CAMPBELL, John, first Baron Campbell of St. Andrews (1779-1861), lord chancellor. Stratheden House 20 Feb 1844. 'B. Hawes.' [6]
CHARLES, More O'Ferrall and refugees in Malta.
CHISHOLM [neé Jones], Caroline (1808-1877), immigration administrator. 255 East India Rd., Poplar 5 Feb 1867. 'My dear lady Hawes.' [17]
CHISHOLM [neé Jones], Caroline (1808-1877), immigration administrator. 29 Prince St., Mile End 9 Feb 1847. 'Mrs Hawes.' [18]
CLARKSON, T. Playford 18 July 1845. 'Mr Hawes.' He was a naval official/agitator for better living conditions for naval personnel. [7]
CLINTON, Henry Pelham Fiennes, fifth duke of Newcastle under Lyme (1811-1864), politician. 'My dear Hawes.' [69]
CODRINGTON, Sir Edward (1770-1851), naval officer. 21 Jan 1827. 'To Sir I. Brunel.' [89!]
CODRINGTON, Sir Edward (1770-1851), naval officer. Portsmouth 2 Mar 1842. [54]
COLEBROOKE, Sir Edward Thomas (1813-1890) MP for Taunton @ Lanarkshire. 20 Sept 1860. 'My dear Hawes.' [10]
COOKE, William Havell. 17 Sept 1857. 'My dear Sir Benjamin.' [9]
copy of letter to FOURIER
CORNWALL, Barry, pseud. of Bryan Waller Procter, (1787-1874), English author. 13 Upper Harley St. 13 July 1846. 'Dear sir.' [45]
DISRAELI, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), prime minister and novelist. Grovesnor Gate 1 Feb 1852. 'Dear Hawes.' [65]
DUMERGUE, S[ophia] (1768-1831), the daughter of Sir Walter Scott's friend. 'Mrs Hawes.' [11]
EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock (1793-1865), painter and art administrator. 7 Fitzroy Sq. 8 Dec 1853. 'My dear sir.' [29]
EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock (1793-1865), painter and art administrator. 7 Fitzroy Sq. 27 Feb 1849. 'My dear Sir.' [83!]
EICHTAHL, Gustave Sligmann d' (1804-1886), French writer, publicist and Hellenist. Paris 6 Dec 1851. 'My dear friend.' [93!]
EVANS, Sir George de Lacy (1787-1870), army officer. 1855/6?. 'Dear Hawes.' [85!]
FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867), natural philosopher, scientific advisor, and Sandemanian. R. Institution 28 Dec 1828. 'My dear Sir.' [86!]
FIELD, Joshua (1786-1863), engineer. Lambeth 26 May 1849. 'Dear lady Hawes.' [53]
FOX, Armistead [neé Cane; married name Fox], Elizabeth Bridget, courtesan. Autograph letter signed ('ELIZH FOX') to Sir Benjamin Hawes. St. Anne's Hill [Near Chertsey, Surrey] 3 Nov 1827. 'My dear sir.' [50]
GAVAZZI, Alessandro (1809-1889), Italian preacher and patriot. 88 ?? Street, Oxford 22 May 1851. 'Signora.' [37]
GEORGE, Prince, second duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), army officer. St. James's Palace 26 Feb 1856. 'My dear Hawes.' [42]
GEORGE, Prince, second duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), army officer. St. James's Palace 29 Feb 1856. 'My dear Hawes.' [23]
GIRARDIN, Emile de, (1806-1881), French journalist. [91!]
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809-1898), prime minister and author. 13 Carlton Terrace 22 Nov 1847. 'My dear sir.' [40]
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809-1898), prime minister and author. 6 Carlton Gardens 7 Mar 1856. 'Sir.' [24]
GÖTZLAFF. Karl Friedrich August [Charles Gutzlaff] (1803-1851), missionary and civil servant. Hong Kong 23 June 1851. 'Dear Sir.' [84!]
GROTE, George (1794-1871), historian and politician. 13 Dec. 'Dear Sir.' [96!]
HARDINGE, Charles Stewart, second viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1822-1894), politician. Autograph letter signed ('HARDINGE') to Lady Sophia Hawes (My Dear Lady Hawes). Dufferin Lodge, Highgate 3 May [1859].
HARDINGE, Henry, first viscount of Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856), army officer and governor-general of India. Autograph letter signed ('HARDINGE') to Lady Sophia Hawes (My Dear Hawes). Horseguards [London] 4 Feb 1856. [35]
HEMENS, Felicia. Poet.
HOGGE, Major W.S., assistant commissioner, cape colony. Riverside, Sharnbrooke 4 Dec 1850.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785-1865), botanist. Kew? 9 Jan 1862. 'My dear lady Hawes.' [14]
HOWARD, George William Frederick, seventh earl of Carlisle (1802-1864), politician. Arundel 2 Dec [1846]. 'My dear Grey.' [92!]
HUME, Joseph (1777-1855), radical and politician. 2 Sept 1848. 'My dear sir.' [24]
INGLIS, Sir John Henry Wilmot (1814-1862), army officer. 11 Dec 1857. 'Dear Sir Benjamin.' [75!]
LAMARTINE, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de (1790-1869), French writer, poet and politician. No place, no date. [33]
LEWIS, Sir George Cornewell, second baronet (1806-1863), politician and author. Grove Mill House, Watford. 'My dear sir.' [45]
LLOYD, H.W.
LOVELACE, Byron, (Augusta) Ada [married name (Augusta) Ada King, countess of Lovelace] (1815-1852). St James's Sq. 'Dear Mr. Hawes.' [34]
LYTTLETON, Lady Sarah Spencer (1787-1879), dowager. 'Lady Hawes.' [51]
MACAULEY, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, essayist, and poet. Albany 6 Dec 1859. 'Dear Hawes.' [43]
MACAULEY, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, essayist, and poet. Albany 6 Feb 1849. 'Deart Lady Hawes.' [8]
MACAULEY, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, essayist, and poet. Albany undated. 'Dear Hawes.' [19]
MACKENZIE, Robery Sheldon [pseud. Sholto] (1809-1880), writer and journal editor. University Heald 1 April 1844. [80!]
MACREADY, William Charles (1793-1873), actor and theatre manager. Sherbourne House, Dorset 13 Aug 1854. 'My dear sir.' [22]
MANNING, Henry Edward (1808-1892), Roman Catholic convert and cardinal-archbishop of Westminster. 78 South Audsley St. 26 Nov 1853. 'My dear Mr. Hawes.' [79!]
MARTIN, John (1789-1854), artist. 30 Allsop Terrace 13 Aug 1840. 'My dear sir.' [28]
MARTIN, John (1789-1854), artist. Lindsey House, Chelsea 28 June 1848. 'My dear Sir.' [88!]
MARTIN, John (1789-1854), artist. Lindsey House, Chelsea 30 June 1848. 'My dear Sir.' [88!]
MARTINEAU, Harriet (1802-1876), writer and journalist. 'My dear Madam.' [80!]
MAZZINI, Giuseppe (1805-1872), politician, thinker and teacher. 108 High Holborn. 'Dear Mr. Hawes.' [46]
MAZZINI, Giuseppe (1805-1872), politician, thinker and teacher. 19 Cropley St. New Worth Road. 'My dear sir.' [49]
MILNES, Richard Mockton, first baronet Houghton (1809-1885), author and politician. 1 Jan [1850]. 'Mr. Hawes.' [6]
MOLESWORTH, Sir William, eighth baronet (1810-1855), politician. 87 Eaton Place 6 May 1851. 'My dear Hawes.' [82!]
MONTALEMBERT, Charles Forbes Ren. 'My dear lord.' [32]
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey, baronet (1792-1871), geologist and geographer. Belgrave Sq. 'My dear sir.' [34]
NAPIER, Sir Charles (1786-1860), naval officer and politician. 14 April 1846. 'My dear Hawes.' [92]
NAPIER, Sir William Francis Partick (1785-1860), army officer and writer. Scind House 25 Nov 1854. 'Sir' [43]
NASMYTH, James Hall (1808-1890), mechanical engineer. 21 June 1864. 'Dear Lady Hawes.' [76!]
O'CONNOR letter recounts 'a very interesting but rather dangerous geographical expedition we returned from the 16 Decr. - some 700 miles down the coast up several rivers - to the Bijunga - Humbolt's Cannibal Islands.
O'CONNOR was appointed governor of the Gambia from 1852 to 1859 which included the command of all the troops in West Africa, he repulsed a number of muslim attacks and secured by treaty a considerable tract of territory.
O'CONNOR, Luke Smythe (1806-1873), soldier and governor of Gambia. Autograph letter signed ('L. SMYTHE O'CONNOR') to Lady Hawes. Government House, Gambia 18 Jan 1858.
OPIE [nee Alderson], Amelia (1769-1853), novelist and poet. Castle Meadow 22 Nov 1850?. [49]
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804-1892), comparitive anatomist and palaeontologist. Autograph letter signed ('RICHARD OWEN') to Sir Benjamin Hawes. Royal College of Surgeons [London] 7 Dec [1848].
PALMERSTON, Temple, Henry John, third viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), prime minister. Carlton Gardens 1 August 1849. 'My dear Hawes.' [23]
PALMERSTON, Temple, Henry John, third viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), prime minister. Carlton Gardens 6 May 1847.
PALMERSTON, Temple, Henry John, third viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), prime minister. Foreign Office 16 April 1850. 'My dear Hawes.' [78!]
PALMERSTON, Temple, Henry John, third viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), prime minister. Foreign Office 20 May 1850. 'My dear Hawes.' [78!]
PEEL, Sir Frederick (1823-1906), politician and railway commissioner. Whitehall gardens 12 Dec 1857. [8]
PEEL, Sir Frederick (1823-1906), politician and railway commissioner. Whitehall gardens 7 Nov 1851. 'My dear sir.' [41]
PEEL, Sir Robert , second baronet (1788-1850), prime minister. 7 Nov [1845]. 'Dear sir.' [77!]
PEEL, Sir Robert , second baronet (1788-1850), prime minister. Whitehall 22 June 1849.
PEEL, Sir Robert , second baronet (1788-1850), prime minister. Whitehall 12 Oct 1844. 'Sir.' [66]
PEEL, Sir Robert , second baronet (1788-1850), prime minister. Whitehall 24 Feb 1836. 'My dear sir.' [67]
PEMBROKE, Princess Octavia Spinelli Countess of (?-1857), wife of Robert Henry Herbert, 12th earl. 9 July 1829. [60]
POLLOCK, Sir (Johnathan) Frederick, first baronet (1783-1870), judge. Liverpool 13 Oct 1842. 'My dear sir.' [63]
POTTINGER, Sir Henry, first baronet (1789-1856), army officer in the East India Company and colonial governor. 67 Eaton Place [1854-1856]. 'My dear sir.' [5]
POUSSIN, Guillaume Tell Lavalloe (poo-sang), French soldier. Paris 3 April 1840. [90!]
PUGIN, Auguste Charles (1768/9-1832), artist and architectural draughtsman. 105 Great Russell St. 24 June 1825. To Sir I. Brunel.' [92!]
RIEGO, Canon. 57 Seymour St. 18 Aug. 1835. 'Dear sir.' [96!]
ROBERTS, William Keate (1814-1873), sometime Governor of the Seychelles. 11 Hertford Sq. 6 April. 'My dear Mrs. Hawes.' [85!]
ROBERTS, David (1796-1864), artist. 7 Fitzroy St. 17 Feb 1862. 'My dear sir.' [28]
RUSSELL, John [formerly Lord John Russell], first earl Russell (1792-1878), prime minister and author. 'My dear Hawes.' [99!]
RUSSELL, John [formerly Lord John Russell], first earl Russell (1792-1878), prime minister and author. 25 Oct 1851. 'My dear Hawes.' [99!]
RUSSELL, John [formerly Lord John Russell], first earl Russell (1792-1878), prime minister and author. 31 July 1845. 'Dear Hawes.' [64]
SCHARF, Sir George (1820-1895), curator of the National Portrait Gallery. 20 Dec 1859. 'Dear Lady Hawes' [91!]
Sir James Robert George Graham, second baronet (1792-1861), Home Secretary. 24 Jan 1884. 'My dear sir.' [36]
SPENCER, John Charles, viscount Althorp and third earl Spencer (1782-1845), politician, agriculturist and sportsman. Winston 22 Feb 1839. [55]
SPENCER, John Poyntz, fifth earl Spencer (1835-1910), politician and viceroy of Ireland. Brighton 16 Oct 1860. 'My dear sir.' Letter regarding the knighting of Sir Marc Brunel. [52]
SPENCER, Lady Lavinia Bingham (1762-1831) 2nd earl Spencer's wife. Isle of Wight 14 Sept. 1810. 'To Sir I. Brunel.' [51]
SPENCER, Lady Lavinia Bingham (1762-1831), 2nd earl Spencer's wife. Wimbledon 1824. 'My dear Mr. Brunel' [87!]
STAUNTON, Sir George Thomas, second baronet (1781-1859), sinologist and politician. Leigh Park Havant 13 July 1846. 'My dear sir.' [35]
STOCKS, Scutari. 18 Feb 1856. [81!]
STRUTT, Edward, first Baron Belper (1801-1880), politician. Kingston, Derby 16 Oct 1860. 'Dear Sir Benjamin Hawes' [52]
TALLEYROND-PIRIGORD, Charles Maurice de 1st Prince de B,n,vente 91754-1838), French diplomat. 51 Portland place 8 Mar 1831. 'Dear sir Benjamin Hawes.' [73]
TYNDALL, John (1820-1893), physicist and mountaineer. 'My dear Lady Hawes.' [13]
UWINS, Thomas (1782-1857), painter, illustrator and art administrator. Athenaeum 22 Feb 1848. 'Dear sir' [83!]
WATTS, Alaric Alexander (1797-1864), journalist and poet. Notting hill 18 May 1848. 'My dear sir' [101!]
WELLINGTON. 3 June 1841. [57]
WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (1802-1875), developer of telegraphy. Lower Mall Hammersmith 19 April 1852. 'My dear madam.' [41]
WILLIAM, Oglivie (1795-1850)
WILLSON, Robert William, Bishop of Hobart town Tasmania. Margate 15 Oct 1854. 'My dear Hawes.' [27]
WISEMAN, Nicholas Patrick Stephen (1802-1865), cardinal and archbishop of Westminster. Rome 7 Oct 1850. 'My dear Mr. Hawes.' [18]
WYSE, Sir Thomas (1791-1862) politician and diplomist ????. 'My dear Mrs. Hawes.' [63]
WYSE, Sir Thomas (1791-1862) politician and diplomist. Athens 18 Dec 1849. [71]
Object namescrapbook
Object categorypersonal record
Techniquemanufactured, hand-written
Dimensions
- length: 300 mm
width: 240 mm
depth: 40 mm
Credit line“Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Clive Richards OBE DL and allocated to the ss Great Britain Trust, 2017”