William James Linton was an English-born engraver and political activist. The collection consists of 36 of Linton's letters, related correspondence, and other miscellaneous materials. Three manuscripts of poems, possibly Linton's, a manuscript of a novel by Elizabeth Fitzgerald, and unidentified artwork complete the collection.

Consists of letters and drawings of William Yarrell, a nineteenth-century British naturalist, and related printed matter.

Consists of selected autograph manuscript poems and correspondence of William Wordsworth, one of England's most respected poets of the nineteenth century.

Consists chiefly of correspondence of the British poet William Watson with his publisher, Grant Richards.

Consists of selected correspondence (1885-1887) of Irish writer William Allingham and twenty-seven letters (1892-1916) by his wife, watercolorist Helen Paterson Allingham, to artist William George Daffarn.

Consists of selected material by and about the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, including correspondence, a poetry manuscript, photographs, family items, and Cuala Press ephemera.

Consists of selected manuscripts, correspondence, and documents of Washington Irving, often called the first American man of letters.

Consists of selected manuscripts of New Jersey Rev. Thomas Picton.

Consists of selected correspondence of American political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Nast's popular artwork influenced presidential elections in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the letters in this collection reflect both the professional and personal sides of his life.

Consists of selected correspondence of Thomas James Wise, the English bibliographer and noted forger of the early 20th century