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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Lieven, Dorothea, Princess, 1785-1857
- Title:
- Dorothea Lieven Letters to Klemens Metternich
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cc08hk60c
- Dates:
- 1820 January 6-1826 December 12
- Size:
- 2 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes B-001246 to B-001247
- Language:
- French
Abstract
Consists of annotated copies of Dorothea Lieven's (1785-1857) letters, dating from 1820 to 1826, to Klemens Metternich (1773-1859), which she documented in a series of 36 notebooks.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection consists of annotated copies of Dorothea Lieven's (1785-1857) letters from London, dating from 1820 to 1826, to Klemens Metternich (1773-1859), which she documented in a series of 36 notebooks. Among other topics, Lieven's letters reflect her ambitions and political involvement; she freely expresses her opinions about various events and persons with whom she interacted during her time in London.
These letters were partially reproduced and translated into English by Peter Quennel, in The Private letters of Princess Lieven to Metternich, 1820-1826 (London, 1937).
- Collection Creator Biography:
Lieven, Dorothea, Princess, 1785-1857
Dorothea von Lieven (1785-1857) was a Baltic German noblewoman and wife of Prince Christoph Heinrich von Lieven (1774-1839), the Russian ambassador to London from 1812 to 1834. Lieven was an influential political figure among many of the diplomatic, political, and social circles of 19th-century Europe, particularly in the diplomatic councils of Great Britain, France, and Russia, exercising an authority uncommon for women at that time. One of her many associates included Austrian Chancellor Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) with whom she had a close personal relationship.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Les Amazones Paris in 2019 . AM 2019-79.
- Custodial History
These notebooks remained in the family and were kept a secret until the 1930s.
- Appraisal
No materials were removed from the collection during 2019 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in February 2019. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in February 2019. Folder inventory added by Julia English '19.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Dorothea Lieven Letters to Klemens Metternich; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cc08hk60c
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes B-001246 to B-001247
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- Subject Terms:
- Ambassadors' spouses—Russia--Sources.
Diplomats--Russia--19th century--Correspondence.
Women--Political activity--Europe--History--19th century--Sources. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
- Names:
- Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von, 1773-1859
- Places:
- Europe--History--19th century--Sources.
Russia—Foreign relations—Europe--Sources.
Europe—Foreign relations—Russia--Sources.
Europe—Politics and government—1815-1848--Sources.
