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Primarily oil portraits of 18th century literary figures. There are also engravings, and pen and ink and pencil sketches. Among the literary figures are portraits of Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle; Colley Cibber; Charles Dickens; John Evelyn; John Foxe; David Garrick; Thomas Gray; Charles Lamb; Sir Thomas More; Sir Walter Raleigh; Samuel Richardson; Richard B. Sheridan; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; William M. Thackeray; and others. There is also a portrait by Blanche Ames of George A. Plimpton. Among the artists represented in the collection are James Maubert, Frederick Sandys, and William Hogarth (attrib.)

A collection of letters written by various people in the literary world and collected by Maude Morrison Frank. Among the correspondents are members of the family of William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as John Galsworthy, Sydney Cockerell, and Virginia Woolf. Included are 30 letters from Walter De la Mare to Miss Frank. There is also a copy of Miss Frank's book, GREAT AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH.