Collection of autograph manuscripts, [1831-1839].

Collection consists of Thomas Hood's autograph manuscripts of the following: An intercepted dispatch (MA 195.1); Sketches on the road: the railway (MA 195.2); Spanish pride (MA 195.3); The assistant draper's petition (MA 195.4); Lord Durham's return (MA 195.5); Clubs (MA 195.6); Rural felicity (MA 195.7); Review: The rambles of Piscator (MA 195.8); [Carnaby correspondence] (MA 195.9); an autograph letter signed to Messrs. A.H. Baily dated 1836 Aug. 28 (MA 195.10); A letter from an absentee (MA 195.11); Right & wrong: a sketch at sea (MA 195.12); The ocean, considered per se (MA 195.13); A serio-comic reminiscence (MA 195.14); The yeomanry (MA 195.15); Sketches on the road: the morning-call (MA 195.16); The fatal bath (MA 195.17); Ali Ben Nous: A fable (MA 195.18); The preface: being an inaugural discourse on a certain system of practical philosophy (MA 195.19); Black, white and brown (MA 195.20); an autograph letter to J. Wright dated Sept. 19, 1837 (MA 195.21); and Love and lunacy (MA 195.22). Items are described in 22 individual records.