Fonds MS 34 - Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton fonds: [ca. 1864-1865]

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Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton fonds: [ca. 1864-1865]

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    CA LMA MS 34

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    • [Copied 1999] (Creation)
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      Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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    29 photographs

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    (1803-1873)

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    Edward George Earle Lytton, Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron (1803-1873), British novelist and statesman, was born in London, May 25, 1803. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Bulwer-Lytton achieved an extraordinary contemporary reputation as a novelist. Some of his best known novels are 'Eugene Aram', 1832, The Last Days of Pompeii, 1834, Rienzi, 1835, Zanoni, 1842, Harold, 1848, and Kenelm Chiullingly, an autobiographical novel, 1873. Bulwer-Lytton entered politics early in life and became a Member of Parliament in 1831; he was made a baronet in 1838, and was appointed Colonial Secretary in 1858. In 1858, Governor James Douglas named the town of Lytton as a mark of respect for Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Sir Edward was the Secretary of State for the colonies and was very interested in the colony of British Columbia. Sir Edward died in Devonshire, Jan. 18, 1873. Some of his historical novels, especially the Last Days of Pompeii, are still widely read.

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    Lord David Cobbold has custody of the album, and has provided the Lytton Museum and Archives with the copies of the contents. On March 15, 1999, the Lytton Archives received the photographs from Lord David Cobbold, great-great-grandson of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. These photographs were copied from an album received by Bulwer-Lytton in 1865, a presentation for the occasion of the naming of the town of Lytton. The original album is in the archives of Knebworth House, Herfordshire, England.

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    The fonds consists of 29 photographs copied from the presentation album sent to Sir Bulwer-Lytton. Includes scenes of New Westminster in 1864, steamboats, lakes along the Harrison route, scenes in the Fraser Canyon, towns of Yale, Lytton, Port Douglas, Pemberton, Clinton, and also groups of people, including A.C. Elliott and Joseph W. Trutch. The photographs are arranged in the order of the two gold-rush routes to the Cariboo, one by the Harrison-Lillooet route and one by the Fraser Canyon route.

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        BCAUL control number: LMA-3509

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