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Bound volume containing manuscript letters, mostly undated, from Eliot Warburton to Arabella Sarah Colston (1822-1891) written mainly when he was in Ireland, on subjects including: poverty, emigration and mortality in Ireland due to the Great Famine; friends and family, including the death of his father George Warburton, 1845; Warburton’s perceived lack of success as a writer and doubts over the merits of his own writings, 1846; criticism of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), with transcription of an extract from the poet’s Hyperion, 1846; Warburton’s eagerness to travel again once his book commitments are out of the way, June 1846; book and periodical recommendations for Arabella; cloth samples; fundraising for the Irish poor, notably through his publication Zoe: an Episode in the Greek War (1847) and donations of money from Arabella, 1847. Volume also contains four typescript pages of biographical information on Warburton and Colston.