George Linnaeus Banks

Title

George Linnaeus Banks

Date

2013-05-24

First Name

George

Last Name

Banks

Authority Name

George Linnaeus Banks

Active Decades

1860

Birth Date

1821

Death Date

1881

Gender

male

Nationality

English

Industry

artisanry or trade
publishing

Occupation

cabinet casemaker
salesman
editor

Birthplace

Birmingham

Published Poetry Collections

Daisies in the Grass (1865)

ODNB

"George Linnaeus Banks," by W.E.A. Axon

Correspondents

Sun Inn Group

Relatives

Isabella Varley Banks (wife) (qv)

Secondary Sources

Sutton, David C. (ed), Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London: The British Library, 1995), 73

Manuscript Information

  • British Library, Department of Manuscripts (London)
    • Letter to George Cruikshank (In RP1511)
    • 2 letters re: application for a Royal Literary Fund grant, 1866-67 (In Loan no.96)
    • Letter etc. to J. Winter Jones, 1877 (Add.MS.45747, f.11)
    • Letter to G. Linnaeus Banks, 1867 (RP3231)
  • John Rylands University Library of Manchester
    • Poems, 1872-79. 9 items. With cuttings of printed poems, a pencil sketch of or by Banks, a poem initialed “GLB” but in the hand of Mrs. G. Linneaus Banks, and other associated material (E.L. Burney Collection, in scrapbook R144330)
    • “Romance in reality,” short story by Banks, 18--. 42 pages (In E.L. Burney Collection)
    • Letter, 18--. With a prospectus for “Spring gatherings,” a volume of poems by Banks (English MS.351/11)
    • Letter to Isabella Varley (later Mrs. G.L.B.), 1843. With copies of notes by Mrs. Banks on a variety of subjects (In E.L. Burney Collection)
    • 2 letters to George Cruikshank, 1866 (English MS.1282/4-5)
  • Manchester Central Library
    • Letter to John Harland, 18-- (Harland I.118)
    • Letters (small collection), 18--. Recipients include: W.C. Bennett, J.E. Carpenter, Charles Dickens, Charles Macka, Westland Marston, John Oxenford, Marguerite A. Power, Samuel Warren, W.G. Wills (In Harland I.)
    • Letter from W.G. Wills, 1867 (MS f091 H15, I.24)
  • Portsmouth Central Library
    • Crazy Kate [poem], 18--. With cuttings about Banks (Special Collections. Friends of Charles Dickens: autograph letterbook, fol.90
  • Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Stratford-upon-Avon)
    • Letter to George Cruikshank, 1864 (DR187/4)
  • University College Dublin
    • Letter to William Carleton, 1856 (Archives Department. LA15/1710)
  • University of Edinburgh
    • 5 letters to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1863-67 (In L.O.A.)
  • University of Liverpool Library
    • “What I live for,” poem by Banks, 18-- (Hope Autographs, no. 55)