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Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790-1869

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1790-10-21 - 1869-02-28

Biography

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), French writer, poet, and politician.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1000
Abstract:

A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.

Dates: circa 1860

Charles Kent papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 78
Abstract: Series I, Correspondence, consists almost entirely of single letters to Charles Kent on professional and literary topics. Significant correspondents include E. L. Blanchard; F. C. Burnand, editor of Punch; E. M. Thompson; Laura Valentine; and Samuel Warren. The series also contains a letter from Lamartine praising Kent's poetry; Cardinal Manning's last letter to his mother; and copies of letters addressed to Kent from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, and Lord...
Dates: 1783-1910

Letter : Macon, to an unidentified recipient, 1839 Jul 19

 Part of Collection — Box 62: [Barcode: 39002137225372], Folder: GROUP 2407, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS to "Madame."

Removed from: Meditations poetiques by Alphonse de Lamartine (Paris, 1820).

In French.

Dates: 1839 Jul 19

Letter : Paris, to an unidentified recipient, 1821 Jul 9

 Part of Collection — Box 62: [Barcode: 39002137225372], Folder: GROUP 2407, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

AL in the third person.

Dates: 1821 Jul 9

Letters : to Antoine Eugene de Genoude, 1820-28

 Part of Collection — Box 62: [Barcode: 39002137225372], Folder: GROUP 2407, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Twenty-six ALS, some with addresses.

Dates: 1820-28

Letters : to Mme Antoine Eugene de Genoude, 1822, 1825

 Part of Collection — Box 62: [Barcode: 39002137225372], Folder: GROUP 2407, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Two ALS, with addresses, dated 1822 Jun 17, Plombieres, and 1825 Aug [18?], Macon.

Dates: 1822, 1825