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Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1838-10-23 - 1915-04-07

Biography

Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915), United States author, artist, and engineer.

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Letter : 16 Exchange Place, New York, to Herbert P. Williams, "Boston Herald", Boston, 1897 Dec 8

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-11
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS thanking Williams for a favorable notice of "Gondola Days".

Dates: 1897 Dec 8

Letter : 16 Exchange Place, New York, to Mrs. Clara S. Beranger, 549 West 113th Street, New York, 1915 Feb 3

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-10
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS requesting that Beranger return to him some short stories by his son F. Berkley Smith.

Dates: 1915 Feb 3

Letter : 16 Exchange Place, to Mr. Lincoln, [18]94 Jan 2

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-7
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS regarding an unpublished story by Smith about Venice.

Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Smith, mounted to an album leaf, autographed on the album leaf.

Dates: [18]94 Jan 2

Letter : to Captain [E. L.] Zalinski, [1904?] Jan 14

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-12
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS regarding a copy of Tom Grogan that Hopkinson has signed for Edward Gilbertson. Accompanied by envelope inscribed by Smith, and by TLS from Zalinski to "Josie", 1904 Feb 15, forwarding the letter from Smith as an autograph to paste into her copy of the book. Also accompanied by manuscript note, a brief biography of Smith.

Dates: [1904?] Jan 14

Letter : to "Dear Major", [18]94 [June?] 13

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-16
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

One autograph letter, initialed, to "Dear Major," most likely James B. Pond, concerning business matters.

Dates: [18]94 [June?] 13

Letter : to [Edwin W.?] Coggeshall, [19]13 Feb 20

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS thanking Coggeshall for a medal struck in honor of Charles Dickens, and regarding Smith's In Dickens's London.

Dates: [19]13 Feb 20

Letter : to [Emil Leopold] Boas, n.y. May 24

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-8
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS cancelling his passage on the Bismarck.

Dates: n.y. May 24

Letter : to "Josie", 1901 Dec 24

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS thanking her for a potted plant, and wishing Merry Christmas to all in "the house of Russell."

Dates: 1901 Dec 24

Letter : to Julia [H.?] Sharpe, 1912 Dec 6

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-13
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS thanking Sharpe for a letter and approving of charcoal as a medium.

Dates: 1912 Dec 6

Letter : to Miss Field, n.y. Dec 28

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Letter : to Mr. Maxwell, [18]99 January 4

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-15
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS concerning drawings for an unidentified magazine.

Dates: [18]99 January 4

Letter : to [Mrs. von Blomberg?], [1899] [February?] 15

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-14
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS thanking the recipient for her letter.

Dates: [1899] [February?] 15

Letters : to Charles T. Scott, 545 Shawmut Ave, Boston, 1901-03

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Three ALS from F. H. Smith and two TL from Thomas Albertson Scott, concerning an article that Charles T. Scott is writing about the construction of Race Rock lighthouse and/or Smith's novel, Caleb West, Master Diver.

Accompanied by a photograph of Race Rock lighthouse, with a note identifying it as "The Caleb West Lighthouse," and by three original envelopes.

Dates: 1901-03

Letters : to F. W. Crowninshield, 1889-1913

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-9
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: TLS from Smith to Crowninshield, 1913 Jan 31, concerning a dinner for [Alexander Wilson] Drake, art editor of the Century Magazine, and what artistic contribution Smith might add to the occasion; ALS from [Smith?] to Crowninshield, n.d., enclosing a contribution for the same dinner: a facsimile of a letter from Drake to Smith, 1889 Aug 13, rejecting one of Smith's drawings for the Century. The facsimile is marked for the addition of a half-tone illustration, and the accompanying letter...
Dates: 1889-1913

Letters : to Miss Waring, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1231
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, research, notes, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting Lounsbury's personal life and professional career as an author and educator of English literature at Yale University. Correspondence with Yale colleagues, students, authors, and officials details his academic and literary interests, and activity in the areas of international language and simplified spelling. Personal materials include letters relating to Lounsbury's Civil War...
Dates: 1829-1915

Postcard to F. H. Smith, 150 East 34th St., New York, from unidentified, Saratoga, [18]98 Jul 26

 Part of Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 39002137170396], Folder: GROUP 517, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Postcard from a friend who wishes Smith and his wife were in Saratoga relaxing on his piazza.

Inscribed below address in red pencil, "George Carlton."

Dates: [18]98 Jul 26

John Ferguson Weir papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 550
Abstract:

Correspondence, addresses and writings, papers relating to the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and other papers of John F. Weir, artist, painter and first director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, serving from 1869-1913. Correspondents include many persons prominent in the art world between 1870 and 1920. There is also much material on the origins and development of art education in this country and at Yale.

Dates: 1838-1957, bulk 1861-1928