Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915
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
TLS thanking Williams for a favorable notice of "Gondola Days".
Letter : 16 Exchange Place, New York, to Mrs. Clara S. Beranger, 549 West 113th Street, New York, 1915 Feb 3
TLS requesting that Beranger return to him some short stories by his son F. Berkley Smith.
Letter : 16 Exchange Place, to Mr. Lincoln, [18]94 Jan 2
ALS regarding an unpublished story by Smith about Venice.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.
Letter : to Captain [E. L.] Zalinski, [1904?] Jan 14
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.
Letter : to "Dear Major", [18]94 [June?] 13
One autograph letter, initialed, to "Dear Major," most likely James B. Pond, concerning business matters.
Letter : to [Edwin W.?] Coggeshall, [19]13 Feb 20
ALS thanking Coggeshall for a medal struck in honor of Charles Dickens, and regarding Smith's In Dickens's London.
Letter : to [Emil Leopold] Boas, n.y. May 24
ALS cancelling his passage on the Bismarck.
Letter : to "Josie", 1901 Dec 24
ALS thanking her for a potted plant, and wishing Merry Christmas to all in "the house of Russell."
Letter : to Julia [H.?] Sharpe, 1912 Dec 6
ALS thanking Sharpe for a letter and approving of charcoal as a medium.
Letter : to Miss Field, n.y. Dec 28
ALS thanking her for a letter.
Letter : to Mr. Maxwell, [18]99 January 4
ALS concerning drawings for an unidentified magazine.
Letter : to [Mrs. von Blomberg?], [1899] [February?] 15
ALS thanking the recipient for her letter.
Letters : to Charles T. Scott, 545 Shawmut Ave, Boston, 1901-03
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.
Letters : to F. W. Crowninshield, 1889-1913
Letters : to Miss Waring, n.d.
Three ALS concerning lecture dates.
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers
Postcard to F. H. Smith, 150 East 34th St., New York, from unidentified, Saratoga, [18]98 Jul 26
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."
John Ferguson Weir papers
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.