Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915

Scope and Contents:

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

Scope and Contents:

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

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ALS regarding an unpublished story by Smith about Venice.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.

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.

Scope and Contents:

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

Scope and Contents:

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

Scope and Contents:

ALS cancelling his passage on the Bismarck.

Scope and Contents:

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

Scope and Contents:

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

Scope and Contents:

ALS thanking her for a letter.

Scope and Contents:

ALS concerning drawings for an unidentified magazine.

Scope and Contents:

ALS thanking the recipient for her letter.

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.

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...

Scope and Contents:

Three ALS concerning lecture dates.

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...

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."

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.