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Florence Baird Smith manuscript material
- Title
- Florence Baird Smith manuscript material, 1889-1890
- Author
- Smith, Florence Baird, 1827-1903.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Additional Authors
- Lushington, Edmund Law
- Description
- 5 items
- Summary
- · To Edmund Law Lushington, classical scholar : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1889 : (MISC 4325) : 14 pages (3 double sheets, 1 single sheet) + envelope : from 58 Eversfield Place, St. Leonards-on-sea : I am ashamed of being so long in answering your last kind note but as you see I am a wanderer . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Dec 1889 : (MISC 4326) : 8 pages (2 double sheets) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "Many and varied demands upon me have interfered each day with my writing since I received your delightful gift . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [29 Dec 1889] : (MISC 4327) : 4 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I hasten to correct a wrong impression I think I must have given of my usefulness to Colonel [?Gull] . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan 1890 : (MISC 4328) : 4 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I am so glad I did not give you any undue idea of my [?--tical] importance to our dear friend . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Mar 1890 : (MISC 4329) : 8 pages (2 double sheets) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I have been somewhat burdened during the last three weeks with a sore throat and cold . . . ."
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Florence Elizabeth Baird Smith, née De Quincey, a daughter of the English writer Thomas De Quincey. She was the widow of Richard Baird Smith, engineer with the East India Company.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 954609871
- Author
- Smith, Florence Baird, 1827-1903.
- Title
- Florence Baird Smith manuscript material, 1889-1890
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Florence Elizabeth Baird Smith, née De Quincey, a daughter of the English writer Thomas De Quincey. She was the widow of Richard Baird Smith, engineer with the East India Company.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lushington, Edmund Law, addressee.
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS