Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. These letters mainly document social and personal activities, such as news of Clemy's husband and children and the health of their mother. Many of Louisa Siefert's letters to her sister describe her own ailing health and advancing tuberculosis, and her doctors' advice. Letters to Siefert's mother also describe the dinners Siefert attends; visits with acquaintances, including Victor Hugo, Charles Blanc, and Paul Chenevard; and operas she sees. Other correspondents in the collection include Siefert's friends such as Charles Asselineau, Chenevard, and Emmanuel des Essarts; admirers of her poetry; the Journal de Lyon concerning her publications; and family members to each other after her death. Also in the collection are Siefert's wedding announcement and death notice; several accounts and receipts; and a manuscript, with numerous corrections, of Adele-Adrienne Siefert's memoirs of her daughter. and Series II contains eight volumes of poetry, primarily in Siefert's hand. Two volumes contain collections of other poets' works, one of which includes, dos-a-dos, a juvenile play by Siefert titled En Automne. Other volumes include a set of notes taken during a course on French poetry taught by Charles Asselineau, and four collections of original poetry dated between 1865 and 1872, which include many sentimental or dedicatory poems to friends and family members. The original poems are annotated with the dates of their composition, and occasionally with publication information; and laid in a volume titled Poems d'amour are two pages of comments on the poems in Asselineau's hand. Also included in the collection is a volume of reviews of Siefert's works, copied in her hand.
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other collections published during her lifetime include L'Année républicaine (1869); Les Stoïques (1870); Les Saintes Colères (1871); and Comédies romanesques (1872); as well as a novel, Méline (1875). Through her friendship with Charles Asselineau, she became well acquainted with other literary and artistic figures, including Victor Hugo, Emile Deschamps, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul Chenavard. In 1876, she married Jocelyn Pene, secretary to Emilio Castelar; a year later, she died of tuberculosis in Pau, France. After her death, her mother published Souvenirs, Poésies inédites. and Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Edwin J.Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists--France--19th century--Correspondence and Authors, French--19th century--Correspondence
Du sejour des comtes du Nord à Venise en janvier 1782. Italian
Description:
Account of the Venetian visit, "incognito", of Paul, later emperor of Russia, and his consort, Maria Fyodorovna née Sophie Dorothea of Württemburg., Autograph: Ex libris Sac. Aloy. Faccis[?]., Signatures: a-d ⁸e¹⁰(e10 blank)., and Translation of: Du sejour des comtes du Nord à Venise en janvier 1782.
Publisher:
Nella Stamperia Turra,
Subject (Name):
Marīi︠a︡ Ḟeodorovna, Empress, consort of Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1759-1828., Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801., and Stamperia Turra, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Festivals--Italy--Venice--Early works to 1800. and Royal visitors--Italy--Venice--Early works to 1800.
Historical and geographical description of Formosa
Description:
A fabrication. The author's real name is unknown. -Dict. nat'l biog., 1949, vol. 16, p. 439-442., From the library of Herman W. Liebert., and Signatures: *¹² 2*¹⁰ A-R¹² S1.
Publisher:
Chez Pierre Mortier & Compagnie,
Subject (Geographic):
Taiwan--Description and travel--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
Autograph MS travel diary, covering three extended tours on the Continent. Colebrande's first tour (p. 1-41) was in France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Orleans, Brittany, etc.); his second (p. 45-74) was also entirely in France; and on his third (p. 77-215) he travelled through France and into Italy (Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Padua, Venice, Milan) and back again across the Alps via Savoy, Geneva, etc., to Paris and Calais. At the end, various miscellaneous entries contain several receipts for varnishes and gildings and for making "stones of a paste;" several pages of advice for English travellers from France to Italy; and an account of the great Council of the Jews in Hungary, 12 Oct 1650, "by Samu. Brett who was there present."
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., With 18th century bookplate of Lord Walpole of Wolterton., and Written from from and back. Paginated [i-x], 1-[59] from back.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Italy--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Switzerland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Brett, Samuel,--fl. 1655.
Subject (Topic):
Gilding., Jews--History., Jews--Hungary., Precious stones, Artificial., and Varnish and varnishing.