20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Let...
Description:
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hu...
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
The collection consists sketchbooks, correspondence, documents, drawings, paintings, and photographs documenting the life and career of the American painter, etcher, and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt. Prominent in the collection are sixteen bound commercial...
Description:
Henry Martyn Hoyt, an American painter, etcher, and poet, was born in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 1887, the son of Henry Martyn Hoyt (1856-1910, Yale 1878) and Anne McMichael Hoyt. His father, a lawyer, held positions in the offices of the Unite...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Nahant (Mass.), Rome (Italy), and Spain
Subject (Name):
Hoyt, Anne McMichael, 1861-1949., Hoyt, Henry Martyn, 1887-1920., Parker, Eleanor Kinzie Gordon, 1858-1933., Shurtleff, Alice Gordon Parker, 1885-1951., and Folsom Galleries.
Holograph diary tracing 6 months of Cornwall's extended foreign tour in the company of Henry Venn Elliott, his tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge. This volume covers his journey from Pisa through various Italian cities and his subsequent travels to B...
Description:
Alphabetical index of placenames at back of volume.
Ali Pașa, Tepedelenli, 1744?-1822., Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, Cornwall, Alan Gardner, 1797-1874., Elliott, Henry Venn, 1792-1865., Maitland, Thomas, Sir, 1759?-1824., Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Catholic Church, Palazzo Medici Riccardi., and Palazzo Pitti.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Customs and practices, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, Antiquities, and Festivals, etc
Holograph journal in two versions (original and fair copy) of a tour from London to Naples and return via Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries made by the Hincks brothers between March 29th and December 8th, 1823
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, France, Ital, Naples (Italy), Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Etty, William, 1787-1849., Hamilton, William, 1777-1859., Hincks, John, 1788-1842., Hincks, Thomas Cowper, 1788-1865., and Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1777-1844.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
Holograph fair copy of five travel diaries kept by the future Earl of Warwick between 1837 and 1843. The first and second chronicle summer vacation trips to France, accompanied by a tutor and then by his mother and sister. Topics include Greville's fi...
Description:
Spine title: "Journals."
Subject (Geographic):
France, Germany, Istanbul (Turkey), Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Fesch, Joseph, Cardinal, 1763-1839., Gibson, John, 1790-1866., Kemble, John M. 1807-1857. (John Mitchell),, Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893., and Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Catholicism, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
