Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Capponi, Gino, late 1860s - early 1870s
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/11
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Gino Capponi, in French, No place, "Jeudi 21" [no year], probably to Susan or Joanna Horner, accompanying a parcel containing several books he was able to find at the moment, as well as a list of other works that might be of assistance to her: “Voici, Mademoiselle, le peu de livres que j’ai pu recueillir pour le moment, et une indication sommaire d’autres ouvrages qui pourraient plus ou moins vous servir”. He asks her to let him know what else she needs and...
Dates:
late 1860s - early 1870s
Fairbairn, William, 2 May 1856
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/20
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from William Fairbairn to Miss Susan Horner, Athenaeum Club, 2 May 1856: “Your anxiety for the public safety induces me to reply in writing on the subject of the Bridge you were so kind as to submit to my consideration. It is a very pretty sketch, not unlike the Bridge of Sighs, and the only danger is that it might actually become one of that description if traversed by the delicate, the aged, and the infirm. I strongly suspect that there would be some puffing to get...
Dates:
2 May 1856
Kmety, György, 3 and 19 June 1861
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/37
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from György Kmety to Anne Susanna Horner, dated 3 June 1861: “Previous to your kind invitation I promised to a company to take part in a[n] annual fish-dinner at Greenwhich between the 12th and 15th of June (I will know the exact date only in 2 or 3 days). I will then write to you a positive answer as regard the 12th [...]”.2. Autograph letter signed from György Kmety to Miss Susan Horner, dated 19 June 1861: “I shall go over on Friday evening to pay my...
Dates:
3 and 19 June 1861
Poerio, Carlo, 13 April [no year]
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/54
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Carlo Poerio, from Florence on 13 April [no year], to Susan Horner in response to an invitation: “Fino a ieri sera io avevo sperato di poter proffitare del [!] di Lei gentile invito, e tornai appositamente della campagna, dove io era andati a passare qualche giorno per la mia malferma saluta. Ma la febbre mi tornò, e fui costretto a rinunziare al piacere di riverirla. – Spero domani o dopo domani di essere in grado di uscire, [...]. – E pregandola di far gradire...
Dates:
13 April [no year]