A Guide to the Papers of John Townsend Trowbridge, 1873-1894
A Collection in
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6346-r
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Papers of John Townsend Trowbridge, Accession #6346-r, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased on 1991 February 14.
Scope and Content Information
In letters to a Mrs. Carr, and a Miss Ellis, Trowbridge complains that artists often do not read a story carefully before illustrating it, includes a humorous drawing about his illegible hand and supplies information on some art lectures by Francis Hopkinson Smith.
Contents List
[Responds to her letter asking about their intentions of returning to Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert, Maine, with Mrs. Gilman and Mr. Higgins, by expressing concerns about the climate upon Alice [Trowbridge ?], and including a humorous drawing of Mr. Higgins, his neighbors, and the postmaster all trying to decipher Trowbridge's handwriting]
[Supplies the titles and dates of lectures concerning art to be given by F[rancis]Hopkinson Smith in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Cambridge, [Massachusetts] 2 p.