Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Letters to George H. Yenowine, 1895-1896 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The letters are arranged chronologically and mounted in a bound volume. Envelopes are placed at the end.

This collection consists primarily of letters that Francis Hopkinson Smith wrote to George H. Yenowine in 1895 and 1896. The letters concern Smith's speaking engagements around the United States.

Yenowine, George H.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915)

Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was a civil engineer based in New York City; his projects included numerous naval constructions in New England and New York. He also wrote travel narratives, short stories, and novels, and produced watercolor paintings. Smith supplemented his income with numerous speaking engagements in the United States and Europe.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, George Hardin Yenowine moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1879 to become a newspaper editor and publisher. He may have acted as an agent on behalf of Francis Hopkinson Smith in the late 1890s.

Source

America's Greatest Men and Women. Photographs and Biographies of the Most Famous Living People on the Continent. How They Look and What They Have Accomplished. The Faces and the Stories of Those Who Are Now Affecting the History of the Country. St. Louis: Vandawalker & Co., 1894.

Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. 11th ed. Vol. XXV. New York: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1911.

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