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Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1865-10-18 - 1946-03-02

Biography

American-born British essayist and critic.

Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1932-10-18

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1987.003.1.1.028
Scope and Contents

"Please thank your mother for so kindly writing to me. I am delighted to hear that the new arrivals seem at home in this distressed world, and that you are doing well..."

Dates: 1932-10-18

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1934-06-16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.005
Scope and Contents

"Thank you for your note- we all wish we could come to your party, but neither May or alys[?] or I ever go to parties..."

Dates: 1934-06-16

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.007
Scope and Contents

"I'm back in London, and would so much like to see you and Kenneth. Could I come to luncheon or tea, or after tea, one day next week? That is, if you survived the jubilee, which I am glad to say I have done..."

Dates: undated

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1935-01-19

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.009
Scope and Contents

"Just after I had posted my letter to you yesterday, I received a line from Bob Trevelynn, saying that he had world from Desmond that K. had agreed with Roger's friend about that introduction..."

Dates: 1935-01-19

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1935-06-25

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.010
Scope and Contents

"Certainly, as I told you yesterday, I will come on Thursday instead of to-day- I perfectly understand, and any day suits me as well as another..."

Dates: 1935-06-25

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1935-12-24

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.012
Scope and Contents

"I really can't thank you adequately enough for this enchanting Xmas present. The plaques are exactly to my taste, and shall hang in the room where I spend most of my declining existence..."

Dates: 1935-12-24

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1936-01-18

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.013
Scope and Contents

"Thank you for your letter. I am glad to hear that you are well, but you can't make me believe that you have bad good weather at Brighton. I am getting sick of this English climate..."

Dates: 1936-01-18

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Jane Clark, 1940-04-02

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1987.003.1.2.024
Scope and Contents

"I am contemplating what is for me a great adventure- though I, known as I am in Chelsea as 'the lonely [?] of St. Leonard's Terrace'..."

Dates: 1940-04-02

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Kenneth Clark, 1926-02-13

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1987.003.1.1.002
Scope and Contents

"Thanks for your charming letter. You do yourself, by [?], an injustice about your letters. Your 'Collins' was much appreciated here and is still quoted, and you are regarded as having a very pretty epistolary gift..."

Dates: 1926-02-13

Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Kenneth Clark, undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1987.003.1.1.003
Scope and Contents

"Robert Bridges writes me that he means to call upon you, and you will be doing a kindness if you will be friendly to him; I sometimes visit in old eagle in his [?] on Boais Hill..."

Dates: undated

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 112
Collection 1
 
Subject
American Literature -- 19th century 1
English language -- Semantics. 1
Essayists, American -- 20th century. 1
Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Smith, Logan Pearsall. 1