Irvine (Alexander) Autograph Collection, 1786-1898

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Summary

Title:
Alexander Irvine autograph collection
Dates:
1786-1898
Creators:
Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941
Abstract:
An autograph collection compiled by Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine, Irish-American author and minister.
Extent:
2.4 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Alexander Irvine autograph collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

An 18th and 19th century autograph collection of 77 items which consists primarily of letters of famous British and European authors, scientists, and celebrities. The collection contains letters in English, French, German, and Italian; it also includes clipped signatures, envelope fronts, and ephemera.

Biographical / historical:

Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine (1863-1941), was an author and Congregationalist minister. He was born on January 19, 1863 in Antrim, Ireland, son of James and Anna (Gilmore) Irvine. He entered the British Navy and served in the Mediterranean Sea; during a furlough he graduated from Oxford University, 1887-1888. After moving to the United States in 1888, Irvine enrolled in Yale Divinity School and was ordained at Yale University, 1900-1904. From 1916-1918, Irvine was the chief morale raiser of the British Army in France. He authored such books as The Master and the Chisel (1904), My Lady of the Chimney Corner (1913), God and Tommy Atkins (1916), A Fighting Parson (1930 Autobiography), and Anna's Wishing Chair (1938). Irvine died on March 15, 1941 in Hollywood, California.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Alexander Irvine, February 1931.
Processing information:

Processed by Alison Dinicola in September 2002. In 2021, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid based upon the earlier finding aid.

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting
Autographs
Ephemera -- Great Britain
Letters (correspondence) -- Europe -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Names:
J. Nichols and Son
Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892
Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892
Alison, Archibald, 1792-1867
Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802
Arrivabene, Giovanni, conte, 1787-1881
Auerbach, Berthold, 1812-1882
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Bamford, Samuel, 1788-1872
Barry, Charles, 1795-1860
Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849
Brewster, David, 1781-1868
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Brown, Robert, 1773-1858
Butler, Samuel, 1774-1839
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Chadwick, Edwin, 1800-1890
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872
Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865
Colburn, Henry, -1855
Colman, George, 1762-1836
Cradock, Joseph, 1742-1826
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811
Dent, Edward John, 1790-1853
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, Earl of, 1800-1857
Ellis, Henry, 1777-1869
Empson, W. (William), 1791-1852
Foscolo, Ugo, 1778-1827
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894
Gallenga, Antonio Carlo Napoleone, 1810-1895
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Gibson, Thomas Milner, 1806-1884
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856
Hardinge, George, 1743-1816
Hare, Julius Charles, 1795-1855
Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Inglis, Robert Harry, Sir, 1786-1855
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860
Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857
Jewsbury, Maria Jane, 1800-1833
Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784-1862
Kossuth, Lajos, 1802-1894
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863
Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878
Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852
Martin, John, 1789-1854
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859
Murray, John, 1779-1843
Newman, F. W. (Francis William), 1805-1897
Nichols, John, 1745-1826
Palmerston, John Henry Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865
Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865
Pepys, Henry, 1783-1860
Prince, John Critchley, 1808-1866
Schunck, Edward
Schunck, Martin
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885
Sismondi, J.-C.-L. Simonde de (Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde), 1773-1842
Smart, George, 1776-1867
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Smith, Robert Angus, 1817-1884
Smyth, Annarella Warington
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865
Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872
Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805-1875
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834
Stuart, Dudley, Lord, 1803-1854
Sykes, Colonel (William Henry), 1790-1872
Turner, J. Fox (John Fox), 1825 or 1826-1898
Vaughan, Robert, 1795-1868
Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
Wiffen, Ida M.
Wilde, Thomas, Sir

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Gayle Richardson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-03-03 09:49:16 -0800 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Alexander Irvine autograph collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
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