Edward Frederick Smyth Pigott (1824-1895), was a member of the Pigott family, long settled in north Somerset. He was a fellow student, with Wilkie Collins, at Lincoln's Inn, then a journalist with The Daily News and The Leader; in 1874, Pigott was...
Burke Eugene Casari, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, worked as an administrator for environmental programs at the State Health Department. He became interested in Richard Burton in 1962, while teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Casari has...
The images of the Princess Charlotte and the Princess Victoria are port side views at sea under steam; the images are in small oval frames, in black and white, at the top of the schedule, names of the vessels printed below. Company shield in the...
John Patrick Douglas Balfour, Baron Kinross, was born June 25, 1904 in Edinburgh, Scotland; he inherited the title of 3rd Baron Kinross of Glasclune in 1939 upon the death of his father. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol Coll. Oxford (B.A....
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier and statesman. Wellington was born in Ireland on May 1, 1769, and after an unpromising childhood and scholastic career entered the army. After service in the Netherlands and...
Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 15, 1935 to Michael and Helen Silverberg. He was an only child. At an early age Silverberg began writing and by the time he entered his teenage years he was submitting stories to science...
John Kenyon (1784-1856), was a British poet and philanthropist. Other important addressees in the collection are: Robert Johnston Barton (d. 1879), was a British Captain in the Coldstream Guards, killed in action in Zululand in 1879; James Booth...
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), was a British explorer, linguist, writer, dipolmat and translator. He explored Africa, the Middle East, South America and Iceland, and translated, among many other titles, The Arabian Nights. Burton married...
James De Barth Shorb (1842-1896) was born in Frederick County, Maryland, a son of Dr. James Aloysius Shorb (1798-1867) and Margaret McMeal Shorb. He came to California in 1863 looking for oil in Ventura County, and married Maria de Jesus "Sue"...