18.4.1818

Sender Peder Friis

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Peder Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, sends a greeting to Thorvaldsen. His son, Frederik ...

31.8.1826

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...

Antagelig tidligst 14.8., senest omkring 1.12.1831

Sender Giuseppe Mugnoz

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mugnoz asks Thorvaldsen for financial assistance as he is ill and cannot support himself. In retu...

1837

Sender AD

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The poet is proud to have been born while a special “triple star” of artists shone in the firmame...

21.9.1838

Sender Redaktørerne ved Den Frisindede, NN

Recipient Omnes

The poem links Thorvaldsens return to Denmark and the plans for a Thorvaldsens Museum with the fi...

5.12.1839

Sender Just Mathias Thiele

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thiele asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to the recently deceased King Frederik 6. He has su...

21.1.1840

Sender C. Dalgas, Johannes Ingwersen

Recipient Omnes

Johannes Ingwersen and C. Dalgas invite the public to support a monument to Frederik 6. It is pro...

28.1.1840

Sender Redaktørerne ved Jyllandsposten

Recipient Omnes

The letter criticises several aspects of an article in Aarhus Stiftstidende concerning a monument...

11.2.1840

Sender C. Dalgas, Johannes Ingwersen

Recipient Omnes

Ingwersen and Dalgas answer Jyllandsposten’s criticism of the proposal for a monument to Frederik...

Not earlier than July 1840

Sender Johanne Luise Heiberg

Recipient Omnes

Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...

28.7.1840

Sender Frederik 6.-kommissionen, J.P. With

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

On behalf of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle, , J....

18.12.1841

Sender Hans Puggaard

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Puggaard writes that they have put the roof tree on Thorvaldsens Museum. He and a few others have...

October 1842

Sender Frederikke Wallick

Recipient Just Mathias Thiele

Frederikke Wallick’s report on her and Thorvaldsen’s journey through Europe in October 1842.

29.10.1842

Sender Johanna Steinheim

Recipient Raphael Hanno

Johanna Steinheim writes enthusiastically about her meeting with Thorvaldsen.

April/May 1844

Sender H.P. Holst

Recipient Frederik Barfod

Holst writes about the party celebrating Thorvaldsen’s return to Rome, given on 19.9.1841, and he...

6.4.1844

Sender B.S. Ingemann

Recipient Omnes

Commemorative poem about Thorvaldsen. He is praised as a victorious poet, to whom work was play, ...