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Archives related to: Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953
| title | Royall Tyler Papers, 1902-1967 (inclusive). | repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | Includes primarily letters of Royall Tyler to Mildred Barnes Bliss; also many letters from Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, from Royall’s wife Elisina and son William R. Tyler, the first director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard. Also includes a few letters from other family members and several from art dealers. The correspondence documents in considerable detail the development of the Bliss’s Collection of Byzantine art at Dumbarton Oaks. This is a correspondence of close friends; letters are personal and reflective, and contain detailed descriptions of European political and artistic life in the first half of the twentieth century. Also references throughout to Bernard Berenson and Edith Wharton. Other material includes typescripts of original letters, edited by W.R. Tyler and Walter Muir Whitehill, and the Tyler-Whitehill edition of the letters, which was never published. Some of the correspondence includes notes, photographs, and descriptions of works of art. History notes : Tyler was an art collector, and advisor to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss in the development of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection of Byzantine art. |
| extent | 3 linear ft. (7 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Access may be restricted. Details at the repository. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Unpublished shelflist available in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of William Royall Tyler, 1977 and 1979. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:54 |
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