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Archives related to: Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945
| title | Wharton MSS. | repository | Indiana University |
| description | The Wharton mss., 1836-1975, but chiefly 1900-1937, consist of the correspondence, diaries, and writings of novelist Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 1862-1937. All of this material was consulted and used by R.W.B. Lewis in his volume Edith Wharton : A Biography (New York: Harper & Row, 1975) and is described and cited there as the William Royall Tyler Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. The earliest items in the collection are family related: a commonplace book of Lucretia Rhinelander (Wharton's mother) and an 1847 journal of her father's, George Frederic Jones. The correspondence begins in 1901 and includes letters from Bernard Berenson, Mary (Smith) Berenson, Paul Bourget, Louis Bromfield, Sir Kenneth Clark, Royal Cortissoz, Beatrix Farrand, William Alexander Gerhardie, Louis Gillet, Abbé Arthur Mugnier, Violet Paget, Edward Brewster Sheldon, Logan Pearsall Smith, Elis ina Tyler, Royall Tyler, and William Royal Tyler, as well as nearly 400 letters from Edith Wharton to the Tyler family. Her own diaries cover primarily 1920-1937, but also present is the so-called "love diary" (A Life Apart) of 1907-08. Writings present include typescripts of her full-length works, Age of Innocence , A Backward Glance, and Gods Arrive, as well as many poems both published and unpublished, and a file of about two hundred photographs of Wharton and friends, of Pavillon Colombe, of Saint Claire Château, and of her other residences (The Mount, Pencraig and 58 rue de Varenne) complete this portion of the collection. The remaining portion of the collection consists of files relating to Edith Wharton's death and her estate, as well as correspondence and other materials gathered by the executor of her French will, Elisina Tyler, for a planned biography of Wharton. The biography was never completed and following Elisina's death in 1959, her son, William Royall Tyler, took over as executor of the Wharton estate. His correspondence as well as some additional materials relating to his own reminiscences of Mrs. Wharton, complete the entire collection. Among the correspondents in this Wharton / Tyler portion of the collection are William Morton Fullerton, William Alexander Gerhardie, Frederic Rhinelander King, John Hugh Smith, Elisina Tyler, William Royall Tyler, Emelyn Webster Washburn, and Armitage Watkins. |
| extent | Lilly Library Manuscript Collections Lilly Library Home · Manuscript Collections · Ask a Question Related Links The following resources are also available for this collection: box and folder list WHARTON MSS. The Wharton mss., 1836-1975, but chiefly 1900-1937, consist of the correspondence, diaries, and writings of novelist Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 1862-1937. All of this material was consulted and used by R.W.B. Lewis in his volume Edith Wharton : A Biography (New York: Harper & Row, 1975) and is described and cited there as the William Royall Tyler Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. The earliest items in the collection are family related: a commonplace book of Lucretia Rhinelander (Wharton's mother) and an 1847 journal of her father's, George Frederic Jones. The correspondence begins in 1901 and includes letters from Bernar d Berenson, Mary (Smith) Berenson, Paul Bourget, Louis Bromfield, Sir Kenneth Clark, Royal Cortissoz, Beatrix Farrand, William Alexander Gerhardie, Louis Gillet, Abbé Arthur Mugnier, Violet Paget, Edward Brewster Sheldon, Logan Pearsall Smith, Elis ina Tyler, Royall Tyler, and William Royal Tyler, as well as nearly 400 letters from Edith Wharton to the Tyler family. Her own diaries cover primarily 1920-1937, but also present is the so-called "love diary" (A Life Apart) of 1907-08. Writings present include typescripts of her full-length works, Age of Innocence , A Backward Glance, and Gods Arrive, as well as many poems both published and unpublished, and a file of about two hundred photographs of Wharton and friends, of Pavillon Colombe, of Saint Claire Château, and of her other residences (The Mount, Pencraig and 58 rue de Varenne) complete this portion of the collection. The remaining portion of the collection consists of files relating to Edith Wharton's death and her estate, as well as correspondence and other materials gathered by the executor of her French will, Elisina Tyler, for a planned biography of Wharto n. The biography was never completed and following Elisina's death in 1959, her son, William Royall Tyler, took over as executor of the Wharton estate. His correspondence as well as some additional materials relating to his own reminiscences of Mrs. Wh arton, complete the entire collection. Among the correspondents in this Wharton / Tyler portion of the collection are William Morton Fullerton, William Alexander Gerhardie, Frederic Rhinelander King, John Hugh Smith, Elisina Tyler, William Royall Tyler, Emelyn Webster Washburn, and Armitage Watkins. There is a box and folder list available, as well as an in-house index to the correspondence. Purchase. William Royall Tyler, Washington, D.C. 1976 ca. 1200 items |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Writings Research Files |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/whartoninv.html |
| finding aid | There is a box and folder list available, as well as an in-house index to the correspondence. |
| acquisition information | Purchase. William Royall Tyler, Washington, D.C. 1976 |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:55 |
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| title | Bernard Berenson letters: to Rene Gimpel, 1909-1931. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Concerning mutual business interests; Berenson advises Gimpel on paintings he may be interested in purchasing, warns him against paintings he feels are of dubious authenticity, and discusses other aspects of the art market. With five letters from Mary Berenson, and two copies of letters from Gimpel to Berenson. Biographical or Historical Notes: American art historian and connoisseur. |
| extent | 73 items. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. Microfilm copy (incomplete) at Archives of American Art. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/mlc5om/GETTY_ALMA21140804660001551 |
| updated | 07/28/2023 16:33:44 |
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| title | Berenson Family Papers, 1894-1941. | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Collection contains seven boxes of correspondence between family members, much of it from the grown children to their mother or between siblings. Includes three boxes of letters from Mary Berenson to her mother-in-law describing life with Bernard Berenson at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, and Mary's manuscript "On meeting Bernard Berenson." Many of the letters or postcards from non-family members are addressed to Elizabeth Berenson. Also contains three diaries, 1925, 1927, and 1932, an address book, a postcard collection, and some books of Elizabeth; 213 family photographs; a few other manuscripts by family members; two boxes of plaster angels; and other miscellaneous material. Location: Houghton b MS Am 2013 Biographical and Historical Note Bernard Berenson (1864-1969) was an art historian. Included in the collection are materials by his parents, Albert and Julia (or Judith), his siblings, Senda, Abram, Elizabeth, and Rachel, some of their spouses, and his own wife Mary. The family emigrated from Vilna, Russia to Boston, Mass. in 1876. |
| extent | 14 boxes (7 linear ft.) |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Photographs Printed Materials Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions. |
| record link | nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00375 |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | The finding aid is in the repository and on the repository’s Web site |
| acquisition information | Gift of Richard Arthur Berenson; received: 1983. *83M-9. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers, 1880-2002 (bulk 1880-1959) | repository | Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti |
| description | Includes Bernard Berenson and Mary Berenson's published and unpublished manuscripts, notes, diaries, letters, offprints of articles, surplus volumes of published books, biographical material, and personal photographs. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Bernard Berenson, but also some letters by the Berensons and Nicky Mariano. Among the correspondents included are: Baroness Alda Anrep, Margaret Scolari Barr, Robert Woods Bliss, Jacqueline Onassis, Kenneth Clark, Cass Canfield, John Coolidge, Duveen Brothers, William G. Constable, Charles H. Coster, Katherine Dunham, Max Eastmen, Henry Sayles Francis, Edward Waldo Forbes, Felix Frankfurter, Helen C. Frick, Isabella S. Gardner, Martha Gellhorn, J. Paul Getty, Bella da Costa Greene, Hamish Hamilton, Learned Hand, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Hofer, Robert Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Mary McCarthy, Agnes Mongan, Walter Pach, Harold W. Parsons, Carlo Placci, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Paul J. Sachs, Jacques Seligmann, King Gustaf Adolf VI of Sweden, Grenville L. Winthrop, and Edith Wharton. Cite as: Cite as: Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers, 1880-2002, Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. |
| extent | 72.0 Linear feet |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Photographs Subject Files |
| access | Contact Ilaria Della Monica the archivist at the Berenson Library for restrictions and appointments. |
| record link | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:VIT.BB:ber00008 |
| bibliography | Published finding aid: The Berenson archive : an inventory of correspondence. Compiled by Nicky Mariano. Florence : Villa I Tatti, 1965. |
| record source | http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|000603714 |
| contact information | Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi: Agnes Mongan Curator of the Fototeca Berenson; Curator of the Berenson Collection and Archive |
| finding aid | Available in the Berenson Library: Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers (1880-2002, bulk 1880-1959) : A Finding Aid. See also The Berenson Archive : An Inventory of Correspondence, compiled by Nicky Mariano (Florence : Villa I Tatti, 1965). |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Berenson Archive, ca. 1890-present | repository | Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti |
| description | Bernard Berenson's manuscripts and correspondence with leading art historians, collectors, novelists, poets, historians, and statesmen, including Henry Adams, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, and Edith Wharton. Mary Berenson’s correspondence (partial) and manuscripts. Nicky Mariano’s correspondence. Roberto and Livia Papini’s correspondence and documentation concerning his activity as architect. Giorgio Castelfranco’s papers documenting his activity as art historian and official of the Soprintendenza. Frederick Hartt’s papers documenting his activity as art historian. Andrea Francalanci’s papers documenting his activity as historian of theater and dance. History: The nucleus of the collection consists of Mary and Bernard Berenson’s correspondence, manuscripts, and other papers, which were included in Mr. Berenson’s bequest of Villa I Tatti to Harvard University at his death in 1959. Other collections have since been donated to the Harvard Center. |
| extent | 253 linear ft. |
| formats | Manuscript Correspondence Legal Papers |
| access | Contact Ilaria Della Monica the archivist at the Berenson Library for restrictions and appointments. |
| bibliography | Nicky Mariano, The Berenson Archive: An Inventory of Correspondence (Florence: Villa I Tatti, Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1965); Myron Gilmore, "Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies: The First Ten Years," Harvard Library Bulletin 19 (January 1971). |
| record source | http://lib.harvard.edu/archives/0011.html |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Hannah Whitall Smith Papers, 1817-1987. | repository | Indiana University |
| description | Consists primarily of letters of Hannah Whitall Smith, her two daughters Mary Berenson and Alys Whitall Pearsall Russell, and Mary's two daughters Ray Strachey and Karin Stephen. The correspondence is mostly among these five women, but included is correspondence with other members of the Smith family, extended relations and friends both in the U.S. and Europe. Other correspondents include: Bernard Berenson, Dorothy Bussy, Frank Costelloe, Jane Ellen Harrison, Bertrand Russell, Geoffrey Scott, Logan Pearsall Smith, Robert Pearsall Smith, Lady Henry Somerset, Adrian Stephen, Alix Strachey, Barbara Strachey, Julia Frances Strachey, Oliver Strachey, M. Carey Thomas, Frances Elizabeth Willard, and Virginia Woolf. Also present in the collection are juvenalia, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and other miscellaneous papers. Biographical and Historical Note: Religious leader and author. Hannah Whitall Smith preached and wrote on religious subjects and became involved in the temperance and suffrage movements. When her daughter Mary married English barrister Frank Costelloe in 1888, Hannah, her husband Robert and their children, Alys and Logan, joined Mary in England. Alys married philosopher Bertrand Russell and worked for women's rights as well as other political issues. When Mary's marriage failed soon after the birth of their second daughter Karin, she left England to tour the museums and cathedrals of Europe with her future husband, art critic Bernard Berenson. Her older daughter Ray dedicated herself to women's issues, while Karin became a pioneer in Freudian psychoanalysis and one of Britain's first psychoanalysts. Ray married into the Strachey family and Karin wed Virginia Woolf's brother Adrian Stephen. Cite as: Smith, H.W. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. |
| extent | 30,500 items |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Clippings Ephemera Writings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions. |
| record link | http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/guides/smith/smith.shtml |
| record source | http://www.iucat.iu.edu |
| finding aid | Manuscripts index in the library includes entries at item level. Finding aids: Guide available for purchase. |
| acquisition information | Purchase; 1989. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:15 |
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