Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lathrop, Francis Augustus, 1849-1909
| title | Letters to Thomas B. Clarke from artists, 1883-1918. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters to Clarke regarding works of art, exhibitions, payments; also reciepts for sales of art work. Correspondents include: George Inness, Frederick W. Kost, Francis Lathrop, Homer D. Martin, Francis D. Millet, Louis Moeller, Thomas Moran, John F. Murphy, Walter L. Palmer, Thomas A. Richards, Dwight W. Tryon, Harry W. Watrous, and John F. Weir. Weir's 4 p. letter, dated March 1, 1893, regards arrangements for the World's Columbian Exposition. He complains of the progress and his fears of poor selections or a poor showing. He comments of the status or merits of possible paintings, asks about arrangements for procuring and assembling the works, sends a list of artists he would like represented, and requests a list of "works obtainable" from Clarke. Letters have merged alphabetically with other artists' letters, and are scattered throughout the letterbooks. |
| extent | 13 items (on 1 microfilm reel) reel D5 |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Microfilm inventory available at AAA offices, filed under Hart. |
| acquisition information | The letters were presumably collected by Charles Henry Hart, and compiled in a 2 v. collection titled "The History of Art in America as Told in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Docuements of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century." Other letters in the volumes are written to various people, and have been described in separate catalog records, each grouped under the name of the peraon to whom the letters are addressed, including Asher Brown Durand, John Durand, Charles Lanman, William J. Stillman, John Trumbull, and one under the title, Miscellaneous Artists Letters. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:52 |
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| title | John Hay Papers, 1829-1916 | repository | Brown University, John Hay Archives |
| description | Hay's correspondence with his family and with literary, diplomatic, and political contemporaries; Civil War diaries and those kept by Hay as Secretary of the Legations in Paris, Vienna, and Madrid, 1866-1870; manuscript poems; galley proofs; personal letterpress copy books. Subjects include: Civil War; Lincoln and his administration; Reconstruction; court life in Paris; Hay's choice of careers; the bi-metal monetary standard; the Canadian boundary settlement; the fur seal question; Japanese naval activity; British politics; American political affairs, etc. Biog/hist Brown class of 1858. Secretary to Abraham Lincoln; Ambassador to Court of St. James; Secretary of State; author |
| extent | Over 9100 items |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Diaries |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2498067 |
| finding aid | Typescript inventory available for small portion of collection. Items individually cataloged in Manuscript Card Catalog |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Correspondence associated with: Lathrop, Francis Augustus | repository | Online Edition of Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler |
| description | Francis Augustus Lathrop was the recipient, sender or subject of 1 documents, dated October 16, 1895, associated with Whistler and his work. It is available online in either digital form or by transcript, and in some cases both. The individual documents are located in the following repositories: New York Public Library. Notes: Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1849-1909 Nationality: American Date of Birth: 22 June 1849 Place of Birth: On the Pacific Ocean Date of Death: 18 October 1909 Place of Death: Woodcliffe Lake, New-Jersey Identity: Francis Augustus Lathrop was a portrait and mural painter. Life: Lathrop commenced his studies in New York with the landscape and genre painter Thomas Charles Farrer but left in 1867 for Europe where he studied in Dresden. This was followed by three years in London where he worked with Ford Madox Brown. He later returned to the U.S. where he established a reputation as a portraitist and muralist. One of his notable mural schemes was for the chapel of Bowdoin College at Brunswick. Bibliography: Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, 1956-61; The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860, New Haven and London 1957. |
| extent | 1 document |
| formats | Electronic Resource |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Laurence Hutton Correspondence, 1851?-1904 (bulk 1880-1900) ©2007 Princeton University Library | repository | Princeton University |
| description | Consists of correspondence of Hutton, reflecting a wide acquaintance among artistic, literary, and theatrical celebrities of the last quarter of the 19th century. Persons most amply represented are Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Booth, H. C. Bunner, Clara Erskine Clement, Kate Field, James Fraser Gluck, Joseph N. Ireland, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, and Francis Wilson; additional personalities in the collection include Mary Mapes Dodge, Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells, Helen Keller, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Whitcomb Riley, William Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Owen Wister. In addition, the collection contains occasional manuscripts of some of the correspondents, miscellaneous autographs and clippings, and printed material. Biographical note: Laurence Hutton was literary editor of the "Literary Notes" Department at Harper's Magazine from 1886 to 1898. In 1897, Hutton received an honorary M.A. from Princeton University, and from 1901 to his death in 1904 he was a lecturer on English at Princeton Location: Special Collections Call number: C0080 |
| extent | 4.75 cu. ft |
| formats | Correspondence Clippings Printed Materials |
| access | Collection is open for research use. |
| record link | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c534fn953 |
| record source | http://catalog.princeton.edu |
| finding aid | A checklist of the correspondents is available. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically; other material follows at the end. Finding Aid Published in 2002, ©2007 Princeton University Library |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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