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Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953. Papers of Royall Tyler, 1902-1967 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Royall Tyler, 1902-1967 (inclusive).

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.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76973320 View

Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and AgnesMongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Mostof Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most ofMongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). Thepapers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with artdealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printedmaterial, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grantproposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00017/catalog View

Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962. Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive), 1900-1967 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive), 1900-1967 (bulk).

This collection contains documents relating to the whole of the Bliss's lives: their personal and family lives, their philanthropic endeavors, their art collecting, and Robert Woods Bliss's Foreign Service career. Due to the Bliss's social standing and activities, the collection includes correspondence with many prominent twentieth-century figures. These include musicians (Nadia Boulanger, Blair Fairchild, Doda Conrad and Samuel Dushkin), political figures and government officials (Gifford Pinchot, Herbert Hoover, Louise, Queen of Sweden, Frank Kellog, William Henry Hunt and Charles Warren), and art critics and art historians (Bernard Berenson, Royall Tyler, William Tyler, Fitz Roy Carrington and Henri Focillon).

ArchivalResource: 58.22 cubic feet in 174 containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76975086 View

Coolidge, John, 1913-1995. Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Most of Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most of Mongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printed material, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grant proposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434571462 View

John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

Dumbarton Oaks. Administrative records of Dumbarton Oaks, 1940-1965 (inclusive).

Title: Administrative records of Dumbarton Oaks, 1940-1965 (inclusive).

Administrative records, consisting primarily of the correspondence of John Thacher, Director of Dumbarton Oaks from 1940-1969, and dealing with collecting issues, personnel and appointments, financial matters and with Dumbarton Oak's relationship with Harvard University, the Fogg Museum and its faculty, including Edward Waldo Forbes, Paul Sachs and Agnes Mongan. Also included is correspondence with Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, founders of Dumbarton Oaks.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic feet in 4 containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76975085 View

Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969. Papers, 1867-2005.

Title: Papers, 1867-2005.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum Director Edward Waldo Forbes document his administration of the museum and a wide range of personal and professional activities and interests. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1944. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including a series of correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, reports, expedition field notes and journals, printed material, newspaper clippings, blueprints, meeting minutes, letters of recommendation, insurance records, invoices, page proofs, telegrams, rubbings, sketches, visiting cards, shipping documents and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 119 boxes + oversize materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422897333 View

Dumbarton Oaks. Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive).

Title: Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive).

Holdings of the Garden Library pertain to the history of landscape architecture, garden design and ornament; to the history of horticulture, botanical illustration, and plant importation; and to early botanical science. Types of material include bound volumes and individual drawings and paintings, primarily by English and European artists from the 16th to 19th centuries; photographs, slides, and microfiches; and drawings from the office of Beatrix Farrand (landscape architect for Dumbarton Oaks) of Dumbarton Oaks gardens. There are also holograph letter and music manuscript collections, assembled by Mildred Barnes Bliss; as well as departmental records and correspondence between Bliss and Farrand. Materials are in various languages, including French, Latin, and English.

ArchivalResource: ca. 32 linear ft. and ca. 900 drawings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122357510 View