De Groot family papers, ca. 1837-1965.
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De Groot family papers, ca. 1837-1965.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, stories, and miscellaneous papers, ca. 1837-1965, of various members of the De Groot and related Hawley family, their relations, and friends, especially Elizabeth King Hawley, who married William De Groot, and Adelaide Milton De Groot, the donor. Materials include 52 letters to William De Groot during 1838-180, when he was a student at Mr. E. Fairchild's school in Plainfield, New Jersey, including many from his friends, T. Howard Conway and Julius S. Hitchcock; ca. 15 letters from Elizabeth and Marianna Hawley to their family and friends, written from Washington, D.C., in 1852-1853, when they were staying with Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, and wrote of social life in Washington; correspondence and papers relating to claims against Madame Hedwige Zak of Gallerie Zak in Paris, concerning the authenticity of a Renoir, Cézanne, and Corot purchased by collector Adelaide Milton De Groot; extensive correspondence with persons in Nice, Cannes, San Remo, Paris, and elsewhere in Europe, usually friends or relatives on vacation or relocated there, particularly Mary and Grace De Groot who lived at the Hotel de Savoy in San Remo for many years. Frequent correspondents were: Emmeline Smith Hawley, Jane de Forest Windle of Tarrytown, Eliza H. Holly, Fanny De Groot, William De Groot, Elizabeth (Bessie) De Groot, wife of Giulio Caravadossi, Comte d'Aspremont, Francis E. Brantingham, Martha Coggeshall Brantingham, Fanny Bosworth, Rebecca Tappan, Alice E. Hawley, Fanny Baylis, Eleanor C. Mundé, F. S. Hastings, Charles Hawley, Michele de Zogheb, Frances Robinson, Anna De Groot, Mary Windle, Sophie Windle, and Frank Hawley.
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