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Wakefield, Elisabeth Adams. Letters received, 1922-1949.

Title: Letters received, 1922-1949.

The collection consists of l6 letters from Henry Bergen, American collector and expert on Japanese art who served as patron and friend to the British potter Bernard Leach, to Elisabeth Adams Wakefield, a Bostonian who shared Bergen's enthusiasm for oriental decorative arts. The letters contain many references to the work of Bernard Leach in England and Japan, the affairs of Leach's St. Ives Pottery, Japanese master potters and exhibitions of oriental ceramics in the U.S. and Europe. Some reference is made to social events in Boston and London. Four letters from Leach concern Henry Bergen's final illness. There is one letter from Kojiro Tomita of the M.F.A. in Boston. Included in the collection are a group of photographs of Japanese interiors and street scenes, and obituaries of Henry D. Sleeper.

ArchivalResource: 1 box : photos.

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Tomita, Kojiro, 1890-1976. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1962.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1962.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dept. of Asiatic Art. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1959.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1959.

Letters concerning Brooks's search for Fenollosa information, from curator of Asiatic Art, Kojiro Tomita.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175295488 View