Miriam Hapgood DeWitt Papers 1812-1990 1903-1990

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Miriam Hapgood DeWitt Papers 1812-1990 1903-1990

The Miriam Hapgood DeWitt Papers consists of original and photocopied material, including letters, documents, and literary papers, related to the journalists and authors Hutchins Hapgood (1869-1944) and Neith Boyce (1872-1951), their forebears, and their circle of intellectuals, social reformers, and artists. The collection was created by their daughter Miriam Hapgood Dewitt (1906-1990), with the assistance of her sister Beatrix Hapgood Faust (1910-1994).

25 boxes (incl. 1 oversize box); 11.36 linear feet

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Hapgood, Charles Hutchins, 1836-1917.

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Boyce, Mary Ella Smith.

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Boyce family.

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Hapgood family.

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Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945

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Bernard Berenson, art historian and critic, was born in Lithuania in 1865. His family moved to Boston, Mass. in 1875 where he was enrolled in the Boston Latin School. He then attended Boston University for one year, and graduated from Harvard College in 1887. Encouraged by Isabella Stewart Gardner and others, Berenson travelled to Europe to study art, although with the original intention of becoming a writer. Mary Berenson was born a Quaker in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1864, the d...

Boyce, Henry Harrison.

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Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Boyce, Neith, 1872-1951

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Bentley, Arthur Fisher, 1870-1957

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Philosopher and author. From the description of Papers, 1891-1968. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56083119 From the description of Papers, 1890-1965. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56083042 Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1870-1957, was a philosopher and author. Bentley received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1895. He wrote for the Chicago Times-Herald (later the Record-Herald ) until 1910, when he retired to work and write at his orchard in...

Berenson, Mary, 1864-

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Lisle, Laurie

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Art historian; Sharon, Conn. From the description of Laurie Lisle research material on Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Nevelson, 1903-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227192258 ...

Rischin, Moses, 1925-

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Boyce, Henry Harrison.

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Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946

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American journalist. From the description of Letter : to the Cosmos Club, 1910 Mar. 31. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122545959 American journalist and author who also wrote under the name David Grayson. From the description of [Notebooks] [microform]. 1880-1946. WorldCat record id: 36820111 American author and journalist. He is also known by the pseudonym David Grayson. Fr...

DeBoer-Langworthy, Carol, 1942-

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Trimberger, Ellen Kay, 1940-

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Boyce family.

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Hapgood, Charles Hutchins, 1836-1917.

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Faust, Beatrix Hapgood, 1910-

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Trivanovitch, Vaso, -1949

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Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937

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Norman Hapgood: editor, diplomat, and author. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (1894-1974): editor and translator. From the description of Papers of Norman Hapgood and Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, 1823-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132030 Norman Hapgood was an editor and critic, best remembered for his influential editorials for Collier's Weekly. Born in Chicago, he had a distinguished tenure as a student at Harvard University, culminating in a law degree. He practiced law...

Marcaccio, Michael D., 1946-

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Boyce, Mary Ella Smith.

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Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829

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Born in Rehoboth, RI, in 1762, Smith grew up in Chester, VT. He apprenticed in Putney, VT, and began a medical practice in Cornish, NH. He attended Harvard where he obtained his M.B. in 1790, and continued his practice in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont, for many years in partnership with Cyrus Perkins. He founded Dartmouth Medical School in 1796. In 1813 he joined the new Yale Medical institution, and he lectured on medicine at Bowdoin College, starting in 1821, and Vermont Medica...

Rudnick, Lois Palken, 1944-....

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Hapgood family.

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Hapgood, Hutchins, 1869-1944

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DeWitt, Miriam Hapgood, 1906-1990

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Miriam Hapgood DeWitt (1906-1990) was a writer from Provincetown, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Miriam Hapgood DeWitt, 1987-1988 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744433223 Miriam Hapgood DeWitt (1906-1990) was the daughter of the journalists and authors Hutchins Hapgood (1869-1944) and Neith Boyce (1872-1951). She was born in Florence, Italy, on November 29, 1906, and, along with her siblings Harry Boyce (1901-1918), Charles Hutch...