Orrin M. Peck correspondence and miscellany, 1882-1921.

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Orrin M. Peck correspondence and miscellany, 1882-1921.

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Chiefly personal correspondence with relatives and friends, concerning personal matters such as health, travel, death and friendship. The bulk of the correspondence is between Peck and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, who shares her feelings about her husband and son. Also includes financial documents, an undated essay praising the Renaissance, an inventory of Peck's paintings, a catalog for an exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in 1897 which he helped organize, and an undated review of Peck's work on exhibit at Knoedler Gallery, New York.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

California historical society

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California historical society

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Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919

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Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst was born in St. Clair, Missouri, the daughter of Drucilla (Whitmire) and Randolph Walker Apperson. In 1860, businessman George Hearst met Phoebe when he returned to St. Clair to care for his dying mother. When they married on June 15, 1862, George Hearst was 41 years old, and Phoebe was 19. Soon after their marriage the Hearsts moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst. As a very successful miner wh...

Peck, Orrin M., 1860-1921

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Born in Hobart, New York April 13, 1860, son of James and Margaret H. Peck, brother to Helen P. Sanborn and Janet M. (Janet Moore) Peck (b. 1878). His mother Margaret befriended Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919) on a steamship voyage from Panama to San Francisco, and Orrin became a close friend of Phoebe's son, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). Peck studied art at the Akademie der Kunst in Munich from 1883 to 1889; in 1889 he moved to London with his sister Janet. He became an accomplished p...