Correspondence, 1940-1945.

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Correspondence, 1940-1945.

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Letters and clippings concerning the dispute between Russell and Albert C. Barnes, who had hired him to lecture at the Foundation. Barnes was a Philadelphian who made his fortune with the patent medicine Argyrol, amassed an extraordinary collection of Impressionist paintings, and established the Foundation to house his collection and espouse his own theories of the history of art. Barnes and Russell soon had a falling out, and Barnes took the occasion of Russell's absence on 7 January 1943 to declare the five-year contract void. Russell sued Barnes for the salary remaining to him under the original contract. Russell won and the Supreme Court refused to hear Barnes's appeal. The collection includes six ALsS form Russell to Lovett; ten letters from Lovett to Russell (two retained copies and eight photocopies); a copy in Lovett's hand of a letter from the Foundation to Russell, setting forth their original contract; copy in Lovett's hand of a letter from Barnes to Russell; carbon copy of a letter from Russell's attorneys, White & Staples, to Barnes; three TLsS from T.R. White to Lovett; and eighteen clippings from various newspapers about the controversy.

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White, Thomas Raeburn, 1875-1959

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Lovett, Caroline Lewis

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Caroline Lewis Lovett (1901-1983), the daughter of Watkins Price Lovett and Howard Meriwether Lovett, was born in Screven County, Georgia and spent many years of her girlhood in Augusta, Georgia. In 1919 she moved to St. Louis with part of the family. For 36 years she was head of the Print Division of Free Library, Philadelphia. On her retirement in 1962 she moved to Savannah, Georgia. From the description of Caroline Lewis Lovett letters and address, 1921-1970. (Georgia Historical S...

Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951

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Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...