William James Jr. papers, 1857-1960 (inclusive), 1911-1959 (bulk).

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William James Jr. papers, 1857-1960 (inclusive), 1911-1959 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612370935

The bulk of the collection consists of personal letters to William or Alice James from friends in their large social/intellectual/artistic circle. Includes letters to William concerning his portrait painting and articles, his illustrious father and uncle, and Alice's death in 1957. Compositions consist of poems by poet friends and William James's manuscript on Langdon Warner, curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Museum. Third party correspondence is mostly of earlier family members. Daniel Lewis Gibbens' papers contain correspondence, including 15 letters to his daughter Alice Howe (Gibbens) James written during the Civil War when he was employed by the U.S. military government in the South as secretary to the New Orleans mayor and assistant supervising special agent of the Treasury Department in Mobile, Ala. Also includes his commonplace book, 1857-1859, and notes on his life and suicide compiled by his grandson Henry James III.

7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7795369

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Gibbens, Daniel Lewis, d. 1865,

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James, Henry, 1879-1947

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Nephew of the novelist Henry James. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Peru, Vt., to Professor [Kenneth B.] Murdock, 1943 Sept. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270693513 United States representative, Inter-Allied Danube River Commission, 1919. From the description of Henry James papers, 1918-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868854 Henry James was the son of William James and nephew of the novelist Henry James. ...

James, William, 1882-1961

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William James, Jr. (1882-1961), son of famous psychologist William James, was an American painter who worked as a painting critic for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and as its director from 1930-1937. While at the Museum School, James met Mrs. Kathryn A. Hodgman of Kalamazoo, Michigan through Edward W. Forbes. James and Hodgman studied together at his summer home in Chocorua, New Hampshire during the summer of 1934. From the guide to the Papers, 1930-1937, (Harvard Art...

James, Alice Runnells, d. 1957.

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