Rose Standish Nichols papers, 1877-1922.

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Rose Standish Nichols papers, 1877-1922.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612872485

This collection primarily concerns the close relationship between Rose Standish Nichols and her uncle, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and also relates his wife Augusta F. Homer Saint-Gaudens, and their family. Includes correspondence, a diary belonging to Rose Nichols, numerous photographs of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and other materials. There is also an incomplete autograph manuscript draft (by Nichols) of a biographical sketch of Saint-Gaudens. Correspondence includes a large group of letters from Saint-Gaudens to Rose Nichols (but none from her) concerning his life and work. Includes autograph manuscript transcripts of these letters compiled by Nichols. Also with: a large group of letters from Augusta Saint-Gaudens to Nichols; a few letters from friends and colleagues to Augustus Saint-Gaudens including Henry James (copy only), Henry Adams (copy only), Daniel Chester French, and others; and one letter from Homer Saint-Gaudens to Rose Nichols.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7802690

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Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907

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Sculptor. From the description of Papers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, circa 1848-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071553 Sculptor and artist. From the description of Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers, 1891-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981198 Sculptor, New York. From the description of Letter, 1893 April 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553768 American sculptor. From the description of Saint-Gaudens National...

Saint-Gaudens, Augusta

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French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931

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Sculptor and artist. From the description of Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968 (bulk 1911-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450719 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. and Glendale, Mass. From the description of Daniel Chester French letters, 1908-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648173 Biographical Note 1850, Apr. 20 Born, Exeter, N.H....

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 1880-

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Nichols, Rose Standish

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Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) was one of America's first professional female landscape and garden designers, a writer of garden history and criticism, a lifelong pacificist, and a women's rights activist. She was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Howard Nichols (1840-1923) and Elizabeth Fisher Homer Nichols (1844-1929) of Boston, Massachusetts. She published three books and many articles on European garden design, helped found the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom, and remained unm...

Nichols family.

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Saint Gaudens family.

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