Selected papers from the Pennell-Whistler collection in the Library of Congress

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Selected papers from the Pennell-Whistler collection in the Library of Congress

1830-1903

Correspondence, 1830-1876, and diary, 1850, of Anna Mathilda Whistler, ("Whistler's mother); and a large collection of Whistler correspondence gathered by his friends and biographers Joseph and Elizabeth R. Pennell over a fifty year period. Among the correspondents are the Pennells, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederik Sandys, David Croal Thompson, Fantin-Latour, Thomas Jekyll, William Heinemann and others, 1862-1903. Many of the letters are from letterbooks of James A. Rose and Val[entine C.] Prinsep.

1500 items (on 4 microfilm reels)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8142809

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