Papers of Royall Tyler, 1902-1967 (inclusive).

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Papers of Royall Tyler, 1902-1967 (inclusive).

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Includes primarily letters of Royall Tyler to Mildred Barnes Bliss; also many letters from Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, from Royall's wife Elisina and son William R. Tyler, the first director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard. Also includes a few letters from other family members and several from art dealers. The correspondence documents in considerable detail the development of the Bliss's Collection of Byzantine art at Dumbarton Oaks. This is a correspondence of close friends; letters are personal and reflective, and contain detailed descriptions of European political and artistic life in the first half of the twentieth century. Also references throughout to Bernard Berenson and Edith Wharton. Other material includes typescripts of original letters, edited by W.R. Tyler and Walter Muir Whitehill, and the Tyler-Whitehill edition of the letters, which was never published. Some of the correspondence includes notes, photographs, and descriptions of works of art.

3 linear ft. (7 boxes)

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8182394

Harvard University Archives.

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Tyler, William Royall.

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Dumbarton Oaks.

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Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss donated their home Dumbarton Oaks and its library and collections to Harvard University in 1940 to serve as a research center in Byzantine studies. In 1969, upon the death of Mildred Bliss, her Garden Library collection of rare and modern materials was willed to Harvard, to become a part of the over-all institution of Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. From the description of Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive...

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Tyler, Elisina.

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Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953

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Tyler was an art collector, and advisor to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss in the development of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection of Byzantine art. From the description of Papers of Royall Tyler, 1902-1967 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973320 ...