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

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.whisjapw
Creators:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Dates:
1830-1903
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1,500 Items
(on 4 microfilm reels)
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
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.

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reels LCW 1-LCW 4 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals in: Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell Collection, Library of Congress.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Lent for microfilming 1963 by the Library of Congress.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Whistler, Anna Mathilda McNeill, 1804-1881 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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