Collection Creator:

Page, William, 1811-1885  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1815-1942, undated

Scope and Contents note:

Letters in this series include the personal and professional correspondence of William Page, his wife, Sophia Candace Stevens Page, and their families, as well as correspondence of Sophia Page's first husband Stephen Hitchcock and his family. William Page's correspondence is found from 1833 to 1885 only, with the bulk of his correspondence dating from 1852 to 1877. Drafts of outgoing letters written by William and Sophia Page are found throughout the series. Correspondence is arranged chronologically, with undated correspondence filed alphabetically by author at the end of the series. Correspondence of Page's children, which is voluminous from the early 1880s onward, and other family correspondence of the Page, Stevens, and Hitchcock families has not been indexed. The earliest correspondence is that of Page's relatives of the Mathies, Dunnel, and Baldwin families of New York State. From 1840 through 1852, much of the correspondence is that of the Hitchcock family. See Series 2.3 for correspondence between Sophia and Steven Hitchcock. Love letters between William Page and Sophia (then Hitchcock) are prevalent in 1857, the year they were married. Family correspondence among Sophia Page, her parents, and her brothers Henry, B. Frank, and Simon Stevens is prevalent from the 1850s through the 1880s. By 1884, much of the correspondence is that of the Page children, including their personal, business, and family correspondence. A long, amorous correspondence from Charlotte "Sharly" Briggs to Candace "Dacie" Page, which documents an apparently intimate relationship between the two women, is found from the late 1880s onward, with many undated letters. William Page's significant correspondents include artists such as Thomas Hicks, Enoch Wood Perry, William Stark, Theodore Tilton, and Lemuel Wilmarth; patrons Wendell Phillips, J. Hopper, William Walker Scranton, and Francis G. Shaw; writers James Russell Lowell, Charles Frederick Briggs (see also Series 2.2), George W. Curtis, and the actress Charlotte Cushman. An unusually lengthy letter from Page to a young artist "W" (possibly William Stark) about painting is dated 1860. Sophia Page's correspondents include Thomas K. Beecher, Mary Olmsted and Bertha Olmsted. See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.1.

Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2.1.:

The following is a selective list of correspondence of William and Sophia Page in Series 2.1: General Correspondence. Spellings and abbreviations of names below reflect the actual signatures of letters. Names preceded by question marks indicate partially-legible signatures. Letters with unsigned and illegible signatures which could not be indexed are common in the correspondence, so this index should not be considered comprehensive. Adam, Sarah W.: 1877-1878 Allan, W.G.: 1848 Allen, Elizabeth Akers: 1863-1864, 1880, 1885-1888, 1892, undated Alsop, ?H.J.W.: 1871 Ammon, W.E.: 1887-1888 Appleton, Nathan: 1874 Arcadian Club: 1874 Armstrong, William: 1889 Austin Baldwin and Co.: 1863 Avery, Charles: 1870 Avery, Sam P.: undated Badeau, Adam: 1866 Baker, H.: undated Baker, W.J.: 1874 Balducci, Y.: 1855 Bard, M.I.: undated Barney, C. H.: 1863 Barney, Hiram: undated Bartholemew, E.: 1855-1856 Bartlett, C.E.: undated Barton, Sam: 1870, 1879 Bates, L.: undated Beardsley, Annie: 1885 Beatty, John W.: 1900, 1902 Becker, Dr.: undated Beckwith, James Carroll: 1899 Beecher, Thomas K.: 1850, 1853-1854, undated Bellinger, Louis: 1887 Benedict, Robert D.: 1856, 1876, 1886 Benedict, Taft, and Benedict: 1880 Benet, W.V.: 1861 ?Bennett, J.R.: undated Berdam, D.W.: 1861 Betty, Edward: 1875 Biglow, L.G.: 1883 Bigmore, Edward: 1880 Birney, E.P.: 1865 Blomeger, Georgina: undated Boies, H.M.: 1875-1876 Bossange, H.: 1855 Bradford, J.F.: 1870 Brady, J.R.: 1873 Brehart, Mary: 1888, undated Briggs, Charles Frederick: 1852, 1861, undated (see also series 2.2) Briggs, Charlotte "Sharly": 1877, 1882-1883, 1886-1894, 1896, 1899, undated Brower, Edith: 1878 Brown, Henry J.: 1884 Brown, H.K.: 1871 Brownell, W.C.: 1889 Bullard, Laura Curtis: 1875, 1880, undated Burt, John: 1860 Carlin, R.: 1863 Carpenter, Edward J.: 1873 Carter, C.M. 1882 Carter, R.: 1864, 1866, 1872, 1874-1876 Carter, Susan N.: 1864, 1879, 187?, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886-1889, 188?, 1891-1892, undated Catlin, Henry: 1882 Centennial Commision: 1876 Chase, Thomas: undated Chase, William M.: 1902 Cheney, E.D.: 1886 Cheney, T.A.P.: 1869 Child, Lydia Marie: 1848, undated Chilton, James R.: 1848 Chilton, R.I.: 1849 Chilton, W.W.: undated Choate, Joseph: 1873 Clagstone, H. Glassford: 1884 Clark, Mrs. C.S.: 1871 Clason, Mrs. A.S.: 1868, undated Clemens, Clara: 1886 Cleveland, Esther Greeley: undated Clover, Lewis: 1870, 1880 Codling, Geroge: 1862 Conant, B.B. (Harper and Brothers): 1883 Conant, L.B.: 1877 Congers, N.S.: 1863 Cook, Albert S.: 1873 Corbin, Francis: 1852 Cornwallis, H.J.: undated Cowley, Mrs. Julius D.: undated Crawford, L.W.: undated Crawford, Thomas: 1853, undated Crocker, U.H.: 1875-1876 Curtis, George W.: 1857, 1870, 1880, 1887 Cushman, Charlotte (Charles): 1853, 1858, 1874, undated Dana, Charles A.: 1854, 1881 Day, Livy: undated ?Decamps, J.: 1880 Dewy, Julius: 1882 Dexter, Franklin B.: 1871 Didama, H.D.: 1867 Dietz, Linda: undated Dixon, O.H.: 1875 Douglas, Eliza: 1863 Druker, L.E.: undated Dunnel, John H.: 1861, 1863 Durfee, Rose: 1877, 1879 Easton, Harriet: undated Eliot, Charles W.: 1876 Elliman, Charles B.: 1870 ?Evans, Joseph or George: 1874 Evans, W.W.: 1877 Fagan, John F.: 1888 Farrell, M.: 1869 Fenton, R.: undated Fields, Annie: 1860, undated French, W.M.R.: 1877 G.P. Putnam Sons: 1877 Gale, L.D.: 1848 Gay, S.H.: undated Gibbons, S.J.: 1878 Gifford, S.R.: 1871, 1873 Gilder, R.W.: undated Godkin, E.L.: 1871-1872 Godwin, Parke: 1880, undated Goodyear, William Henry: 1882-1883 Gray, David: 1862 Green, H.H.: 1865 Guy, S.J.: 1874, 1885, 1887 Hale, Mrs. E.E.: 1872 Hall, Anna Maria: 1853, undated Hall, E.W.: 1868, undated Hammersley, J.W.: undated Hannah, George: 1870 Harper Brothers: 1879 Harris, Addie A.: 1863 Hart, Burnham: 1885 Hart, John S.: 1873 Hart, Levi Wells: undated Hastings, Alice: undated Hawkins and Cothren: 1871 Hazard, W.A.: 1879 Henderson, Ettie: 1891 Henry Holt and Co.: 1879 Hibbard, James N.: 1880 Hicks, Thomas: 1863, 1868 Hills, Mrs. Amelia: 1869 Hinckley, Polly Page: 1873 Holcombe, Emily: 1886 Hooker, J.C. (of Packenham and Hooker): 1854-1858, 1860, undated Hooper: 1854 Hopkins, Geraldine: 1863 Hopper, J.: 1861-1862, undated Hoppin, Rosalie: 1858 Hoppin, William J.: 1857 Hudson, John: 1883 Humphreys, Mary Cray: undated Hunt, Richard M.: 1868 Huntington, D: 1878 Huntington, Frank: 1888-1889 Hussey, George B.: 1875 ?Ickelheimer, I.: 1872, 1875 Ingersoll, W.H.: 1876 Jay, William: 1888 Jeremiah, Ann; 1880 Johnson, B.: 1863 Johnson, E.H.: 1876-1877 Johnson, E.N.: 1874 Johnson, Josephine M.: 1873 Johnson, Kate: 1886 Johnston, J.B.: 1869, 1876-1877 Johnston, Mrs. : 1868 Keenan, Thomas Jr.: 1889 Kennedy, James C.: 1858 Kidney, John S.: 1872 Kimball, Richard: 1852, 1854 King, Augustu G.: undated King, Clarence: 1875 Knortz, Karl: 1877 Knowell, John: 1881 Kucsczuski, S.W.: 1861 Kuzynski, Pauline A.: 1855 Laing, Charles G.: 1885 Laurie, Alexander: 1870 Law, S.D.: 1848 Lester, Mrs. L.: 1877 Leupp, Charles: 1852 Lewis, Eliela P.: 1865 Lewis, Juan: 1873 Lines, Mary: undated Linton, W.J.: 1872-1874, 1876-1886, 1891, undated Livingston, John Henry: 1878 Loring, E.G.: 1857 Lossing, Bevson J.: 1877 Low, William H.: 1904-1905 Lowell, Effie: 1877 Lowell, James Russell: 1843, 1848, 1874, 1878, 1885-1887, 1889, undated Lowell, Josephine S.: 1885, 1887, undated Ludlow, E.H.: 1884 Lyman, Arthur T.: 1876 M. Knoedler and Co.: 1901 MacBeth, W.: 1902-1903 Mackay, W.B.: 1848 MacPherson, William H.: 1874 Mansfield, John W.: 1883 Manton, Walter: 1857 Maquay, George A.: 1853 Marrell, J.H.: 1871 Martin, Charles F.: 1887-1888 Martin, Mrs. C.L.: 1877, 1885 , 1887 Martin, Louise P.: 1885 Martin, ?H.H.: 1872 Maston, William H.: 1866 Mead, Mary V.: 1877, 1882, undated Menger, Louis R.: 1880, 1887 Merchant, Daniel M.: 1868 Metcalf, Arthur: 1884 Millner, J.B.: 1877 Minturn, Robert B.: 1861, undated Moulton, Charles: 1886 Moulton, Francis: 1872 Munn and Co.: 1861 Murphy, Charles: 1888 Naramore, E.M.: 1875 Neal, John: 1855 Newton, O.L.: 1864 Nichols, Abel: 1857 Nichols, Florence: 1857 Nichols, George Ward: 1857 Norris, J. Parker: 1870, 1873-1877, undated Norton, Catherine: 1874, 1878, undated Nutting, Mary O.: 1883 O'Donovan, W.R.: 1877, 1886, 1890-1891, undated Olmsted, Bertha: 1853-1854, 1856-1857, 1860 Olmsted, Frederick Law: 1868-1869 Olmsted, John H.: 1851, 1853-1854 Olmsted, Mary A.: 1850, 1853-1854, 1874, 1877, undated Osborne, Mary: undated Ostrander, Nathaniel J.: 1885 Pakenham, N.: 1851 Pardue, Charles Inslee: 1873 Parkhurst, Henry M.: 1865-1866 Partridge, James R.: 1862 Patterson, F.B.: 1874 Peabody, Cornelia Marshall: undated Peck, J.: 1854 Peet, Eileen: 1884 Pentecost, Hugh O.: 1890 Perkins, T.B.: 1872 Perry, Enoch Wood: 1870, 1873, 1877-1878, 1882-1884, 1886, 1902, undated Phillips, E.O.: 1876 Phillips, Wendell: undated Powers, H.N.: 1876 Putnam, G.P.: 1866 Quick, Addie T.: 1872 Rawson, Charlotte: 1886, 1888 Raymond, George: 1886 Ream, Vinnie: undated Reinhart, B.F.: 1873 Rice, Alexander H.; 1882-1883 Richards, T. Addision: 1882, 1886 (see also the letters used as evidence in Page's probate trial; Series 4) Richmond, Victoria and J.W.B.: 1883, 1886 Rider, George S.J.: 1868 Ridner, Caroline: 1885, 1887 Rively, Mary: 1886-1887 Robertson, Ann Elize Worcester: 1877 Robinson, A.S.: 1852-1853, 1855, 1862 Robinson, E.: 1874 Robinson, George C.: 1868, undated Robinson, Mrs. Jennie: 1870 Robinson, M.C.: 1853 Robinson, W.H.: 1875-1876 Rogers, John: undated Rogers, W.K.: 1877 Rose, J.W.: 1882 ?Rossel: 1878 Ruggles, Edward: 1861 Sanborn, ?O.H.: 1868 Sartain, John: 1875 Schultz, E.A.: 1873 Schuyler, Louisa Lee: 1877 Schwab, Charles M.: 1906 Scott, Frank H.: 1875 Scott, Julian: 1874 Scranton, William Walker: 1874-1875, 1877-1879, 187?, 1880-1881 Scribner editors: 1879 Searle, L.: undated Sellstedt, L.G.: 1863-1864, undated Shaw, Anna K: 1863, undated Shaw, Francis George: 1850-1851, 1853-1855, 1859, 1861, 1863-1864, 1872-1874, 1876-1877, 1880-1881, undated (see also letters used as evidence in Page's probate trial; Series 4) Shaw, Sarah B.: 1877, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1885-1889, 1892, undated Shegogue, J.H.: 1848 Shelton, W.H.: 1905 Shinn, Earl: 1873 Shipman, Andrew: 1892 Shipman, Frank: 1886 Shipman, Mary C.: 1886, undated Skinner, Mabel R.: 1879 Smith, Charles E.: 1868 Smith, J. Eustace: 1884 Southland, William D.: 1886 Spencer, L: 1862 Sperry, Watson: 1880 Spring, Jeanie: 1861 Spring, Marcus: 1867, 1869, 1872 Spring, R.B.: undated Spring, Rebecca: 1886 Stafford, John: 1864, 1877 Stafford, O.H.: 1864 Stark, William and Madelaine: 1858, 1860-1862 Stebbins, A.: 1869 Stenton, Josephine: 1872 Stoddard, W.O.: 1870 Storrs, R.S.: 1870 Story, Mr. and Mrs. William Wetmore: 1850, undated Sturgis, Robert: 1870, 1873, undated Sturgis, Russell: 1874-1875, 1879, 1881 Suydam, W.A.: 1883 Taylor, Charles J.: 1869 Thayer, A.H.: 1890, undated Thayer, William Henry: undated Thompson, E.C.: 1863 Thompson, Launt: 1872 Tilton, Theodore: 1868-1872 Torry, C.P.: 1869 Varnum, Joseph b.: 1875 Vaughn, Virginia: 1854 Vaulchaick, S.W.: 1873 Vlymer, Alice: 1884 Wainwright, C.S.: undated Wales, George: 1856 Wall, J.W.: undated War Department: 1877 Ward, J.Q.A.: 1870, 1872, 1873 Ward, Sam S.: 1850 Washburn, B. Davis: 1868 Watson, Fred: 1882 Watson, J.W.: 1886, 1890 Watts, Edmund: 1875, 1887-1889, 1892, 1903, 1907, undated Weir, ?J or G.F.: 1871, 1874, 1876 Welby, Edgar: 1856 Weston, Eduard Payson: 1863 Weston, Theodore: 1871 Whiting, Julia D.: 1879 Whittingham, Jane: 1881 Wild, Hamilton G.: 1851, undated Wilds, Howard Payson: 1874 Williams, M.W.: 1857 ?Wills (Wells?), Theodore: 1877-1878 Wilmarth, L.E.: 1874, 1877 Winthrop, Robert C.: 1850 Wood, T.W.: 1880 World's Fair St. Louis: 1904 Wright, George F.: undated

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Collection Citation:

William Page and Page Family papers, 1815-1947, bulk 1843-1892. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.pagewill, Subseries 2.1

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William Page and Page Family papers

William Page and Page Family papers / Series 2: Correspondence

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Archives of American Art

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