Letters are primarily from family members, artists, museum staff concerned with work in Egypt, and art patrons involved with Smith's charitable pageants. Correspondents include Cecilia Beaux, Frank Benson, George DeForest Brush, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Denman Ross. There are scattered letters from Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Henry James, Charles G. Loring, Paul Manship, General John J. Pershing, John Singer Sargent, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.
See Appendix for a list of correspondents in Series 2
Appendix: Correspondents in Series 2:
Abbas, Abdul Baba, 1912
Abbott, Holker, 1917
Abdullah, Mohamed, 1938
Abingdon, The Countess of, 1940, 1941
Aldrich, Eleanor, 1940
Aldrich, J.B., 1896
Aldrich, William T., 1931
Alexander, L.G., 1894
Alma Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 1894
American Express Company, 1934
American Federation of Arts, 1940, 1941, 1942
American Red Cross, 1917, 1945, 1946
Baldwin, Florence, 1898
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, 1943
Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1910
Bass, R.P. and Edith, 1932, 1932
Beaulieu, Elizabeth, 1943
Beaux, Cecilia, undated, 1899
Bennett, Esther, 1895, 1899
Bennett, Sophie, 1897, 1899, 1903
Benson, Eugene, undated
Benson, Frank Weston, 1899, 1943, 1945
Berenson, Bernard, 1897
Bey, Sahfik Ghorbal, 1948, 1949
Bey, A. Heikal, 1948, 1949
Bigelow, W. Sturgis, undated, 1893, 1901
Bittinger, Charles, 1950
Bliss, Robert Woods and Mildred, 1916, 1940
Boston Breeze, 1931
Bradley, Kate A., 1919
Breasted, Charles, 1931
Breckingham, Eugenia B., 1893, 1943
Brejant, Grace M., 1895
Brewster, Frederick and Margaret, 1936
Bridges, Styles, 1939, 1940
British War Relief Society, 1941
Brooklyn Museum, 1933, 1943
Brown family, undated, 1894, 1895, 1986, 1899
Brown, Frederick and Ida, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1900
Brown University, 1929
Brummer Gallery, Inc., 1937
Brush, George de Forest, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1935
Buck, Matilda S., 1897
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1912, 1917
Burbank, Mr., 1943
Cabot, Arthur J. and Sally, 1896
Calhoun, Lucy, 1910
Cambridge: Superintendent of Schools, 1942, 1943
Carey, Arthur Astor, 1902
Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1931
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1940, 1941, 1942
Carter, Mary Duncan, 1937
Cartland, Joseph, 1898
Chace, Lucretia G., 1909
Chandler, J.E., 1894
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1911
Chinese Republic, 1944
Churchill, Winston, 1901, 1945
Clements, Cyril, 1946
Coca Cola Company, 1943
Constable, William George and Olivia, undated, 1942, 1943, 1949
Coolidge, Anne, 1940
Coolidge, John Templeman, 1894
Coolidge, Katie S., undated, 1899, 1900
Coolidge, Katrine (Cara), undated, 1898, 1899, 1900
Coolidge, Molly, undated, 1893
Cravath, Paul D., 1922, 1930, 1931
Crawford, Cheryl, 1930
Crowninshield, Frederic, 1882
Curtis, Daniel Sargent, 1897
Cushing, Tom, 1913
Cutting, W. Bayard and Sybil, 1909
Dallas, John T., 1929, 1931, 1940, 1942
Dartmouth College, 1929
Dawes, Charles G., 1930
Day, Frank Miles, 1897, 1898
de Beaumont, Renee, 1897, 1898
de Bildt, Harold, 1938, 1939
de Forest, Mrs., 1940
dell'Albergo Leon Bianco, Raffaella, 1906
de Marco, Marchese e Marchesa De Viti, undated
de Monbrison, H., 1923
Dewey, Thomas E., 1941
Doe: Miss Jessie Doe Children's Aid Society, 1941
Dublin School, 1947
DuBois, Francis and Betty, 1943, 1944
Eddy, Augustin, 1910
Egyptian Education Bureau, 1947
Eliot, Grace H., 1889
Ellis, Ray and Alice, 1946
Ely, Gertrude, 1916
Emery, Prof. W.B., 1957
Evan, Evans, 1917
Fairbanks, Arthur, 1922
Fairchild family, undated, 1894
Fairchild, Sally, undated, 1891
Farraud, Beatrix, 1924
Fernald, Reginald, 1914
Fields, Annie, 1900
Fitzgerald, Fred and Abbie, 1947, 1949, 1950
Fitzhugh, Armistead, 1946
Folkways, 1948
Foreign Relations, Senate Committee on, 1909
Fuertes, Katharine, 1942
Fuller, Robert, 1898
Galleria Simonetti, 1902
Garden Club of Dublin, 1943
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1919, 1921
Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1945, 1955
Gardner, John L., 1898
Gardner, Agnes, 1894
Garrison, Frank J., 1889
Gay, Mrs. Walter, 1920
General Theological Seminary Library, 1939
Graziani, Adolfo, 1903
Greek War Relief Association, 1944
Greene, Henry Copley, 1893, 1897
Greene, Lois Anna, undated, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1892, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1922
Greene, Mary Amory, undated, 1893
Greenough, Charles P., 1898
Gugler, Eric, 1948
Hallowell, (Aunt) Sally, 1897, 1900, 1902
Hamamsi, Ali Bey, 1949
Hamed, H., 1909
Harkness, Edward, 1931
Harrigan, D. Ward, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944
Harrison, DeSales, 1943
Harrowby, Lady, 1927
Hart, Francis R., 1929
Harvard University (Peabody Museum), 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1952
Hauff, L.B., 1940
Hearst, Phoebe A., 1899
Hemenway, Augustus and Harriet, 1931
Henderson, Mrs. William P., 1928
Heneidy, Abdel-Lateef Erfan, 1948
Higgins, John W., 1940
Higginson, Col. Henry L., 1898, 1905, 1931
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth and Ida, 1893, 1896
Hill, Aunt Nellie, 1921
Hillard, Mary R., 1932
Hodge, Zarah, 1932
Hopkinson, Charles, 1899
Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1930
Howells, Mildred, undated
Howells, W.D., 1891
Hughes, Dudley and Francis Smith, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
Hussein, Abd Essalam, 1948
Jaccaci, 1930
James, Mrs. Alexander, undated, 1946, 1948, 1963
James, Arthur Curtiss and Harriet, undated, 1914, 1920, 1924, 1929, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940
James, Henry, undated
James, William, 1943
Jenks [Jencks], John, 1768, 1782
Jones, Robert Edmond, 1946
Kaneko, Kentaro, 1901, 1904
Kelekian, F., 1929, 1931, 1932
Kendall Hall School, 1944
Kenyon College, 1923
Keppell, Frederick P., 1931, 1940
Komai, S., 1901
Landwehr, Juan, undated
Lang, A. Hamilton, 1900
Lauzirotti, A., 1892, 1896
Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1896, 1897
Loeser, Charles, undated
Loevenich, Karl, 1946, 1947, 1948
Lombard, Mrs. Percival H., undated
Loring, Charles Greely, 1900
Lothrop, Thornton, 1894
Lowell, Carlotta Russell, 1892
MacDowell, M., 1910, 1915, 1943
MacVeagh, Emil, undated, 1950
MacVeagh, Fannie, 1940
MacVeagh, Franklin, 1899, 1928, 1931
Malicheff, Michael G. (Nick) and Rebecca Smith, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
Manship, Paul, 1942, 1943, 1948
Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1929, 1930
Mauran, Isabel, undated, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950
McKittrick, Margaret, undated
McLean, Gardiner, 1908
Meriden Bird Club, Inc., 1949, 1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941, 1946
Metropolitan Opera Company, 1924
Meyer, Mr., 1903
Middle East Institute, 1948
Missouri, University of, 1940
Mitchell, S. Weir, 1899, 1900
Mohammed, Dowe, 1902, 1903
Mongiardini, Gemma, 1903
Moore, Charles H., 1894, 1903
Morley, Sylvanus, 1939, 1940, 1941
Mountbatten, Lady Louis (Edwina), 1940
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1900, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952
Museum School Alumni Association, 1931
Nelson Gallery of Art/Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949, 1950
New Hampshire Children's Aid and Protective Society, 1940, 1941
New Hampshire Committee to Help Hampshire, England, 1940, 1941, 1942
New Hampshire, University of, 1948, 1949, 1950
New Hampshire War Chest, Inc., 1943, 1946
New York Public Library, 1936, 1949
New York Times, 1928
Norton, C.E., 1894, 1901
Okakura, K., 1901
Offner, Richard, 1929, 1930
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1938
Osgood, Hamilton, 1900
Otaki, H.K., 1901
Otis, Joseph E., 1928, 1938, 1942
Otis, Raymond and Frances Smith, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1941
Page, Henrietta, 1899
Parker, A. Stanley, 1923
Parker, Herbert, 1929
Parrish, Isabel M., 1898
Parrish, Maxfield, 1943
Pasha, Nokrashi, 1948
Pasha, Sanhoury, 1947, 1948, 1949
Patterson, Jefferson, 1937
Peabody Museum, Salem, 1913
Pell, Madeline, undated, 1930
Pennsylvania, University of, 1931, 1940
Pershing, Gen. John J., 1940
Persian Legation, 1934
Peters, John P., 1899
Petrie, Graham, undated
Petrie, W.M., undated
Platt, H., 1897
Platt, Charles Adams, 1893
Pollard, John, 1935
Pope, 1932
Porter, Mrs. James F., 1911
Pratt family, 1901, 1916, 1942, 1943, 1945
Providence Art Club, 1912
Pumpelly, Raphael and Eliza, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919
Putnam, Bertha, 1940
Putnam, Corinna, 1899
Putnam, Ethel F., 1921, 1940
Putnam, George Palmer, 1924, 1932
Putnam, (G.P. Putnam's sons), 1938
Putnam, George Haven and Fannie, 1894, 1899, 1900
Putnam, V., 1897
Quibell, Edward, 1915, 1930, 1932
Ramadan, A.M., 1950
Ray, Margaret L., 1913
Reasoner family, 1943
Regali, Domenico, 1903
Reisner, George A., 1908, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
Richards, Beverley, 1919
Ringling, Mr., undated
Robertson, I., 1903
Robinson, Edward (Ned), 1891, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899
Rochat, Giovanni, undated
Rockefeller, Nelson, 1943
Rodman Gallery, 1935
Rollins College, 1945
Roosevelt, George, 1943
Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1950
Ross, Denman, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1935
Ross, Frances W., 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1901
Rossi-Scotti, Roberio, 1907
Russell, Theodore, 1909
Saarinen, Aline, undated
St. Louis Pageant and Masque, 1914
Saint Louis Pageant Drama Association, 1917
Salamah, Dowi M., undated
Sargent, John Singer, undated, 1900, 1909
Sargent, Nellie, 1899
Sargent, Violet, 1890
Saunders, Frederick W., undated
Schieffelin, John Jay and Lois, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
Schieffelin, Johnnie, 1943
Schoen, Gretchen, 1921
School, Art League of New York City, 1931
School of Decorative Design, 1931
Schuyler, Philip, 1899
Schweinfurth, J.A., 1931
Sears, Sarah, 1897, 1898, 1904
Sears, Taber, undated
Sebasti and Reali, 1903
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1909
Servien, Jose, undated
Seymour, S.O., 1913
Shaw, Pauline, undated, 1895
Shaw, Quincy, 1896, 1897, 1901
Shaw, S.P., undated
Shohday, Abbas Helmy, 1948
Simkhovitch, Vladimir G., 1944
Simmons College, 1942
Simmons, Mrs. Franklin, 1903
Simmons, George and Virginia, 1914, 1922
Sims, William S., 1932
Skinner, Alice Parrish, 1940
Smith, Corinna Putnam, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944
Smith, Florence A., 1908
Smith, Frances, undated, 1908, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925
Smith, Henry Francis and Emma Greenleaf Smith, 1848, 1878, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
Smith, Joseph Lindon, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
Smith, Lois Lindon, undated, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932
Smith, M. Linton, 1900
Smith, Rebecca, 1908, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922
Smith-Petersen, M.N., 1932, 1946
Smithsonian Institution, 1949, 1950
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, 1901
Spaulding, Huntley N., 1940, 1942
State, Department of, 1908, 1934, 1940, 1947
Stearns, Foster, 1941
Stebbins, Roderick, 1912
Steele, Asa, undated
Steffins, Rev. Fr., undated
Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1917, 1918
Stevens, Thomas Wood Stevens Theatre Collection, 1942
Stewart, E. Channing, 1900
Stewart, George, 1943, 1945, 1947
Stowell, Chan, 1914
Strong, Margaret, 1916
Stroud, Mary, 1903
Sullivan, T. Russell and Lucy, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1916
Tarbell, Ida M., 1930
Tavern Club, 1911, 1917
Taylor, Jessie, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943
Taylor, William and Rebecca Smith, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938
Teachman, Jessie, 1897, 1905
Thayer, Abbott Handerson, undated
Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer Memorial, 1941
Tobey, Charles W., 1939, 1942
Tomita, Kojiro, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1947
Turner, C.Y., 1902
Turner, Ross, 1896
Union League Club, 1918
United China Relief, Inc., 1944
United Nations Relief Fund, 1942
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1931, 1943
Vanderbilt, Mrs. George and Cornelia, 1923
Vanelli, Caesar, 1929, 1930
Vaughan, Henry Goodwin, 1936
Volpi, Elia, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907
von Pustau, Helene, 1895, 1899
Walters, Thorstina Jackson, 1929
Wang, Lucy C., 1944
War Finance Committee (New Hampshire), 1944
Warren, H. Langford, 1907
Warren, Harold B., 1931
Webster, Laurence and Edith, 1941
Webster, Sue, 1916
Weems, Katharine Lane, 1965
Wendelstadt, Baron Wendelstadt, 1894, 1896, 1897
Wheeler, Roy R., 1932, 1946
White, Elise, 1931
Whitman, Paul, undated, 1893, 1899, 1901, 1902
Willard, Belle, 1931
Williams, Ben Ames, 1928
Yale University, 1915, 1934
Yamanaka and Company, 1930, 1931
Young, Hugh H., 1941, 1942
Zatelli, H., 1897
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Collection Citation:
Joseph Lindon Smith papers, 1647-1965, bulk 1873-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.