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Correspondence With Business Associates, Colleagues, and Friends

Catalog Data

Collection Creator:
True, Allen Tupper, 1881-1955  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1902-1956,
Scope and Contents note:
This subseries focuses more directly on the events of True's career. Fourteen illustrated letters from True to his wife and daughter can also be found here. Notable correspondents are listed below. Blashfield, Edwin: 25 Sep 1924 letter to Frank Brangwyn Brangwyn, Frank: [Jan 1913], 26 Jan 1913, 30 Mar 1913, 08 Jun 1913, 03 Aug 1913, 29 Aug 1915, 20 Nov 1916, 17 Feb 1920, 2 illustrated letters, 1920? (with transcripts), 30 Sep [1920?], 07 May 1922 (with transcript), 22 Oct 1922 (illustrated letter with transcript), 06 May 1923 (illustrated letter with transcript), 1923? (with transcript), an illustrated letter, 1923? (with transcript), 26 Sep 1924 (with transcript), 18 Jun 1933, [1933], 05 Apr 1936 (with transcript). Also see references to Brangwyn in True's letters to his family and in Blashfield's letter to Brangwyn; see True's notebook on Brangwyn in Series "Notes"; see a print by Brangwyn under "Artworks"; and see photographs of Brangwyn and his works under "Photographs"] Brousse-Jacobson, Oscar: 29 Sep 1913, 1 Dec 1915 Bruce, Edward: 18 Aug 1934 Cook, James H.:27 Aug 1924 letter to John G. Neihardt Cornwell, Dean: 04 June 1932 (illustrated letter), 10 Apr 1954 Guerin, Jules: Jan 31, 1918 Heye, George G.: 19 Feb 1926, 12 Mar 1926, 07 Jul 1926 McCouch, Gordon M: 08 Jul 1911, (09 May 1956 obituary notice) [also see "Photographs of friends"] Minnigerode, C. Powell: 10 Mar 1937 Naismith, Grace: 23 Mar 1935, [16 letters, 1935?], 06 Jun 1936, 20 Jun 1935, 24 Jun 1935, [1935?], 29 Jul 1935, [2 letters, 1935?], 08 Sept [1935?], [1935?], 28 Sept 1935, [1935?], 29 Oct 1935], 17 Nov 1935, 04 Dec 1935, 16 Dec 1935, 26 Dec 1935, [3 letters, 1936?], 09 Mar 1936, [1936?], 09 Apr 1936, 16 May [1936?], 08 Jun 1936, 30 Jun 1936, 18 Oct [1936?], 01 Nov 1936, 02 Jun 1937, 15 Jun 1937, 24 Jun 1937, [1937?], 11 Jul 1937, 21 Nov 1955 Neihardt, John G. (poet laureate of Nebraska): 28 Jun 1923, 04 Oct 1923, 05 Dec 1923, 25 Feb 1924 (with 14 reproductions of art work by True), [see letter, 27 Aug 1924, from James H. Cook to Neihardt], 5 May 1925, 26 Jun 1925, 25 Jul 1925, 16 Aug 1934 Oakley, Thornton: 5 Jul 1933 [also see "Photographs of friends" Phipps, Lawrence C. (Senator from Colorado): 04 Oct 1930 Pyle, Howard: 18 May 1902, 25 May 1902, July 11, 1902, 06 Nov [1903], 04 Jun 1906 [also see references to Pyle's classes in True's letters to family members, including letter dated May 1902 containing a cyanotype of Pyle and his students; see additional photographs under "Photographs of friends"; and see exhibition catalog for Pyle under "Printed material"] Rowan, Edward: 24 Sep 1934 Rush, Olive: undated Rutherford, Forest: 08 Mar 1914 letter to Rutherford from True contains a photo of True Thornton, Dan (Governor of Colorado): 25 Jan 1954 Winter, Ezra: 23 Feb 1922 Wyeth, N. C.: 06 Jan 1909 [also see "Photographs of friends" and "Album I"]
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Patrons must use microfilm copy.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
The Allen Tupper True and True family papers, 1841-1987
Identifier:
AAA.truealle, Subseries 3.2
See more items in:
Allen Tupper True and True family papers
Allen Tupper True and True family papers / Series 3: Correspondence
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw987e56b23-3acd-4840-8b03-e2af07823130
EDAN-URL:
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