Most of the correspondence between Aschwin Lippe and colleagues concerns shared academic and scholarly activities. The correspondence provides little personal information or insight into life at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An exception is correspondence from Marise Johnson and Jean Schmitt in the 1960s and 1970s. They handled Lippe's affairs when he was travelling and kept him up-to-date on colleagues and activities at the museum. Some 1964 letters refer to his "retirement" noted in Box 1 Folder 18. Lippe often filed correspondence relating to specific projects or publications with other material concerning that particular project. In such cases, the correspondence remains with the project and is noted in the folder title.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
Collection Citation:
The Aschwin Lippe Collection. FSA.A2012.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
