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Pennell-Whistler collection

LC Control No.:	mm 79035857
Type of Material:	Archival Manuscript Material (Collection)
Personal Name:	Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926. » More like this
Main Title:	Pennell-Whistler collection, 1597-1937.
Related Names:	Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936. Pennell-Whistler collection. » More like this Whistler, Anna Matilda McNeill, 1804-1881. Papers. » More like this Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903. Pennell-Whistler collection. » More like this
Description:	96,200 items. 379 containers plus 2 oversize. 5 microfilm reels.
Summary:	Correspondence, clippings, book, article, lectures, and other papers of Pennell and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, relating to family affairs and to James McNeill Whistler. Includes 129 letters from Pennell to Leila Mechlin and about 200 letters from Charles Godfrey Leland to his niece, Mrs. Pennell. The Leland papers include family correspondence, journals (1892-1899), drafts of his writings, legends and letters of Indians, and memoranda, relating to religion, travels, and New England Indians. The Pennells' correspondents include Elmer Adler, J. M. Barrie, Paul Wayland Bartlett, Timothy Cole, Royal Cortissoz, Walter Crane, Charles Deschamps, Theodore Duret, Henri Fantin-Latour, Ford Madox Ford, Cass Gilbert, Edmund William Gosse, Charles Hanson, Childe Hassam, Henry James, Robert Underwood Johnson, John Lane, A. Edward Newton, Agnes Repplier, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Auguste Rodin, William Edwin Rudge, Linley Sambourne, John Singer Sargent, and John Charles Van Dyke. Correspondence, legal papers, and clippings of Whistler relate to the Whistler exhibition (1892) in The Goupil Gallery, London; the Whistler-Ruskin litigation; and Whistler's friends, career, and business affairs. Includes almanac and diary of Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler, and her letters to Margaret Hill, Mary Eastwick, and others. Whistler's correspondents include Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Thomas Jekyll, Edward G. Kennedy, Frederick Richard Leyland, Joseph Pennell, Valentine Cameron Princep, James Anderson Rose, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederick Sandys, David Croal Thompson, Virginia Vaughan, William Heinemann, dealers, and the Morris Company.
Notes:	MSS35857
Finding Aids:	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
Acquisition Source:	Gift, transfers, and purchases, Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell and others, 1917-1992.
Additional Formats:	Microfilm edition available (missing), in part, no. 12,835. Microfilm edition of selections available, no. 23,049. Microfilm produced from originals now in the Manuscript Division. Detroit, Mich. : Archives of American Art, Detroit Institute of Art, 1963. In part, transcripts.
Subjects:	Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962. » More like this Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937. » More like this Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925. » More like this Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898. » More like this Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931. » More like this Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948. » More like this Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. » More like this Deschamps, Charles. » More like this Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927. » More like this Eastwick, Mary. » More like this Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904. » More like this Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. » More like this Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934. » More like this Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928. » More like this Hanson, Charles. » More like this Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935. » More like this Heinemann, William, 1863-1920. » More like this Hill, Margaret. » More like this James, Henry, 1843-1916. » More like this Jekyll, Thomas. » More like this Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937. » More like this Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie), 1849-1932. » More like this Lane, John, 1854-1925. » More like this Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903. » More like this Leyland, Frederick Richard, 1831-1892. » More like this Mechlin, Leila, 1874-1949. » More like this Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940. » More like this Princep, Valentine Cameron. » More like this Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950. » More like this Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan, 1870-1942. » More like this Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917. » More like this Rose, James Anderson, 1819-1890. » More like this Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. » More like this Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919. » More like this Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931. » More like this Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. » More like this Sambourne, Linley. » More like this Sandys, Frederick, 1829-1904. » More like this Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. » More like this Thompson, David Croal. » More like this Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932. » More like this Vaughan, Virginia, d. 1913. » More like this Goupil Gallery. » More like this Morris Company. » More like this Art. » More like this Art criticism. » More like this Indians of North America--New England. » More like this Religion. » More like this Artists.
Local Shelving No.:	0328S Oversize 0114K Oversize 2:11 Microfilm 12,835-1N (Selections) Microfilm 23,049-4P (Selections)
Repository:	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C.