Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
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content: Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.4 Linear Feet (Box 1-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1860-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.valewilh, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is arranged as 3 subseries.

2.1: Chronological, 1896-1948

2.2: Family, 1860-1954

2.3: General, 1895-1974
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Chronological letters are primarily written to friends and professional acquaintances in German. Letters dating from 1918-1919 include correspondence from acquaintainces affiliated with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst group. Family correspondence includes letters in German from Valentiner's parents, Karl Wilhelm and Anna Lepsius Valentiner, siblings, extended family members, his wife, Cecelia Odefay Valentiner, and his daughter, Brigitta Valentiner Bertoia. Additional letter drafts from Valentiner addressed to various family members are also included. 

General correspondence contains letters and cards in German and English from numerous art historian mentors and peers, including Wilhelm von Bode, Cornelius Hofstede de Groot, Carl Heise, and Herman Colenbrander, Alfred J. Barr, and various staff members at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is also correspondence with major art collectors, including John McIlhenny, Andrew Mellon, and Edsel Ford, as well as substantial correspondence with personal friends, including Maria Sarre and her daughter Marie-Louise Sarre, Helen Wills Moody Roark, Edwin Redslob, and Wolfgang von Eckardt.