Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Linear Feet (Boxes 17-26)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974
label: Date
content: 1889-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: 7.1: Novels, circa 1901-1931

7.2: Plays, circa 1933-1942

7.3: Stories, circa 1910-1942, 1974

7.4: Journals and Notebooks, circa 1901-1940

7.5: Unidentified Drafts and Fragments, 1910-1930s

7.6: Other Writings, 1889-1940

7.7: Writings by Others, circa 1918

Writings are typically arranged in alphabetical order according to title and are arranged as seven subseries.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Writings are partially scanned; duplicates and extensive edited versions of manuscripts have not been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of extensive drafts, handwritten and typed manuscripts, and various copies of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's writings, which include novels, plays, stories, as well as some autobiographical and early writings, notes and writings on art, and published writings. As a whole, these writings document what was an important means of creative expression for Whitney, one which she pursued from her earliest childhood until her death, and what was her principle creative activity in the last years of her life.