Diaries
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kurtz, Charles M. (Charles McMeen), 1855-1909
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content: Charles M. Kurtz papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1894-1901
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kurtchar, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: For an individual as precise and meticulous as Kurtz was, this seems to be an unusually incomplete series. It consists of only five small books that record his activities for parts of only four years: 1894, 1897, 1899, and 1901. Kurtz himself gives an explanation for the lack of any diaries that date from before his marriage. In a letter, probably written in October, 1885, to his new bride, Julia Stephenson Kurtz, he writes "...our trunks have been broken open. My coins are gone. Diaries and memoranda books gone and nearly everything not destroyed seems to be ruined..."