General Correspondence
odd: label: Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2.3
content: Abbot, Mary Squire (McIntosh and Otis, Inc.), 1949, 1950, 1953, 1957

 Adahura, Yuki, 1942

 Adams, Christopher, 1962

 Albinson, Don, 1989

 Alexander, Christopher, 1965

 Allen, Albert, 1968

 Amantea, Kirjah, 1982

 Ambre, Reuth, 1986

 American Academy in Rome, 1970

 American Federation of Arts, 1966

 American Film Institute, 1975

 American Institute of Architects, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989

 American Institute of Interior Designers, 1974

 Anderson, Sherwood, undated

 Andrews, Wayne, 1983

Architecture -- , 1985

 Architecture in Australia, 1974

Architectural Forum -- , 1965, 1966, 1968

 Architectural History Foundation, Inc., 1982, 1983, 1984

 Architectural Publishing Co., 1967

Architectural Record -- , 1959

 Archive of Women in Architecture, 1975

 Archives of American Art, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989

Arizona Quarterly -- , 1949

 Arizona State University, 1969

Arts in Society -- , 1964

 Ashton, Raymond J., 1948

 Ashton, Ruth (KNX Radio), 1964

 Atkinson, Janet Irene, 1980, 1985

 Author and Journalist, 1951

 Bailey, Van Evera, 1953

 Baldauf, Lisa, 1989

 Balint, Dr. D. P., 1963

 Banham, Reyner (Peter) and Mary, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1989, undated

 Barnette-Stratford, Mrs. Lou, 1968

 Barsocchini, Michael, 1970

 Beach, John, 1984

 Beebe, Tina, 1989

 Behrman, S. N., 1960

 Belluschi, Pietro, 1949

 Beltram Carla, 1966

 Bendixson, T. M. P., 1961

 Bennett, Janey, 1986

 Berkeley, Ellen Perry, 1975, 1987, 1988, undated

 Bicknell, Catherine, 1985

 Birkmeyer, Karl, 1968

 Blanton, John, 1988

 Blau, Milton, 1947

 Boaz, Joseph N., 1949

 Bowlby, Bob, 1983, 1989

 Boyer, John, 1982

 Brant, Sandra, 1975

 Brooks, Allen, 1975

 "The Bradbury Girls," 1972

 Brunati, Mario, 1963, 1965, 1966

 California Coastal Commission, 1977, 1978

 California Council of Architects, 1957

 California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1973

 California Historical Society, 1979

California Magazine -- , 1985, 1986

 California Polytechnic State University, 1978, 1984

 California State Office for Historic Preservation, 1978

 Camus, Albert, 1959

 Carrott, Richard, 1973

 Carson, Sam, 1969

 Casabella (Gian Antonio Bernasconi), 1965

 Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930

 Chang, Ching Yu, 1977, undated

 Chase, John, undated

 Chermayeff, Serge, undated

 Choate, Forrest, 1986

Christian Science Monitor -- , 1987

 City Attorney, Santa Monica, California, 1968

 City of Beverly Hills, 1982, 1983, 1984

 City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Board, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988

 Clark, Alson, 1984, undated

 Cochran, Victor E., 1953

 Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1985

 Cohen, Stuart, 1979

 Colgan, Susan, 1979

Collier's -- , 1953

 Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1947, 1948

 Columbia University, 1972, 1973

 Communication Dynamics, 1963

 Compagnia Nazionale Artigiana, 1956, 1960

 Contini, Edgardo, 1963

 Correa, Frederico, 1975

 Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1983

 Cragar, Robert, 1949, 1950

 Craig, Mary, 1945

 Crosbie, Michael, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989

 Cross, Paula, 1981

 Culot, Maurice, 1972, 1973

 Curtis, William, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989

 Dailey, Gardner A., 1948

 Dale, John R., 1989

 Davidson, Barnaby, 1984

 Davidson, Carlos, 1984

 Davidson, Erica, 1983, undated

 Davidson, J. R. and Greta, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, undated

 Davidson, Tom, 1981, undated

 Day, Peter, 1985

 De Bretteville, Peter and Sheila (The Woman's Building), 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978

 De Long, James, 1947

 Dearborn-Massar, 1961

 Delano, Leonard H., 1949

Design Quarterly -- , 1975, 1987

Dictionary of American Biography -- , 1975

Dictionary of Art -- , 1986

 Diefenbach, John, 1973

 Dimster, Frank, 1966

 Dixon, John Morris, 1979

Domus --  (Lisa Licitra Ponti), 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1982

 Donohoe, Victoria, 1965, undated

 Dorman, Richard, 1970

 Dougherty, Carole, 1989, undated

 Downing, Holly, 1974

 Dudley, George, 1984, 1988, undated

 Dukeminier, Jesse, Jr., 1967

 Dyson, Arthur, 1985, 1987

 Easton, Bob, 1977

 Eckbo, Gerrett, 1977, 1982

 Eder, Richard, 1987, 1988

 Edilizia Moderna, 1965

 Eisner, Richard K., undated

 Elliott, James, 1986

 Ellwood, Craig, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1984, 1988

 Elwyn, Adolph, 1946

 Emanuel, Muriel, 1979

 Emmons, Donn, 1975

 E. P. Dutton and Co., 1975

 Favro, Diane, 1987

 Fetherson, Kate, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1988

 Feiss, Carl, 1948, 1949

 Field, Ellen, 1964

 Filler, Martin, 1986

 Fisher, Shirley, 1978

 Flack, Peter, 1975

 Fonda-Bonardi, Mario, 1989

 Ford, Edward R., 1986

 Foreign Service of the United States of America, 1959, 1962

 Forsyth, Robert J., 1961, 1962

Fortune -- , 1936

 Francis, Marcia, 1979

 Franks, Milton, 1962

 Franzen, Ulrich, 1968, 1969

 Frey, Albert, 1988

 Friends of Cast Iron Architecture, 1972, 1974, 1977, undated

 Friends of Kebyar, 1984

 Fulton, Weldon, undated

 Gebhard, David, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, undated

 Geddes, Robert L., 1977

 General Services Administration, 1973

 Giella, Alfonso and Bobbi, 1967, 1974, 1982

 Gill, Dorothy, 1985

 Giovannini, Joseph (Gio), 1979, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1989, undated

 Goldberger, Paul, 1972, 1973, 1975

 Goldman, Shifra M., 1979, undated

 Goldstein, Barbara, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1989, undated

 Gordon, Don, 1980, undated

 Gould, Jean, 1965

 Graham Foundation for Studies in the Fine Arts (Carter Manny), 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, undated

 Granger, Kathleen, 1981

 Gray, Paul, 1977

 Greenbaum, Katherine, 1980

 Greene, Herb, 1971, 1972, 1976, undated

 Greenhill, Nigel, 1973

 Gregory, Dan, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987

 Guss, Jack, 1961

 Hall, Milly, 1970, 1976, 1977

 Hanks, David, 1986

 Harnish, John, 1960

 Harper and Row, 1979

Harper's Bazaar -- , 1951, 1952, 1961

 Harris, Robert, 1981, 1982

Harvard Architecture Review -- , 1977, 1979

 Harvey, Harold E., 1972, 1973

 Haupt, Peter, 1967

 Hayden, Dolores, 1984, undated

 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, 1967, 1969

 Hernandez, Diana, 1976, undated

 Herron, Ron, 1969

 Hess, Alan, 1985

 Hillyer, Elinor, 1949

 Hinerfeld, Susan and Robert, 1984

 Hines, Tom, 1971, 1975

 Historical Society of Southern California, 1988, 1989

 Hitchcock, H. R., 1956

 Hite, Garron S., 1972

 Hoag, Paul Sterling, 1981

 Hollein, Hans, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1976, 1984, undated

 Hollywood Revitalization Committee, 1979

 Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977

 Houvener, Robert, 1969

 Howe, John H., 1980

 Howe, Sanora Babb, 1980, 1982, 1989

Humanities West -- , 1984, 1985

 Huxley, Aldus, 1960

 Ingalls, David K., 1987

Interiors -- , 1984, 1985

 Istituto Nazionale per il Commercio Estero, 1970

 Jansen, Virginia, 1978

Japan Architect -- , 1968

 Jarrico, Paul, 1971

 Johnson, Mark R., 1981

 Jokl, Magda, 1978

 Jonas, Susan, 1963

 Jones, A. Quincy and Elaine, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, undated

 Jordy, William H., 1959, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984

 Jourdan, Erven, 1951

 Jurney, David, 1957

 Kahn, Louis, 1960

 Kamerling, Bruce, 1980, 1985

 Kappe, Raymond and Shelly, 1970, 1973

 Kazin, Alfred, 1961, 1984

 KCRW 89.9 FM, 1989

 Kennedy, Jacqueline (letter to and reply from secretary), 1964

 Kershner, Irvin, 1960

 Khoury, E. M., 1960, 1963

 Killingsworth, Edward, 1989

 King, Jean, 1975, 1977, 1987, undated

 King, Robert I., 1963

 Kirsch, Jonathan, 1977

 Koeper, Fred, 1980

 Kotas, Jerry, 1971, 1973, undated

 Kripacz, Francisco, 1985

 Kultermann, Udo, 1967

 Lagorio, Elena, 1975

 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977, 1986

 Lamb, Paul, 1982

 Landau, Sarah B., 1971

 Langer, Elinor, 1975, 1983

 Lawson, John Howard (Jack), 1947

 Lebovich, William, 1979

 Lee, Joyce, 1975

 Leedy, Walter, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, undated

 Legorreta, Ricardo, 1971

 Lehman, John, 1948

 Le Veque, Ann, 1980

 Library of Congress, 1983

 Lindauer, Theodore, 1983

 Lingeman, Richard, 1986, 1987

 Longstreth, Richard, 1982

 Lorman, William, 1954

 Los Angeles Conservancy, 1984, 1986

 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966, 1967, 1982

 Los Angeles Times, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985

 Lovell, Gary, 1968, 1978

 Lovell, Leah, 1960

 Lovell, Philip, 1968, 1972

 Lowenkopf, Anne, 1975

 Lumsden, Anthony, 1969, 1974

 Luna, Fernando, 1971, 1974

 Lyman, Frederic, 1974, 1989

 Lyndon, Maynard, 1983, 1984, undated

 MacDowell Colony Fellows, 1988

 Mangiarotti, Angelo, 1970

 Manson, Grant, 1974

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984

 Maston, Carl, 1969, 1970, 1972

 May, Cliff, 1983, 1985

 McCoy, John, 1954, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1988

 McCoy, Tori, 1974

 McCulloch, Peter, 1962

 McWilliams, Carey, 1980

 Mendelsohn, Mrs. Eric, 1974, 1975

 Meyer, Kurt, 1969

 Middleton, Robin, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988

 Mies Van Der Rohe Centennial Project, 1984

 Miller, R. Craig, 1973

 Miller, Donald M., 1986

 Minister, Chancery of Pakistan, 1965

 Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1966, 1969

 Mouton, Pierre, 1986, 1988, 1989

 Muller, Louis, 1988

 Murphy, William (Bill), 1969, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, undated

 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989

 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1976

 Museum of Modern Art, 1961, 1964, 1976

 Mutlow, John, 1982

 Nakamura, Toshio, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985

 National Building Museum, 1981

 National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 1933

 National Endowment for the Arts, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982

 National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977

 Nelson, June Kompass, 1985

 Nelson, Sara, 1974

New West -- , 1976

New Yorker -- , 1953, 1962, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1876, undated

 Nichols, Henry L., 1982, 1987

 Nishimoto, Kenneth, 1959, 1968

 Nixon, Peg and Chuck, 1976, 1989, undated

 North Carolina State University, 1983

 Novotny, Norbert, 1973

 Nunis, Doyce, Jr., 1989

 Oakley, Susan H., 1974

 O'Gorman, Brit and Peter, 1983

 O'Gorman, James F., 1973, 1984

 Ohannesian, Paul B., 1978, 1979

On Site -- , 1975

 Owen, Tom, 1963, undated

 Pacific Design Center, 1985

 Palazzo Dell'Edilizia, 1963, 1964

 Pan American World Airways System, 1955, 1956

 Pardee, Clark, 1989

 Park, Donald, 1986

 Park, Helen, 1979

 Paul, Stella, 1988

 Peregrine Press, 1971, 1977, 1986, 1989

 Perspecta (Jeff Limerick), 1961, 1975, 1976, undated

 Pflueger, Donald, 1989

 Pidgeon, Monica, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1982, 1986

 Plantin Press, Ltd., 1984

 Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1972

 Price, Joe D., 1969

 Price, Martin, 1964

 Prinsloo, Ivor, 1988

 Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan, 1960

 Pyne Press, 1974

 Rand, Marvin, 1989

 Read, Gardner, 1968

 Reinhold Book Division, 1968

 Reinhold Publishing Division, 1960, 1970

 Rhode Island Historical Society, 1977

 Rhode Island School of Design, 1977

 Ricasoli, Bettino, 1960

 Ricci, Leonardo, 1966

 Rice Design Alliance, 1976

 Richardson, Betty, 1982

 Richardson, Sara, 1987

 Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1978

 Rinehart, Arley, 1977, 1978

 Roark, I. L., Jr., 1948

 Robertson, A. G., 1954

 Robinson, Sidney, 1973

 Roche, Kevin, 1968

 Rosa, Joseph, 1987, 1988

 Rose, Ronald, 1984

 Rosenberg, George, 1952

 Rosenstone, Robert, 1973, 1974

 Ross, Michael Franklin, 1979

 Ross, William D., 1952

 Roth, Leland, 1978

 Rouillard, Dominique, 1985

 Rucker, Karen Conan, 1985, 1986

 Ruff, Carl, 1977

 Ruocco, Ilse, 1946

 Russell, Julia, 1982

 Rydell, Roy, 1974, 1976

 Sadler, H. G., 1973

 San Diego City Council, 1984

 San Diego Museum of Art, 1979

 San Francisco State College, 1968

 Sanders, Terry, 1965

 Sanguinetti, Vittorio, 1963, 1964

 Santa Monica Landmarks Commission, 1981

 Santini, Pier Carlo, 1964

Saturday Evening Post -- , 1959, 1960

 Sauer, Louis, 1968

 Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi, 1989

 Secrest, Meryle, 1988

 Serulnic, Mrs. George, 1967

 Sewell, Elaine K., 1966

 Shapira, Nathan, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1979, 1983, undated

 Shaw, Lawrence C., 1948

 Shultz, Susan, 1969

 Simo, Melanie, 1987, 1988

 Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1963

 Smith, C. Ray, 1972

 Smith, Frank Folsom, 1967

 Smith, Kathryn, 1979, 1987, 1988, undated

 Smith, Robert, 1972

 Smith, Whitney, 1970

 Smithson, Alison, 1983, 1985

 Snow, C. P., 1960, 1961

 Solomon, Barbara Probst, 1984

 Southern California Institute of Architecture, 1989

Southwest Review -- , 1952

Space Design -- , 1984

 Speiss, Fred, 1977, undated

 Stahlberg, Arlen, 1976

 Stanfield, Cecil E., 1949

 Stegner, Wallace, 1947, 1951

 Steinbrueck, Victor, 1964

 Stern, Robert and Lynn, 1965, 1966, 1973

 Sterner, Carl John, 1974

 Stickney, Charles, 1964, 1967

Stone Magazine -- , 1965

 Strand, Janann, undated

 Straub, Calvin, 1970

Sunset Magazine -- , 1981

 Sussman, Deborah, 1987, 1989, undated

 Super, Rob, 1974

 Taylor, Crombie, 1967

 Tazewell, E. Bradford, Jr., 1967

 Temko, Allan, 1957, 1966, 1970, 1988, 1989

The Modern Quarterly -- , 1948

The Pacific Spectator -- , 1947

 Thiry, Paul, 1949

 Tigerman, Stanley, 1965, 1977

 Toland, James, 1955, 1957

 Travers, David, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1987, undated

 Tulane University, 1982, 1983, undated

 Turner, George P., 1960

 Underhill, Anna A., 1941

 University of California, Berkeley, 1974, 1978

 University of California Extension, 1974

 University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1982, 1987

 University of California, Santa Cruz, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979

 University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture, 1975

 University of Oklahoma, 1949, 1985

 University of Pennsylvania, 1984

 University of Southern California, 1970

 University Press of Kentucky, 1974

 University Prints, 1957

 University Women's Club, 1972, 1975, 1983

 Vaccarino, Donna, 1989

 Van Doren, Phyllis, 1984

 Veret, Jean-Louis, 1960

 Ventre, Francis T., 1985

 Veronesi, Giulia, 1966, 1974

Via -- , 1976

 Victor Gruen Foundation for Environmental Planning, 1972

 Victor, Michael, 1983

 Voelcker, John, 1968

 Von Breton, Harriette, 1969

 Von Eckardt, Wolf, 1981, 1983, 1984

 Vreeland, Thomas, 1965, 1969, 1974, 1984

 W. W. Norton and Co., 1966

 Walker Art Center, 1975

 Walker, Derek, 1982

 Walker, Sam, 1985

 Walton, Billy, 1986

 Ward, Robert and Sandra Williams Photography of Architecture, 1977, 1978

 Ward, Robertson, 1981

 Wasserman, Steve, 1984, 1985, 1986

 Waugh, Arthur B., 1959

 Wayne, June, 1981, 1985

 Weirick, James, 1970, 1974

 Weiss, Peggy, 1982, 1984

 Wemple, Emmet L., 1974, undated

 Western Association of Art Museums, 1967

 Wicks, Ebba L., 1949

 Wight, Frederick S., 1966

 Wilk, Christopher, 1987

 William Morris Agency, 1957

 William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1950

 Williams, Alexander Kruse, 1985

 Williams, Wayne R., 1952, 1953, 1972

 Wills, David, 1969

 Wilson, Forrest, 1972, 1975, 1983,1987

 Wilson, Richard Guy, 1981

 Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1969, undated

 Winter, Bob, 1964, 1975, 1976, undated

 Woman's Building, 1987

Woman's Day -- , 1957

 Women's Architectural League, 1981

 Wood, Donna, 1981

 Woodbridge, Sally, 1977, 1982

 Woollen, Evans, 1983, 1984

 Wright, Eric Lloyd, 1984

 Writers Guild of America, West, 1967, 1969

 Wurster, William, 1964

 Zevi, Bruno, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1974
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content: McCoy, Esther
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content: Esther McCoy papers
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content: Esther McCoy papers / Series 2: Correspondence
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content: 1922-1989
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Material is arranged chronologically. The bulk of McCoy's correspondence with architects is arranged in Series 6: Architect Files. Additional correspondence pertaining to specific projects can be found in Series 4: Architectural Writings and in Series 5: Project Files. Correspondence in this series complements the files found in these other series and they should be consulted together for a better understanding of McCoy's career.
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scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries primarily contains letters concerning McCoy's career in architectural history and criticism. Her career in fiction writing is covered to a lesser degree. Among the correspondents are researchers, writers, professors, architects, art professionals, publishers, and professional associations. Topics covered include research and writing projects, Los Angeles area preservation and restoration projects, and grant projects. 

 Major correspondents in this series include the American Institute of Architects, the Graham Foundation, City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board, Domus Magazine, Los Angeles Times, editor Monica Pidgeon, architectural critics Reyner Banham, David Gebhard, William Jordy, Robin Middleton, Allan Temko, and Nathan Shapira, and architects J. R. Davidson, Craig Ellwood, Joseph Giovannini, Hans Hollein, A. Quincy Jones, and Bruno Zevi. Also found is extensive correspondence with the University of California, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Correspondence for 1959 contains a letter from Albert Camus requesting McCoy's assistance with helping Spanish refugees, and correspondence for 1989 contains photographs of Esther McCoy and others at the Athenaeum at Caltech for the third annual gala of the Historical Society of Southern California. 

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.3.