Other Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White, Henry Cooke, 1861-1952
label: Collection Creator
content: White, Nelson C.
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content: Nelson and Henry C. White research material
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content: Nelson and Henry C. White research material / Series 3: Nelson C. White Research Files / 3.2: Abbot Handerson Thayer Research Material
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1853-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitnels, Subseries 3.2.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series is scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Other correspondence includes letters, 1853-1892, between Henry T. Bowditch and William Henry Thayer. The letters were hand-copied by William Henry Thayer and contain many references to Abbott Handerson Thayer. Also found are letters of Gladys Thayer to, and regarding, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a bird illustrator who first trained formally with Abbott Handerson Thayer; letters of Emma B. Thayer; Royal Cortissoz's correspondence concerning Thayer, written after Thayer's death; and copies of correspondence between Charles Freer and Dwight W. Tryon and between J. Alex Donald, Dwight W. Tryon, and George Alfred Williams, used as background research for the Thayer biography.