Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956
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content: Gifford Beal sketches, sketchbooks, and papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1906-1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bealgiff, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Beal's Correspondence is divided into two groups: letters between Beal and his wife during their courtship and early marriage, and general correspondence. 

 Letters between Gifford and Maud Beal were written early in their relationship, and are primarily of a personal nature. Beal's letters to his wife contain scattered references to his painting and his experiences in the art world during this period. Two letters from 1906 are illustrated with small cartoons. Scattered third party correspondence of a personal nature is also found among these letters. 

 General correspondence contains letters from Joseph Pennell (1925); Federal Art Project staff from the Treasury Department including Ed Rowan, Edward Bruce, and Forbes Watson (1938); Walker Hancock (1951); and a series of letters signed "Hyde," from Crow Island, Massachusetts, which may have been written by Edward Hyde Cox (1953-1954). An undated letter from the artist William C. Palmer is filed at the end of the series. 

 Several postcards with handwritten notes are filed with picture files in the Print Materials and Subject Files.