Selected papers from the Pennell-Whistler collection in the Library of Congress
name: label: Creator
content: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
label: Names
content: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
label: Names
content: Whistler, Anna Mathilda McNeill, 1804-1881
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1963 by the Library of Congress.
creator: label: Creator
content: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1,500 Items ((on 4 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1830-1903
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whisjapw
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels LCW 1-LCW 4 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell Collection, Library of Congress.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, 1830-1876, and diary, 1850, of Anna Mathilda Whistler, ("Whistler's mother); and a large collection of Whistler correspondence gathered by his friends and biographers Joseph and Elizabeth R. Pennell over a fifty year period. Among the correspondents are the Pennells, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederik Sandys, David Croal Thompson, Fantin-Latour, Thomas Jekyll, William Heinemann and others, 1862-1903. Many of the letters are from letterbooks of James A. Rose and Val[entine C.] Prinsep.