Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Britton, James, 1878-1936
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content: James Britton papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Folders (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913-1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.britjame, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of general correspondence between James Britton and artists and friends as well as correspondence regarding his publications Art Review International and Opus. Also found are copies of Britton's letters to the editors of the Hartford Times and the Hartford Courant. Of note is a draft of a letter written to President Calvin Coolidge urging for the creation of a Secretary of Fine Arts written on another letter dated August 20, 1983. Britton also wrote draft responses on incoming letters. Posthumus letters written to Britton's wife include condolence letters and letters from Katherine Day of the Mark Twain Memorial concerning a donation of Britton's painting of the author.

Correspondents include Caroline Korner Britton, Gertrude Fiske, Eugene Higgins, Kyonei Inukai, Andrew J. Kelly, DeWitt McClellan Lockman, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, Maurice Prendergast, Duncan Phillips, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Vonnoh, and Robert C. Vose.