Henry-Russell Hitchcock letters to Dorothy Stroud and John N. Summerson
name: label: Creator
content: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987
label: Names
content: Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837
label: Names
content: Stroud, Dorothy
label: Names
content: Summerson, John Newenham, Sir, 1904-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architectural historians
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Great Britain
label: Topic
content: Architecture, Victorian -- Great Britain.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2000 by Dr. Gavin Stamp via Mosette Broderick, the executor of Henry-Russell Hitchcock's estate. Dr. Stamp, architecture professor at Glasgow School of Art, received them from the executors of the estate of Dorothy Stroud; he then turned them over to Broderick to place in the Archives.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hitchenl
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Three postcards and sixteen letters, 1946-1949, from Hitchcock to John N. Summerson and Dorothy Stroud, who were both on the staff of Sir John Soane's Museum in London. The letters record Hitchcock's impressions of Europe in the summer of 1946 while he was traveling in England to research his book, Early Victorian Architecture in Britain, and document the progress of his research and record his impressions of buildings, geography, food, and hotels. Later letters, when Hitchcock has returned to the United States discuss his own move from Wesleyan University to Smith College.