Letters
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Walton, Marion, b. 1899
setName: label: See more items in
content: Marion Walton papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1; 15 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.waltmari, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains letters received primarily by Walton and her mother, Blanche Wetherill Walton, from friends and colleagues including artist Charles Green Shaw, historian and suffragist Mary Beard, and novelist Vera Brittain. There are scattered letters from artists Béla Kádár, Rockwell Kent, Fred Dana Marsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Theo Stamos, and Abbott Handerson Thayer, composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles, musician Pete Seeger, lecturer Ruth Gage-Colby, photographer Roy E. Stryker, political figures James Forrestal, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Shirley Williams, and writers Carl Carmer and Margaret Storm Jameson.