Miscellaneous Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923
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content: Elihu Vedder papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1, 10; 1.0 linear foot)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1811-1938
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.veddelih, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of miscellaneous personal and family papers, including notes on the genealogy of the Vedder family, legal and financial papers, notes on the sale and disposition of Vedder's artwork, miscellany, and a significant amount of empty envelopes and enclosures that once housed some of Vedder's papers and that are annotated with notes about the former contents. Legal papers are primarily those of Vedder's extended family and consist of the last wills and testaments of various family members (including his brother and father), deeds, agreements, and insurance policies, as well as Vedder's contract with Houghton Mifflin for The Digressions of V. Also found are various folders of miscellany, consisting of invitations, notices of Vedder's election to the National Academy of Design and The Century Association, sketches and notes, programs, report cards for Enoch Vedder (his son), business and calling cards, pages from an address book, a lock of Vedder's hair, writings, maps, a tentative catalog of Vedder's papers, and other printed material. The bulk of the series is comprised of empty envelopes and enclosures, including some empty envelopes from Vedder's correspondence, which were annotated by various members of Vedder's family and by various custodians and/or users of Vedder's papers and which suggest how the papers may have been originally organized.