William Ordway Partridge Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930
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content: William Ordway Partridge papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879-1920
label: Date
content: 1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.partwill, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The papers are arranged by material type. Letters to Partridge are arranged alphabetically. Unless otherwise noted, all senders wrote 1 letter each.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters to Partridge mainly relate to Partridge's sculpture, invitations to events, and responses to invitations sent by Partridge. They include requests to visit his studio and view works in progress. Also found are two letters from Robert C. Winthrop, and Samuel Timmins to others which were probably collected by Partridge for the autographs of Winthrop and Timmins. Additional correspondents are noted in the container listing.


Writings by Partridge include loose drafts of his poems and a typescript for a book of a collection of his poems. Writings by others include a draft of an essay "The Actor's Profession" and galley proofs of an untitled poem by Henry Austin, dedicated to James Gillespie Blaine. One news clipping from 1891 relates to Partridge's statue of Alexander Hamilton; another from 1957 recounts the discovery of two busts by Partridge during the demolition of the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse building.