Correspondence, Personal
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
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content: Robert Hughes papers
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content: Robert Hughes papers / Series 2: Correspondence
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Box 1, 21)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hughrobe, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Personal correspondence includes letters; emails; and postcards from friends, family, including his sister, Constance Crisp, and his first wife, Danne Emerson, fans, and colleagues. Hughes maintained both personal and professional relationships with authors, journalists, publishers, artists, and other notable figures in the art and literary worlds including Robert Motherwell, John Julius Norwich, Simon Watson Taylor, Avignor Arikha, and Delfina Rattazzi. Also included are letters of support from friends and fans regarding Hughes' 1999 near fatal car crash. Materials in this series are arranged alphabetically and chronologically.