Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Emmet family
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content: Emmet family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.2 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-7)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1792-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.emmefami, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Records are arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. General files for correspondents not arranged in named files, and for correspondents whose names or surnames are unknown, are at the end of the series. Researchers should note that pages for individual letters may not be sequential, due to the nature of the folded note paper on which many of them are written.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series is scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The bulk of the correspondence found in this series is between Julia Colt Pierson Emmet, Lydia Field Emmet, Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn, and Rosina Emmet Sherwood. Other correspondents include additional family members and a wide range of international artists, writers, musicians, actors, and other creative individuals who interacted with members of the Emmet family. The letters discuss daily events, marriages, births, and deaths within the family, creative activities including details regarding commissions and clients, personal observations on art and society, and relationships between family members and their notable colleagues including Cecil Beaton, Cecilia Beaux, Pablo Casals and Susie Metcalfe Casals, Lynne Fontanne and husband Alfred Lunt, cousin Henry James, Louis Bancel LaFarge, Frederick MacMonnies, Lucien Monod, Roger Quilter, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Emily and John Singer-Sargent, Violet Sargent Ormond, and Stanford White. Letters also document experiences while traveling and living in Europe, and the turmoil of two World Wars, including Jane's life in England during the Blitz.

A number of the letters from the Emmet sisters, particularly early letters from Rosina Emmet Sherwood, are illustrated. Also found, are some transcriptions, particularly for early letters of Lydia Field Emmet.

Correspondence with Lynn Fontanne includes one photograph and three contact sheet images of portraits of Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn taken by Cecile Beaton on a visit to Jane, March 30, 1960. One image shows Beaton reflected in the mirror besides Emmet's bed. 

At the end of the series is a reasonably comprehensive, although not all-inclusive, chronological list of individual letters found in this series, noting sender, recipient, date, and main subjects. It was compiled by AAA staff in 1992 and begins with a list of frequently mentioned Emmet family members and friends in order to clarify their identities.