Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Nesbitt, Esta
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content: Esta Nesbitt papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet (Box 1, OV 14)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942
label: Date
content: 1964-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nesbesta, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Correspondence is primarily arranged by the name of correspondent and then chronologically within each folder. Writings, letters, and annotated clippings which were not attached to a letter are arranged chronologically within the respective folder.

Additional correspondence can be found intermixed with other documents in the Writings, Xerography Research Files, and Projects and Exhibitions series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence includes letters and memos between personal friends and professional colleagues and Nesbitt.   Many letters and memos include attachments, such as artwork, annotated clippings, and letters.  Letters written by Nesbitt are drafts.  

Correspondents in the Personal and Professional folder include Nesbitt, Edmund Carpenter, Seymour Lipton, Mara Nesbitt, Perry Nesbitt, Saul Nesbitt, Carla and Thom Perry, The Art Center of Waco, National Collection of Fine Arts (Smithsonian), University of California Berkeley, and Westbroadway Gallery.  Topics of discussion include life updates, Chinese philosophy, xerography, Nesbitt's projects ("Everyman as Anyman, or Putting On, On, On, On, On," "Light Times 499," Walk up-Tape on, "Xerox Xplore") and exhibitions ("Esta Nesbitt: Xerography Prints," "Magic Machines").

Correspondence between Nesbitt, Alan Leder, David Lyle, and R.E. Wood covers a wide range of topics, including Lyle, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Mike Weaver, Allen Ginsberg, Paterson NJ, energy and nature, mathematics, and data.  Correspondence with Lyle also includes the subjects of Xerox Corporation, xerography, exhibition "Xerography: Extensions in Art," 3M Co, and mandala.  Much of the writing is philosophical in nature and includes annotated letters, articles, and clippings.

Xerox Corporation correspondence covers Nesbitt's relationship with and work at Xerox, additional funding possibilities with New School for Social Research, and a New York Times review.  Nesbitt's primary contact at Xerox was Merle English.