Correspondence
odd: label: Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2
content: This selected index to Series 2: General Correspondence, includes selected artists, writers whose works Bransom illustrated, art editors and directors, collectors, printers and engravers, and other significant correspondents. Illustrated letters are indicated in parentheses. This index is not comprehensive.

 Agathon, Oshin: 1961, 1963

 Agins, Freddie: 1965, 1972 (illustrated letter), 1975, 1977

 Albee, Grace: 1961, 1967

 Aleshire, Morris: 1929 (illustrated letter)

 Alexander, Charles: 1923

 Astley-Bell (Duis), Rita: 1962-1963, 1973, 1976

 Ayres, Douglas: 1942, 1955, 1966-1967, 1971-1972, 1975-1976

 Back, Joe and Mary: 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1979, undated

 Balch, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn: 1938-1939

 Bartholomew, C.L. "Bart": 1921

 Beal, Gifford: 1950, 1955

 Bellows, George: 1913

 Benda, W.T.: 1935, undated

 Biggs, Walter: 1938, 1944, 1966, 1967

 Blair, W. Reid: 1926, 1929, 1933

 Bott, Pat: 1964 (sketch), 1967-1971, 1973, 1983, undated

 Bowden, Harry: 1929

 Brand, Eva: 1972, undated

 Bull, Charles Livingston: 1931, 1933-1934

 Cady, Harrison: 1962, 1963

 Calfee, William: 1933 

 Card, Helen Louise: 1950, 1954-1955, 1957, 1962

 Chaffee, Allan: 1931, 1932, 1937-1938, undated

 Chapin, J. H.: 1918-1920

 Chapin, James P.: 1942, 1945, 1963

 Chapman, Charles: 1931, 1934, 1960, undated

 Chi, Chen: 1953, 1957, 1958

 Clymer, John: 1964, 1970-1976, 1978-1979, undated

 Collett, Farrell R.: 1951, 1959-1960, 1964, 1969-1970, 1972, 1974, 1978, undated

 Cooper, Courtney Ryley; 1934

 Cooper, Frederic Taber: 1920

 Cottrell, Dorothy, 1931-1933

 Cox, Warren: 1977

 Crane, Alan H.: 1947, 1959-1962, 1967, undated

 Crowninshield, Frank: 1910

 Curwood, James Oliver: 1919

 DeFeo, Charles: 1969

 Delano, Gerard C.: 1957

 Dinsmore, Elizabeth: 1929, 1937-1940

 Dirks, Rudy: 1905 (2 illustrated envelopes)

 Dobie, J. Frank: 1926-1928, 1931, 1933, 1938-1939, 1945, 1962, undated

 Dower, Walter: 1922-1925, 1927-1928

 Drake, A.W.: 1907-1908

 Dwiggins, Clare Victor: 1950 (illustrated letter)

 Edge, Rosalie: 1937, 1939-1940, 1942, 1947, 1961-1962

 Eldridge, Paul: 1914 (illustrated letter)

 Enos, Ben H.: 1913

 Evans, George W. "Dub": 1928, 1945, 1961 (see also Notes and Writings, New Mexico Lion Hunt)

 Evans, Joe: 1928, 1945

 Fabian, Harold: 1958, 1973

 Fair, Paul: 1928-1929, 1931, 1939, 1945, 1948

 Field, Charles K.: 1914

 Folmsbee, Beulah: 1940

 Gannam, John: 1963

 Gatti, Attilio: 1941, 1944, 1947

 Gibson, "Pop": 1918-1919

 Gibson, Charles Dana: 1903, 1913

 Gilbert, Kenneth: 1925, 1928, 1945, 1972

 Godfrey, W.C.: 1929

 Goldman, Arthur: 1932

 Hagen, Grant: 1957, 1959, 1966, 1972

 Hahn Vidal, Margarita: 1963

 Hargens, Charles: 1970 (illustrated), 1971-1974, 1976, 1978

 Hays, Helen Ireland: 1963-1964, 1974-1975, 1977-1979, undated

 Hibben, Frank C. and Eleanor: 1945, 1972

 Hill, Maybel Betsy: 1933

 House, Brad: 1951, 1960, undated

 Howland, Karl V.S.: 1916-1917

 Hunt, Lynn Bogue: 1958

 Hurst, Dean: 1972, 1978

 Johnstone, Jo and Jack: 1945-1946, 1952, 1955, 1963, undated

 Kappel, Phillip: 1930, 1955

 Kent, Norman: 1963

 Kirkland, John W., Jr.: 1940

 Kuhn, Bob: 1936-1937, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1977-1978, undated

 Kuhn, Brenda: 1960-1961, 1967, 1971, 1984

 Kuhn, Vera: 1949

 Kuhn, Walt: 1905 (illustrated envelope), 1945

 Kylgaard, James: 1939

 Lathrop, Dorothy: 1939, 1942, 1954-1955, 1959, 1961-1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974-1975, 1977, undated

 Lathrop, Gertrude: 1949, 1964, 1969, 1972-1973, 1978

 Lentelli, Leo and Mimi: 1955, 1956, 1962-1963

 Lewis, Martin: 1930

 Liljefors, Lindorm: 1969 (illustrated), 1970, 1974

 Lippincott, Joseph W.: 1933, 1945, 1954, 1975

 Logan, Maurice: 1929

 London, Charmian (Mrs. Jack London): 1913-1914

 Long, Ray: 1912

 Lougheed, Robert: 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, undated

 MacCreagh, Gordon: 1935, undated (illustrated letter)

 Mattingly, Seth: 1955, 1961-1964, 1969-1970, 1972-1976 (with list of books), 1978, 1980-1981, 1983, undated

 McClintock, Dorcas: 1973, 1974-1978, 1980, undated

 McCoy, Garnett: 1966

 McCracken, Harold: 1948-1949, 1965, 1972

 McLean, George: 1964-1965, 1971, undated

 Means, Thomas H. and Constance: 1931, 1936, 1947, 1960, 1964

 Meigs, Ruth: undated

 Miller, George C.: 1949

 Mills, Dorothy: 1928

 Mochi, Ugo: 1963, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973-1974, 1976, undated

 Moon, Carl: 1928

 Moore, Benson: 1939, 1941, 1945, 1959, 1964-1965, 1967, 1969, 1971-1974, undated

 Morris, George Ford: undated

 Moyle, Seth: 1911

 Murphy, Robert: 1940-1941

 Newell, Dave: 1942-1943 (illustrated letters), 1944-1945 (illustrated letter)

 Newett, Henry R.: 1927

 Nisbet, Bob: 1953-1954

 Olenchak, Tom: 1961, 1969, 1973, undated

 Osborn, Frederick and Margaret: 1930, 1940, 1954-1955, 1973, undated

 Palmer, Loren: 1926

 Peattie, Donald Culross: 1927, 1937

 Pierrot, George: 1927, 1932, 1934, 1937-1939, 1945, 1949, 1957, 1960-1963, 1967, 1969-1970, 1972-1979

 Platt, Joseph B.: 1926

 Richards, George M.: 1913

 Roosevelt, Mrs. Kermit: 1941

 Ruggles, C.B.: 1933

 Rutledge, Archibald: 1939-1940, 1949

 Sanborn, Elwin Roswell: undated

 Sarka, Charles: 1910 (illustrated envelope), 1911 (2 illustrated letters), 1913, 1917 (illustrated), 1934 (illustrated letter), 1941, 1947, 1948 (illustrated), 1950 (illustrated), 1958-1959

 Sass, Herbert R.: 1934-1936, 1940, 1942

 Saxton, Eugene: 1929

 Schaldach, William, 1946, 1958

 Schuler, Loring: 1919, 1927, 1931

 Schwiering, Connie: 1958, 1961, 1963, 1967

 Scott, William J. and Rachel: 1929, 1932-1933, 1956, 1964, 1967, 1973

 Scriver, Bob: 1962, 1965, 1967, undated

 Seimel, Sasha: 1933-1935, 1962-1963, 1967

 Sleicher, Bob: undated 

 Sprunt, Alexander: 1932-1933

 Stahl, Ben: 1944, 1969, 1972

 Stokes, Frederick A.: 1921

 Stolper, Joel: 1940

 Stone, Walter King: 1933

 Taylor, E.H.: 1925-1927, 1930, undated

 Teague, Donald: 1970, 1972, 1975-1976

 Tee-Van, John: 1942

 Terhune, Albert Payson: 1926, 1927, 1929

 Thomas, J. Sharkey: 1974-1977

 Thompson, H.A.: 1907-1909

 Thurber, James: 1957

 Tillenius, Clarence: 1960, 1963, 1969, 1974, 1975-1978, 1981, undated

 Washington, Booker T.: 1915

 Watson, Ernest: 1951

 Weaver, John V.A.: 1928

 Wengenroth, Stow: 1962

 Williams, Wheeler: 1964, undated (illustrated letter)

 Wolfe, R. Dietz: 1961, 1963, 1964, undated

 Wood, Peggy: 1928
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content: This series includes personal and professional correspondence of Paul Bransom from the beginning of his career until the end of his life. Correspondence includes letters from other artists, art directors and editors, writers, nature and wildlife conservators and zoologists, curators, collectors, printers, engravers, family, and friends. Also found are letters Bransom wrote to his wife, Grace Bond Bransom, early in their relationship, and scattered correspondence to Grace Bond Bransom and Althea Bond, Bransom's niece and heiress. Many illustrated letters are found among the correspondence, including several lavishly illustrated letters from Charles Sarka. Photographs, clippings, and other enclosures such as membership cards, are scattered throughout the series.

Correspondence is divided into three groups: that between Paul Bransom and his wife, general correspondence, and cards. General correspondence is arranged chronologically except for occasional instances where letters were originally grouped together by author or subject. Drafts and carbon copies of outgoing letters written by Paul Bransom are interfiled with general correspondence, and undated drafts are filed at the end of the general correspondence. Greeting cards with significant written messages are interfiled with general correspondence, and cards without messages are arranged alphabetically at the end of the series. Many of the cards are made with original artwork, as indicated in the folder notes below. 

General correspondence contains letters and records of transactions with Bransom's publishing clients, as well as letters from many authors whose stories Bransom illustrated, especially between the 1900s and the 1940s. Among the authors are Albert Payson Terhune, Donald Culross Peattie, J. Frank Dobie, Dorothy Cottrell, Attilio Gatti, Charmian London (wife of Jack London), and Herbert Sass. Artists represented in Bransom's correspondence include Charles Sarka, Joe Back, Walter Biggs, Patricia Bott, Chen Chi, John Clymer, Paul Fair, Charles Hargens, Bob Kuhn, Dorothy and Gertrude Lathrop, Bob Lougheed, George McLean, Ugo Mochi, Bill and Rachel Scott, Donald Teague, and Clarence Tillenius.

Letters and envelopes are often annotated by Bransom giving the full name of the author and sometimes the nature of their relationship or other biographical information. Additional correspondence can be found in Personal Business Records, and some drafts of outgoing letters are found in the notebooks filed in Notes and Writings. 

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.