Selected art related letters from Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
label: Names
content: Carey & Hart
label: Names
content: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
label: Names
content: Abbey, Mary Gertrude, d. 1931
label: Names
content: Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851
label: Names
content: Allston, Washington, 1779-1843
label: Names
content: Bayley, Frank W.
label: Names
content: Beale, Pennel
label: Names
content: Belcher, Wm. (William)
label: Names
content: Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902
label: Names
content: Brodhead, Col
label: Names
content: Burrell, B.
label: Names
content: Carey, Edward L., 1806-1845
label: Names
content: Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879
label: Names
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
label: Names
content: Ceracchi, Giuseppe, 1751-1801
label: Names
content: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889
label: Names
content: Cheney, John, 1801-1885
label: Names
content: Clarke, Miss
label: Names
content: Claypoole, James, Sr., 1720-1796
label: Names
content: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
label: Names
content: Cox, James, 1751-1834
label: Names
content: Curren, Mr
label: Names
content: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888
label: Names
content: Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
label: Names
content: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
label: Names
content: Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824
label: Names
content: Donnehue, Humphrey
label: Names
content: Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, ca. 1736-1784
label: Names
content: Duane, William J. (William John), 1780-1865
label: Names
content: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839
label: Names
content: Eliot, S.
label: Names
content: Elliott, James B.
label: Names
content: Elwyn, Langdon, Mrs.
label: Names
content: Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941
label: Names
content: Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861
label: Names
content: Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944
label: Names
content: Gillingham, Harrold E. (Harrold Edgar), 1864-1954
label: Names
content: Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852
label: Names
content: Harding, George, 1882-1959
label: Names
content: Hayes, Charles P.
label: Names
content: Hollingsworth, Levi, 1739-1824
label: Names
content: Hosack, David, 1769-1835
label: Names
content: Howell, Mr.
label: Names
content: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879
label: Names
content: Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906
label: Names
content: Inman, Henry, 1801-1846
label: Names
content: Jackson, William
label: Names
content: Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893
label: Names
content: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
label: Names
content: Kimball, Henry H. (Henry Hastings), b. 1835
label: Names
content: Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889
label: Names
content: Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891
label: Names
content: Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903
label: Names
content: Lippincott, J. B. (Joshua Ballinger), 1813-1886
label: Names
content: Livermore, George, 1809-1865
label: Names
content: Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932
label: Names
content: Madison, James, 1751-1836
label: Names
content: Marchant, Edward Dalton, 1806-1887
label: Names
content: Martin, John Hill, 1823-1906
label: Names
content: McAllister, John A.
label: Names
content: McMurtrie, James, fl. 1843-1864
label: Names
content: Monaghan, James
label: Names
content: Montgomery, John C., Mrs.
label: Names
content: Moody, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1917
label: Names
content: Murray, J.
label: Names
content: Myers, Albert Cook, 1874-1960
label: Names
content: Nathans, Isabella
label: Names
content: Nathans, Rebecca
label: Names
content: Neagle, John, 1796-1865
label: Names
content: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864
label: Names
content: Ogden, C. S.
label: Names
content: Otis, Bass, 1784-1861
label: Names
content: Paca, John
label: Names
content: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
label: Names
content: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
label: Names
content: Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870
label: Names
content: Peale, James, 1789-1876
label: Names
content: Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902
label: Names
content: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
label: Names
content: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
label: Names
content: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
label: Names
content: Penrose, Clement B. (Clement Biddle), 1832-1911
label: Names
content: Piggot, Robert, 1795-1887
label: Names
content: Randolph, Benjamin, 1737 or 8-1791
label: Names
content: Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872
label: Names
content: Richards, William Trost, 1833-1905
label: Names
content: Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796
label: Names
content: Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939
label: Names
content: Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871
label: Names
content: Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895
label: Names
content: Rush, William, 1756-1833
label: Names
content: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852
label: Names
content: Sartain, John, 1808-1897
label: Names
content: Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904
label: Names
content: Schreiner, Jacob
label: Names
content: Shrigley, James, 1814-1891
label: Names
content: Smith, Russell, 1812-1896
label: Names
content: Snowden, James Ross
label: Names
content: Snyder, W. D.
label: Names
content: Somerville, Dr.
label: Names
content: Stanbridge, J. C.
label: Names
content: Stephens, Charles H., 1855?-1931
label: Names
content: Stone, Frederick D. (Frederick Dawson), 1841-1897
label: Names
content: Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
label: Names
content: Syng, Philip, 1703-1789
label: Names
content: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927
label: Names
content: Troth, Henry, 1794-1842
label: Names
content: Trumbull, John, 1756-1843
label: Names
content: Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852
label: Names
content: Vaux, Mr
label: Names
content: Ward, Townsend, 1817?-1885
label: Names
content: Wells, William Hill, 1769-1829
label: Names
content: Wharton, Geo. M. (George Mifflin), 1808-1870
label: Names
content: Wharton, Mr
label: Names
content: Wharton, Thomas Kelah, 1814-1862
label: Names
content: Williams, Henry, 1828-1893
label: Names
content: Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
label: Names
content: Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813
label: Names
content: Woodside, John Archibald, 1781-1852
label: Names
content: Wright, Patience Lovell, 1725-1786
label: Names
content: Wylie, Samuel B. (Samuel Brown), 1773-1852
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 17th-18th centuries -- United States
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.
creator: label: Creator
content: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Reels (ca. 150 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1760-1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.histsopa
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels P23 (fr. 513-705) & P24 (fr. 1-3) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Society Collection.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm inventory available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Writers of letters include: Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Gertrude Abbey, F.W. Bayley, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Joseph Ceracchi, John Gadsby Chapman, John Cheney, James Claypool, James Cox, F.O.C. Darley, Joseph Delaplaine, Humphrey Donnehue, William Dunlap, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, S. Eliot, Charles Fevret De Saint-Memin, Charles Dana Gibson, Harold Edgar Gillingham, Horatio Greenough, George Harding, Levi Hollingsworth, William Morris Hunt, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Horatio Gates Jones, James Reid Lambdin, Will Hicok Low, Edward Dalton Marchant, William Henry Moody, John Neagle, Albert Newsam, Bass Otis, Thomas Paine, Charles Willson Peale, Franklin Peale, James Peale, Jr., Mary Jane Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale, Joseph Pennell, Clement Penrose, Robert Piggot, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Trost Richards, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, William Rush, John Sartain, Stephen Alonzo Schooff (to Townsend Ward), Russell Smith, Charles H. Stephens, Thomas Sully, Philip Syng, John Vanderlyn, N.P. Willis, Alexander Wilson and Patience Wright.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Among the recipients of letters are Archibald Alexander, David S. Brown, William Belcher, Col. Brodhead, B. Burrell, Carey & Hart, Edward L. Carey, Henry C. Carey, Miss Clarke, Mr. Curren, Joseph Delaplaine, John Dickinson, Dr. Dickson, William Dillwyn, William Duane, James B. Elliott, Mrs. Langdon Elwyn, Mantle(?) Fielding, John W. Francis, Charles P. Hayes, David Hosack, Mr. Howell, Major William Jackson, Horatio Gates Jones, John W. Jordan, H.H. Kjmball, C.G. Leland, Joseph Leidy, J.B. Lippincott, George Livermore, James Madison, J. Hill Martin, John McAllister, James McMurtrie, James Monaghan, J. Murray, Albert Cook Myers, Rebecca and Isabella Nathans, John Neagle, C.S. Ogden, John Paca, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, David Rittenhouse, Albert Rosenthal, John Sartain, Jacob Schreiner, James Shrigley, James Ross Snowden, W.D. Snyder, Dr. Sommerville, J.C. Stanbridge, F.D. Stone, Henry Troth, Mr. Vaux, Townsend Ward, William Hill Wells, G.M. Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Henry J. Williams, and Samuel B. Wylie.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Other items include a sonnet of S.T. Coleridge by Washington Allston; business card of Pennel Beale; catalog of medals and coins of silver in the possession of Hon. John Smith compiled by Du Simitière, 1772; printed address by Mrs. John C. Montgomery soliciting donations for the repair of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, destroyed by fire, 1845; William Morris Hunt's admission ticket to Peale's Museum, 1836, stating his height and weight; description of objects on display at the Peale Museum, 1820; a photograph and business card of Benjamin Randolph; invitations and notes to Gilbert Stuart; typescript by Frank H. Taylor on lithography, 1923; subscription book for engravings of paintings by John Trumbull; and a page from John Archibald Woodside's daybook, 1802-1803.