Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kitson, Henry Hudson, 1863?-1947
label: Collection Creator
content: Kitson, Theo Alice Ruggles, 1876-1932
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content: Henry Hudson and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1885-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kitshenr, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Correspondence is arranged chronologically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Personal correspondence includes letters from Theo and Henry to each other and to their parents and children. Two illustrated letters describe Theo's award ceremonies at the Paris Salon and a visit to Rome. One letter from Henry to his daughter includes sketches for constructing a fence and a stone wall.

Professional correspondence includes a 1906 letter from Alexander J. Schottes containing descriptions and sketches of the studios of Daniel Chester French; letters from Charles Grafly, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Louis Saint-Gaudens; copies of letters from Henry Kitson to the secretary of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland requesting photographs in preparation for executing a bust of the Queen; and letters from the War Department to the Kitsons about their work at Vicksburg National Military Park. Also found are 1909-1910 letters from Hiroshi Yoshida, and letters from the Gorham Manufacturing Company from the 1920s-1950s regarding various commissions.

Posthumous correspondence includes that of John Kitson, his wife Helen, her sister Dorothy Cavanagh, Lee Lawrie, Mildred Lawrie, Milton Horn, and Estelle Horn, in which the correspondents share many biographical details about the Kitsons and their interactions with them over the years.