Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980
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content: Alexander Brook papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brooalex, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: All correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, followed by letters from Spain, and unidentified, illegible, and unsigned letters.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is primarily with Brook's family, friends, fellow artists, and business associates discussing personal relationships, teaching opportunities, art sales, and exhibitions.  Included in this series are letters addressed directly to Brook's second wife, Gina Knee Brook.  Correspondents of note include Brook's children, Belinda and Sandy (Alexander) Brook, his wife from his first marriage, Peggy Bacon, the artists Niles Spencer, and George Biddle, and the writer Haniel Long.  

This series also includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt, Katharine Hepburn, Abraham Walkowitz, and Eloise Spaeth; letters forwarded by the Saturday Evening Post from readers responding to Brook's cover artwork for the magazine in 1945 and 1946; correspondence from students at the Brett School, which was founded by Brook's friend Catherine Brett; and letters in Spanish from friends in Spain.