Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Shaffer, Mary
setName: label: See more items in
content: Mary Shaffer papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (box 1, OV 5, 0.8 linear ft.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1998, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shafmary, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The bulk of the correspondence is arranged chronologically. There are also several folders of correspondence organized by subject and arranged in chronological order within folders.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series primarily contains Shaffer's outgoing correspondence, the bulk of which dates from 1990-1993, when Shaffer maintained files chronologically and by subject. The series also contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence dating from 1973 to 1998.

The material documents Shaffer's day-to-day management of her affairs and includes administrative records, routine inquiries and responses to requests for information about her work, in addition to information about specific commissions and sales, such as her Hanging Series for Iowa City Hospitals, her commission for the Honolulu Police Headquarters, and her relationship with Habatat Galleries in the early 1990s. Some of Shaffer's letters contain preliminary sketches of planned work. Researchers should be aware that this series should be checked for additional information on any subject in Series 2: Subject Files.