Miscellaneous Volume 8
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Britton, James, 1878-1936
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content: James Britton papers
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content: James Britton papers / Series 4: Diaries / 4.1: Diaries
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928 February-1929 October
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 44
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: (sells book on Copley; visits Walter Eitel and Frederick Detweiller; list of portraits painted by Hartford artists or of Hartford sitters; list of paintings--various; a draft of a letter to Edwin Valentine Mitchell and one to F. Detweiller; Mr. Bartlet, an engraver visits; gives an interview for The Republican with Miss Cullen; a list of books with Howell's; goes to Morgan Museum and cannot find his portrait of Charles Flagg; talks of his father Captain J. Britton; invited to exhibit at the Women's Club of Hartford with Maud Monnier--includes a list of paintings possible for exhibition; commentary on Hartford Philharmonic Orchestra; discusses "The Banquet of the Presidents" and his intent for the painting)