Edward Darley Boit papers
name: label: Creator
content: Boit, Edward D., 1840-1915
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The material on reels 83-85 were lent for microfilming 1971 by Boit's son, Edward; he subsequently donated the diaries in 1981 with additional material filmed on reel 2395.
creator: label: Creator
content: Boit, Edward D., 1840-1915
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Boston, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1866-1915
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.boitedwa
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 83-85 and 2395 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: 267 p. journal and chapter on Boit: Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 83-85: 15 diaries, 1885-1894 and 1901-1908, containing brief entries about the weather, appointments, and casual references to daily activities; one v. of letters from Europe, 1866-1867, written as a journal and mailed to his parents weekly, 267 pp; and a chapter on Boit from The Boit Family and Their Descendents (1915) by Robert Apthorp Boit.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2395: A guest book, 1901-1914, from Cerintoio, Boit's home in Italy, containing signatures, notes and sketches by guests, and yearly entries by Boit; and three incomplete drafts of Boit's unpublished book, "How I Came to Paint."