Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schofield, Walter Elmer, 1867-1944
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content: Walter Elmer Schofield papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1892-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schowalt, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series is arranged as two subseries.

2.1: Family Correspondence, 1896-1934

2.2: General Correspondence, 1892-1974
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence consists primarily of letters between Schofield and his wife Muriel during his sojourns in America. Schofield's letters describe his activities including participation in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and on Carnegie Institute juries, and mention his colleagues including Thomas Anshutz, Alexander Stirling Calder, Henry Caro-Delvaille, Paul Dougherty, Charles Grafly, Robert Henri, William Lathrop, Julius Olsson, Edward Redfield, John Singer Sargent, Charles Shannon, John Sloan, Gardner Symons, Henry Fitch Taylor, John Trask, and Charles Morris Young. There are also one to three letters each from Hugh Henry Breckenridge, Stanhope Forbes, Hayley Lever, and Karl Oberteuffer. Other general correspondence is from museums concerning the exhibition or collection of Schofield's work. Posthumous correspondence includes a condolence letter from Hayley Lever to Muriel Schofield following her husband's death, a letter and biographical sketch from British sculptor Helen Stuart Weir, and correspondence documenting Sydney Schofield's donation of his father's papers to the Archives of American Art.