Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Baker, Mildred, 1905-
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content: Mildred Baker papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1937-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bakemild, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: All correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is primarily with Baker's friends, business associates, researchers, art institutions, and admirers of her residency at the Chelsea Hotel.  

The series includes Baker's responses to researcher requests regarding FAP exhibitions, programs, artists, and recollections of her fellow administrators.  Correspondence with Rutgers University, Francis O'Connor, Wendy Jeffers, and James Wechsler includes reports from their projects on the Federal Art Project, Holger Cahill, and Arthur Murphy and the WPA respectively.  Correspondence with Robert Reiss includes an essay and research information on Sarah Freedman McPherson.  There is also a letter from the writer Max Eastman describing the last days of his wife, Eliena Krylenko.

Correspondence with the Archives of American Art, the Montclair Art Museum, Newark Museum, Roberson Center, Memorial Art Gallery, and the University of Wyoming record gifts and loans to these institutions from Baker's private collection.