Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Betty
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content: Betty Carpenter papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.carpbett, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Betty Carpenter's correspondence is primarily with museums, historical societies, publishers, and writers regarding the selling, loaning, book planning and exhibitioning of art work by J.O.J Frost and George Lothrop. Included are a few handwritten copies or drafts of her outgoing letters. Carpenter's regular correspondence is followed by letters from the Frost family to Carpenter discussing both J.O.J Frost's life as well as matters of Carpenter's personal friendship with the family. Also found are letters related to appraisal of Carpenter's personal collection of arwork. The Frost Family correspondence is comprised of letters from J.O.J Frost to his granddaughters Ethelyn Frost Flagg and Irena Frost Greatorex as well as letters from J.O.J Frost's son Frank A. Frost to his daughter Ethelyn; and miscellaneous letters to J.O.J Frost.