Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Singer, Paul, 1904-
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content: Paul Singer Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Linear feet (Boxes 2-8)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1906-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1991.01, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The bulk of the files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or corresponding institution. Numerous copies made after the receipt of the collection are of select letters and postcards and have not been further sorted.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is with Asian art scholars and collectors, museums, galleries, universities, and art dealers, and includes letters, cards, and postcards received, as well as several outgoing letters from Singer. Topics of conversation include loan requests and viewings of Singer's collection; Chinese art object consultations; notices of items of interest up for auction; ongoing discussions of the disposition of Singer's collection upon his death; and publication of and edits to his collection catalog project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The following list is selective and represents about seventy-five percent of the individuals who corresponded with Paul Singer.

Bahr, Edna H.

Barnard, Noel (The Australian National University)

Beach, Milo C.  (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)

Bernat, Paul

Brinker, Helmut H.  (Fogg Art Museum)

Brundage, Avery

Bulling, Anneliese Gutkind

Bunker, Emma C.

Bush, George, President

Capon, Edmund (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Caro, Frank (C.T. Loo--gallery)

Chait, Ralph M.

Chang, Kwang-chih (Yale University)

Chase, Thomas W.  (Freer Gallery of Art)

Cheung, Kwong-yue (The Australian National University)

Chow, Fang (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chu, Jen-hsing (National Palace Museum)

Cleveland, Richard S.  (The Saint Louis Art Museum)

Cox, Warren E.

Crawford, John M., Jr.

D'Argence, Ivon (M.H. de Young Memorial Museum)

Dohrenwend, Doris J.  (The Royal Ontario Museum)

du Boulay, Anthony (Christie's, New York)

Eskenazi, J.E.

Fontein, Jan (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Fu, Marilyn (Princeton University)

Fu, Shen (Freer Gallery of Art)

Gettens, Rutherford J.

Getz, Joel

Gichner, Lawrence E.

Goepper, Roger (Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst)

Gray, Basil (British Museum)

Grisdale, Dick and Marjorie

Gyllensvard, Bo

Hathaway, Calvin S.  (The Cooper Union)

Hayashi, Minao (Kyoto University)

Higuchi, T.  (Kyoto University

Hippen, Will, Jr.  (Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego)

Huber, Louisa G. Fitzgerald

Hsu, F. Richard (China Institute in America)

Kahane, Andrew

Keene, Manuel D.

Kelley, Clarence W.  (The Dayton Art Institute)

Kimpel, Ben (Drew University)

Kuwayama, George (L.A. County Museum of Art)

Lally, James (Sotheby Park Bernet)

Lee, Sammy Yukuan (Oriental House, Ltd.)

Lee, Sherman E. (The Cleveland Museum of Art)

Levitan, Kit Carson Bennett

Little, Stephen (The Cleveland Museum of Art; Asian Art Musuem of San Francisco)

Loehr, Max (Fogg Art Museum)

Loekl, Greta Schreyer

Loh, Pichon P.Y.  (Upsala College)

Maeda, Robert J.  (Brandeis University)

Mackay, Colin J. D.  (Sotheby's, London)

Marumoto, Shinichi (Kadansha Publishers)

Matsumoto, Helen L.

Mino, Yutaka

Mowry, Robert D.  (The Asia Society)

Neill, Mary Gardner (Yale University Art Gallery)

Poor, Richard (University of Minnesota)

Proctor, Patty (Royal Ontario Museum)

Ravenal, Richard S.  (Asian Gallery)

Rawson, Jessica (The British Museum)

Reynolds, Valrae (The Newark Museum)

Riddell, Sheila

Rockefeller, John D., 3rd

Rockefeller, Mrs. John D. (Blanchette)

Sackler, Arthur M.

Sackler, Jill

Sackler, Marietta Lutze

Scott, Hugh (U.S. Senate)

Schloss, Ezekiel

Shangraw, Clarence F. (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco)

Shen, Yusen

Sickman, Laurence (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)

Singer, Erwin

So, Jenny  

Spelman, Ruth (C.W. Post Center)

Sullivan, Michael (Univ. Of Malaya in Singapore)

Swann, Peter C.  (Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford)

Thote, Alain

Trousdale, William (U.S. National Museum)

Trubner, Henry (The Royal Ontario Museum)

Tsang, Shu-ping Teng (National Palace Museum)

Tsiang, Katherine R.

Tung, Tom Wu (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Umehara, Sueji

Vannotti, Franco

Veit, Willibald

Wardwell, Allen (The Asia Society)

Washburn, Gordon B.  (The Asia Society)

Waterbury, Florance

Watson, William (Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Univ. Of London)

Whitfield, Roderick (Princeton University)

Wilson, Marc F.  (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)

Wu, Tung (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Ziebold, Thomas O.  (Braddock Services Inc.)

Woodward, Hiram W., Jr.  (The Walters Art Gallery)

Yuey, Joe