Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gordon, Elizabeth, 1906-2000
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content: Elizabeth Gordon Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-1961, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1988.03, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The letters are arranged alphabetically by the correspondents surname.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence, mostly photostats concerning reader mail in response to the "Shibui" issues of, House Beautiful. This series is divided into two subseries. Subseries 4.1 comprises reader mail received by the magazine and some responses and subseries 4.2 includes internal mail regarding the administration of reader mail. The letters are arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically. Correspondents included department heads in colleges and universities, such as the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and firms concerned with interior design, landscape architecture, and related areas. Among the writers were critic Craig Claiborne, Laura Gilpin, Walter Kerr, Bernard Leach, Mainbocher, Gertrude Natzler, textile artist Marianne Strengell, Oliver Statler, and the architect Yoshimura Junzo.

This series also includes responses to reader mail and interoffice communication regarding reader mail.