The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
SERIES VIII: LETTERS
Box 1: Letters to and from Ralph Radcliffe
Whitehead:
Folder 1: Letters and documents from bank in
Vienna about death of Marie Whitehead, 1901 (acc. 10x63.2-.5)
Folder 2: To his parents, 1869 (written from
Harrow).
Folder 3: Miscellaneous
writings, 1884, 1889, 1899, n.d.
Folder 4: To Jane Byrd McCall, January-March,
1891.
Folder 5: To
Jane Byrd McCall, April 1891.
Folder 6: To
Jane Byrd McCall, May 1891.
Folder 7: To
Jane Byrd McCall, June-August 1891
Folder 8: to Jane Byrd McCall ,
September-November 12, 1891
Folder 9: To
Jane Byrd McCall, November 21-December 1891.
Folder 1: To
Jane Byrd McCall, January-February 1892.
Folder 2: To
Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, March 1892-February 1895.
Folder 3: To Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, 1897.
Folder 4: To
Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, 1899.
Folder 5: To
Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, 1900.
Folder 6: To
Jane Bryd McCall Whitehead, January-June 1901.
Folder 7: To Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, July
1901.
Folder 8: To Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead,
August-October 1901.
Folder 9: to
wife and sons, January-May 1902.
Folder 10: to
wife and sons, June-August 1902.
Folder 1: October-December
1902.
Folder 2: 1903.
Folder 3: 1904-1908.
Folder 4: 1909-1910.
Folder 5: February
1911-September 1912.
Folder 6: October-December
1912.
Folder 7: January-October 1913.
Folder 8: November-December 1913.
Folder 9: January-October
1914.
Folder 10: November-December 1914.
Folder 11: January-March 1915.
Folder 12: April-May
1915.
Box 4: Letters
from Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead to his wife and their sons:
Folder 1: June-December 1915.
Folder 2: January-April 1916.
Folder 3: May-December
1916.
Folder 4: January-March
1917.
Folder 5: April-June
1917.
Folder 6: July-December 1917.
Folder 7: 1918.
Folder 8: January-June
1919.
Folder 9: July-December
1919.
Folder 10: January-March
1920.
Folder 11: April
1920.
Folder 12: May
1920.
Folder 13: June-July
1920.
Folder 14: August-October
1920.
Folder 1: to
wife and sons, November 1920.
Folder 2: to
wife and sons, January-June 1921.
Folder 3: to wife and sons, July-December 1921.
Folder 4: to wife and sons, 1922.
Folder 5: to wife and sons, 1923.
Folder 6: to wife and sons, 1924.
Folder 7: to
Ralph, Jr., 1925.
Folder 8: to
Ralph, Jr., 1926.
Folder 9: to
Ralph, Jr., 1927-1928.
Folder 10: to
wife and their sons, n.d.
Folder 11: To Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, from his
mother, 1865-1869.
Folder 12: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, from his mother, Jan.-June, n.d.
Folder 1: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, from his mother, July-Dec., n.d.
Folder 2: “Mama’s
Last Letters” to Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead
Folder 3: “Letters
from and about my father. R.R.W.,” 1880-1887.
Folder 4: To Ralph
Radcliffe Whitehead, from his English family, 1865, n.d.
Folder 5: General letters to and from Ralph
Radcliffe Whitehead, 1893-1906.
Correspondents are as
follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
Henry Emerson Hovey [minister
who married Ralph and Jane], Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 25, 1893;
Marie Whitehead [Ralph’s
first wife; in German, with transcription] 1894, with note “to be delivered
after my death”;
Archy [Archer? See last
letter in list] (in German; 1896 letter includes a photograph), all from
Andrew
Christie, Aberdeen [Scotland,] Sept. 28, 1898;
Arthur
Rendel, [London,] Oct. 20, 1899;
H.W. Rolfe,
Concord [no state,] March 4, 1901;
Elizabeth [illegible]
Langley, all from Arcady, June 19, [1901,] June 21, [1901], and June 25,
[1901];
Benjamin Goodridge, Minister
of the Church of the Unity [Unitarian Church], note that he had christened the
two Whitehead boys, Jan. 15, 1902;
Aman(?) Jean(?), (in French),
Halsey Ricardo, all from
London, April 25, 1893 [photocopy, acc. 06x1.3a], June 10, 1903; Aug. 8, 1903;
John Burroughs, West Park,
New York, Aug. 30, 1905 (with poem dated
Hubert[?] M. Archer,
Folder 6: General letters
to and from Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, 1911-1928, n.d. (Includes sympathy letters on death of Ralph
R. Whitehead, Jr.)
Correspondents are as
follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
Halsey Ricardo, all from
London, Dec. 28, 1911; Feb. 3, 1913; July 1, 1913; Oct. 16, 1913; March 10,
1915; July 16, 1915; Aug. 19, 1915; Jan. 23, 1916; Nov. 19, 1916; April 28,
1917; May 20, 1917; June 3, 1917; Jan. 2, 1919; March 23, 1921
Yvonne,
Arace(?),
RRW, Carmel to Philip Elting
(probably in Woodstock), Jan. 26, 1921; Feb. 7, 1929;
No name (part of letter
missing), Oakland, Kiddersfield(?),
Catherine
Iredale, Manchester [England,] Dec.3, 1928;
A.W. Malone,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 29, 1928;
RRW to E.F.
Rogers & Son, Santa Barbara, Feb. 5, 1928;
Aman(?)
Jean(?) (in French),
John Iredale, Leominster,
Herefordshire, Jan. 26 [no year, but probably 1929];
Unsigned, possibly from Mrs.
McCall,
Katharine
Babbitt, Oxford Street, Jan. 1, no year;
H.A.(?),
John Burroughs, Robinwood
Camp, Adirondacks, Aug. 1l; West Park, N.Y., June 16; West Park, June 14;
Hobart, N. Y., Jan. 30; Atlantic City, N.J., March 24; Hobart, Feb. 25;
[illegible], Dec. 27; West Park, Nov. 14, no years;
Ellen,
Dedham, Mass.
Verse “Cupid,” no author, no date, illustrated with hand holding arrow on which a man is
impaled; on reverse: drawing of two cherries
Folder 2: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and family, 1896-1897.
Folder 3: To Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, 1900-1901.
Folder 4: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and family, 1902.
Folder 5: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead. and Ralph, Jr., 1903-1909.
Folder 6: To Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and sons, 1911, 1912, 1914.
Folder 7: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and sons, 1915.
Folder 8: To
her sons, 1916-1918.
Folder 9: To
Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and family, 1919-1921.
Folder 10: To Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and family, 1922-1923.
Folder 11: To Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and sons, 1924-1928.
Folder 1: Jane Byrd Whitehead to Ralph Radcliffe
Whitehead, n.d.
Folder 2: Jane Byrd Whitehead to Ralph Radcliffe
Whitehead, n.d.
Folder 3: Jane Byrd Whitehead to her mother,
sister, sons, n.d.
Folder 4: Jane Byrd Whitehead to others (not
family), 1888, 1933
JBW, Albury House, Guildford, to Edie,
JBW, Byrdcliffe, to Will, May 28, 1933; [marked as copy]
Folder 5: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, not from family,
1883-1884, n.d.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
R.D.
Blackmon [or Blackmore], [place illegible], Dec. 24, 1884;
Max
Muller, Oxford, Aug. 23, 1883; Sept. 11, 1883; Nov. 12, 1883; Dec. 6, 1883;
Dec. 12, 1883; Dec. 13, 1883; Dec. 16, 1883; Jan. 1, 1884; n.d (to Mrs. McCall
from London).; Jan. 27, 1884; Aug. 12, 1884; Aug. 20, 1884; Aug. 27, 1884; Oct.
23, 1884; Dec. 3, 1884; Dec. 16, 1884;
Georgina
Max Muller, Oxford,
John Ruskin, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire,
Folder 6: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, not from family,
1885-1888.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
Louisa
Knightly, Windsor Castle,
Georgina
Max Muller, Buxton,
Max
Muller, Oxford,
Folder 7: To Jane Byrd Whitehead., not from family,
1889-1896.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
T.
F. Bayard, Wilmington, Delaware,
Max
Muller, Oxford,
H.C.M.
or Harry [Henry Chapman Mercer,]
somewhere in Haute Loire, July 5, 1889; Vichy, July 16, 1889; Moulins,
July 21, 1889; La Charite, July 28, 1889;
L. Northumberland, Albury Park, Guildford, n.d.;
Duchess of Northumberland, Guildford, June 28, July 9,
July 19, no year
Folder 8: To
Jane Byrd Whitehead., not from family, 1899-1906
Correspondents are as follows (listed here by name,
but letters are filed by date):
Georgina Max Muller, Schwalbach, July 20, 1899;
Oxford, Oct. 10, 1899; Dec. 25, 1900; May 18, 1903
Alice Meynell, Devonport, Nov. 30, 1902; [London,] May
3, 1906;
Helena Modjeska Chlapowska, Arden, Orange County,
Calif., May 26, 1900; Coronado Beach, Calif., Sept. 5, 1900; Bad Kissingen,
Germany, July 22, 1901 (illustrated); Colorado Springs, Dec. 23, 1901
(illustrated);
D.W. Ring, Balestrand, Nov. 9, 1900; Feb. 21, 1901;
Owen Wister, Saunderstown [no state,] Sept. 8, 1902;
W. B. Yeats, New York City,
Folder 1: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, not from family, 1907-1913.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
B.P.
Lascelles, Harrow-on-the-Hill, England, Sept. 20, 1907;
Georgina
Max Muller, England, Jan. 1, 1907; Gravesend, Jan. 14, no year; Oxford,
Henry
Newbolt, Salisbury, March 9, 1909;
Edith
Rendel, London, Nov. 10, 1907; Charlwood, Surrey, postmarked
Ada
Salsworthy, Santa Barbara, Calif., April 9, 1912; Los Angeles, April 16, 1912; New York City, May 9, 1912;
Arcachon, France, Feb. 9, 1913;
Owen
Wister, Santa Barbara, Calif., May 4, 1910; Saunderstown, R.I., Aug. 25, no
year; no place, Oct. 17, no year;
[illegible,] Cambridge, Mass., May 9, 1907.
Folder 2: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, not from family,
1915-1918.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
Elizabeth
Arnim, Malden, March 25, 1916; Huntington, New York, April 5, 1916; Greenwich,
Conn., April 28, 1916; London, July 6, 1916; Santa Barbara, Jan. 23, 1917
(signed Elizabeth junior);
Elizabeth
Butterworth (the former Elizabeth Arnim), Paso Robles, Calif.,
Anna
Ibsen, Bergen, Norway, Feb. 15, 1916;
Elizabeth
Russell (Lady Russell), Owslebury, Nov. 25, 1915; San Ysidro, Nov. 1, 1916;
Santa Barbara, Nov. 6, 1916; San Ysidro, Jan. 1, 1917; San Ysidro, Jan. 24,
1917 (signs as Elizabeth I); Chichester, Sept. 11, 1917; Santa Barbara, Nov. 27
[probably 1916];
Ada
Salsworthy, New York City, March 6, 1915; London, April 10, 1916;
Elizabeth
(not always clear if from Elizabeth Russell or Elizabeth Arnim) Greenwich, May
16, 1916 (probably Arnim); Greenwich, June 19, 1916 (two letters); Greenwich,
Aug. 25, 1916; Greenwich, Aug.26, 1916; Greenwich, Sept. 26, 1916; Santa
Barbara, Oct. 27, 1916; en route, New York Central Lines, March 12, 1917;
Halsey Ricardo, London, Aug. 12, 1917;
Margaret Weland, no place, Aug. 24, 1917;
Winnecotte(?), [Paris?],
JK, Philadelphia, March 1, 1917;
[illegible,] Pine St., Philadelphia, April 13, 1917;
Folder 3: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, not from
family, 1922-1930.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
Elizabeth
Russell, Randogne sur Sierre, Switzerland, Sept. 28, 1922;
Ada
Salsworthy, London, Dec. 29, 1922;
Roland
E. Lomax Vaughan Williams, England,
Thomas
S. Jones Jr., New York City, Sept. 20, 1927; Oct. 20, 1927; Nov. 1, 1927; Nov.
29, 1927; June 11, 1928; June 17(?), 1928; Jan. 11, 1929; April 10, 1929; May
12, 1929; May 25, 1929; June 9, 1929; Sept. 5, 1929; Sept. 21, 1929; verse “The
Unicorn” dated Christmas 1930
Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw, San Diego, Calif.,
Catherine Iredale, Manchester, England, March 26,
1929;
Winnie(?) Poligrau(?), Baden-Baden,
Mrs. Etsu Sugimoto, Kobe, Japan,
Folder 4: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, from family and
others, 1932-1947.
Correspondents
are as follows (listed here by name, but letters are filed by date):
John
Buchanan, North Wembley, Middlesex, England, Feb. 17, 1940 with invoice ;
Fernando & Gloria de los Rios, New York City, Aug.
15, 1939;
Toni Hendschel-Bracht, Garmisch, Feb. 2, 1939;
Joseph Hudnut, New York City, Dec.13, 1933;
Thomas
S. Jones Jr., New York City,
Winifred Holt Mather, Florence, Italy, Sept. 22, 1937;
Wedding
announcement of Jean Webster McKinney and Ralph Libby Connor, July 17, 1937;
Martin Schutze, Byrdcliffe Afternoons, Woodstock,
N.Y., July 5, 1940;
Hervey White, The Maverick, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 19,
1932;
Grandson Michael [Michael A. Monahan], July 28, 1947
Folder 5: To Jane Byrd Whitehead, not from
family, n.d.
Correspondents
are as follows (letters arranged by correspondents’ names):
J.B.
Brown, n.d. (page 3 only);
John
Cadwalader, [Philadelphia,} Nov. 22;
Minnie
Burnham Clayton, San Antonio, Texas, July 29;
T.
Marion(?) Crawford, Santa Barbara, n.d.;
Beaux
Cadwalader Jones, New York City, July 1;
Max
Muller, London, n.d. (but prior to the Whiteheads’ marriage in 1892);
Bea
Max Muller, Oxford, Nov.[?]14, no year (before the Whiteheads’ marriage)
(asking Jane to be a bridesmaid);
Georgina
Max Muller, Oxford, March 29; May 10; June 8; July 25; Sept. 10; Dec. 12;
Dec.15; Dec.15;
Alice Meynell, Boston, March 27; London, March 25;
London, Dec.16;
Henry W. Rolfe, n.d.;
Elizabeth I. [Russell], Santa Barbara, n.d.
Elizabeth Russell, [New York City?], n.d.; Keswick,
Virginia, April 24;
Elizabeth [Russell or Arnim], San Ysidro, Dec. 18;
Ada Salsworthy, April 15;
Florence Thaw, Montecito, Calif., March 24; Aug. 13;
Anne, Chelsea, London, June 29;
Betty [possibly Elizabeth Keating], telegram, Wawa,
Penn., Sept. 5;
Ethel, Doylestown, Penn., n.d.;
Folder 6: Letters to Mrs.
Peter McCall and Gertrude McCall, 1885-1917, n.d.
(These are not
from Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead or Jane Byrd Whitehead.)
J.R.[?] Cowell,
legation of the United States, London, Jan. 9, 1883, to Mrs. McCall, Oxford.
F. Max Muller, Oxford, Sept.
19, 1886, to “my dear friends”; envelope addressed to Mrs. McCall; and undated
note to Mrs. McCall.
Georgina Max Muller, Oxford,
postmark Dec. 11, 1887, to Mrs. McCall, Guildford.
[Lord] Aberdare, London,
July 23, 1887, to Mrs. McCall.
L. Northumberland,
Guildford, May 24, 1889, Monday evening, and June 26, 1890, to Mrs. McCall.
C. S. Bradford, [an
artist], Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1899, to
Miss [Gerturde] McCall.
John K. Mitchell,
Philadelphia, March 2, 1917, to Gertrude [McCall].
Box 10:
miscellaneous correspondence, correspondence of Peter Whitehead, correspondence
of Ralph Whitehead, Jr.
Folder 1: letters
to unknown recipients; letter in French to M. Shotwell; autographs of John
Burroughs (removed from letters), 1925, 1939, and no date (acc. 10x63)
[note: James Shotwell materials are found in Series
VI.]
Folder 2: letters
from Peter Whitehead, to parents or brother, 1911-1915, plus early undated
letters (acc. 10x63)
Folder 3: letters
from Peter Whitehead, to parents or brother, 1916-1918 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 4: letters
from Peter Whitehead, to parents or brother, 1919-1920 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 5: letters
from Peter Whitehead, to parents or brother, 1921 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 6: letters
from Peter Whitehead, to parents or brother, 1922 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 7: letters
from Peter Whitehead, to parents or brother, 1923, 1926, no date (acc. 10x63)
Folder 8: letters
to Peter Whitehead, not from family, ca.1915-1919; also stray envelopes (acc.
10x63)
Folder 9: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1908-1916, and early undated
letters (acc. 10x63)
Box 11: Ralph
Whitehead, Jr. correspondence.
Note:
postcards and photos from Ralph’s World War I service are found in Series VII
Folder 1: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1917 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 2: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1918-1919
(a
letter to Peter discusses parents’ pottery exhibit) (acc. 10x63)
Folder 3: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., mostly to parents or brother, 1920 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 4: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1921 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 5: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1922, January-July (acc.
10x63)
Folder 6: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1922, August-September (acc.
10x63)
Box 12:
Ralph Whitehead, Jr. correspondence
Note: a
photo album with Ralph’s pictures from South America is found in Series VII.
Folder 1: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1922, October-December (acc.
10x63)
Folder 2: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1923, January-May (acc.
10x63)
Folder 3: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1923, June-December (acc.
10x63)
Folder 4: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1924 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 5: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1925 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 6: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., mostly to parents or brother, 1926
(includes
reports to employer) (acc. 10x63)
Folder 7: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1927 (acc. 10x63)
Folder 8: letters
from Ralph Whitehead, Jr., to parents or brother, 1928 and undated
(includes
letter written on board Vestris)
(acc. 10x63)
Folder 9: letters
to Ralph Whitehead, Jr., not from family, 1916-1917, 1919
[Choate
Club invitation could have been sent to either Ralph or Peter] (acc. 10x63)