The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

            Creator:         Walpole Society (U.S.)                                  

            Title:               Records

            Dates:             1909-2016

            Call No.:         Col. 386

            Acc. No.:        94x143; 2018x44; 2018x45; 2018x74

            Quantity:        58 boxes, one folder, books

            Location:        23 E-F 1-6, G 1-5

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

The Walpole Society is an organization that is dedicated to the appreciation and study of American decorative art, architecture, and history.  It took its name from Horace Walpole (1717-1797), an English writer, political figure, and collector.  A member of the society once wrote of Walpole: "his turn of mind and methods of collecting were similar to those of our collectors--their prototype, as it were."

 

The society was established in Boston in October 1909, by H. Eugene Bolles, H.W. Kent, and Luke Vincent Lockwood.  Early leaders of the society held an organizational meeting on January 21, 1910, at Heublein's Hotel, Hartford, Conn., and it is this day that the group recognizes as its date of origin.  At that time 25 individuals were invited to join the society; 21 accepted.  Membership included--and still includes--scholars, antiquarians, writers, collectors, and museum and library professionals.  Throughout the years, many Walpoleans have enjoyed the personal wherewithal to assemble their own significant collections of Americana.  From its inception in 1910 through 1994, there have been 125 members, by design all male.  In recent years, wives of members and widows of former members have been invited to society functions.

 

At one point in its history, qualifications for membership were defined as "distinction in the collecting of early American objects of the decorative arts and fine arts, or attainment through study or experience in the knowledge of these arts; and the social qualifications essential to the well-being of a group of like-minded persons."

 

Early members included Edwin Atlee Barber, writer and expert on pottery and porcelain and director of the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art; Clarence Brigham, bibliophile and director of the American Antiquarian Society; Thomas Benedict Clarke, art collector, connoisseur and agent; John Cotton Dana, director of the Free Public Library of Newark, New Jersey, and also of the Newark Museum Association; Henry Francis du Pont, collector of American decorative arts and founder of the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library; Mantle Fielding, an architect by training and an author of studies on American painting; R.T.H. Halsey, a broker by vocation and an art critic, collector, and writer by avocation; and Thomas W. Streeter, lawyer, businessman, and book collector.

 

The Walpole Society meets regularly, customarily two or three times each year.  Meetings have usually taken place in states along the eastern seaboard from Maine to South Carolina, though members of the society traveled to Bermuda in 1968 and Italy in 1984.  In an effort to expand membership geographically during the 1990s, there were meetings in California, New Mexico, and Texas.  Typically, meetings consist of visits to historic sites and libraries, as well as social functions.  Members are encouraged to discuss their interests and collections at their gatherings.

 

The society has an impressive list of publications to its credit.  They include Furniture Collector's Glossary, by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913), Ceramic Collector's Glossary, by Edwin Atlee Barber (1914), List of Early American Silversmiths ..., by Hollis French (1917), and The Arts & Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, and South Carolina, by Alfred Coxe Prime (1929-1932).  As well, from 1926 the society has published its own annual, The Walpole Society Note Book, in which former members are remembered through memorials, meetings are recounted and pictured, and writings on topics of interest are shared.  In addition to works issued by the society, its membership has an impressive independent publishing record.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The records of the Walpole Society--actually, its archives and modest library--date from 1909 to 2013.  Included are manuscript and printed records of and photographs taken at meetings, nominations for membership, correspondence between the secretary and members of the society, materials relating to Walpole Society publications, biographical materials about society members, and some financial data.  As well, there is a DVD of a 2007 television program broadcast on C-SPAN featuring the Christie’s sale of the Frank Streeter collection. 

 

Because he was secretary for so long, 1939-1962, many of the letters in the archive came from the office of Chauncey C. Nash, a stockbroker and collector of American furniture.  Other secretaries who served from 1909 to 1960 were Henry Watson Kent (1910-1911, 1915-1923), Dwight Blaney (1911-1912), George Parker Winship (1912-1915), and Philip L. Spalding (1923-1938).  Correspondence of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. is also found.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

 

The papers are divided into series: I. Correspondence and other records of the society; II. Information about members; III. Photographs; and IV.  Publications by members and by the Society.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Most of the collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

The records of the Walpole Society are on permanent deposit with the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera.  Current members have been encouraged to contribute their Walpole Society papers to the archives.  The records are open to researchers except for material having to do with nominations for membership, 1950-date.  From time to time, other papers may also be restricted.

 

The Note Book for 2009/2010 is gift of Brock Jobe.

 

Accession 2018x44: gift of Jeanne Schinto.

Accession 2018x45: gift of Julia B. Leisenring.

Accession 2018x74: gift of Daniel P. Brown, Jr., but items are from papers of Henry Wood Erving.

Accession 2020x11: gift of Teri Lynn Herbert (signed copy of Note Book, 1993-1994).

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

           

            People:

                        Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

                        Isham, Norman.

                        Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967.

                        Lockwood, Luke Vincent.

                        Nash, Chauncey.

                        Spaulding, Philip L.

                        Bolles, Eugene.

                        Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948.

                       

            Topics:

                        Walpole Society - Records and correspondence.

                        Collectors and collecting.

Corporate minutes.

Decorative arts - Societies, etc.

                        Societies - History, organization, etc.

Societies - Records and correspondence.

                       

                        Financial records.

                        Administrative records.

                        Correspondence.

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 23 E-F 1-6, G 1-5

 

 

Box 1: early years and records of meetings

            [Note: additional records of meetings are found in correspondence files]

 

Folders 1-2:     Early years, 1909-1926

                        Includes minutes of meetings and photos from meetings

Folder 3:          Meetings, 1910-1913, including notices, minutes, photos, some correspondence, a photocopy of 1910 booklet with constitution and list of members (that one item is from acc. 2018x44)

Folders 4-6      Meetings, 1910-1911, 1912-1915, 1916-1927, including minutes, notices, some correspondence

Folders 7-8:     Records of meetings, 1911-1934

Folder 9:          Records of meetings, 1935: program cover drawings

Folders 10-13: Records of meetings, 1935-1955

 

 

Box 2: records of meetings; meeting programs

            [Note: additional records of meetings are found in correspondence files]

           

Folders 1-10:   Records of meetings, 1956-1970

Folder 11:        Meeting programs, 1921, 1933-1939

 

 

Box 3-A: minutes of meetings and meeting announcements, from Philip L. Spalding

            [Note: additional records of meetings are found in correspondence files]

 

Folders 1-3:     minutes of meetings, 1923-1925

Folders 4-9:     meeting announcements, 1923-1937

 

 

Box 3-B: meeting programs

            [Note: additional records of meetings are found in correspondence files]

 

Folders 1-8:     Meeting programs, 1940-1961, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1975-1976, 1980-1982, 1988, 1993, 2002-2003, 2005-2006, Oct. 2010 [included a visit to Winterthur], fall 2013

Folder 9:          Walpole Society symposium held at Winterthur Museum, October 9, 2010: recorded on 5 DVD-Rs

 

 

Box 4: correspondence of Norman M. Isham

 

Folders 1-2:     Isham, Norman M.: correspondence, notices, photographs, circa 1911-circa 1938

Folder 3:          Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: A-B, 1914-1918

Folder 4:          Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: C, 1910-1915

Folder 5:          Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: D-E, 1911-1936

Folder 6:          Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: F-H, 1919-1931

Folder 7-9:      Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: I-L, 1912-1931

Folder 10:        Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: M-O, 1921-1936, and miscellaneous

Folder 11:        Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: P-Q, 1911-1935

 

 

Box 5: correspondence of Norman M. Isham and H. W. Kent

 

Folder 1:          Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: R-V, 1916-1937

Folder 2:          Isham, Norman M.: correspondence: W-Z, 1910-1929

Folder 3:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Samuel P. Avery, 1910

Folder 4:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Edwin A. Barber, 1910-1917

Folder 5:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with F. H. Bigelow, 1910-1914

Folder 6:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Dwight Blaney, 1910-1917

Folder 7:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Thomas B. Clarke, 1917

Folder 8:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1914

Folder 9:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence with George Francis Dow, 1916

Folder 10:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with H.W. Erving, 1910-1921

Folder 11:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Hollis French, 1910-1921

Folder 12:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Walter Gilliss, 1910-1914

Folder 13:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with R.T. Haines Halsey, 1910

Folder 14:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Norman M. Isham, 1915-1917

Folder 15:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1910-1920

Folder 16:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Charles A. Munn, 1916-1921

Folder 17:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Albert H. Pitkin, 1910

Folder 18:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Bruce Rogers, 1911

Folder 19:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Charles H. Tyler, 1916-1918

Folder 20:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with George Parker Winship, 1913-1917

Folder 21:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Theodore S. Woolsey, 1910-1916

Folder 22:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence with Yama Farms Inn, 1914

Folder 23:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence, 1910-1918

Folder 24:        Kent, H. W.: correspondence, 1919-1921

 

                       

Box 6: correspondence of H. W. Kent and of Philip L. Spalding and his office

           

Folder 1:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence, 1927-1930

Folders 2-4:     Kent, H. W.: correspondence, 1931

Folder 5:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence, 1931-1932

Folder 6:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence, 1932-1933

Folder 7:          Kent, H. W.: correspondence 1934-1935

Folder 8:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Samuel P. Avery, 1910-1911

Folder 9:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Edwin A. Barber, 1915-1916

Folder 10:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Francis H. Bigelow, 1929

Folder 11:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Dwight Blaney, 1909

Folder 12:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with H. Eugene Bolles, 1909-1910

Folder 13:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Morgan Brainard, 1924-1935

Folder 14:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with R. A. Canfield, 1909

Folder 15:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Thomas B. Clarke, 1909-1931

Folder 16:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Alexander S. Cochran, 1915-1929

Folder 17:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with John Cotton Dana, 1909-1935

Folder 18:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with George Francis Dow, 1916-1936

Folder 19:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Joseph Downs, 1935-1936

Folder 20:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Henry F. du Pont, 1932

Folder 21:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Henry W. Erving, 1909-1935

Folder 22:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Mantle Fielding, 1925-1926

Folder 23:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Hollis French,   1909

Folder 24:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with William B. Goodwin, 1927-1933

Folder 25:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with R.T.H. Halsey, 1909-1914

Folder 26:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Norman M. Isham, 1911

Folder 27:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with J. Frederick Kelly, 1935

Folder 28:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Russell H. Kettell, 1937

Folder 29:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with William D. Miller, 1932-1937

Folder 30:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with John Hill Morgan, 1919

Folder 31:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Charles A. Munn, 1915-1924

 

                       

Box 7: correspondence of Philip L. Spalding and his office

 

Folder 1:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Chauncey Nash, 1929

Folder 2:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with George S. Palmer, 1909-1934

Folder 3:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with A. J. Parsons, 1909

Folder 4:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Stephen H. P. Pell, 1937

Folder 5:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Albert H. Pitkin, 1909-1917

Folder 6:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Charles A. Platt, 1910-1913

Folder 7:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Frederic B. Pratt, 1909

Folder 8:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Herbert L. Pratt, 1917-1918

Folder 9:          Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Alfred C. Prime, 1924-1926

Folder 10:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Charles R. Richards, 1914-1936

Folder 11:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with George D. Seymour, 1917-1918

Folder 12:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Charles H. Tyler, 1915-1931

Folder 13:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Wm. Mitchell Van Winkle, 1935

Folder 14:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Frederick S. Wait, 1909-1910

Folder 15:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Alexander W. Weddell, 1932

Folder 16:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Samuel W. Woodhouse, 1925-1927

Folder 17:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with John M. Woolsey, 1916-1917

Folder 18:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Theodore S. Woolsey, 1909-1929

Folder 19:        Spalding, Philip L.: office of: correspondence with Lawrence W. Wroth, 1935

Folder 20:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1923-1925

Folder 21:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1926-1927

Folder 22:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1928-1929

Folder 23:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1930-1931

Folder 24:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1932-1933

Folder 25:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1934

Folder 26:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1935

Folder 27:        Spalding, Philip L.: correspondence, 1936-1937

Folder 28:        Spalding, Philip L.: Publications Committee, 1924-1934

Folder 29:        Spalding, Philip L.: Walpole Society history

 

           

Box 8: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

 

Folder 1:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Vincent D. Andrus, 1952-1961

Folder 2:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with William Sumner Appleton, 1943-1947

Folder 3:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Clifton W. Barrett, 1958-1962

Folders 4-6:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., 1954-1962

Folder 7:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Dwight Blaney, 1940-1945

Folders 8-15:   Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Morgan Brainard, 1946-1953

                        [continues in next box]

 

           

Box 9: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

 

Folders 1-4:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Morgan Brainard, 1954-1957

Folders 5-7:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Newton Brainard, 1946-1962

Folders 8-9:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Clarence Brigham, 1941-1963

Folder 10:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with John Nicholas Brown, 1954-1960

Folder 11:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with E. Milby Burton, 1956-1961

Folder 12:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Ralph Carpenter, 1950-1958

Folders 13-14: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Herbert A. Claiborne, 1947-1954

                        [continues in next box]

 

           

Box 10: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

 

Folders 1-2:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Herbert A. Claiborne, 1955-1957

Folder 3:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Lammot du Pont Copeland, 1956-1961

Folder 4:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Joseph Downs, 1948-1954

Folders 5-8:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Henry Francis du Pont, 1948-1956

Folder 9:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Henry W. Erving. 1937-1941

Folder 10:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Mantle Fielding, 1937-1941

Folder 11:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Harry H. Flagler, 1943-1953

Folder 12:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Henry N. Flynt, 1950-1959

Folder 13:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Hollis French, 1935-1941

Folder 14:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with William Goodwin, 1944-1950

Folder 15:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with R.T.H. Halsey, 1937-1941

Folder 16:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Edwin J. Hipkiss, 1947-1956

Folder 17:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1951-1961

Folder 18:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Norman M. Isham, 1937-1943

 

           

Box 11: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

 

Folders 1-2:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with William A. Jackson, 1942-1961

Folders 3-4:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Macgill James, 1943-1960

Folder 5:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Walter M. Jeffords, 1947-1960

Folder 6:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with J. Frederick Kelly, 1945-1947

Folder 7-10:    Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Henry W. Kent, 1942-1948

Folder 11:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Russell H. Kettell, 1948-1958

Folder 12:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Reginald M. Lewis, 1952-1960

Folder 13:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Wilmarth S. Lewis, 1952-1961

 

           

Box 12: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

 

Folder 1:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Bertram K. Little, 1949-1962

Folder 2:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1945-1951

Folders 3-4:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Augustus P. Loring, Jr., 1946-1961

Folder 5:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with J. William Middendorf, 1958-1962

Folder 6-7:      Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with William D. Miller, 1939-1959

Folders 8-9:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Charles F. Montgomery, 1955-1961

Folders 10-11: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with John Hill Morgan, 1940-1945

Folders 12-14: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Irving S. Olds, 1952-1957

                        [continues in next box]

           

 

Box 13: correspondence of Chauncey Nash with Irving S. Olds

 

Folders 1-14:   Nash Chauncey: correspondence with Irving S. Olds, 1958-1962

 

           

Box 14: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

 

Folder 1:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with William B. Osgood, 1957-1961

Folders 2-4:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with J.G. D'Arcy Paul, 1945-March 1958

Folder 5:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Stephen Pell, 1937-1950

Folder 6:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with John M. Phillips, 1940-1953

Folders 7-8:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with J. Hall Pleasants, 1938-1956

Folder 9:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Frederic Pratt, 1937-1945

Folders 10-11: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with William H. Putnam, 1943-1959

Folders 12-13: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Carleton R. Richmond, 1939-1962

Folders 14-15: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with George D. Seymour, 1934-1945

 

           

Box 15: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

           

Folders 1-11:   Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Theodore Sizer, 1942-1962

Folder 12:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Philip L. Spalding, 1937-1938

           

           

Box 16: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

           

Folders 1-3:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Thomas W. Streeter, 1945-1961

Folders 4-11:   Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Wm. Mitchell Van Winkle, 1950-1961

Folders 12-13: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Alexander O. Vietor, 1958-1961

Folder 14:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Nicholas B. Wainwright, 1961-1962

           

           

Box 17: correspondence of Chauncey Nash

           

Folder 1:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Guy W. Walker, 1952-1954

Folder 2:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Thomas T. Waterman, 1947-1951

Folder 3:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Alexander W. Weddell, 1939-1949

Folder 4:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with George Parker Winship, 1937-1952

Folder 5:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Samuel W. Woodhouse, Jr., 1937-1943

Folder 6:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with John M. Woolsey, 1938-1945

Folder 7:          Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Heathcote M. Woolsey, 1954-1957

Folders 8-10:   Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Lawrence C. Wroth, 1946-1961

Folder 11:        Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with various libraries, book stores, etc., about various publications, 1938-1962

Folders 12-17: Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Anthoensen Press, 1953- March 1960

           

           

Box 18: correspondence of Chauncey Nash and William A. Jackson

           

Folders 1-4:     Nash, Chauncey: correspondence with Anthoensen Press, April 1960-June 1962

Folder 5:          Walpole Society: gifts to libraries, 1960

Folders 6-12:   Jackson, William A.: correspondence, 1957- March 1963

 

           

Box 19: correspondence of William A. Jackson, Frederick B. Adams, Jr., and Charles F. Montgomery

 

Folders 1-4:     Jackson, William A.: correspondence, April 1963- December 1964

Folder 5:          Adams, Frederick B., Jr.: correspondence, 1964-1965

Folders 6-12:   Montgomery, Charles F.: correspondence, 1962-1970

Folder 13:        Montgomery, Charles F.: correspondence with J.G. D'Arcy Paul, 1962-1963

Folder 14:        Montgomery, Charles F.: correspondence with William A. Jackson, 1962-1963

Folder 15:        Montgomery, Charles F.: correspondence with Carleton R. Richmond, 1962-1965

 

                       

Box 20: correspondence of Carleton Richmond

 

Folders 1-8: Richmond, Carleton: correspondence, 1950, 1953-1968

                        [1950 letter is a note from Henry Francis du Pont]

           


Box 21: Walpole Society papers of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.

 

Folders 1-6:     Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1955-1959

Folder 7:          Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, attendance, 1959

Folder 8:          Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, expenses, 1959

Folder 9:          Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, itinerary, 1959

Folder 10:        Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, notices, 1959

Folder 11:        Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, preliminary, 1959

Folder 12:        Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, reservations, 1959

Folder 13:        Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Virginia meeting, travel, 1959

Folder 14:        Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1960

 

 

Box 22: Walpole Society papers of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.

 

Folders 1-8:     Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, January-March 1967

Folder 9:          Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: preliminary and program, 1967

Folder 10:        Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1968

           

 

Box 23: Walpole Society papers of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.

 

Folders 1-2:     Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1969-1970

Folders 3-6:     Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1970 Spring meeting

Folders 7-10:   Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1971-1972

 

 

Box 24: Walpole Society papers of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.

 

Folders 1-12:   Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, 1973-April 20, 1986

 

 

Box 25: Walpole Society papers of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Alfred E. Bissell, Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., and Jared Edwards

 

Folders 1-8:     Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.: Walpole Society papers, April 20, 1986-1997

Folders 9-12:   Bissell, Alfred E.: Walpole Society papers, 1964-1993

Folders 13-14: Carpenter, Ralph E., Jr.: 1949-1962

           

 

Box 26: Walpole Society papers of Jared Edwards

 

Folders 1-9:     Edwards, Jared: Walpole Society papers, April 1992-1999

           

 

Box 27: Walpole Society papers of Jared Edwards

 

Folders 1-7:     Edwards, Jared: Walpole Society papers, 2000-2006

 

           

Box 28: Walpole Society papers of Jared Edwards and other papers

 

Folders 1-7:     Edwards, Jared: Walpole Society papers, 2007-July 2013

Folder 8:          Osgood, William Bradford: correspondence, 1982 and no date

Folder 9:          Garrett, Wendell: correspondence, 2002

Folder 10:        Engraving of Horace Walpole;

                        post card of portrait of Horace Walpole;

                        article: "Horace Walpole: printer and gallant," by Margaret B. Stillwell

Folder 11:        C-SPAN, Frank Streeter Collection, Christie’s Auction House, June 24, 2007 (DVD)       

Folder 12:        Walpole Society (Great Britain) and The Society of Antiquaries of London

Folder 13:        American museums and collecting antiques (various articles)

Folder 14:        “The Walpole Society: A Century of Gentlemen Collecting,” paper by Jenna Teachout, for Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship, 2009

Folder 15:        Tour: Spring 2018: Thank you letters (acc. 2018x45)

                       

                       

Box 29: Travel brochures, 1920s-1950s

           

Folder 1:          Connecticut

Folder 2:          Delmarva Peninsula

Folder 3:          Kentucky

Folder 4:          Maryland

Folder 5:          Massachusetts

Folder 6:          New Hampshire

Folder 7:          New York

Folder 8:          Pennsylvania

Folder 9:          Rhode Island

Folder 10:        South Carolina

Folders 11-12: Virginia

           

 

Box 30: financial information

 

Folder 1:          Spalding, Philip L.: finances, 1928-1936

Folder 2:          Financial, miscellaneous, 1936-1962

Folder 3:          Dues book, 1938-1958

Folder 4:          Receipts and disbursements, 1944-1953

Folder 5:          Checkbook and receipts, 1951-1963

Folders 6-8:     Treasurer’s receipts, 1952-1955

                       

           

 

Box 31: financial information

 

Folders 1-7:     Accounts, 1951-1964

 

 

Box 32: Financial and other records, 1963-1967

            (use restricted to officers)

 

Box 33: Financial and other records, 1968-1973

            (use restricted to officers)

 

Box 34: Financial and other records, 1974-1977

            (use restricted to officers)

 

Box 35: Financial and other records, 1978-1982

            (use restricted to officers)

 

           

Box 36: artifacts

           

Folder 1:          Gorget or medallion, once owned by John M. Woolsey; inscribed Walpole Society MCMIX, John Munro Woolsey, December 15, 1916.  Made by Crichton & Co., Ltd., New York; in original box

Folder 2:          rubber stamp for The Walpole Society, Treasurer

Folder 3:          stickers for an offprint from the Walpole Society Notebook of 1951, printed by the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine

Folder 4:          gorget which belonged to Wendell Garrett, engraved with initials GR [King George], surmounted by a crown; lined with leather, 20th century ribbon

                        [gift of estate of Wendell Garrett]

 

           

Oversize folder, on shelf:

           

New-York Historical Society "Testimonial," May 25, 1946;

 

Peabody Museum of Salem greeting, October 1949;

 

[also 3 photographs – see series III for description]
Series II: Members of the Walpole Society

 

Box 1:

 

Folders 1-2:     Membership, miscellaneous, 1939-1957

Folder 3:          Walpole Society members, addresses, and telephone numbers, 1966-1969

Folders 4-7:     Members and proposed members, 1917-1937

Folder 8:          Walpole Society nominations, 1935-1964

Folder 9:          Proposed member, Newton Case Brainard, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 10:        Proposed member, William H. Claflin, 1935

Folder 11:        Proposed member, Joseph Downs, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 12:        Proposed member, Samuel Prescott Fay, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 13:        Proposed member, Valentine Hollingsworth, 1935

Folder 14:        Proposed member, J. Frederick Kelley, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 15:        Proposed member, Russell Hawes Kettell, 1936 [see also member biography]

Folder 16:        Proposed member, Samuel Eliot Morison, 1936

Folder 17:        Proposed member, Stephen H. P. Pell, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 18:        Proposed member, Harry T. Peters, 1936 [see also member biography]

Folder 19:        Proposed member, Theodore Sizer, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 20:        Proposed member, Andrew Varick Stout, 1935

Folder 21:        Proposed member, Wm. Mitchell Van Winkle, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 22:        Proposed member, Lawrence C. Wroth, 1935 [see also member biography]

Folder 23:        H. W. Kent memorial album

 

 

Box 2: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          List of members, 1910-2000

Folder 2:          Adams, Frederick Baldwin, Jr.

Folder 3:          Andrus, Vincent Dyckman

Folder 4:          Appleton, William Sumner

Folder 5:          Avery, Samuel Putnam [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 6:          Barber, Edwin Atlee [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 7:          Barrett, Clifton Waller

Folder 8:          Berkeley, Francis Lewis, Jr.

Folder 9:          Bigelow, Francis Hill

Folder 10:        Bissell, Alfred Elliott

Folder 11:        Blaney, Dwight

Folder 12:        Bolles, Hezekiah Eugene [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 13:        Brainard, Morgan Bulkeley [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 14:        Brainard, Newton Case

Folder 15:        Brigham, Clarence Saunders

 

 

Box 3: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Brown, John Carter

Folder 2:          Brown, John Nicholas

Folder 3:          Bryan, John [acc. 2018x44]

Folder 4:          Burton, E. Milby

Folder 5:          Canfield, Richard Albert [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 6:          Carpenter, Ralph Emerson, Jr.

Folder 7:          Claiborne, Herbert Augustine [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 8:          Claiborne, Herbert Augustine, Jr.

Folder 9:          Clarke, Thomas Benedict

Folder 10:        Cochran, Alexander Smith [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 11:        Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Ned)

Folder 12:        Copeland, Lammot du Pont

Folder 13:        Curtis, George Munson

Folder 14:        Dana, John Cotton [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 15:        Dietrich, H. Richard, Jr.

Folder 16:        Dow, George Francis [includes acc. 2018x44]

                       

           

Box 4: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Downs, Joseph           

Folder 2:          du Pont, Henry Francis

Folder 3:          du Pont, William Kemble

Folder 4:          Edwards, Jared Ingersoll

Folder 5:          Erving, Henry Wood [includes acc. 2018x44; and 2018x74.8-10, which is some correspondence]

Folder 6:          Fairbanks, Jonathan Leo

Folder 7:          Fales, Dean Abner, Jr.

Folder 8:          Field, Marshall, V [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 9:          Fielding, Mantle

Folder 10:        Flagler, Harry Harkness (also information about Henry Morrison Flagler)

Folder 11:        Flynt, Henry Needham

Folder 12:        French, Hollis

Folder 13:        Ganz, Julian, Jr.

Folder 14:        Garrett, Wendell

Folder 15:        Goodhue, Albert, Jr.

Folder 16:        Goodwin, William Brownell [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 17:        Halsey, Richard Townley Haines

Folder 18:        Hanes, Ralph Philip

Folder 19:        Hanes, Ralph Philip, Jr.

Folder 20:        Harrison, Alfred Craven, Jr.

Folder 21:        Heckscher, Morrison Harris

Folder 22:        Herdeg, John Andrew

Folder 23:        Hipkiss, Edwin James

Folder 24:        Houghton, Arthur Amory, Jr. [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 25:        Isham, Norman Morrison

Folder 26:        Jackson, William Alexander

Folder 27:        James, Magill

           

 

Box 5: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Jeffords, Walter Morrison

Folder 2:          Johnson, Edward Crosby, 3d

Folder 3:          Jordon, Daniel Parker

Folder 4:          Kelley, J. Frederick

Folder 5:          Kent, Henry Watson [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 6:          Kettell, Russell Hawes

Folder 7:          Lane, Mills Bee, IV

Folder 8:          Lanmon, Dwight Pierson

Folder 9:          Lewis, Reginald Minturn

Folder 10:        Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 11:        Little, Bertram Kimball [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 12:        Lockwood, Luke Vincent [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 13:        Loring, Augustus Peabody [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 14:        Loring, Augustus Peabody, Jr.

Folder 15:        Manigault, Peter

Folder 16:        McIntosh, DeCourcy Eyre

Folder 17:        McNeil, Robert Lincoln, Jr.

                       

 

Box 6: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Mellon, Paul [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 2:          Middendorf, John William, II [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 3:          Miller, William Davis

Folder 4:          Minge, Ward Alan

Folder 5:          Monkhouse, Christopher Pruyn

Folder 6:          Montgomery, Charles Franklin [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 7:          Morgan, John Hill [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 8:          Munn, Charles Allen

Folder 9:          Nash, Chauncey Cushing [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 10:        Nichols, Frederick Doveton

Folder 11:        Olds, Irving Sands

Folder 12:        Oliver, Andrew

                       

 

Box 7: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Osgood, William Bradford

Folder 2:          Paine, Stephen Davies

Folder 3:          Palmer, George Shepard

Folder 4:          Parsons, Arthur Jeffrey

Folder 5:          Paul, J. Gilman D’Arcy

Folder 6:          Peck, Robert McCracken

Folder 7:          Pell, Stephen Hyatt Pelham [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 8:          Perry, Marsden Jasiel [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 9:          Peters, Harry Twyford

Folder 10:        Philips, John Marshall [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 11:        Pierce, Charles Eliot, Jr.

Folder 12:        Pitkin, Albert Hastings

Folder 13:        Platt, Charles Adams

Folder 14:        Pleasants, Jacob Hall

Folder 15:        Powell, Earl Alexander, III

Folder 16:        Pratt, Frederic Bayley

Folder 17:        Pratt, Herbert Lee

Folder 18:        Prime, Alfred Coxe    

Folder 19:        Prown, Jules David

Folder 20:        Putnam, William Hutchinson

 

 

Box 8: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Randall, Richard Harding, Jr. [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 2:          Reese, William

Folder 3:          Richards, Charles Russell [includes acc. 2018x44]   

Folder 4:          Richmond, Carleton Rubin

Folder 5:          Robertson, Jaquelin Taylor

Folder 6:          Seymour, George Dudley [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 7:          Sizer, Theodore [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 8:          Spalding, Philip Leffingwell 

Folder 9:          Spang, Joseph Peter, III

Folder 10:        Streeter, Frank Sherwin [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 11:        Streeter, Henry Schofield

Folder 12:        Streeter, Thomas Winthrop [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 13:        Tyler, Charles Hitchcock [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 14:        Van Winkle, William Mitchell

Folder 15:        Vietor, Alexander Orr

Folder 16:        Wainwright, Nicholas Biddle [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 17:        Wait, Frederick Scott

Folder 18:        Walker, Guy Warren, Jr.        

Folder 19:        Wang, Anthony William

 

 

Box 9: Member biographies

 

Folder 1:          Waterman, Thomas Tileston [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folders 2-3:     Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folder 4:          Wilmerding, John

Folder 5:          Winship, George Parker         

Folder 6:          Woodhouse, Samuel William, Jr.

Folder 7:          Woolsey, Heathcote Muirson

Folder 8:          Woolsey, John Munro

Folder 9:          Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury [includes acc. 2018x44]

Folders 10-11: Wroth, Lawrence Couselman [includes acc. 2018x44]

           
Series III: Photographs

 

Note: early photos are also found in Series I, Box 1

 

 

Boxes 1-A and 1-B:   Luke Vincent Lockwood's glass lantern slides:

            [captions are from the slides and from a typed list found in Box 2]

           

            [although the photographer’s name is covered with labels and so cannot be read, the address on these slides is the same as that found on some of the Edward Van Altena slides in Col. 916 at this repository]

 

Numbers 1-14 in Box 1-A; numbers 15-27 in Box 1-B:

           

1. H. Eugene Bolles, a founder and original member

2. Walpoleans at Dwight Blaney's farm in Weston, December 1910.  Erving, French, Canfield, Blaney, Dana; Kent in front

3. At the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, May 10, 1913.  Canfield, Blaney, Pitkin, Winship, Curtis, Erving, French, Tyler, Barber, Lockwood, and Bigelow

4. Newburyport, 1924.  Blaney, Winship, Lockwood, Erving, Spalding, French, John Woolsey, Isham, F.B. Pratt, and Theodore Woolsey

5. At Shirley on the James, April 1926.  Blaney, Spalding, John Woolsey, Erving, Lockwood, Morgan or Pratt, Palmer, and Isham [includes two women]

6. Westover on the James, April 1926.  Blaney, John Woolsey, Lockwood, Morgan, Erving, Palmer, Spalding, and F.B. Pratt

7. Virginia, 1926.  Spalding has the floor [i.e., he is talking]; Dow, Blaney, Erving, John Woolsey, Spalding, Morgan, Fielding [a woman is in the photo as well]

8. Mercer's Castle, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, October 1926

9. Doylestown, in front of the Fountain Inn, 1926.  Kent, John Woolsey, Erving, Fielding, Flagler, Spalding, Woodhouse, Lockwood, and Theodore Woolsey

10. Ratcliffe Manor, Maryland, April 30, 1927.  Isham, Palmer, Lockwood, Fielding, Seymour, Spalding, Erving, Swepson Earle, French, Morgan, Blaney, Goodwin, John Woolsey, F.B. Pratt,----, Dow

11. Broadhall, Chestertown, Maryland, April 1927.  Seymour, John Woolsey, Blaney, Kent, Morgan, French, Spalding, Fielding, Brainard, Erving, Palmer, Lockwood, Isham, Goodwin, Theodore Woolsey, Dow, and F.B. Pratt

12. On the way to Arlington, April 1927

            [men crossing a wooden bridge, on way to the Custis mansion]

13. Maryland.  Isham measures the bricks at Ratcliffe Manor, 1927

14. St. Luke's Church, Chestertown, Maryland.  Perfect brick work.  Spalding and Lockwood.

            [1927]

15. Somewhere in Maryland, April 1927.  A little respite.  F.B. Pratt

16. A party in Maryland, 1927

            [identified in pencil as being Whitehall]

17. At Dwight Blaney's farm, Weston, February 1929.  The judge considers.  Blaney, Erving, Spalding, Brainard, Palmer, and Judge Woolsey

18. High society in Annapolis, Maryland, May 1928.  Governor Ritchie does honors

19. Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.  At Mr. Hinsdale's house where we saw one of the finest collections of scrimshaw and whaling implements in existence, October 1929.  Nash, Spalding, French, Mr. and Mrs. Hinsdale, Dow, Woodhouse, and Frank Wood of the New Bedford Historical Society

20. At Ernest Dane's house in Brookline, Massachusetts, February 1930.  Pratt, Winship, Nash, Lockwood, Flagler, Fielding, Morgan, Woodhouse, Erving, Goodwin, Kent, and Blaney

21. Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1930.  Spalding, Woodhouse, Fielding, Isham, Morgan, Goodwin, Pratt, and Lockwood.  Halsey and Erving were at the meeting

22. The Dr. Isaac Winslow house, Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 1930.  "What is what?"  Blaney, Brainard, Dow, Erving, Fielding, French, Goodwin, Nash, Pratt, Richards, Seymour, Spalding, Winship, Woodhouse, Flagler, and Halsey

23. Outside Brooklyn Museum, February 1931.  Erving, Isham, Spalding, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Lockwood or Mrs. Pratt, Nash, Goodwin, Blaney, Winship, Halsey, Lockwood, John Woolsey, Fielding, Kent, Perry, and Flagler

24. The Minute Man, Concord, Massachusetts, October 1931.  "In the shadow of history."  Goodwin, Blaney, Dow, Nash, French, Brainard, Morgan, Isham, Erving, Flagler, and F.B. Pratt.  (Spalding and Winship).

25. Winterthur, October 12, 1932.  "A perfect background."  F.B. Pratt, Spalding, du Pont, Brainard, Fielding, Nash, Lockwood, French, Isham, Richards, Dow, Weddell, Miller, and Goodwin [taken in garden]

26. Hartford, May 19, 1933.  At Will Goodwin's camp at "Oregon," Tinkers Marsh, entitled "What Fun."  Kent, Spalding, Blaney, Brainard, Woodhouse, Morgan, Isham, Nash, Miller, John Woolsey, Erving, Goodwin, Lockwood, and Weddell

27. Hartford, May 19, 1933.  Dwight Blaney sings a song and John Woolsey marvels.  Lockwood

           

           

Box 2: photos and negatives [photos only, unless otherwise specified]

           

Folder 1:          Original captions to Lockwood's glass slides [typed list]

Folder 2:          Sudbury, Massachusetts, May 10, 1913

Folder 3:          Annapolis, 1920 [photographs and negatives]

Folders 4-6:     Virginia meeting, April 22-25, 1926

Folder 7:          Doylestown, Pennsylvania, October 1926

Folders 8-9:     Maryland meeting, Dwight Blaney, April 28-30, 1927  [photographs and negatives]

Folders 10-11: Eastern Shore, Maryland, April 27,1927

Folders 12-13: Connecticut, F.B. Pratt, 1928

Folders 14-15: F.B. Pratt, February 1928  [photographs and negatives]

Folder 16:        Western Shore, Maryland, R.T.H. Halsey, May 1928          

Folder 17:        Southern Maryland, F.B. Pratt, May 1928 [negatives]

Folder 18:        New Bedford and Nantucket, Massachusetts, October 1929

Folder 19:        New Bedford and Nantucket, Massachusetts, Dwight Blaney, October 1929

Folder 20:        Virginia, F.B. Pratt, April 1930

Folder 21:        Green Harbor, October 1930 

Folder 22:        Washington, D.C., 1931 [photographs and negatives]

Folder 23:        Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, October 1931

Folder 24:        Winterthur, Delaware, October 12, 1932 [photographs and negatives]

           

 

Box 3: photos and negatives [photos only, unless otherwise specified]

           

Folder 1:          Hartford, Connecticut, F.B. Pratt, May 1933

Folder 2:          Fort Ticonderoga, New York, F.B. Pratt, October 1933       

Folder 3:          Fort Ticonderoga, New York, September 1934 [photographs and negatives]

Folder 4:          New Haven, Connecticut, May 29-31, 1936

Folder 5:          Rhode Island, 1937

Folder 6:          Andover, Massachusetts, 1939

Folder 7:          Baltimore, September 1939

Folder 8:          Hartford, Connecticut, May 17-19, 1940

Folder 9:          Long Island, New York, 1940

Folder 10:        Gore Place, May 1941

Folder 11:        Sturbridge, Massachusetts, October 1941

Folder 12:        New York, May 1942

Folder 13:        Marlboro, Massachusetts and unidentified, 1946

Folder 14:        Salem, Massachusetts, 1947

             

           

Box 4: photos and negatives [photos only, unless otherwise specified]

 

Folder 1:          Richmond, Virginia, April 1947

Folder 2:          Hartford, Connecticut, 1950

Folder 3:          Mount Vernon, Virginia, 1950

Folder 4:          Newport, Rhode Island, 1952

Folder 5:          Maryland, 1952

Folder 6:          Monticello, Virginia, 1954

Folder 7:          Philadelphia, 1956

Folder 8:          South Carolina, 1956

Folder 9:          Tarrytown, New York and vicinity, May 1958

Folder 10:        Shelburne, Vermont, Irving S. Olds, 1958

Folder 11:        Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Winterthur, Delaware, Irving S. Olds, May 2-3, 1959

Folder 12:        James River, Virginia, October 1959

Folder 13:        Boston and vicinity, May 1961

Folder 14:        Norwich and New London, Connecticut, October 1961

Folder 15:        Boston and Cambridge, spring 2009

Folder 16:        Brown

Folder 17:        Essex Connecticut

           

           

Box 5: photos, negatives, post cards [photos only, unless otherwise specified]

           

Folders 1-2:     Maryland and Delaware

Folder 3:          Portsmouth

Folder 4:          Williamsburg, Virginia, F.B. Pratt

Folder 5:          Winterthur

Folder 6:          Walpole Society archives survey: Messrs. Osgood, Edwards, and Spang, 1991

Folder 7:          Negatives, miscellaneous

Folder 8:          Photographs, miscellaneous: furniture, prints, paintings, etc.

Folder 9:          Walpole Society visits (many group shots)

Folder 10:        Walpole Society members and visits: early, but not dated or identified

Folder 11:        Franklin hand press, 1932 [photo and blueprint]

Folder 12:        silver oar for Court of Vice Admiralty, New York, 1941 [photo and booklet about the oar]

Folder 13:        Post cards, set: “Connecticut Tercentenary, 1635-1935: Three Centuries of Connecticut Furniture,” from exhibit at Morgan Memorial

Folder 14:        Negatives for photos in Box 6, and notes about the photos

Folder 15:        Photos: mostly unidentified, although some are from Shelburne, Vermont, 1958

                        [note: some are stuck together – do not try to separate]

           

           

Box 6: photos

 

Photographs from meetings of and visits made by the Walpole Society, 1985-2006

            [negatives and notes for these are found in box 5]

           

 

Oversize folder, on shelf:

 

3 photographs of the residence of Michael Taradash in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York, taken by Gottscho-Schleisner, 1952 (entrance hall [looking into parlor], Pennsylvania German room [breakfast room], dining room [looking into entrance hall])


Series IV: Publications by members and by the Society

 

 

Box 1:

 

Folders 1-2:     Publications, miscellaneous, 1933-1958, 1963-1968

Folder 3:          Publications statement, 1913-1933

Folder 4:          Proof sheets: Check List and Index, the Note Books, 1910-1955

Folders 5-9:     Proof sheets, Walpole Society Note Book, 1955-1957, 1959, 1961

Folder 10:        Illustrations, Walpole Society Note Book, 1957        

Folder 11:        Waste sheets, Note Book, 1940 (continues in next box)

 

 

Box 2: publications of the Society and publications by members

 

Folder 1:          Waste sheets, Note Book, 1940 (continued from previous box)

 

Folders 2-6:     The Walpole Society: Constitution and members, 1910, 1912, 1920, 1927, 1942, 1958     

 

Folder 7:          Brainard, Morgan B.: "Frank Wallace, family coachman"

 

Folder 8:          Burton, E. Milby: "Hayden & Gregg, jewelers of Charleston" and

                                    "Thomas Elfe, Charleston cabinet-maker"

 

Folder 9:          Claiborne, Herbert A.: "Some colonial Virginia paint colors" and

                                    "Some paint colors from four eighteenth century Virginia houses"

 

Folder 10:        Dow, George Francis:  "Trade cards," in Old-Time New England  (Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities), v. 27 no. 1, July 1936.

                        (also contains "Raising Connecticut meeting-houses," by J. Frederick Kelly)

 

Folder 11:        Erving, Henry W.: "The Discoverer of Anaesthesia: Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford"

 

Folder 12:        Isham, Norman M.:  “John Goddard and his work"

 

Folder 13:        Isham, Norman M.: drawings and writings on architecture

 

Folder 14:        James, Macgill: "An Exhibition of paintings of Rembrandt Peale"

 

 

Box 3: Pamphlets by members of the Walpole Society

 

Folder 1:          Kelly, J. Frederick: "Early Connecticut stairs"

                        [see also Dow, George Francis – an article by Kelly in the same publication]

 

Folder 2:          Lewis, Wilmarth S.  "The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, 1933-1973,” in Yale University Library Gazette, v. 48 no. 2, October 1973

 

Folder 3:          Miller, William Davis:  "The Walpole Society: A Tribute to Its Founders and Original Members" (1940)

 

Folder 4:          Morgan, John Hill: "The Frossard collection of Drawings Attributed to John Trumbull" (reprint from 1941 The Magazine Antiques);

                                    "John Singleton Copley, 1737/8-1815"; and

                                    "The Work of M. Fevret de Saint Mémin"

 

Folder 5:          Nichols, Frederick D.: "Notes on some Virginia houses"

 

Folder 6:          Oliver, Andrew: “Wanderings in Walpoleshire"

 

Folder 7:          Pleasants, J. Hall: "George William West: A Baltimore Student of Benjamin West," in Art in America, v. 37, no. 1; and

                                    "Saint Memin water color miniatures"

 

Folder 8:          Seymour, George Dudley: "Memorials of Theophilus Eaton" and

                                    "William F. Hopson and his bookplates"

 

Folder 9:          Sizer, Theodore: "An Early checklist of the paintings of John Trumbull";

                                    "John Trumbull, amateur architect";

                                    "John Trumbull, cartographer"

                                    "John Trumbull, colonial limner";

                                    "John Trumbull, patriot painter, in northern New York";

                                    "Trumbull's paintings on postage stamps"; and

                                    "Trumbull's troubles: an omitted chapter of the artist's life" (in Yale University Library, Gazette, v. 25 no. 2, October 1950)

                                    “The Lebanon Meetinghouse, Lebanon, Connecticut: A Case-study in Restoration” (reprint from Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, v. 14, no. 2 [May 1955])

 

Folder 10:        "Theodore Sizer: A Bibliography of His Writings Published on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 19 March 1962, by the Art Gallery Associates and the Department of the History of Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut"

                                    (two copies, both signed by members of the Walpole Society)

           

Folder 11:        Woolsey, Theodore S.: "Old silver"

 

Folder 12:        Wroth, Lawrence C.: "American woodcuts and engravings, 1670-1800"

 

 

Box 4: Pamphlets of interest to members of the Walpole Society

 

Folder 1:          Addison Gallery of American Art: "William Dunlap, painter and critic"

 

Folder 2:          American Antiquarian Society: "A Guide to the resources of the American Antiquarian Society"

 

Folder 3:          Baltimore Museum of Art: "Charles Carroll of Carrollton" (3 copies)

 

Folder 4:          Burroughs, Alan: "John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752"

 

Folder 5:          Chamberlain, Robert Rensselaer: "A Criticism of New Haven architecture"

 

Folder 6:          Clement, Arthur W.: "Notes on early American porcelain, 1738-1838"

 

Folder 7:          Coffin, Charles Carleton: "The Story of the great fire, Boston, November 9-10, 1872"

 

Folder 8:          Conklin, Edwin G.: "Brief history of the American Philosophical Society"

 

Folder 9:          Dutchess County Historical Society, Year Book, v. 16, 1931

 

Folder 10:        "First and last poetical impressions of Boston and Providence rail-road"

 

Folder 11:        Grolier Club: "List of Publications and Exhibition Catalogues, 1884-1916"

 

Folder 12:        Heise, Carl Georg: "Colonial styles" [about a visit to and with photo and signature of Francis H. Bigelow]

 

Folder 13:        Historic Preservation, v. 10 no. 1, 1958 (National Trust for Historic Preservation)

 

Folder 14:        The Houghton Library (Harvard University): Report of accessions, 1958/1959- 1960/1961

           

Folder 15:        John Carter Brown Library, Annual reports, 1940/1941, 1942/1943-1943/1944, 1945/1946-1946/1947, 1950/1951

                                    [continues in next box]

 

           

Box 5: Pamphlets of interest to members of the Walpole Society (continued)

           

Folder 1:          John Carter Brown Library, Annual reports, 1951/1952, 1953/1954-1958/1959

           

Folder 2:          John Carter Brown Library, Conference” “A report of the meeting held in the Library at Brown University on the Early History of the Americas"

 

Folder 3:          Little, David B.: "America's first centennial celebration"

 

Folder 4:          Maryland Historical Society: "Amelung glass, an exhibition"

 

Folder 5:          Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Benjamin Franklin and his circle"

 

Folder 6:          Philadelphia Contributorship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, "Franklin & Fires : His Interest therein and His Efforts to Protect the Citizens of Philadelphia from Devastation…"

 

Folder 7:          Richardson, Emma. B.: "Charleston garden plots" and

                        "The Heyward-Washington house garden"

 

Folder 8:          Smith, Robert C.: "John Notman and the Athenaeum building"

 

Folder 9:          State Street Trust Co.: "Whale fishery of New England"

 

Folder 10:        Stoney, Samuel Gaillard: "Building a church on the Santee, 1804-1807"

 

Folder 11:        “The Story of a Dream as it was told to the Friends of Mr. Walpole at the Club of Odd Volumes” [one copy: folded, uncut sheet; another copy (acc. 2018x74.7): folded and cut]

 

Folder 12:        Taylor, Charles Henry: "Some notes on early American lithography"

 

Folder 13:        Townshend, Henry H.: "New Haven and the first oil well"

 

Folder 14;        Wall, Alexander J.: "Books on architecture printed in America, 1775-1830"

 

Folder 15:        Watson, Arthur C.: "Whaling exhibits of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society"

 

Folder 16:        Woodhouse, S. W., Jr.: several articles by him: "Sheffield plate";

                                    “Philadelphia and the East India Trade”; and

                                    “Philadelphia as Seen Before the Civil War”

 

Folder 17:        Wright, Louis Booker: "Ivory towers--a national imperative"

 

Folder 18:        Yale University, "Handbook of the Gallery of Fine Arts"

 

 

Box 6 (flat box): “Theodore Sizer (1892-1967): Teacher, Scholar, Craftsman; a Centennial Album of His Life and Art.”  Assembled by descendants of Sizer.  copyrighted 1992 [in three-ring binder]

           

 

Box 7: Woodcuts and metal engraving plates used in Walpole Society publications

           

           

Box 8: Metal engraving cuts (mounted on wood) used in The Furniture Collectors’ Glossary, by Luke Vincent Lockwood, published by the Walpole Society, 1913.

 

 

 

Books on shelves:

 

Walpole Society Note Book, 1932-1933, 1935-2009/2010, 2015-2018

            (2 copies of many of the volumes; the 1987 volume is a photocopy; volumes for 1991/1992-2009/10 cover 2 years)

            Note: one of the copies for 1993-1994 is signed by most members of the society (acc. 2020x11).

           

 

Andrew Oliver, 1906-1981. Mattapoisett, Mass.: The Parsonage, 1983.

 

Barber, Edwin Atlee.  The Ceramic collector's glossary. New York: Walpole Society, 1914

           

A Brief Account of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library. Charlottesville: The University of                             Virginia, 1960. (2 copies)

           

Canfield, Cass.  The Publishing Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.

 

The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter … Sold by Order of the Trustees.  New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1966-1970.  (7 volumes)

           

Charles F. Montgomery and Florence M. Montgomery: a tribute ...

            New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1978.

           

Claiborne, Herbert A.  Comments on Virginia Brickwork.  Walpole Society, 1957.

           

A Collection of Collectors: Celebrating Seventy-five Years of the Walpole Society. The Society,  1985. (2 copies)

           

Earle, Swepson.  The Chesapeake Bay country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Co., 1923.

           

Erving, Henry W.  The Connecticut River Banking Company, 1825-1925, One Hundred Years of               Service. Hartford: The Company, 1925.

 

The Frank S. Streeter Library: Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography, Science….  New York: Christies, 2007.   2 volumes.

           

French, Hollis.  A List of Early American Silversmiths and Their Marks.

            New York: Printed for the Society, 1917.

           

Halsey, R. T. Haines.  A Handbook of the American Wing. New York: The Metropolitan Museum, 1942.

           

Halsey, R. T. Haines, and Tower, Elizabeth.  The Homes of Our Ancestors ... (De Luxe edition.)  Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937.

           

Harwell, Richard Barksdale.  The Mint julep. Savannah, Ga.: Beehive Press, 1975.

           

Isham, Norman M.  A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms. Walpole Society, 1939.

           

Isham, Norman M.  In Praise of Antiquaries. Walpole Society, 1931.  (2 copies)

           

Lewis, W.S.  Collector's Progress. London: Constable & Co., 1952.

           

Lewis, W.S.  A Guide to the Life of Horace Walpole (1717-1797) ...

            New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1973.  (hardback and paperback copies)

           

Lewis, W.S.  Selected Letters of Horace Walpole. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

           

Lewis, W.S.  Three Tours through London in the Years 1748-1776-1797.

            New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952, 1941.

           

Lockwood, Luke Vincent. The Furniture Collectors' Glossary. New York: Walpole Society,                    1913.

           

Macy, William F.  The Story of Old Nantucket. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928.

 

Oliver, Andrew.  Wanderings in Walpoleshire.  Privately printed, 1994. (many copies)

           

Prime, Alfred Coxe.  The Arts & Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, and South Carolina, 1786-                  1800. Walpole Society, 1932.  (series 1 – 1 copy; series 2 – 2 copies)

           

Richardson, Hester Dorsey.  Side-lights on Maryland History. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins,

            1913.  (2 volumes)

           

Seymour, George Dudley.  New Haven ...  New Haven: Privately printed, 1942.

           

The 350th Anniversary of Jamestown, 1607-1957.  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing           Office, 1958.

           

The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Walpole Society. The Society, 1935.  (4 copies)

           

Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., whose ideals of scholarship are perpetuated in the Belknap Press at Harvard University ... and the establishment of a research library of American painting bearing his name at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ... Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1956.  (5 copies)

           

Walpole Society. Check List and Index for the Note Books, 1910-1955. The Society, 1956.

            (2 copies)

             

Wroth, Lawrence C. The Walpole Society: Five Decades.  The Society, 1960.  (2 copies)

 

Wroth, Lawrence C. The Walpole Society: The First Fifty Years.  The Society, 2013.

            [note: this is a second edition of Wroth’s history of the society published in 1960] 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revised June 15, 2020.