The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
Wilson family correspondence related to emigration from Scotland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters from Agnes to James, March-December 1873, document their courtship, as well as his travel through Italy and return to Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, New York. After their marriage in April 1874, letters from Agnes to relatives in Scotland discuss their lives in the United States, including their initial settlement in Philadelphia and activities in Cedarville, New Jersey, where James served as a minister at First Presbyterian Church from September 1874 until June 1878. Letters from this period also document the birth and early life of their daughter, as well as a brief letter by James that announces the birth of their son., Letters from June 1878 to November 1879, discuss the relocation of the Wilson family to WaKeeney, Kansas, and document their activities in the burgeoning community, including building a house and cultivating an 800-acre farm, as well as the activities of the Home Mission congregation. Letters also document events in WaKeeney related to the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, also known as Dull Knife's Raid, in October 1878, which was an attempt of the Northern Cheyenne Indians to return to their traditional lands after relocation to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation. A final letter from this period documents the death of James from malarial fever on November 26, 1879. Letters after this period consists chiefly of correspondence Agnes Wilson to her older sister in 1879-1880, as well as a single letter to her in 1941., Many of the letters have brief notations made in 1906 by Anne Edina Hately Wilson Paul, the daughter of Agnes and James., and The collection consists of letters related to the Wilson family, which document their emigration from Great Britain to New Jersey and Kansas, 1873-1941, with the bulk of the material covering years from 1873 to 1879. Agnes Ledgerwood Hately, later Wilson, wrote most of the letters to her fiancée and then husband, James Kinnier Wilson, as well as to her family in Scotland.
Description:
Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson MacIntosh (1845-1931) was a daughter of Thomas Ledgerwood Hately (1816-1867), a composer and precentor of the Free High Church in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Ann Atkinson Brook Hately (1817-1861). She had two older siblings, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately Macfie (born 1840) and composer Walter Hately (1843-1907). Agnes also worked as a teacher of singing in Edinburgh, Scotland, before her marriage. In April 1874, Agnes married Reverend James Kinnier Wilson (1846-1879), a Presbyterian minister originally from County Monaghan, Ireland, who studied at Princeton University (1869), the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest (1871-1873), and at Auburn Theological Seminary (1873-1874). From 1874 to 1878, James served as a minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Cedarville, New Jersey. The Wilsons had two children, Anne Edina Hately Wilson Paul (1876-1959), and neurologist Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937). In June 1878, the Wilson family relocated to WaKeeney, Kansas, where James served the Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America until his death in November 1879 from malaria. Agnes and their children returned to Scotland. In 1881, she married Henry MacIntosh (1836-1894), and they had a son, Henry Walter McIntosh (born 1882). and WaKeeney, Kansas, was established in 1879 on land purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway by the Chicago land development firm of Warren, Keeney, & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Cedarville (N.J.)--Religious life and customs, Cedarville (N.J.)--Social life and customs, Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.), Philadelphia (Pa.) Social life and customs, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Religious life and customs, Scotland--Emigration and immigration, WaKeeney (Kan.)--Religious life and customs, and WaKeeney (Kan.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), First Presbyterian Church (Cedarville, N.J.), Hately family, Macfie, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately, 1840-, MacIntosh, Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson, 1845-1931, Paul, Anne Edina Hately Wilson, 1876-1959, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Missions--Kansas, Wilson family, Wilson, James Kinnier, 1846-1879, and Wilson, S. A. Kinnier (Samuel Alexander Kinnier), 1878-1937
Subject (Topic):
Cheyenne Indians, Clergy--Kansas, Clergy--New Jersey, Home missions--Kansas, and Malaria--Kansas--WaKeeney
Two autograph letters, signed, from William Birth, solider stationed at Fort Shaw, Montana to his friend, Perry Hobbs. Birth describes his participation in the Marias Massacre, in which United States Army soldiers massacred approximately two hundred members of the Piegan Indian tribe in a camp near the Marias River, Montana.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Cowan's sale, 2011 December 2, lot 291) on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2011. and William Birth (1842-1914), soldier the United States Army 13th Infantry Regiment, Company K, stationed at Fort Shaw, Montana.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Shaw (Mont.) and Marias River (Mont.)
Subject (Name):
Birth, William, 1842-1914, Hobbs, Perry, and United States Army Infantry, 13th
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Montana, Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895--Personal narratives, Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870, Siksika Indians, and Soldiers--Montana
Four ALS written by William W. Wootton from Vera Cruz, Mexico, and New Orleans, Louisiana, while serving in the United States Army, 13th Infantry Regiment, Company E, in the Mexican War. Written to Elizabeth, Mary, and Nancy Foster, of Macon, Georgia, the letters briefly describe his experiences in Vera Cruz and his recovery from illness in Baton Rouge. Accompanying the letters is a will, autograph manuscript, signed by Humphrey Best Perry, 15th Infantry Regiment, Company K, of Philadelphia, Iowa, designating his brother, Stephen B. Perry, as his heir and Dr. Dorastus Peck, Keosauqua, Iowa, as executor. The will was dated at Puebla, Mexico, Sep 24, 1847, and was signed by three witnesses, including Captain John S. Perry, 15th Regiment, Company H.
Description:
Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1971.
Subject (Name):
Foster, Elizabeth, fl. 1847-1848, Foster, Mary, fl. 1847-1848, Foster, Nancy, fl. 1847-1848, Peck, Dorastus, Perry, Humphrey Best, Perry, John S., fl. 1847, Perry, Stephen B., United States--Army--Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1957), United States--Army--Infantry Regiment, 15th, and Wootton, William W.
Subject (Topic):
Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns--Mexico--Personal narratives
Clark family correspondence and financial documents concerning California
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 32
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters from Rodney Clark describe his emigration to California, 1858-1863, as well as opportunities for selling marble in California from his older brother's quarry in Connecticut., Letters from Warren Vester Clark to his brother include a request for Wilson to purchase Warren's passage to California via the Isthmus of Panama in March 1850, as well as his perceptions of California after his arrival and his poor health in August 1850. Other letters describe his canal and lumber operations in Calaveras County, as well as his legal and financial issues with Charles A. Candes over debts incurred in California and his disagreements with their brother, Rodney Clark. He also mentions their maternal relatives Burr Higgins and Sylvester Noyes Higgins of Erie County, Ohio, in relation to financial issues., and Letters to Wilson Hart Clark chiefly from his older brother, Warren Vester Clark, and his younger brother, Rodney Clark that include information about their experiences in northeastern California, 1850-1868, as well as related enclosures of promissory notes, drafts, and receipts. Other correspondence includes an 1850 letter from William J. Smith that describes his ocean journey from New Haven, Connecticut, around Cape Horn to San Francisco, California, 1849-1850.
Description:
Purchased from Edward J. Cohen on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2009. and The sons of William Clark (1795-1862) and Minerva Higgins Clark (1799-1875) born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, included Warren Vester Clark (1821-1898), Wilson Hart Clark (1824-1887), and Rodney Clark (1829-1887). Warren Vester Clark emigrated to California in 1850 and worked as a water engineer, which included establishing the Clark Reservoir in Calaveras County. Wilson Hart Clark graduated from both Harvard College and the Yale Law School in 1845. On February 26, 1849, he married Julia Elizabeth Cable (born 1826). He practiced law in New Haven, Connecticut, was a member of the Connecticut State Senate representing the fourth district, 1859-1860, and a member of the New Haven Common Council, as well as owning a marble quarry. Rodney Clark worked as a sailor in Connecticut and was a miner and water collector in California.
Subject (Geographic):
Calaveras County (Calif.) and California--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Clark, Rodney, 1824-1887
Subject (Topic):
Canals--California--Calaveras County, Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, and Voyages to the Pacific coast