A ruled notebook partially written in pencil and ink in the artist's hand- some being about paintings by Murphy or ideas for paintings and some notes based on readings. Approximately 42 pages have been written on, with a few small sketches. One section is
Description:
Pencil and ink, ruled paper., Red and cream striped black soft covers., and Unsigned.
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964 and Murphy, Sara
Subject (Topic):
Art, American--20th century, Art, Modern--20th century, and Modernism (Art)
Wilson family correspondence related to emigration from Scotland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 79
Image Count:
2
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
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter to Donald Brien from an unidentified individual regarding Edna Kenton's death and personal belongings; letters, dated 1931-1951, from various correspondents; and letters and printed material, dated 1928-1929, regarding Kenton's The Book of Earths. Writings (box 1) are a typescript carbon of Kenton's "The Provincetown Players and Playwright's Theatre, 1915-1922" and a typescript carbon of "Clodah of Rohan". The diaries (box 2) date 1903 to 1917. The notebook (box 3), dated 1899 to 1914, contains notes and mounted clippings that document the publication of Kenton's stories and articles.
Description:
Edna Kenton, American writer. and Purchased from Donald Brien on the Carl Van Vechten Fund and the Danford N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1971; and gift of Donald Brien, 1972.
Subject (Name):
Provincetown Players and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter to Donald Brien from an unidentified individual regarding Edna Kenton's death and personal belongings; letters, dated 1931-1951, from various correspondents; and letters and printed material, dated 1928-1929, regarding Kenton's The Book of Earths. Writings (box 1) are a typescript carbon of Kenton's "The Provincetown Players and Playwright's Theatre, 1915-1922" and a typescript carbon of "Clodah of Rohan". The diaries (box 2) date 1903 to 1917. The notebook (box 3), dated 1899 to 1914, contains notes and mounted clippings that document the publication of Kenton's stories and articles.
Description:
Edna Kenton, American writer. and Purchased from Donald Brien on the Carl Van Vechten Fund and the Danford N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1971; and gift of Donald Brien, 1972.
Subject (Name):
Provincetown Players and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century