Box 112
Container
Contains 8 Results:
Earl Shinn, Jr. (1838-1886): correspondence; financial records; death & estate information, 1854-1886 and n.d.
File — Box: 112
Dates:
1854-1886 and n.d.
"Sacred Album" autograph book, "winter session" 1854
Item — Box: 112, Object: 1
Dates:
"winter session" 1854
Intaglio printing plates for E.S. Jr. name plate and business card, n.d.
Item — Box: 112, Object: 2-3
Letters to, 1864 - 1886
Item — Box: 112, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Letter writers include:
Montague Marks, Adeltheid Rothschild, E.S., Sarah C. Shinn, an aunt, an unknown French authorSome highlights include:Montague Marks. The Lotos Club, New York, 1883 1/29. [editor of The Art Amateur sends a memorandum of passages from Hebrew Scripture concerning "the belief of the Jews of biblical times in the immortality of the soul]E.S. Philadelphia, 1865. 2 items. 1/27; 5/12. [re commencement ceremony of the "Colored...
Dates:
1864 - 1886
Letters from, 1854 - 1883
Item — Box: 112, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Recipients include: Lydia C.S. Cadbury, Elizabeth S. Haines, (Aunt) Hannah Shinn, Sarah C. Shinn, Shinn family, Samuel R. Shipley Some highlights include:Drawing. n.d. ["Hours with Undine," "Attic Agonistes"]Lydia C.S. Cadbury. San Francisco, 1877 9/20. [discusses visiting private art galleries and his growing distaste for travel] Elizabeth S. Haines. New York, 1872-1883. 4 items. 1872 7/9. [discusses trying to keep his work...
Dates:
1854 - 1883
Letters to Anna Shinn Shipley, 1848 - 1886
Item — Box: 112, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Some highlights include: Westtown School, 1854 3/29. [note written on a copy of his report card]Pontaven, Finistere, France, 1866 6/17. [describes his first weeks in Paris and life in Pontaven]Pontaven, 1866 10/6. [discusses his realization that he cannot be a painter, returning to Paris, and receiving a letter from Matthew Arnold re the Celto-Breton vocabulary that E.S. Jr. sent him] New York, 1872 6/17. [mentions notes he received from...
Dates:
1848 - 1886
Receipts, contracts and other financial documents, 1870 - 1883
Item — Box: 112, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Some highlights include:
Contract naming E.S. Jr. (pseud. Edward Strahan) editor of his book A Century After... Philadelphia, 1874 10/28.
Agreement between Gebbie & Barrie, Publishers and E.S. Jr. for The Art Treasures of America. Philadelphia, 1879 8/12.
Typed copy of letter from "J.R.L." (James Russell Lowell) to E.L. Godkin. Elmwood, 1869 July 16. [with a paragraph praising E.S. Jr.'s work for the Nation]
Dates:
1870 - 1883
Condolences, letters and other documents to or from James T. Shinn, regarding the death and estate of E.S. Jr., d. 1886
Item — Box: 112, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Note: All letters are addressed to J.T.S. unless otherwise noted.Letter writers include:George Barrie, Adolph Bernstein, William Crary Brownell, Walter Edwards, Joseph G. Fogg, Jesse Garrett, W.P. Garrison, Dr. Robert A. Gunn, William Hart, Hannah L. Neale, Samuel Rudolph, Napoleon Sarony, F. Hopkinson Smith, M. Thomas and Sons, University of Pennsylvania, William WaltonSome highlights include:George Barrie. Philadelphia, 1886-1887. 3 items....
Dates:
d. 1886
