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Catalog Data

Collection Creator:
Hervey, Wilna, 1894-1979  Search this
Extent:
3.8 Linear feet (Box 1-10, OV 13)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1890-1985
Scope and Contents note:
Correspondence is mostly personal letters and covers subjects such as personal matters, updates on the lives of Woodstock residents, and the careers of artist friends. Early correspondence highlights Wilna Hervey's film career and travels. Other than the letters written by Nan Mason to Wilna Hervey, there are very few letters in this series written by either Hervey or Mason. Notable correspondents include artists and friends Albert Heckman, Georgina Klitgaard, Manuel Komroff, Leon Kroll, Doris Lee, Fred Dana Marsh, Henry Lee McFee, William Pachner, Caroline and Paul Rohland, Andrée Ruellan, Eugene Speicher, and Dorothy Varian. There are over 250 letters from Elsie Speicher, wife of portrait artist Eugene Speicher. The bulk of Elsie Speicher's correspondence is from the months of November - March; between April to October each year the Speichers were usually in Woodstock with Hervey and Mason. Speicher occasionally sends correspondence from friends in common, notably Louise Lindin, Daphne Mattson, Caroline Rohland, Jean Rosen, and Andrée Ruellan. Early correspondence from Karin Whiteley concerns a project to publish Hervey's memoirs (which were never published). Whiteley's correspondence also includes numerous enclosed newspaper clippings regarding Dan Mason's acting career. Additional correspondence from Karin Whiteley regarding the memoirs is located in Series 3: Memoir Book Production, 1883-1959. Other items of interest in this series includes a letter from Robert Pollack (1918) that includes a Smileage Book (movie coupons from the Military Entertainment Service), a New York City subway ticket, and caricatures drawn by Wilna Hervey, illustrated letters by cartoonist John Striebel, and occasional snapshots of artists and friends. Correspondence to Dan Mason from Hervey and Nan Mason has been separated and is filed with the other personal files of Dan Mason in Series 6, 1919-1928. This series also includes correspondence that was neither written by Hervey or Mason, nor sent to them. It may be that the letters were sent to Hervey and Mason as enclosures in other correspondence. Such correspondence is arranged at the end of this series as Miscellaneous Collected Correspondence. See Appendix for list of selected correspondents in Series 2.
Arrangement note:
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the correspondent's last name and then chronologically within folders; undated letters are located at the end of the folder. Correspondents with fewer than five letters are filed by last name in folders labeled alphabetically. Letters from unidentified correspondents are filed at the end of the series.
Appendix: Selected Correspondents in Series 2:
Adams, Kenneth M.: 1955 Antenucci, Margaret: 1961 Arndt, Paul Wesley: 1976 Baumann, Mag and George: 1964, 1970 Bellows, Emma: 1948-1958 Bentley, John W. (Jack): 1922, 1931 Bettels, Kathryn: 1926 Blanch, Lucile and Arnold: 1931, 1955 Booth, Jean Bellows: 1945-1978 Cannon, Eleanor Rixson: 1950-1954 Capra, Frank: 1935, 1973 Carlson, Margaret: 1958 Cator, Bruce: 1948-1959 Cator, Eleanor: circa 1924 Cator, Thomas Vincent: 1928-1929 Chavez, Edward and Jenne: 1950-1952 Clark, Susan: 1960-1966 Clement, Jean: 1931, undated Currie, Bruce: 1946, circa 1951-1952 De La Vergne, Gladys Hurlbut: 1959, undated Eddy, Ruth: 1934-1959 Ganso, Emil and Nina: 1933 Gonzales, Betty (Mrs. Boyer Gonzales): 1959 Gonzales, Nell (Mrs. Boyer Gonzales): 1936 Harris, Alexandrina (Allie): 1926, 1931, 1959 Harrison, Jenny (Mrs. Birge Harrison): 1941, 1945 Heckman, Albert and Florence: 1949-1964 Hervey, Anna: 1908-1922 Hervey, W.R.: 1913-1925 Hervey, Wilna: circa 1919-1961 Hitzig, William M.: 1940-1972 Holt, Percy W.: 1923-1930, 1953 Karoly: 1939 Kesselring, Joe and Charlotte: 1949-1952 Klitgaard, Georgina: 1933, 1974, undated Komroff, Odette and Manuel: 1945-1978 Kroll, Leon: 1939, 1963 Laufman, Beatrice (Mrs. Sidney Laufman): 1970 Lee, Doris: 1950-1953 Lindin, Louise (Mrs. Carl Lindin): 1936-1968 Loederer, Richard: 1923-1924 Magafan, Ethel: 1957 Marsh, Fred Dana: 1948-1952 Mason, Dan: 1921-1929 Mason, Nan: 1919-1921 Mattson, Henry and Daphne: 1931-1959 McFee, Aileen (Mrs. Henry Lee McFee): circa 1928-1936 McFee, Henry Lee: 1931-1936 Mearns, Hughes and Fagley: 1942, circa 1952-1960 More, Edna (Mrs. Hermon More): 1930-1943 Pachner, Lorraine "Zombie" (Mrs. William Pachner): 1949-1978 Pachner, William: circa 1950-1975 Petersham, Maud and Miska: circa 1930s-1959 Pollock, Muriel "Mollie" (Donaldson): circa 1916-1959 Rheinish, Arthur: 1920-1921 Rohland, Caroline Speare: 1926-1960 Rohland, Paul: circa 1931, 1935 Rosen, Jean (Mrs. Charles Rosen): 1936-circa 1961 Rosen, M. (Mrs. Charles Rosen): 1924-1927 Rosen, Polly: before 1959 Ruellan, Andrée (Mrs. John Taylor): 1943-1977 Search, Frederick Preston: 1933 Shore, Henrietta: 1933 Smith, Georgine Wetherell: 1951-1953 Speicher, Charles: 1931-1945 Speicher, Elsie (Mrs. Eugene Speicher): 1926-1959 Speicher, Eugene: 1935-1961 Striebel, Fritzi (Mrs. John H. Striebel): 1946-1978 Striebel, John H.: 1961 Summers, D.: 1952-1961 Summers, Pauline "Paul": 1952-1961 Varian, Dorothy: 1954-1977 Webster, Florence: 1954, 1978 Weston, Brett: 1958 Weston, Edward: 1935, 1951 Whiteley, Karin: 1945-1981
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the original papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason papers, 1883-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.hervwiln, Series 2
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Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
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