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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Paul Wayland Bartlett, sculptor, were given to the Library of Congress by his stepdaughter, Caroline Ogden-Jones Peter III, in 1958. The papers were supplemented by further gifts and purchases, 1959-1971. Additional material was transferred to the Bartlett Papers from the Samuel Franklin Emmons Papers in the Manuscript Division in 1981.
The Paul Wayland Bartlett Papers were processed in 1958-1959 with frequent revisions between 1962 and 1979 and a further addition and revision in 1981. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Paul Wayland Bartlett in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Paul Wayland Bartlett Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Paul W. Bartlett (1865-1925) span the years 1875-1959 and consist of general, personal, and family correspondence, lecture notes, typed and handwritten speeches, sketches, blueprints, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. The papers are organized into ten series: Family Correspondence, General Correspondence, Sculpture File, Speech and Article File, Financial and Legal Papers, Scrapbooks, Miscellany, Printed Matter, Truman Howe Bartlett Papers, and Bessie McPherson Papers.
The Bartlett Papers reveal the sculptor's negotiations, contracts, selection of materials, and the problems and methods of his work. They also contain written discussions with other sculptors, architects, artists, and craftsmen concerning the field of art. In the Sculpture File are materials relating to Bartlett's statue of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the pediment of the House wing of the United States Capitol Building, his figures of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Christopher Columbus in the Library of Congress, Benjamin Franklin, William Blackstone, figures for the Connecticut State capitol building, and others works.
Family correspondents include his wife, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons Bartlett, and his father, sculptor and art critic Truman Howe Bartlett. Other correspondents are Chester Beach, Poultney Bigelow, Karl Theodore Francis Bitter, John Merven Carrère, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, and Grover A. Whalen.
Included in the Truman Howe Bartlett Papers are letters from Emmanuel Frémiet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Jean Francois Millet, Auguste Rodin, and Olin Lavi Warner. The file also contains Truman’s lecture notes and articles.
The Bessie McPherson Papers contains letters from her sister, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons Bartlett, as well as material documenting McPherson's financial and legal affairs. In addition to news about family and friends, the letters from Suzanne Bartlett refer to her husband's sculpture projects and the part she played in managing and maintaining business and social contacts after his death.
This collection is arranged in ten series:
Letters sent and received between Bartlett family members and from correspondents other than members of the Bartlett family.
Arranged by name of family member.
Correspondence, telegrams, and postcards.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically therein.
Manuscripts, notes, and printed matter relating to sculpture created by Bartlett.
Arranged alphabetically by title of sculpture.
Holograph manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material and alphabetically therein.
Receipts, canceled checks, bond certificates, and legal papers.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Printed matter, newspaper clippings, and occasional letters.
Mounted and arranged in scrapbooks.
Notes, invitations, certificates and awards, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject.
Newspaper clippings and articles.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Correspondence, lecture notes and articles, scrapbooks, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence, including letters exchanged with her sister, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons Bartlett, financial and legal papers, notes and notebooks, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.