Carpenter, Virginia E., Letter from Virginia E. Carpenter to Clare Leighton, 1952 July 14
- Call Number:
- MSS 7
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Carpenter, Virginia E.
- Title(s):
- Letter from Virginia E. Carpenter to Clare Leighton
- Date:
- 1952 July 14
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series IV: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 34
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan LLB 1968 and Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Hamway. Ten of the Wedgwood plates are the gift of Judith and Norman Zlotsky, Yale Class of 1953.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Dated: <geogname>Washington Valley Road, Morristown, New Jersey</geogname>. July 14, '52. "I cannot begin to tell you how much pleasure I have, daily, from your beautiful engravings. 'The Lovers' I have hung in the dining room, so I see it always & Cynthia's 'Bird Cage' hangs over her bed & I can see it as I go up & down the stairs--so you are constantly in our minds. Also your books give me much enjoyment. I shall love the plates, I know, & wish that I could buy a set for each of the children."
- Physical Description:
- 2 pages (1 leaf) : autograph letter, signed ;
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Wood engravings
- Subject Terms:
- AgricultureAtlantic cod fishingCranberry industryGrainIce industryLobster industryLoggingMaple sugar industryMarble industry and tradeMillingShipbuildingTobacco farmsWhalingWood-engraving
- Associated People/Groups:
- Carpenter, Virginia E. -- CorrespondenceLeighton, Clare, 1898-1989 -- Correspondence
- Finding Aid Title:
- Clare Leighton collection
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/33.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6587
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6587?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1