05166cpcaa2200697 4500 mm 78011940 DLC 20260227111621.0 790410|||||||||||| eng mm 78011940 ms 62004598 DLC dacs DLC DLC L lcmd Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925. Paul Wayland Bartlett papers, 1875-1959. 15,000 items. 55 containers plus 1 oversize. 22.8 linear feet. Arranged in 10 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1903-1949; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1892-1925; Series 3: Sculpture File, 1898-1932; Series 4: Speech and Article File, 1913-1916; Series 5: Financial and Legal Papers, 1889-1928; Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1881-1906; Series 7: Miscellany, 1875-1925; Series 8: Printed Matter, 1886-1959; Series 9: Truman Howe Bartlett Papers, 1881-1922; and Series 10: Bessie McPherson Papers, 1882-1936. Open to research. Correspondence, speeches, lecture notes, notes, financial and legal records, printed matter, scrapbooks, sketches, blueprints, and other papers relating chiefly to Bartlett's career as a sculptor. Documents his methods of work, manner of selecting materials, contracts, and negotiations. Also documents Bartlett's discussions with other sculptors, architects, artists, and craftsmen concerning the field of art. Includes files pertaining to Bartlett's statues of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Christopher Columbus in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C..; House of Representatives pediment at the United States Capitol building, Washington, D.C.; statues of William Blackstone in Washington, D.C., of Benjamin Franklin, in Waterbury, Conn., and of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis deLafayette, in Paris, France; statues for the Connecticut State Capitol building, Hartford, Conn.; and other works. Correspondents include Chester Beach, Poultney Bigelow, Karl Theodore Francis Bitter, John Merven Carrère, Cyrus E. Dallin, and Grover A. Whalen. Papers of Bartlett's father, Truman Howe Bartlett, include correspondence, lecture notes, articles, printed matter, and scrapbooks. Correspondents include E. Fauré-Frémiet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Jean François Millet, Auguste Rodin, and Olin Lavi Warner. Papers of Bartlett's sister-in-law, Bessie McPherson, include correspondence, notes, notebooks, financial and legal records, and printed matter relating chiefly to personal matters and to Bartlett's sculpture projects. Correspondents include her sister, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons Bartlett. Sculptor. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Papers relating to Paul W. Bartlett and Bessie McPherson were transferred from the Samuel Franklin Emmons papers in the Manuscript Division to these papers in 1981. Bartlett, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons, 1861-1954 Correspondence. Beach, Chester, 1881-1956 Correspondence. Bigelow, Poultney, 1855- Correspondence. Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915 Correspondence. Blackstone, William, 1723-1780 Statues. Carrère, John Merven, 1858-1911 Correspondence. Columbus, Christopher Statues. Dallin, Cyrus E. (Cyrus Edwin), 1861-1944 Correspondence. Fauré-Frémiet, E. (Emmanuel), 1824-1910 Correspondence. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 Correspondence. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Statues. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 Statues. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 Statues. Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875 Correspondence. Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 Correspondence. Warner, Olin Lavi, 1844-1896 Correspondence. Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius), 1886-1962 Correspondence. Connecticut State Capitol (Hartford, Conn.) Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.) United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) Art. Sculptors United States. Sculpture. Sculpture Connecticut Hartford. Sculpture Connecticut Waterbury. Sculpture France Paris. Sculpture Washington (D.C.) Artists. itoamc Sculptors. itoamc Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923. Truman Howe Bartlett papers. 1881-1922. McPherson, Bessie. Bessie McPherson papers. 1882-1936. 39729 39729