Wharton mss Page 1 of 2 WHARTON MSS. The Wharton mss., 1836-1975, but chiefly 1900-1937, consist of the correspondence, diaries, and writings of novelist Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 1862-1937. All of this material was consulted and used by R.W.B. Lewis in his volume Edith Wharton : A Biography (New York: Harper & Row, 1975) and is described and cited there as the William Royall Tyler Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. The earliest items in the collection are family related: a commonplace book of Lucretia Rhinelander (Wharton's mother) and an 1847 journal of her father's, George Frederic Jones. The correspondence begins in 1901 and includes letters from Bernar d Berenson, Mary (Smith) Berenson, Paul Bourget, Louis Bromfield, Sir Kenneth Clark, Royal Cortissoz, Beatrix Farrand, William Alexander Gerhardie, Louis Gillet, Abbé Arthur Mugnier, Violet Paget, Edward Brewster Sheldon, Logan Pearsall Smith, Elis ina Tyler, Royall Tyler, and William Royal Tyler, as well as nearly 400 letters from Edith Wharton to the Tyler family. Her own diaries cover primarily 1920-1937, but also present is the so-called "love diary" (A Life Apart) of 1907-08. Writings present include typescripts of her full-length works, Age of Innocence, A Backward Glance, and Gods Arrive, as well as many poems both published and unpublished, and a file of about two hundred photographs of Wharton and friends, of Pavillon Colombe, of Saint Claire Château, and of her other residences (The Mount, Pencraig and 58 rue de Varenne) complete this portion of the collection. The remaining portion of the collection consists of files relating to Edith Wharton's death and her estate, as well as correspondence and other materials gathered by the executor of her French will, Elisina Tyler, for a planned biography of Wharto n. The biography was never completed and following Elisina's death in 1959, her son, William Royall Tyler, took over as executor of the Wharton estate. His correspondence as well as some additional materials relating to his own reminiscences of Mrs. Wh arton, complete the entire collection. Among the correspondents in this Wharton / Tyler portion of the collection are William Morton Fullerton, William Alexander Gerhardie, Frederic Rhinelander King, John Hugh Smith, Elisina Tyler, William Royall Tyler, Emelyn Webster Washburn, and Armitage Watkins. There is a box and folder list available, as well as an in-house index to the correspondence. http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/wharton.html 1/7/2004 Wharton mss Page 2 of 2 Purchase. William Royall Tyler, Washington, D.C. 1976 ca. 1200 items http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/wharton.html 1/7/2004 Wharton Mss. Box/Folder List Page 1 of 4 WHARTON MSS. Box/folder list Box 1 Letters to Edith Wharton: Bernard Berenson, 1928-1936 (14 folders) William Gerhardie, 1922-1931 (1 folder) Box 2 Letters to EW, 1900-1937 (11 folders) Letters from EW, 1917-1937 (4 items) Box 3 Letters from EW to the Tyler family: Elisina, 1914-1937 (8 folders) Royall Tyler, 1918-1935 (17 items) William Royall Tyler, 1923-1937 (1 folder) Box 4 Diaries, EW (7 vols.) Box 5 Diaries, not EW: Lucretia Rhinelander, 1836-1840 [commonplace book] George Frederic Jones, Apr. 7, 1847-June 1, 1848 [diary] Box 6 Writings by EW: A-Bt Age of Innocence. T[ypescript] D[ocument] A Backward Glance. T.D. Beaumetz, February 23rd 1915. T.D. 2p. The Bitter End. A[utograph] D[ocument], incomplete Box 7 Writings by EW: Bu-F The Buccaneers. T.D. Derivation of the word cant. A.D. and T.D. Easter. A.D. and T.D Fast and Loose. A Novelette by David Olivieri. photocopy of ms. ; T.D. 59p. Fast and Loose [imaginary reviews] A.D. and T.D Freeman is "perfectly lovely" or "quite too lovely" [1st line] T.D., 1p. http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/whartoninv.html 1/7/2004 Wharton Mss. Box/Folder List Page 2 of 4 Box 8 Writings by EW: G-Z The Gods Arrive. bound T.D. Hoe. A.D. In this world T.D. Literary Tendencies. A.D. in notebook with autobiographical fragments Memories (summary) . T.D. Misc. & fragments. A.D. The Mummy Room. incomplete A.D. and T.D. My Books - Literary Essays. A.D. and T.D. Notebook 1, April 1914. A.D. Notebook 2: [poems] A.D. The Southwind The Northwind The new Litany Song (Let us be lovers ) Song (Mirth of life's blooming-time - ) The Rose Weltschmerz Phyllis Death Gifts The Inferno Beauty Swinburne A Patient Soul The Sonnet's Boundaries A Vision Esther Ante-Mortem The So-Called Venus of Milo Lucrezia Buonvisi's Lover (Dying at Vareggion) (?) Dactylics The Masque of Life Dante The Old Odysseus Mindest Thou no more? The Duchess of Palliano The Dead Wife Demeter October in Newport In the Forest The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi Terza Rima http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/whartoninv.html 1/7/2004 Wharton Mss. Box/Folder List Page 3 of 4 Sapphics Renunciation Latomia dei Cappucini Cor Cordium A Dialogue The Leper's Funeral and Death (In mediaeval England) Beaulieu Wood Browsing in the Abbey Cynthia From "The New and the Old" Friends Lucrezia Buonvisi Remembers Life An Autumn Day Lines for "Boulterby Ridge" Life Song Cinque Cents The 'Beata Beatrix' of Rossetti Hymn to Colom Ogrin the Hermit. A.D. and T.D. Pennelope. T.D. A Princess of the House of Este. A.D. The so-called Venus of Milo. A.D. Treasure. A.D. With the Tide. A.D. Printed [poems - 2 items] Box 9 Photographs Box 10 Miscellaneous folder 1: Identity and travel papers, 1914-1937 folder 2: [inventory of Walter Berry's library] folder 3: "Mademoiselle Colombe l'..." A.D. 11p. In French. on verso" History of Pavillon Colombe & des soeurs Colombe" folder 4: Notes, fragments, lists, etc. [some are in Wharton's hand] folder 5: [Proust, ] Marcel. "Response a une question: Léon Radziwill" T (carbon) D. 3p folder 6: recipes folder 7: Rhinelander: "Our debt to Britain." 1918, printed [a memorial service address] http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/whartoninv.html 1/7/2004 Wharton Mss. Box/Folder List Page 4 of 4 folder 8: [Sketchbook] folder 9: Printed articles, etc. , by or relating to EW folder 10: clippings: by or about EW [see also folio] folder 11: clippings: miscellaneous Box 11: Elisina Tyler files folders 1-8: Tyler, E. correspondence, 1919-1954 folder 9: typed transcripts of Wharton's letters to Edward Sheldon folder 10: miscellaneous re: Wharton estate, 1937 folder 11: miscellaneous notes, extracts, etc. re: Wharton Box 12: Elisina Tyler files (cont.) / folder 1: 1919 "Outline for proposed interview with Mrs. Royall Tyler" T. (carbon) D. 6p. folder 2: 1925. Edith Wharton, by R.M. Lovett [photocopy] folder 3: 1937, June 11-Aug. 7. [E. Tyler account of EW's last illness and death] T.D. 34p. heavily annotated in ink; (carbon) 34p. folder 4 : 1937 EW obituaries - clippings folder 5: 1939, June. E. Tyler: "Statement concerning Mrs. Wharton's last illness and of the execution of her last will and testament. " T.D. 19p. with handwritten changes and corrections; T (carbon). . 34p. folder 6: [1949] Wilson, Edmund "Edith Wharton: A Memoir by an English Friend. : T. D. , 5p. ; T (carbon) 5p. William Royall Tyler files: folder 7: Tyler, W.R. correspondence, 1947-1975 folder 8: correspondence with and about William Gerhardie, 1971-1974 folder 9: "Transcripts of tapes recorded summer 1972 by W.R.T. from E.R.T. correspondence and documents, mostly concerning E. W. " T.D. folder 10: [extracts from various E. W. or E. T. letters, etc.] Return to the Wharton Mss. Collection Description http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/whartoninv.html 1/7/2004 Epp, Ronald From: Cape, Rebecca C. [gibson@indiana.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:35 PM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Wharton mss Dear Dr. Epp, Unfortunately we do not do detailed subject indexing of most of our manuscript collections so it would be necessary to read through all the letters to see if there is mention of Dorr or Farrand. However, that collection is indexed by correspondent. I do not find that we have any correspondence between Dorr and Wharton. We do have a number of letters from and to Farrand. These include: 25 letters and telegrams to Elisina Tyler from 1937-1939, one letter to Royall Tyler in 1937, and 5 letters to Wharton from 1932- 1936. We also have 15 letters from Elisina Tyler to Farrand from 1937-1939, and 2 letters from Wharton to Farrand from 1935. Becky Cape Head of Reference and Public Services The Lilly Library 1200 E. 7th St. Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-3129 http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly Original Message From: Mitchell, B. Breon Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:31 PM To: Epp, Ronald Cc: Cape, Rebecca C. Subject: Re: Edith Whartron Query Dear Ron, Thanks for this query. I'm forwarding your e-mail to Rebecca Cape, our Head of Public Services, who should be able to help. With all best wishes for the new year, Breon On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Epp, Ronald wrote: > > Dear Mr. Mitchell: > > For the past four years I have been engaged in research for a > biography of George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), founder of Acadia > National Park and friend--and sometime neighbor--of Edith Wharton. Unlike previous studies, mine has been focused on archival resources at NARA, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Harvard Archives. > > Erica Donnis, Curator at The Mount, suggested that I examine the > Wharton finding aid on your website- as I have--and that you might be > willing to locate and provide me with copies of correspondence between Ms. Wharton and Mr. Dorr. I've carefully reviewed the Wharton Mss. Box/Folder list and am drawn to the Box 2 and 4. > > The Beinecke contains correspondence between the two in the 1900-1910 > timeframe, concentrated in the years 1904 & 1906 centered on gardening > composition and design. Mr. Dorr established the Mount Desert 1 Nurseries in 1898, nearly twenty years prior to the establishment of the Park. In one letter Ms. Wharton writes that she has designed and named a "Dorr Path" for her Lenox garden. > > The two also shared an affection for Beatrix Farrand, Ms. Wharton's > neice, and a landscape architect that collabrated with Mr. Dorr and > J.D. Rockefeller Jr. on the Abby Rockefeller Gardens the Eyrie as well as the park carriage and motor roads. > > I would appreciate an indication of whether this collection might > contain material useful to my research. I very much appreciate this > professional courtesy. Best wishes for the New Year! > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University > Manchester, NH 03106 > > > > 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 > 603-645-9685 fax > 2 N STATES UNITED R POSTAGE POSTAGE STATES UNITED 3 STATES UNITED CENTS POSTAGE 3 3 POSTAGE STATES UNITED CENTS 3 Old English Document 3 CENTS 3 3 CENTS 3 hilminan Public hilory Bar Harba Maine