Lanux, Eyre de, b. 1894 d. 1996
Author, Designer, PainterParis, France, New York, N.Y. (Show Bio)
Eyre de Lanux papers, 1905-1992
15.3 linear ft.
Personal correspondence (1915-83); sixty volumes of diaries (1923-1988); drafts of short stories, essays, and magazine articles (1922-ca.1955); pencil sketches of Paris café scenes (ca. 1922-25); portraits of friends, including Romaine Brooks, and photographs of fresco works. Major correspondents include Paolo Casagrande, Pierre de Lanux, Alexander Lenard, and Evelyn Wyld. There are two letters from Natalie Clifford Barney. Also present are research materials assembled by de Lanux in preparing a biography of Tobias Lear, secretary to George Washington and a distant relation of the Eyre family.
Donated 1996 by Anne de Lanux Strong, Lanux's daughter, and Paul R. Eyre, her grandson.
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