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Series 2: Correspondence , 1930-2017
5.4 Linear feet
Boxes 1-6, 13, 15

Personal and professional correspondence is with family, friends, colleagues, artists, galleries, and museums. The bulk of the correspondence is with daughter Sandra Fisher and husband Seymour Kott. Notable correspondents include Will Barnet, Keith Coleborn, Sandu Darie, Elaine Ehrenkranz, Rafael Fernandez, Henry Pearson, and others. There are greeting cards, holiday cards, and postcards. There is also a file of unsent drafts of letters by Ethel Fisher and one folder that contains partial lists of correspondents.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Postcards and greeting cards from various correspondents are grouped together at the end of the series.
Description Container Select
Alf, Martha, 1976-1981
1
11
Correspondence, A, 1974-1992
1
12
Barnet, Will, 1966-2011
1
13-14
Barnet, Will, 1970, 1982
13
6
Bazelon, Cecile Gray, 1967-2003
1
15
Benedict, George, 1948-1981
1
16
Bianchi, Giovanni, 1983-1985
1
17
Blankfield, Ada, 1962-1981
1
18
Blankfield, Ada, circa 1965-1971
13
7
Breckenridge, Edith - Letters To (From Others), circa 1930-1951
13
8
Correspondence, B, 1967-2014
1
19
Coleborn, Keith, 1970-2005
1
20-23
Condolence Letters Regarding Sandra Fisher's Death, 1994
1
24-25
Condolence Letters Regarding Seymour Kott's Death, 2012
1
26
Correspondence, C, 1954-1997
1
27
Darie, Sandu, 1957-1964
1
28
Durant, Will and Ariel (and Foundation), circa 1970-1989
13
9
Correspondence, D, 1981
1
29
Ehrenkranz, Elaine, 1961-1996
2
1-3
Fernandez, Rafael, 1969-1994
2
5-12
Finstein, William, 1968-1984
2
13
Fisher, Margaret, 2006-2015
13
10
Fisher, Sandra - Letters From, circa 1954-1969
2
14-19
Fisher, Sandra - Letters From, 1970-1994
3
1-15
Fisher, Sandra - Letters To, 1965-1972
3
16-21
Fisher, Sandra - Letters To, 1973-1994
4
1-5
Fisher, Sandra - Birthday and Holiday Cards To, 1963-197
4
6
Fleischmann, Elsa, 1974-2003
4
7
Correspondence, F, 1973-2011
4
8
Gallery Correspondence, 1963-2005
4
9-12
Getz, Ilse, 1964-1992
4
13-14
Getz-Gentle, Pat, 1983-2006
4
15
Correspondence, G-J, 1965-2013
4
16
Correspondence, H, 2005
13
11
Kott, Seymour - Letters From, circa 1965-1990
4
17-20
Kott, Seymour - Letters To, 1960-1969
4
21
Kott, Seymour - Letters To, 1970-1989
5
1-2
Kott, Seymour - Letters to Louis C. Kott, 1957-1965
5
3
Kullaway, Ron, 1984-2008
5
4
Correspondence, K, 1970-2009
5
5
Lambert, Yvon, 1961-2002
5
6
Lawner, George and Ruth, circa 1955-1985
13
12
Logemann, Jane, 1976-2013
5
7
Correspondence, L, 1973-2011
5
8
Menocal, Alberto, 2000-2005
5
9
Miles, Jeanne, 1975-1999
5
10
Morley, Ruth, 1967-2007
5
11
Museum Correspondence About Exhibitions, 1953-1978
5
12
Correspondence, M, 1966-2003
5
13
National Academy Museum, 2006-2008
5
14
National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2000-2001
5
15
Pearson, Henry, 1965-2006
5
16-19
Correspondence, P, 1968-1995
5
20
Rantzau, Ursula, 1976-1988
5
21
Correspondence, R, 1980-1996
5
22
Stothart, Herbert, 1969-2005
5
23
Correspondence, S, 1974-2012
5
24
Correspondence, T, 1995-1997
5
25
Ulman, Elinor, 1964-1997
5
26
Urdang, Irena, 1969-2006
5
27
Van Leyden, Ernst, 1963-1967
5
28
Werner, Alfred, 1971-1975
5
29
Correspondence, W, 1978-1998
5
30
Correspondence, W, 2017
13
13
Yrisarry, Mario, 1972-2006
5
31
Zimmer, Andreas, 1994-1999
5
32
Zimmer, Andrew, 1987-1995
13
14
Birthday and Holiday Cards from Seymour Kott, circa 1960-2011
5
33-34
Birthday and Holiday Cards from Seymour Kott, 1987-2011
6
1
Birthday and Holiday Cards (Illustrated) to Seymour Kott, circa 1965-2004
13
15-18
Oversize Birthday and Holiday Cards (Illustrated) to Seymour Kott, circa 1967-1972
15
1
Greeting Cards from Artists and Friends, 1944-2013
6
2-3
Greeting Cards from Family and Friends, circa 1970s-1990s
13
19
Postcards from Family and Friends, 1957-2010
6
4
Postcards from Family and Friends, circa 1976-1995
13
20
Unsent Copies of Letters to Various Correspondents, 1991-2000
6
5
Miscellaneous Unidentified Correspondents, 1967-1991
6
6
Miscellaneous Unidentified Correspondents, 2015
13
21
Lists of Correspondents, circa 1970-circa 2010
6
7

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