Collection Information
Size: ca. 1000 items (on 8 microfilm reels)
Summary: Correspondence, photographs, sketches, a scrapbook and printed material. Much of the collection is material sent to family members in the United States from Johnson in France. A family genealogy was compiled by Robert Bayard Severy, Johnson's great-nephew.
Reels 573-577: Family papers, 1839-1918 and 1976, including: correspondence; 11 sketchbooks of Johnson; records of books read by Johnson; and miscellany, including a genealogy of the Bayard family prepared by Robert Severy, 1976.
Reel 1079-1080: One letter from Johnson to William Bellamy, 1891, and a scrapbook collected by Johnson containing sketches by Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, etchings by A.W. Warren, pressed flowers, and photographs, including several tintypes, ca. 1868-1874 of Johnson, friends, and relatives.
Reel 3471: A photograph of a self-portrait of Johnson and an exhibition catalog, 1898.