Lloyd Goodrich papers, 1884-1987, bulk 1927-1987

Correspondence is with museums, galleries, friends, colleagues, arts organizations, and his wife Edith Havens Goodrich. Correspondents include W. G. Brownwell, Bryson Burroughs, Olin Dows, Philip Evergood, John Fletcher, George Fuller, Rosalie Warner James, Augusta Kelley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald and Betty Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Cyril Nast, Elias Newman, Daniel Catton Rich, Raphael Soyer, Mrs. Silvia S. Warner, and Faith Weston. Also found is a file of letters concerning RIchard Yarde. There is also a group of correspondence concerning Goodrich's work on a catalogue raisonné of Winslow Homer.

Most of the correspondence between Goodrich, Kuniyoshi, and Marsh was sent between 1925 and 1926 when the Marshes and Kuniyoshi and his first wife, Katherine Schmidt, were traveling in Europe over the course of the year. Marsh writes of the art and architecture of Europe and reports on the doings of friends he runs across, such as Kuniyoshi, Schmidt, and Guy Pène du Bois. Many of the travel letters are illustrated.

Also found in this series are condolence letters to David Goodrich upon his father's death in 1987 from John I.H. Baur, Flora Biddle, Dean Fausett, Lawrence Fleischman, Karl and Ilse Schrag, Roy Neuberger, Helen Farr Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Ira Spanierman, Jane Turano, Betty Burroughs Woodhouse, Virginia Zabriskie, and others.

Researchers should note that additional correspondence is found among the writings and research files in Series 3 and the organizational and committee files in Series 4.

Correspondence regarding research on Winslow Homer was donated at a later date and not integrated into the Homer research files donated earlier. The bulk of Goodrich's files, including correspondence, regarding his work on Winslow Homer is found in Series 3.