Nancy Holt Estate records, 1835, circa 1900-2014

Holt's alphabetical correspondence generally tends to be personal in nature and consists primarily of letters and cards from friends with scattered drafts or copies of responses from Holt. However, correspondence may also touch on Holt's work as many of her friends were artists with whom she collaborated and corresponded about professional projects, and writers who wrote about her work and that of Robert Smithson. Additional letters from many of the correspondents represented in this subseries may be found in her professional correspondence files. Letters from Smithson to Holt include photocopies of two 1961 letters he wrote to her from Rome, Italy, and a 1968 postcard with slides attached he sent to her from Dusseldorf, Germany. Letters and postcards from artists and writers such as Lee Deffenbach, Dee Dee Halleck, Lucy Lippard, and May Stevens, document warm friendships as well as shared professional interests. Also found are substantive letters from Dennis Wheeler, the subject of Holt's film Revolve; and printouts of substantive email correspondence with writer Paul Serge.

Some of the correspondents represented here are family members, including Holt's aunt Ethel Tate, who was a subject of her film Underscan and her book Ransacked. Also found is correspondence with individuals Holt met through her spiritual practice, such as Eric Kolvig and Micah Schonberger.

Housed at the end of the subseries are the contents of a binder maintained by Holt primarily containing postcards and some individual letters and other items from artist friends dating from circa 1970s. The bulk of the postcards are from Carl Andre, but there are also postcards, letters, and other items from Don Graham, Bruce Kurtz, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, and Dennis Wheeler. Due to the deteriorating condition of the binder's plastic sleeves, items were removed and re-housed in folders but maintain Holt's original arrangement. Sheets of acid-free paper indicate where contents of each plastic sleeve began and ended.

Additional details are provided in the container listing.