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William Rankin Correspondence

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Rankin, William, 1863-1943.

William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914).

Consists of correspondence of Rankin. Included are letters to Rankin and, mostly retained copies or drafts, of letters by Rankin, with such correspondents as Edith R. Abbot, Bernard Berenson, Frank Jewett Mather, F. Mason Perkins, Dan Fellows Platt, Alice Van Vechten Brown, Arnold Guyot Cameron, Augusto F. Jaccaci, Walter Lowrie, Alexander Webster, Allan Marquand, and Frederic Fairchild Sherman. Also included are a typescript of "Memories of Princeton College," notes by Rankin on "Italian Pictures in Mrs. Gardiner's Collection," and family correspondence (1902-1958).

Arranged alphabetically.

Gift of Teresa Rankin Livingston.

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This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2002
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Collection is open for research use.

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Collection Inventory

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Appleton, William Sumner, 1 ALS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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3 ALsS to WR, 1927. 1 folder.
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13 ALsS (drafts) by WR, 1924-1927. 1 folder.
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Baucus, Joseph D., 1 TLS (draft) by WR, 1927. 1 folder.
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Bennett, [Grant Robinson], 1 TLS (draft) by WR, 1926. 1 folder.
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8 ALsS to WR, 1896-1908. 1 folder.
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1 AL (draft) by WR, undated. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to WR, 1904. 1 folder.
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4 TLs (drafts) by WR, 1938-1941. 1 folder.
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1 ALS (draft) by WR, 1939. 1 folder.
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1 AL (draft) by WR, 1939. 1 folder.
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2 ALsS, 1 ALS (incomplete) to WR, 1908-1914. 1 folder.
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1 ALS by M. Asery? for Brown to WR, 1914. 1 folder.
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1 AL (draft) by WR, 1933. 1 folder.
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Cameron, [Arnold Guyot], 1 ALS, 2 TLsS (drafts) by WR, 1935. 1 folder.
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Cary, Elisabeth Luther, 2 ALsS to WR, 1906. 1 folder.
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Chapman, Frederick A., 1 TLS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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Cheney, Sheldon, 1 TLS (draft) by WR, 1938. 1 folder.
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Cox, Kenyon, 1 ALS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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Crutwell, Miss?, 1 ALS by WR, 1907. 1 folder.
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Doll, Mr. E., 1 TLS (draft) by WR, 1937. 1 folder.
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Douglas, R. Langton, 1 ALS to WR, 1909. 1 folder.
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Dowdeswell, Charles, 2 ALsS to WR, 1905-1906. 1 folder.
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Dwight, H. G. (Harrison Griswold), 1 ALS, 1 ACS to WR, 1925. 1 folder.
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Everett, Herbert E., 2 ALsS to WR, 1907. 1 folder.
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Frothingham Jr., Arthur L., 1 ALS to WR, 1896. 1 folder.
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Fry, Roger E., 1 ALS to WR, undated. 1 folder.
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Gardiner, Elizabeth M., 1 ALS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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Gardner, Isabella S., 1 ALS to WR, undated. 1 folder.
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Gay, Frank B., 1 ALS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to WR, undated. 1 folder.
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1 TLS (draft) by WR, 1941. 1 folder.
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Hagen, Oskar, A & TL (draft) by WR, 1931. 1 folder.
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Hailey, Arthur A., 1 ALS to WR, 1902. 1 folder.
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Jaccaci, August F., 1 TLS, 2 ALsS to WR, 1907. 1 folder.
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Loeser, Charles, 1 ALS to WR, circa 1895. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to WR, 1927. 1 folder.
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1 TL by WR, 1927. 1 folder.
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Marquand, Allan, 2 AlsS to WR, 1895-1898. 1 folder.
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Morse, Prof., Williston Seminary, 1 ALS by WR, 1928. 1 folder.
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Murray, C. Fairfax, 2 ALsS to WR, 1895. 1 folder.
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17 ALsS to WR, 1897-1927. 1 folder.
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5 ALsS (drafts) by WR, 1928-1935. 1 folder.
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2 ALs (drafts) by WR, 1900-1934. 1 folder.
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2 reprints, "The Jarves Collection," 7 pp., 1914. 1 folder.
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1 prose, "Comment on F.J.Mather, Jr.'s theses, TMs, 5 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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Newark Public Library, 2 ALsS (drafts) by WR, 1925-1926. 1 folder.
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Patch, Mr. (re: Walter Lowrie), 1 TLS (draft) by WR, 1936. 1 folder.
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Perkins, Lucy M., 1 ALS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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1 TLS to WR, 1908. 1 folder.
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1 ALS by WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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6 ALsS to WR, 1907-1936. 1 folder.
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1 AMs, notes - "Fogg" 1 p., undated. 1 folder.
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19 ALs & TLs by WR, 1913-1939. 1 folder.
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1 ACS to WR, 1920. 1 folder.
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3 ALsS to WR, 1904-1909. 1 folder.
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1 ALS by Ethel B. Platt to WR, 1938. 1 folder.
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27 ALsS & TLsS by WR, 1904-1937. 1 folder.
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4 TLsS to WR, 1904-1907. 1 folder.
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1 ALS to WR, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Raymond, George Lansing, 1 ALS to WR, 1916. 1 folder.
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Rowen, Daniel, 1 ALS to WR, undated. 1 folder.
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Remington, Arthur William, 2 ALsS (drafts) by WR, 1926-1936. 1 folder.
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Richardson, Eliza A., 1ALS to WR, 1916. 1 folder.
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1 TLS (photocopy) by WR, 1904-1937. 1 folder.
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3 ALsS to WR, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Sears, Taber, 2 ALsS to WR, 1900. 1 folder.
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Simmons College, 1 TLS to WR, 1905. 1 folder.
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Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1 ALS to WR, 1914. 1 folder.
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Waggenet?, Lucien, 1 TLS to WR, 1927. 1 folder.
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Webster, Alexander, 1 ALS by WR, 1906. 1 folder.
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Ziegler, Mr., 1 TL (copy) by WR, 1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

(re: Life magazine)

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6 letters to WR, 1901-1940. 1 folder.
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6 TLsS (drafts) by WR, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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4 AL by WR, 1925. 1 folder.
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3 TL (copy) by WR, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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"Italian Pictures in Mrs. Gardiner's Collection", AMs, notes, 7 pp., 1905. 1 folder.
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"Letters to an Artist Friend", AMs & TMs, notes, drafts, 13 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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"Memories of Princeton College", TMs, 3 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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Dill, Caroline Rankin (daughter), 1936-1941. 1 folder.
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Livingston, Teresa Rankin (daughter), 1927-1943. 1 folder.
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Rankin, Carrie Rundle (wife), 1902-1958. 1 folder.
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Rankin, Wilhelmina (daughter), 1931-1941. 1 folder.
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General Family (brother, cousin, nephew), 1913-1934. 1 folder.
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Early Rankin, 1881-1903. 1 folder.
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Newspaper Editors, 1911-1939. 1 folder.
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