Foster-Murphy collection

id
2054
origination
Foster, Jeanne Robert, 1879-1970
date statement
1900-1969
key date
1900
identifier (local_mss)
1051
org unit
Manuscripts and Archives Division
call number
MssCol 1051
b-number
b11635599
total components
916
total series
0
max depth
2
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:22 UTC
updated
2026-08-15 02:00:56 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unitid
{"value"=>"1051", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1051", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate
{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1900/1969", "value"=>"1900-1969"}
date_inclusive_start
1900
date_inclusive_end
1969
keydate
1900
date_start
1900
date_end
1969
unittitle
{"value"=>"Foster-Murphy collection"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 linear feet (15 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Jeanne R. Foster (1879-1970), creator of the collection, was an American poet, assistant editor of The Review of Reviews and American editor of Transatlantic Review. She met a significant group of writers, poets and artists through John Quinn who was a New York lawyer, collector of modern art and active patron of the arts. The Foster-Murphy Collection reflects the artistic and, to a lesser degree, the political ferment of the period from 1907 to the 1920s. The bulk of the collection consists of letters to Jeanne R. Foster, John Quinn, William Butler Yeats and others, from artists, art dealers, writers, editors, poets, musicians, and scholars. The remainder of the collection is composed of diaries kept by Foster from 1920 to 1925; typescripts of articles, lectures and poems by Foster and others; photographs (a few by Brancusi); newsclippings; and memorabilia."}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>Foster-Murphy collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Foster, Jeanne Robert, 1879-1970", "type"=>"persname"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>Jeanne R. Foster gave the bulk of her collection and her personal papers to William M. Murphy, American scholar and biographer of John Butler Yeats and the Yeats family. The New York Public Library acquired the collection from Murphy in 1983.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the collection consists of letters to Jeanne R. Foster, John Quinn, William Butler Yeats and others, from artists, art dealers, writers, editors, poets, musicians, and scholars, including Constant in Brancusi, Jacob Epstein, Ford Madox Ford, Douglas Hyde, James Joyce, Lady Augusta Gregory, Walter Pach, Jules Pascin, Ezra Pound, Albert Shaw, Elisabeth Corbet (Lolly) Yeats and Susan Mary (Lily) Yeats (proprietors of Cuala Press and Industries), Jack Yeats (like his father an inveterate illustrator of his own letters), John Butler Yeats (a notable collection of c. 130 letters written from New York City, many illustrated), and William Butler Yeats. The remainder of the collection is composed of diaries kept by Mrs. Foster during the period 1920-1925, typescripts of articles, lectures, and poems by Mrs. Foster and others, a few Brancusi photographs, news-clippings, and memorabilia. The original filing order of the collection, consisting of one alphabetical sequence by author/ subject, has been maintained.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>November 16, 1983, Received from William M. Murphy (Purchase and gift)</p>"}
processinfo
{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Richard Salvato, revised 4/22/85. Additions Accessioned by Richard Salvato, November 15, 1991</p>"}
accessrestrict
{"value"=>"<p>Brancusi photographs (#32-37) are restricted; readers are required to use ัะพั€ัƒ prints unless they have obtained permission from curator to see originals.</p>"}
altformavail
{"value"=>"<p>Letters and documents of Lily and William Butler Yeats available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
extent_statement
7 linear feet (15 boxes)

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