Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989, Letter from Clare Leighton to Ruth Wolf, 1952 June 6
- Call Number:
- MSS 7
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989
- Title(s):
- Letter from Clare Leighton to Ruth Wolf
- Date:
- 1952 June 6
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series IV: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 30
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan LLB 1968 and Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Hamway. Ten of the Wedgwood plates are the gift of Judith and Norman Zlotsky, Yale Class of 1953.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- Dated: <geogname>Woodbury, Connecticut</geogname>. June 6, 1952. "At last the Wedgwood plates are arriving. They are due in New York the second part of July and, though they will not be on sale to the public until late September, I am being allowed to fill my personal orders from friends immediately ... The only stipulation the Wedgwoods make is that I shall save them the extra bookkeeping by collecting the money myself and paying them in bulk at the end." The letter is signed "Clare" in blue ink, with the post-script: "Forgive my dictating this. I have 73 such letters to write." Verso: Recipient (Ruth Wolf) returned Clare's original letter with a handwritten, signed response on the back, including the address to which the plates should be shipped.
- Physical Description:
- 2 pages (1 leaf) : typed letter, signed
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Wood engravings
- Subject Terms:
- AgricultureAtlantic cod fishingCranberry industryGrainIce industryLobster industryLoggingMaple sugar industryMarble industry and tradeMillingShipbuildingTobacco farmsWhalingWood-engraving
- Associated People/Groups:
- Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989 -- CorrespondenceWolf, Ruth -- Correspondence
- Finding Aid Title:
- Clare Leighton collection
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/33.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6565
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6565?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1