Chavchavadze, Paul, Letter from Paul Chavchavadze to Clare Leighton, 1952 June 9
- Call Number:
- MSS 7
- Creator:
- Chavchavadze, Paul
- Title(s):
- Letter from Paul Chavchavadze to Clare Leighton
- Date:
- 1952 June 9
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series IV: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 32
- 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>Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass.</geogname> June 9, 1952. "In September Nina and I are having our thirtieth! wedding anniversary, and I would like to give her the plates ... my finances are at present low ... can things be arranged so that I could pay you [in July]? ... Yours, Paul." The author of the letter is Prince Paul Chavchavadze, who married Princess Nina Georgievna on 3 September 1922. The two lived in Wellfleet from 1939.
- 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:
- Chavchavadze, Paul -- CorrespondenceLeighton, Clare, 1898-1989 -- CorrespondenceNina Georgievna, Princess of Russia, 1901-1974
- 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/6568
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6568?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1