Incoming, 1887-1925
Select: Incoming, 1887-1925 Scope and Contents This is scattered personal and business correspondence, some with other artists of the time, and deals with social and artistic matters, exhibits and commissions, and Bartlett's accident and final illness in 1925. Correspondents include Thomas Hastings, J.Q.A. Ward, Sen. William A. Clark, Federick MacMonnies, Charles Sprague Pierce, Auguste Rodin, Louis Sullivan, Charles G. Loring, John LaFarge, John Flanagan, and Daniel Chester French. There is also correspondence from the Gorham Co. regarding the lost wax casting process.
Truman Howe Bartlett, 1899-1913
Select: Truman Howe Bartlett, 1899-1913 Scope and Contents This correspondence from Bartlett's father is especially voluminous in the years 1899-1900 and 1912-13. Writing from Boston, where he taught in the architecture department of MIT, or Chocorua, NH, where he kept a summer home and studio, Bartlett's father comments on his son's works in progress, sends clippings of interest, details his financial troubles, and gives family news.
American Club of Paris, 1903-1906
Select: American Club of Paris, 1903-1906 Scope and Contents This organization was founded in 1903, and the material deals with Bartlett's membership and service on the Board of Governors.
Truman Howe Bartlett biography, 1925
Select: Truman Howe Bartlett biography, 1925 Scope and Contents Concerns entry in National Cyclopedia of American Biography for Bartlett's father, who had died in 1922.
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1905-1907
Select: International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1905-1907 Scope and Contents Correspondence about exhibitions that Bartlett participated in, some of it from Joseph Pennell.
Lafayette Statue, 1899-1908
Select: Lafayette Statue, 1899-1908 Scope and Contents This correspondence, heaviest in 1899-1900, deals with the Lafayette commission, from the first proposals to the Lafayette Memorial Commission (set up to administer the gift from the children of the United States to the French government) to the final disposition in the 1908. Correspondents include Thomas Hastings, of Carrere and Hastings, who designed the base for the statue; G. Redon, architect of the Louvre, where the statue was to be placed; Bartlett's attorneys, Boese and Carhart, concerning edless disputes about all aspects of the commission. In 1907-1908, the correspondence also deals with the foundry casting the statue and siputes with the Lafayette Memorial Commission concerning the long delay in completing the project.
Lafayette Statue — Robert J. Thompson, 1898-1909
Select: Lafayette Statue — Robert J. Thompson, 1898-1909 Scope and Contents Thompson was the Secretary of the Lafayette Memorial Commission, and this correspondence deals with the whole history of the Lafayette commission.
Library of Congress, 1896-1898
Select: Library of Congress, 1896-1898 Scope and Contents Most of this correspondence is from Broward R. Green, Superintendent of the Building of the Library of Congress, concerning delays in Bartlett's delivery of statues commissioned for the main reading room.
McClellan Statue, 1898-1909
Select: McClellan Statue, 1898-1909 Scope and Contents Richard Smith left money to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to erect a Monumental Memorial in Fairmount Park to honor Pennsylvania's heroes. Bartlett was chosen to do the statue of Gen. McClellan and various decorative devices. This correspondence, from members of the committee, lawyers, and the foundry, details the disputes, delays, and lawsuits involved in the McClellan commission.
Regarding Burr Miller, 1906-1907
Select: Regarding Burr Miller, 1906-1907 Scope and Contents Correspondence and bills sent to Bartlett regarding Burr Miller and his work. Miller was possibly a student or assistant of Bartlett's in this period.
Mary Louise Dunbar, 1902-1905
Select: Mary Louise Dunbar, 1902-1905 Scope and Contents Regarding a possible William Pynchon monument.
Regarding General Warren statue, 1903-1905
Select: Regarding General Warren statue, 1903-1905 Scope and Contents Located in Boston, this monument seems to have been completed with a minimum of fuss and delay. Correspondents include Thomas Hastings, who designed the pedestal for the statue, which also included bas reliefs executed by Bartlett.
Miscellaneous, Outgoing, 1908, 1922, undated
Select: Miscellaneous, Outgoing, 1908, 1922, undated
Postcards, 1892-1925
Select: Postcards, 1892-1925 Scope and Contents With and without correspondence; some picture Bartlett works, works of other sculptors, other are scenic views.
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