Description of the Papers
Autograph manuscript letters and postcards, mostly signed, addressed to Mary Smyth Hunter and to two of her descendants, her daughter Cary Phyllis (Hunter) Williamson, and her grand-daughter Elizabeth Williamson. Major correspondents include Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm, Gabriel Fauré, Edmund Gosse, Edvard Grieg, George Henschel, Henry James, William James, Claude Monet, George Moore, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Henry Tonks, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. The collection also features approximately 275 pieces of correspondence to Elizabeth Williamson from Mary Smyth Hunter's younger sister, the composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth.
Dates
- 1895 - 1940
Creator
Information About Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Mary Smyth Hunter Correspondence is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Joan Winterkorn on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2013.
Arrangement
Organized into three series: I. Letters to Mary Smyth Hunter, 1895-1935. II. Letters to Elizabeth Williamson, 1923-1940. III. Letters to Phyllis Williamson, 1898-1936.
Extent
2.71 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Abstract
Autograph manuscript letters and postcards, mostly signed, addressed to Mary Smyth Hunter and to two of her descendants, her daughter Cary Phyllis (Hunter) Williamson, and her grand-daughter Elizabeth Williamson. Major correspondents include Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm, Gabriel Fauré, Edmund Gosse, Edvard Grieg, George Henschel, Henry James, William James, Claude Monet, George Moore, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Henry Tonks, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. The collection also features approximately 275 pieces of correspondence to Elizabeth Williamson from Mary Smyth Hunter's sister, the composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth.
Mary Smyth Hunter (1856-1933)
Mary (Smyth) Hunter (1856-1933), born in India to Major General John Smyth (1815-1894) and Nina (Struth) Smyth, married the wealthy coal-mining heir Charles Edward Hunter in 1875. Mary was known for her lavish hospitality at Hill Hall, their country house near Epping, in Essex county, England, and for her patronage of musicians, writers, and artists.
- Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945
- Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
- Composers -- England -- 20th Century
- Composers -- England -- Correspondence
- Country life -- Great Britain
- Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924
- Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th Century
- Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907
- Henschel, George, 1850-1934
- Hunter, Mary Smyth, 1856-1933
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- James, William, 1842-1910
- Monet, Claude, 1840-1926
- Moore, George, 1852-1933
- Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
- Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944
- Tonks, Henry, 1862-1937
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Title
- Guide to the Mary Smyth Hunter Correspondence
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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Location
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