Guide to the Howard Mansfield Papers
Manuscripts & Archives Division
New York Public Library

Folder 1 - 	HM'S "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James 		Abbot McNeill Whistler"

		Correspondence with the Caxton Club
		" "Mr. Gillis re printing
		Typed copy of "Literary-Property Copyright"
		2 Typed Copies Memoranda for the Caxton Club re ownership Whistler's 			Etchings;
		2 Typed copies of "Whistler's Lithographs"
		HM'S Etchings and Dry-Points following order in his Catalogue 				published by Caxton Club
		HM'S correspondence with E. Parsons & Sons London re Etching 				attributed to Whistler

		Letter from Whistler's sister-in-law: Miss R
		Birnie-Philip, London, October 11, 1904;
		HM'S reply of " 28, 1904;
		HM'S later letter " 15, 1906;

Folder 2 -	HM'S "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James 		Abbot McNeill Whistler" published by the Caxton Club, 1908;
		Copy of Caxton Club's notification of publication of
			book dated May 31, 1907;
			another " Nov 15, 1908;
			" " Nov 25, 1908;
		Certificate of acknowledgment of gift of book from:
			Trustees Columbia College
			The Players signed by Frank Wilson
			University Club
		Copy of Order Blank
		
		A few orders for the Catalogue signed by well-known people.
		
		Letters of Congratulations from well-known critics.
		
		2 Proofs of Whistler Photograph used in Mansfield Catalogue.

Folder 3 -	Knife, Fork, Spoon Exhibition:
		Catalogue, Part 3 Trilby (from a magazine)

Folder 4 -	HM'S Collection of Whistler's Etchings and Lithographs

		4a- Photographs of Whistler's Etchings

		4b- Lithographs by Whistler in the collection of Howard Mansfield 		Numbered according to the Catalogue by Thomas R, Way 1918;

		4c- Catalogue of Etchings and Dry-Points by Whistler belonging to 		Howard Mansfield, 1918.

Folder 5 -	Books written by Whistler;
		" concerning Whistler;
		Catalogues compiled or authorized by Whistler;
		Catalogues of Memorial Exhibitions of Whistler's Works;
		Periodicals containing articles on Whistler;
		
		All the above given to Yale December, 1931.

		Whistler Books and Periodicals; Catalogues and Exhibitions retained 		by HM.
		
		Whistler Books - 3 copies

		Correspondence with J F Drake Inc. 1936 re sale Whistler Books.

Folder 6 -	Data about Anacopa Island
		Mrs. Borwnell's letter about Whistler School
		Record of Whistler's Election to Nat. Academy of Design
		Letters regarding birth date, baptism and burial of Whistler

Folder 7 -	Typewritten Copy Whistler-Duret Letters;
		" " Whistler's Letter to Thomas Way, August, 1894
		" " Whistler's Letters to HM April 13, 1893, etc.
		" " Whistler's Letter to Mr. C L Freer, after
		" " Mrs. Whistler's death.
		" " Whistler's Letterr to Robert Koehler- 2 copies
		" " Tom McBay

Folder 8 -	Includes Letters from: 1886-1934
		Lawrence Howe
		Charles L. Freer
		Francis Bullard
		Stoddard Dewey
		Robert H. Dodd
		W. J. Rawlinson
		Elizabeth Carey

		Letter to:
			A.R. Kimball
			Edmond Kelly

8a-		Correspondence re Whistler

Folder 15 -	Whistler Etchings - Loan Exhibitions
		Boston, Mass: St. Botolph Club, Jan. 1895
		Buffalo, N.Y; Pan-American Exposition 1902
		Chicago, Ill: World's Fair 1893
		New York City: Arden Studios Dec. 1918
		Grollier Club 1904
		Metropolitan Museum 1917
		Philadelphia, PA: Penn Academy Fine Arts 1902
		St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Exposition 1894

Folder 17 - Whistler Centenary Exhibition At Knoedler's October - November 1934
		Catalogue with introduction by HM;
		List to whom Catalogues were sent;
		Acknoweledgments of catalogues sent;

Folder 18 - Re Whistler's Etching "Mr. Mann"
		Letter from Henry Newham Davis
		Letters from John Charrington
		Portrait of H Newham Davis painted by Mr. Wingfield and contemporary 		with the Whistler portrait catalogued as "Mr. Mann"
		Re Charles Drouet - Letter and cable on the subject

Folder 19 - Catalogues of Collections of Whistler's Etchings, etc.

		Cox-Cox Collection
		Haden's Sir Francis Seymour Collection; his own etchings; also 			Whistler's Etchings and Dry-Points.
		Lathrop Collection
		Menpes " handwritten copy & printer's proof
		" " and other sources typed
		Scholle " --
		Theobold " New York 1906; also letters from HST 2 in 1904; 1 in 1909;
		Also
		Whistler Etchingd: List of States known to HM
		Whistler Lithographs: Price List in Collections of Charles Freer; 		Bryan Lathrop; HM

Folder 20 -	Whistler Etchings:
			1. In Bryan Lathrop Collection
			2. Owned by others not in Bryan Lathrop Coll.
			3. Owned by HM - water colors, pastels, drawings
			4. Once Owned by HM
			5. Ownership of Whistler Etchings Memoranda for Caxton Club

Folder 21 -	Whistler Monographs: in 2 Vols. by HM published by M Knoedler & Co. 		Inc.

		"Whistler as a Critic of His Own Prints"
		"Whistler in Belgium and Holland"

		Correspondence with Fitzroy Carrington etc.
		Record of having sent "Monographs" to "Bones" and others - April 1935

		Catalogues and Advertising
		Also HM's original manuscripts

Unnumbered- Notes and Correspondence on an Exhibition of Whistler Etchings at the World's Fair, Chicago 1893.