Finding Aid for the Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series II: Correspondence, 1894-1996, undated HCFF.02.02

 Part of the Frick Family Papers

Summary Information

Repository
The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives10 East 71st Street
New York, NY, 10021
archives@frick.org
 © 2014 The Frick Collection. All rights reserved.
Creator
Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984.
Title
Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series II: Correspondence
ID
HCFF.02.02
Date
1894-1996, undated
Extent
14.0 Linear feet (34 boxes, including 3 boxes of restricted files)
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984) was the daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick. She established the Frick Art Reference Library in New York in 1920, and was active as a philanthropist throughout her life. This collection consists mostly of letters to her from family members and friends.

Preferred Citation

Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series II: Correspondence. The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

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Biographical Note

Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984) was the daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs Frick. Born at Clayton, the Frick family residence in Pittsburgh, her early education took place at home under the tutelage of Swiss governess Marika Ogiz. In 1905, Henry Clay Frick relocated his family to the Vanderbilt mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York, and Helen Clay Frick enrolled at Miss Spence's School for Girls, graduating in 1908. She made her debut into society in Pittsburgh later that same year.

From an early age, Helen Clay Frick expressed an interest in art, and around 1910 she created an early two-volume catalogue of her father's collection. She traveled abroad frequently with her family and maintained detailed diaries from several of these trips, noting visits to galleries, museums, and historical sites. She was also interested in photography and kept a visual record of her travels through scrapbooks and photograph albums.

After the death of her father in 1919, Helen Clay Frick focused her attention on The Frick Collection, the museum comprised of Henry Clay Frick's New York residence and art collection which had been established by his will. Along with her mother and her brother, Childs Frick, Helen Clay Frick served as a founding trustee of the Collection and was instrumental in guiding the museum's early acquisitions. In 1920, she established the Frick Art Reference Library in New York as a memorial to her father and as a public resource for those with an interest in art history. She served as Director of the Library from its inception until shortly before her death.

In addition to her work in art and art history, Helen Clay Frick took an interest in politics, land conservation, the humane treatment of animals, and the welfare of underprivileged children. In 1909, she founded the Iron Rail Vacation Home in Wenham, Mass., which served as a retreat for girls who worked in the textile mills outside of Boston. She was also very active in war relief efforts throughout both the first and second World Wars. In 1917, near the end of World War I, she sailed to France to assist the Red Cross in the repatriation of refugees. In 1940, she arranged for seven girls to leave England and live under her care in the U.S. Referred to collectively by Miss Frick as the British Girls, the evacuees included Isobel Margaret ("Margot") Horn (later Margot Nicol), Sheila Inglis (later Sheila Milliken), Mavis Sayers (later Mavis Archer), Valerie Sayers (later Valerie Goodwin), Mary Pix ("Pixie") Sayers (later Pixie Love), Molly Stuchberry (later Molly Willcox), and Mary Joy Shuttleworth.

The British Girls divided their time between Prides Crossing, Mass., where Miss Frick maintained the country estate built by her father at the turn of the century, and Bedford, N.Y., where Miss Frick established her own home after her father’s death. The seven girls remained with Miss Frick from 1940 through 1944, during which time they attended American schools and were immersed in American culture. In 1945 the girls returned to their homes in post-war England, but maintained their relationships with Miss Frick over the years. Individually, the British Girls pursued different livelihoods, and settled in places as varied as Ireland, Portugal and Africa, but they all remained in close contact with one another and Miss Frick through regular correspondence.

Helen Clay Frick was a legal resident of Pittsburgh for her entire adult life, and took an active interest in that city. In 1926, she helped to found an academic department in art history at the University of Pittsburgh. In the 1960s, she provided funds for the Univerity to construct the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building to house the department and its library. Subsequent disagreements with the University, however, compelled her to withdraw her support, and in 1970, she built the Frick Art Museum on the grounds at Clayton to house her personal art collection. Helen Clay Frick never married and had no children. She died at Clayton in 1984.

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Scope and Content Note

The Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series II: Correspondence, 1894-1996 and undated, consists primarily of letters to Helen Clay Frick from family member and friends. The series also includes greeting cards, letters of condolence, and appeals from charitable organizations. A number of the correspondents represented in this series can also be found in the Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series IV: Alphabetical File. Materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or by subject within each subseries.

Subseries I: General Correspondence - Alphabetical, 1894-1996 and undated, includes letters from Helen Clay Frick's parents, Adelaide H.C. Frick and Henry Clay Frick, her brother, Childs Frick, her aunt, Martha H. Childs, and various members of her extended family. It also contains letters from Miss Frick's Swiss governess, Marika Ogiz, close friends such as Pauline Wells, Elizabeth Holmes McLeod, Katharine "Kitty" McCook Knox, Polly Dixon Turner, Helen and Samuel Shoemaker, Austin and Dorothy Pardue, and members of the Shoumatoff family. Staff of the Frick Art Reference Library in New York, the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, and Helen Clay Frick's Pittsburgh office staff are also represented in this subseries. Those correspondents include Mildred Steinbach, Daphne Mebane Hoffman, Ethelwyn Manning, Virginia Lewis, Charles F. Chubb, E.J. McNamara, and Walter F. Cooley Jr., as well as Clotilde Brière and Lea Danesi Tolnay, who assisted Miss Frick in acquiring library materials from abroad. This subseries also contains letters from University of Pittsburgh chancellors John G. Bowman and Edward H. Litchfield, painters Jean Julien Lemordant and William Orpen, art historians Richard Offner, Theodore Sizer, John Walker III, and Millard Meiss, and politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Alexander Haig, and Donald M. Fraser.

Subseries II: General Correspondence - Topical, circa 1890s-1986 and undated, contains appeals from charitable organizations, including political and social causes, arts organizations, and churches, along with greeting cards from family and friends in observance of birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Valentine's Day. This suberies also contains letters of condolence on the deaths of Helen Clay Frick's father (died 1919), her mother (died 1931), her nieces Adelaide Frick Blanchard (died 1956) and Jane A. Frick (died 1978), and her cousin Karl F. Overholt (died 1938), as well as her dogs Bob (died 1941) and Warey (died 1967).

Subseries III: British Girls Correspondence, 1927, 1940-1981, consists largely of personal letters from seven British girls who lived under Miss Frick’s care during their evacuation from Great Britain during WWII. The British Girls include: Margot Nicol (née Isobel Margaret Horn), Sheila Milliken (née Sheila Inglis), Mavis Archer (née Mavis Sayers), Valerie Goodwin (née Valerie Sayers), Pixie Love (née Mary Pix Sayers), Molly Willcox (née Molly Stuchberry), and Mary Joy Shuttleworth. The collection also contains correspondence from parents, family, and friends in relation to one or more of the British Girls. Letters are either hand or typewritten, and may include enclosures such as photographs and newspaper clippings. Telegrams, postcards, and greeting cards may also be found in this subseries. The bulk of these materials date from the 1940s and 1950s. The only item dated prior to 1940 is a school record from 1927, which is currently restricted. Additional items under restriction include medical and school records for each of the seven girls.

The letters written by the British Girls between 1940 and 1944 convey their personal sentiments about the war and their experiences in the United States, including their thoughts on American culture and education. Letters from the girls’ families in England during this time reflect parental concern and gratitude to Miss Frick, as well as hardships suffered by those living in England at the time, especially food shortages, rationing, blackouts, and aerial bombardment. Letters dated from 1945 on detail the individual life experiences of the British Girls, their families, and friends in post-war England, and summarize their personal friendships, educational and career pursuits, travels, marriages, and family lives well into the 1970s.

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Arrangement

Arranged in three subseries:

Subseries I: General Correspondence - Alphabetical, 1894-1996, undated

Subseries II: General Correspondence - Topical, circa 1890s-1986, undated

Subseries III: British Girls Correspondence, 1927, 1940-1981

Materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or by subject matter within each subseries.

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

These records are generally open for research under the conditions of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives Access Policy, though selected folders are restricted from use at this time. Restricted folders are noted within the container list below. For all inquiries or to schedule an appointment, please contact the Archives Department at archives@frick.org.

Provenance

Gift of the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, 2015.

Processing Information

Arranged and described by Julie Ludwig, 2014, with funding from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

Additional Helen Clay Frick correspondence can be found in the Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series IV: Alphabetical Files, and in the Frick Art Reference Library institutional archives.

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Correspondence.
  • Greeting cards.

Personal Name(s)

  • Blanchard, Adelaide Frick, 1915-1956.
  • Bowman, John G. (John Gabbert), 1877-1962.
  • Brière-Misme, Clotilde.
  • Frick, Adelaide Howard Childs, 1859-1931.
  • Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984.
  • Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919.
  • Nixon, Richard M., (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
  • Ogiz, Marika, d. 1952.

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Collection Inventory

Subseries I: General Correspondence - Alphabetical, 1894-1996, undated
 

Includes letters from Helen Clay Frick's parents, Adelaide H.C. Frick and Henry Clay Frick, her brother, Childs Frick, her aunt, Martha H. Childs, and various members of her extended family. It also contains letters from Miss Frick's Swiss governess, Marika Ogiz, close friends such as Pauline Wells, Elizabeth Holmes McLeod, Katharine "Kitty" McCook Knox, Polly Dixon Turner, Helen and Samuel Shoemaker, Austin and Dorothy Pardue, and members of the Shoumatoff family. Staff of the Frick Art Reference Library in New York, the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, and Helen Clay Frick's Pittsburgh office staff are also represented in this subseries. Those correspondents include Mildred Steinbach, Daphne Mebane Hoffman, Ethelwyn Manning, Virginia Lewis, Charles F. Chubb, E.J. McNamara, and Walter F. Cooley Jr., as well as Clotilde Brière and Lea Danesi Tolnay, who assisted Miss Frick in acquiring library materials from abroad. This subseries also contains letters from University of Pittsburgh chancellors John G. Bowman and Edward H. Litchfield, painters Jean Julien Lemordant and William Orpen, art historians Richard Offner, Theodore Sizer, John Walker III, and Millard Meiss, and politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Alexander Haig, and Donald M. Fraser.

Box Folder Date
1 1

Acheson-Ayer
 

Acheson, David, 1977

Alberts, Robert C., 1969

Alderman, Everett, 1967

Aldrich, David B., undated

American Against Union Control of Government, Vienna, Va., 1975

Anders, Valerie, 1970

Andersson, Harald, 1975

Appleyard, Robert B., [1967], 1977

Arbuthnot, Thomas S., 1942

Armstrong, Mary, 1976, undated

Atkinson, A. Grace, 1931

Aulanier, Christiane (Mrs. R. Aulanier), 1947

Ayer, Hilda, 1976

1 2

Baker-Bechtel
 

Baker, Geo. F., 1925

Bankson, Marion, 1981

Barr, Margaret, 1950

Barretto, Ann, 1977

Barton, Rachel, 1951

Bayh, Birch, 1976

Bechtel, Edwin De Turck, 1949, undated

Bechtel, Louise, 1957

1 3

Becker-Bethke
 

Becker, Edward, 1975

Bedford Association, Bedford, N.Y., 1975, 1977

Bedford Historical Society, Bedford, N.Y., 1974, 1977

Berenson, Bernard, 1951

Bethke, Elizabeth (Mrs. Roland Bethke), 1967, 1977

1 4-5

Blanchard, Adelaide Frick
 

circa 1920s-1951
1 6

Blanchard, Peter P.-Boston
 

Blanchard, Peter P., Jr., 1950

Blanchard, Peter P., III 1955-1974, undated [RESTRICTED]

Blumenthal, Florence, [no year] February 1

Bobst, Elmer H., Mrs., [1968]

Bonsal, Dudley B., 1976

Boschot, Adolphe, 1968

Bossom, Barbara, 1968-1977

Bossom, Clive, 1952-1973

Boston Iron Rail Alumnae, 1959

1 7

Bowman, John G.
 

1942-1962
1 8

Breakey-Breillat
 

Breakey, Arnold S., 1975

Breillat, Pierre, 1947

1 9-11

Brière, Clotilde
 

1926-1952 November
2 1

Brière, Clotilde, continued
 

1954-1968, undated
2 2

Brock-Brown
 

Brock, Bill, 1976

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1978

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Kitchawan Auxiliary, Ossining, N.Y., 1974-1980

Brown, Agnes W., 1940

Brown, Helen G., 1928

R-2 R-3

Burden, Childs Frick [RESTRICTED]
 

1969-1974
R-2 R-4

Burden, Elizabeth Weeks (Mrs. Henry S. Burden) [RESTRICED]
 

1975, 1977
R-2 R-5

[Burden, Dixon Frick?] [RESTRICTED]
 

1981
R-2 R-6

Burden, Frances Dixon ("Dixie") [RESTRICTED]
 

1951-1961, undated
2 7

Burden, Frances Frick
 

1922-1943, undated
2 8

Burden, I. Townsend, II
 

1939
R-2 R-9

Burden, I. Townsend, III [RESTRICTED]
 

1952- circa 1960's
R-2 R-10

Burden, Valerie Knauer (Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III) [RESTRICTED]
 

1975, undated
2 11

Burgevin-Century
 

Burgevin, Mabel (Mrs. George Burgevin), 1977

Burke, Daniel, 1974

Burnap, Luke, 1976

Butler, Anne (Mrs. Arthur Wellman Butler), 1950

Butler, J.G., Jr., 1920

Buzzanco Family, undated

Cameron, Martha E., 1973-1978

Cavalco, Bianca, 1968

Century Club, Harrisburg, Pa., 1977

2 12

Carter, Sue (Mrs. Burnham Carter Jr.)
 

circa 1950, undated
R-2 R-13-14

Chace, Helen Clay Symington (Mrs. Minturn V. Chace) [RESTRICTED]
 

1944-1958
R-3 R-1-2

Chace, Helen Clay Symington (Mrs. Minturn V. Chace), continued [RESTRICTED]
 

1959-1981
3 3

Chaplin-[Childs?], Lilly
 

Chaplin, Margaret [?],1937

Chappaqua Historical Society, Chappaqua, N.Y., 1977

Childers, Emily, undated

Childs, Harvey, Jr., 1974

Childs, Howard, 1906

[Childs?], Lilly, 1939

3 4

Childs, Martha H. ("Attie")
 

1895-1914
3 5

Christie-Christy
 

Christie, Kay, 1978

Christy, [Edwina?] (Mrs. William Christy), 1978

3 6

Chubb, Charles F.
 

1926
3 7

Cogliostro-Conzett
 

Cogliostro, Phil, 1963

Cole, Rufus, 1959-1966, undated

Cole, Timothy, 1926, 1930

Colonial Dames of America, New York, [N.Y.], 1978

Conly, Adelaide (Mrs. John B. Conly), 1974, 1979

Conner, Janis C. [curator, Malvina Hoffman Estate], 1978

Contiguglia, John, 1975

Conzett and Huber, Zurich, Switzerland, 1977

3 8

Cooley, Walter F.
 

1952-1978
3 9

Cordonny-Crawford
 

Cordonny, E. and L., 1948

Cowdrey, Eleanor Quinley, undated

Craftsmen Unlimited, Inc., Bedford Hills, N.Y., 1978

Cramer, William J., [no year] 23 March

Crawford, Stanton C., 1965

R-3 R-10-12

Dane, Arabella Symington (Mrs. Edward N. Dane) [RESTRICTED]
 

1950-1977, undated
4 1

Davidson-De Lage
 

Davidson, Bernice, 1977 [re: Orpen portrait of Mr. Frick]

Davis, Lee Parsons, 1949

Day, Harold, 1963

De Lage, Robert, 1977

4 2

de Milhau, Louis
 

1944-1945
4 3

de Sévery-Decker
 

de Sévery, Paul, 1953

Dean, Clarence, 1926

Decker, Sally, 1969

4 4-5

Degand, Julia
 

1925-1946, undated
4 6

Dennison-Denys
 

Dennison, Antoinette M., 1975

Denny, Marion Herr and Jim, 1980, 1984, undated

Denys, Godelieve M., 1962-1977

4 7

Dewald-Dunlap
 

Dewald, Ernest T., 1964

Donon, Joseph, 1977 See also: Robert De Lage

Du Pont, Henry F., 1937

Dubiau, Pierre, 1975

Duff, Miss [?],1905

Dunlap, Barbara and Walter, 1977

4 8

Earl-Evans
 

Earl of Crawford, 1951

East End Preparatory School, [Pittsburgh, Pa.], 1907

East Huntingdon Schools, Scottdale, Pa., 1921

Easton, John W., 1967-1968

Ebbott, Elizabeth (Mrs. Percy J. Ebbott), 1958

Edwards, Dora L., 1968, 1979

Egan, Julia B., 1973, 1975

Eisenhower, Julie and David, 1974

Elmore, James, 1910

Emerson, Alfred, 1923

Entwisle, William R., 1975

Evans, Betty Whitney (Mrs. Raymond F. Evans), 1978

4 9

Fairbanks-Fluck
 

Fairbanks, Rev. and Mrs. Rollin J., undated

FAR Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1980 [re: Malvina Hoffman exhibition]

Farley, Andrew N., 1977

Fischer, Minnie Donath, 1977

Flint, Priscilla (Mrs. Edwin G. Flint), circa 1970's

Fluck, Paul, 1969

4 10

Focillon-Fosburgh, Hugh
 

Focillon, Marguerite H., [no year] September 10

Forbes, Edward W., 1924

Ford, Gerald, 1974, 1976

Fosburgh, Hugh, 1941-1976

4 11

Fosburgh, James W.
 

1943-1944, undated
4 12

Fosburgh, Lacey-Fraser
 

Fosburgh, Lacey, undated

Fosburgh, Pieter W., 1941-1945, 1976

Fox, Ouisa (Mrs. Joseph C. Fox), 1943-1977, undated

Fraser, Donald M., 1976 [U.S. Congressman re: Solzhenitsyn]

5 1-6

Frick, Adelaide H.C.
 

1897-1930 June
6 1

Frick, Adelaide H.C., continued
 

1930 August-1931, undated
6 2

Frick Art Museum (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
 

1984, undated
6 3

Frick Art Reference Library (New York, N.Y.) staff
 

1976, 1980, undated
6 4

Frick, Childs-Frick, Elise
 

Frick, Childs, 1895-1896, undated

Frick, Christine, 1976

Frick, Diane, 1984

Frick, E.H., 1975

Frick, Elise Dixon, 1955-1968 [RESTRICTED]

R-6 R-5

Frick, Frances, II [RESTRICTED]
 

1961-1968, 1975
6 6

Frick, Helen Clay [to ?]
 

circa 1980s
6 7

Frick, Henry Clay
 

1894-1919
6 8-10

Frick, Henry Clay, II ("Clay")
 

circa 1920's-1972, undated
R-6 R-11

[Frick, Henry Clay, III] [RESTRICTED]
 

undated
7 1

Frick, Jane (Mrs. Henry Clay Frick, II)
 

1945-1946, undated
R-7 R-2

Frick, Jane A., Jr. [RESTRICTED]
 

1954-1976, undated
7 3

Frick, Robert-Haig
 

Frick, Robert [dog], circa 1930s

Galey, Thomas Mellon, 1950

Gibbs, Philip, [no year] March 5

Giles, John See: Stuart Hatcher

Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Mass., 1930

Gourd, [Emilie Noël] (Mrs. Henry Eugene Gourd), 1945, 1957

Graham, Anthony Max [?],1951

Graham, Isobel, 1951

Greater Lawrence Council of Churches, Lawrence, Mass., 1977

Green, Alan Wyndham, 1957

Green, James W., III, 1977

Grier, Harry, undated

Griffith, David E., 1976-1977, undated

Gorneng, Gullborg ("Guldie"), 1966, undated [secretary to Malvina Hoffman]

Haig, Alexander M., Jr., 1974

7 4

Harding, Charles B. and Marion
 

1976-1977, undated
7 5

Harris-Harvard
 

Harris, John F., 1926

Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, 1977

7 6

Harvey, George
 

[1919]-1928, undated
7 7

Hastings, Thomas
 

1926
7 8

Hatcher-Hoffman
 

Hatcher, Stuart, [1944?]

Hegeman, Annie May, 1948

Heinz, H. John, III, 1978

Helmer, Nancy, 1964

Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, [no year] March 20

Hill, Alfred, 1925

[Hill?], Gertrude, undated

Hingson, Robert A., 1973

Hoffman, Charles L., 1968

7 9

Hoguet, Larry
 

1941
7 10

Hoguet, Peter and Helen
 

1946
7 11

Holmes-Howard, Hubert
 

Holmes, Dagmar O., 1928

Hovey, Walter R., 1977

Howard, Hubert, 1971-1981

7 12

Howard, Isabella
 

1929-1961, undated
7 13-14

Howland, Eleanor B.
 

Mostly letters to/from Miss Frick while she was in England and Ireland; frequently mentions British Girls

1951-1952
7 15

Hunt, Rachel McM. Miller
 

1926
7 16

Inchiquin, Lord
 

1951
7 17

Jacobs-Jung
 

Jacobs, Donald McG., 1973

Jamieson, Margaret S., 1914

Jenney, Anne West, 1976

Johnston, Ellen, 1963

Jones, Elinor, 1979

Jones, Marshall E., 1967

Jung, Renée, 1974

7 18

Kennedy-Kinsolving
 

Kennedy, Helen (Mrs. Laurence Kennedy), 1962

King, Elizabeth R., undated

King Solomon's Lodge, Connellsville, Pa., 1962

Kinsolving, Arthur B., II, 1959-1960

7 19

Knoedler, Roland F.
 

Thank you letters from Helen Clay Frick to Mr. Knoedler.

1899, 1908
7 20

Knox, Hetty E.
 

1976
8 1

Knox, Katharine "Kitty" McCook
 

1908-1979
8 2

Knox, William F.
 

1945-1975
8 3

[Kozikova]-Leavitt
 

[Kozikova], Marcela, 1976-1978

Krantz, Peggy Beggis, 1981 [grandniece of Lula Frick Taylor]

Kuhlman, Kathryn, 1974

Kuhn, James Craighead, Jr., 1979

Lawrence, Barbara and Jimmy, undated

Lawrence, Suzanne S. (Mrs. George H.C. Lawrence), 1978

Leavitt, Emily [?], 1927

8 4

Lee-Lemordant
 

Lee, Ronald C., Mrs., undated

Legge, Peg (Mrs. Robert L. Legge), 1977, undated

Lemordant, Jean Julien, undated

8 5

Lewis, Virginia
 

1970-1978, undated
8 6

Lindsay-Lusseyran
 

Lindsay, E.M., 1952

Litchfield, Edward H., 1964

Lockhart, George D., [1964]

Loerke, William C., 1964

Loiseau, Madeleine, 1942

Loughran, John T., 1949

Lu, Frank, 1944-1945

Lusseyran, Jacques, 1965

8 7

MacGregor-Maynard
 

MacGregor, Nancy and Mrs., undated

Manning, Ethelwyn, undated

Mariano, Nicky, 1962

Marshall, Archibald, 1922

Marshall, Dottie and Donald, 1975

Marshall, Edith, undated

Marvin, Nancy, 1979

May, Cordelia Scaife, 1974-1977

May, Robert E., 1979

Maynard, Dorothy, 1946

8 8

McCook family
 

[McCook], Fanny B., 1967

[McCook], H.B., 1940, 1941, undated

8 9

McLeod, Elizabeth "Betty" (née Elizabeth Holmes)
 

1935-1946, undated
8 10

McLeod, Norman C., Jr., and Joan
 

circa 1940s, 1969

McLeod, Susie
 

See: Carter, Sue (Mrs. Burnham Carter Jr.)

8 11

McNamara, E.J.
 

1930-1941
8 12

McQueery-Moore
 

McQueery, M.V., undated

Meade, Helma B.E., 1969

Meade, Johnny, 1944, 1976, undated

Mebane, Daphne Hoffman, 1966, 1978

Meiss, Millard, 1974

Mellon, Andrew W., 1921, 1937

Mellon, Richard, 1964

Miner, Dan, 1977

Mitchell, James A., 1966

Moore, Edward F., 1979

8 13

Morrison, Elizabeth "Betsy" Holmes (Mrs. Victor Morrison Jr.)
 

1946, 1972

National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association, Youngstown, Ohio
 

See: Butler, J.G., Jr.

8 14

Nicholas-Nicol
 

Nicholas, Trevor J., 1955 [addressed "Dear Harold"]

Nicol, Elsie (Mrs. Frank D. Nicol), 1978

Nixon, Julie
 

See: Bobst, Mrs. Elmer H.

8 15

Nixon, Pat
 

1969
8 16-18

Nixon, Richard
 

1962-1983
8 19

North-Offill
 

North Castle Historical Society, Armonk, N.Y., undated

Northern Westchester Prescription Center, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., 1977

O'Conner, Ella, undated

Offner, Richard, 1926

Offill, C. (Mrs. Paul M. Offill), 1963-1964

Ogiz, Lily
 

See: Reymond, Elise.

See also: Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series IV: Alphabetical File.

9 1-3

Ogiz, Marika
 

1899-1952, undated
9 4

Oliver-Osburn
 

Oliver, John W., 1948

Olsen, Berenice, undated

Orpen, William, 1920

Osburn, Jettie (Mrs. W.N. Osburn), 1955, undated

9 5

Overholt, Karl F.
 

1925-1937, undated
9 6

Pagan-Pratt
 

Pagan, Gary Paul, 1978

Pardue, Austin and Dorothy, 1962-1979

Peake, Charles H., 1964

Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1958

Pittsburgh Experiment, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1963

Poet and Philosopher Magazine, 1922

Pope, John Russell (Office of), New York, N.Y., 1932

Pratt, Tom, 1975

9 7

Qua-Quin
 

Qua, Patricia H., 1947

Quin, Olein Wyndham, 1951

9 8

Ramsay-Regional
 

Ramsay, William, 1920

Rappleye, William C., Jr., 1943, 1945

Rath, F.L., Jr., 1975

Rea, James C., 1968, undated

Rea, William H., 1964

[Reagan, Ronald] [envelope only; card missing], 1985

Redwood, Debby (Mrs. John Redwood, Jr.), 1976

Regional Review League, Bedford, N.Y., 1976-1978

9 9

Reiniger-Russell
 

Reiniger, Scott H., 1975

Republican National Committee, Washington, D.C., 1976

Reymond, Elise, 1968

Rhodes, John J., 1976

Rice, Anne, undated

Romeo, Pat (Mrs. Fiore V. Romeo), 1977

Roosevelt, Theodore and Edith, 1903

Rotan, Mary and Thurman, undated

Rowney, Rebecca (Mrs. Ray W. Rowney, Jr.), 1975

Russell-Montgomery, Cynthia [?], 1951

9 10

Sacconi-Samuels
 

Sacconi, Giuseppe Vitorini, undated

Samuels, Mitchell, 1934

R-9 R-11-13

Sanger, Martha Frick Symington [RESTRICTED]
 

1950-1973, undated
10 1

Sanphy-Shiras
 

Sanphy, Mrs. [?],undated

Santa, Mike, 1977

Schweiker, Richard S., 1976

Scott, Jenny, 1941

Scott, Loza, undated

Scott, Thomas C.H., 1981

Scully, Rees Townsend, 1961

Shiras, Anne, 1976-1977, undated

Shiras, Clara (Mrs. Winfield K. Shiras), 1936-1940

10 2

Shoemaker, Helen and Samuel Moor
 

1961-1981, undated

Shoumatoff, Elizabeth
 

See: Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series IV: Alphabetical File.

10 3

Shoumatoff, Nicholas and Nina
 

1951-1982, undated
10 4

Sitwell-Smith
 

Sitwell, Osbert and Edith, 1951

Sizer, Theodore, 1926

Slick, Thomas McCune, 1973

Smith, Morton, 1956

Smith, Robert G., 1935

Smith, Richard Austin, 1977

10 5

Société-Swears
 

Société Fragonard, Grasse, [France], undated

Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer, 1974

Spence, Clara B., 1906

Spence, Floyd, 1976

Spicer, Norman, 1977

Squires, Barbara (Mrs. M. Boyce Squires), 1969

St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, N.Y., 1975, 1980, undated

Stanton, Edward H., 1944

Stanton, Marshall, 1982

Statter[?], Penelope, 1951

Steinbach, Mildred, 1976

Stoltz, Jane, 1940

Strong, Myrtle Fallis, undated

Stuart, Eleanor (Mrs. David Stuart), 1968[?], undated

Suhr, William, 1950

Swan, Philip V., 1978

Swears, Anne, 1975

R-10 R-6

Symington, Ann (Mrs. J. Fife Symington, III) [RESTRICTED]
 

1977, 1982
10 7

Symington, J. Fife, II
 

1939, undated
R-10 R-8

Symington, J. Fife, III [RESTRICTED]
 

1954-1963, undated
10 9-11

Symington, Martha Frick (Mrs. J. Fife Symington, II)
 

1927-1947
11 1-2

Symington, Martha Frick (Mrs. J. Fife Symington, II), continued
 

1948-1981, undated
11 3

Taylor, Lula Frick
 

See also: Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series IV: Alphabetical File.

1922, 1965, 1967, undated
11 4

Thebault, C.
 

1977
11 5

Thompson, Alice P. (Mrs. LeRoy Thompson)
 

1974-1977, 1996
11 6

Throop-Todd
 

Throop, William M., Jr., 1962, 1970

Tiffany and Co., New York, [N.Y.], 1911, undated

Tilford, James D., Jr., 1969-1970

Todd, James and Alice, 1974, 1978

11 7

Tolnay-Touillon
 

Tolnay, Lea Danesi, 1944-1954

Tomnay, Robert H., 1977

Touillon, D.Ch., 1945-1952

R-11 R-8-10

Trafton, Adelaide H.C. Frick (Mrs. Jothan Trafton) [RESTRICTED]
 

1957-1974
R-12 R-1

Trafton, Adelaide H.C. Frick (Mrs. Jothan Trafton), continued [RESTRICTED]
 

1975-1979, undated
12 2

Trumpy-Turner
 

Trumpy, Charlotte, 1985

Tucker, Luther, 1977

Turley, Raymond V., 1973

Turnbull, Nancy A., 1947

Turner, Horatio W. and Polly (nee Katherine Dixon), 1944-1945, 1973

12 3

Van Sittart-Wells, Albert
 

Van Sittart, Lord, 1946

Viscount de Vesci, 1951

Wadsworth, Frank W., 1964

[Wagner], I.M., 1963

Walker, John, III, 1964-1965

Wanney, G., 1968

Way, David, undated

Wells, Albert G., 1945

12 4

Wells, Pauline ("Polly")
 

1920-1975, undated
12 5

Wells, Shirley
 

1978
12 6

Western-Whitalt
 

Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1969

Western Union, Wellesley, Mass., 1975

Westmoreland-Fayette Historical Society, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., 1977

Widener, Joseph, 1921

Whitalt, Josephine, 1974

12 7

Williams, Eleanor Heacock McK. (Mrs. Frank Williams)
 

1931-1979, undated
12 8

Williams, James T., Jr.
 

1920
12 9

Wolfe, C. Holmes, Jr., and Susie
 

1974-1980
12 10

Woodger-Young
 

Woodger, Herbert and Annie M., 1927

Wright, Elinor, 1946, undated

Young, John, 1943

12 11-12

Unidentified
 

1944-1979, undated

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Subseries II: General Correspondence - Topical, circa 1890s-1986, undated
 

Contains appeals from charitable organizations, including political and social causes, arts organizations, and churches, along with greeting cards from family and friends in observance of birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Valentine's Day. This suberies also contains letters of condolence on the deaths of Helen Clay Frick's father (died 1919), her mother (died 1931), her nieces Adelaide Frick Blanchard (died 1956) and Jane A. Frick (died 1978), and her cousin Karl F. Overholt (died 1938), as well as her dogs Bob (died 1941) and Warey (died 1967).

Box Folder Date
13 1

Birthday cards
 

undated
13 2

Charitable appeals
 

Includes political and social causes, arts organizations, churches, etc.

1974-1986
13 3-10

Christmas cards
 

circa 1920s-1960s
14 1-4

Christmas cards, continued
 

1975-1982, undated
14 5-6

Condolence letters - Blanchard, Adelaide Frick
 

1956
14 7-8

Condolence letters - Dogs - Bob
 

1941
14 9

Condolence letters - Dogs - Warey
 

1967
15 1-2

Condolence letters - Frick, Adelaide H.C.
 

1931-1932
15 3-10

Condolence letters - Frick, Henry Clay
 

1919-1922
16 1-2

Condolence letters - Frick, Henry Clay - From the True Blue Girls
 

1919-1920
16 3

Condolence letters - Frick, Jane A., Jr.
 

1978
16 4

Condolence letters - McLeod, Elizabeth (Mrs. Norman C. McLeod)
 

1946
16 5

Condolence letters - Overholt, Karl F.
 

1938
16 6-9

Easter cards
 

1977-1984
17 1

Easter cards, continued
 

1984
17 2

Thank you letters - Christmas
 

1975-1981
17 3

Thank you letters - Harvey article on Henry Clay Frick in North American Review
 

1920
17 4

Thank you letters - Easter gifts (Bibles)
 

1980
17 5

Thanksgiving cards
 

circa 1970s
17 6

Valentines
 

1890's?, 1977

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Subseries III: British Girls Correspondence, 1927, 1940-1981
 

Consists largely of personal letters from seven British girls who lived under Miss Frick’s care during their evacuation from Great Britain during WWII. The British Girls include: Margot Nicol (née Isobel Margaret Horn), Sheila Milliken (née Sheila Inglis), Mavis Archer (née Mavis Sayers), Valerie Goodwin (née Valerie Sayers), Pixie Love (née Mary Pix Sayers), Molly Willcox (née Molly Stuchberry), and Mary Joy Shuttleworth. The collection also contains correspondence from parents, family, and friends in relation to one or more of the British Girls. Letters are either hand or typewritten, and may include enclosures such as photographs and newspaper clippings. Telegrams, postcards, and greeting cards may also be found in this subseries. The bulk of these materials date from the 1940s and 1950s. The only item dated prior to 1940 is a school record from 1927, which is currently restricted. Additional items under restriction include medical and school records for each of the seven girls.

Letters written by the British Girls between 1940 and 1944 convey their personal sentiments about the war and their experiences in the United States, including their thoughts on American culture and education. Letters from the girls’ families in England during this time reflect parental concern and gratitude to Miss Frick, as well as hardships suffered by those living in England at the time, especially food shortages, rationing, blackouts, and aerial bombardment. Letters dated from 1945 on detail the individual life experiences of the British Girls, their families, and friends in post-war England, and summarize their personal friendships, educational and career pursuits, travels, marriages, and family lives well into the 1970s.

Box Folder Date
18 1-7

Archer, Mavis
 

1941-1957
19 1-5

Archer, Mavis, continued
 

1958-1978
R R

Archer, Mavis, continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1940-1944
19 6

[?] , Betsy
 

1948
19 7

Brady, Alice
 

1941-1942
19 8

Bremner, Betty
 

1941-1942
19 9

Campling, John F. St. Clair
 

1943
19 10

Campling, Margaret
 

1945
19 11

Cardy, Barry
 

1942
19 12

Crawdron, John
 

[1942]
19 13

Dempsey, C.
 

1945
19 14

Dempsey, Peter
 

1945
19 15

Dobson, Helen C. ("Dobbie")
 

1941-1942
19 16

Driskell, Florence
 

1940-1943
19 17

Durell, Alan
 

1942-1945
19 18

Durell, Michael
 

1943
19 19

Durell, Olive
 

1943-1946
19 20

Ekekugbo, Gabriel I.
 

1956
19 21

Fletcher, Angus
 

1940
19 22

Goldsmith, Bill
 

[19??]
19 23

Goodwin, Hilary
 

1957, 1963, 1976

Goodwin, Philippa
 

See: Goodwin, Hilary.

19 24

Goodwin, Robert
 

1947-1948
20 1-8

Goodwin, Valerie
 

1941-1956
21 1-4

Goodwin, Valerie, continued
 

1958-1981
R R

Goodwin, Valerie, continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1940-1942
21 5

Grafflin, Douglas
 

1942
21 6-9

Graham, Joy
 

1940-1944
21 10

Grant, Belissa
 

1942
21 11

Grant, Ian
 

1942, 1943
21 12

Greeting Cards
 

1953-1954, undated
21 13

Heskew, Patricia
 

1943
21 14

Horace Greeley School
 

1943-1944
21 15-16

Horn, Elsie
 

1940-1943
22 1-2

Horn, Elsie, continued
 

1944-1954

Horn, Margot
 

See: Nicol, Isobel Margaret ("Margot").

22 3

Hunnybun, Noel
 

1944-1945
22 4-7

Inglis, Borghild
 

See also: Inglis, David.

1940-1947
22 8

Inglis, David
 

See also: Inglis, Borghild.

1941-1946
22 9

Inglis, Ian
 

1946, 1948

Inglis, Sheila
 

See: Milliken, Sheila.

22 10

Jones, Cheney
 

1942
22 11

Keers, Pop
 

1945
22 12

Lindsay, Ethel
 

1942
22 13

Lindsay, Ethel (letters to)
 

Included are letters from Dorothy H. Davies, Elsie M. Horn, Borghild Inglis, Phyllis Sayers, Joy Shuttleworth, and Thomas and Dorothy Stuchberry.

1940-1942
22 14

Litts, Osmond F.W.
 

1943, 1945
22 15

Love, Alison
 

1976-1977
22 16

Love, Desmond
 

1952
22 17

Love, Julie
 

1976
22 18

Love, Mary Pix (Sayers)
 

1940-1944
23 1-6

Love, Mary Pix (Sayers), continued
 

1945-1977
R R

Love, Mary Pix (Sayers), continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1940-1944
23 7

McLeroth, Peter
 

1942
23 8

Milliken, Sheila
 

1940-1943
24 1-3

Milliken, Sheila, continued
 

1944-1981, undated
R R

Milliken, Sheila, continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1940-1941
24 4

Neel, Raymonde
 

1942
24 5

Newspaper Clippings
 

1940-1945
24 6

Nicol, David
 

1950-1952, 1958, 1978
24 7-10

Nicol, Isobel Margaret ("Margot")
 

1941-1948
25 1-7

Nicol, Isobel Margaret ("Margot"), continued
 

1949-1964
26 1

Nicol, Isobel Margaret ("Margot"), continued
 

1965-1979
R R

Nicol, Isobel Margaret ("Margot"), continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1927, 1940-1942
26 2

Owen, Donald
 

1942-1947
26 3

Owen, Dorothy
 

1942-1948
26 4

Owen, Hugh
 

1942-1948
26 5

Page, Elizabeth
 

1942-1943
26 6

Page, Gordon
 

See also: Westcott, Ruth.

1942-1947
26 7

Parent, Evelyn
 

1944
26 8

Patrick, Phyllis
 

1945-1947
26 9

Peel, Albert
 

1942-1944
26 10

Prichard, Harold
 

See also: Horn, Elsie.

1944
26 11

Reading, Stella, Marchioness of
 

1941-1943
26 12

Sayers, Gerald
 

1940- 1973

Sayers, Mary Pix
 

See: Love, Mary Pix.

Sayers, Mavis
 

See: Archer, Mavis.

26 13-15

Sayers, Phyllis
 

1940-1952

Sayers, Valerie
 

See: Goodwin, Valerie.

26 16

Shuttleworth, Geoff
 

1948
26 17

Shuttleworth, Janet
 

See also: Shuttleworth, Geoff, and Shuttleworth, Nigel.

1947-1948
26 18

Shuttleworth, Mary Joy
 

1940-1943
27 1-9

Shuttleworth, Mary Joy, continued
 

1944-1949
28 1-5

Shuttleworth, Mary Joy, continued
 

1950-1980, undated
R R

Shuttleworth, Mary Joy, continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1940-1941
28 6

Skinner, Alan
 

1947
28 7

Skinner, Ruth
 

1948
28 8

Smith, Jeremy Rogers
 

undated
28 9

Snowcroft, Glen
 

1943
28 10

Stuchbery, Dorothy
 

1941-1948
28 11

Stuchbery, Tom A.
 

1940-1948

Stuchbery, Molly
 

See: Willcox, Molly.

28 12

Swyer, Derek
 

1945
28 13

Weeks, V.
 

1944
28 14

Whilly, Brian
 

1942-1944
28 15

Willcox, Michael
 

1963
29 1-7

Willcox, Molly
 

See also: Inglis, Sheila.

1940-1948
30 1-9

Willcox, Molly, continued
 

See also: Willcox, Norman.

1949-1961
31 1-4

Willcox, Molly, continued
 

1963-1981
R R

Willcox, Molly, continued [RESTRICTED]
 

Contains school and medical records.

1940-1943
31 5

Willcox, Norman ("Nunc")
 

1947-1951
31 6

Wormald, Bob
 

See also: Young, John.

1942
31 7

Young, John
 

1943

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