Collection of Lilla Cabot Perry Materials
Scope and Contents
The collection contains clippings, correspondence, two diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts, a memorial exhibit document, two portrait paintings (William Dean Howells, Edwin Arlington Robinson) and photograph items.
Dates
- 1879 - 1933
Creator
- Perry, Lilla Cabot, 1848-1933 (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials to be used on site during regular Special Collections hours or by appointment. Photocopying or scanning may be possible at discretion of staff for nominal fee. Materials may be protected by copyright.
Biographical / Historical
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) was born in Boston, a member of the prominent Cabot family. She married Thomas Sargeant Perry, a literature professor at Harvard, and through him became friends with writers such as Henry James and William Dean Howells. Perry wrote several volumes of poetry: "Heart of the Weed" (1886), "From the Garden of Hellas" (1891), "Impressions" (1898), and "Jar of Dreams" (1923). Primarily known as an artist, Perry was mentored by Claude Monet and helped introduce his impressionist techniques to the United States. A close friend of fellow poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, she painted what is probably his best-known portrait in 1916, currently on display in Colby College Special Collections Robinson Room.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
The collection contains clippings, correspondence, two diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts, a memorial exhibit document, two portrait paintings (William Dean Howells, Edwin Arlington Robinson) and photograph items.
Arrangement
Materials arranged in five series: Correspondence, Manuscripts and First Appearences, Memorabilia, Photographs and Artwork, and Clippings.
Custodial History
Gift of Margaret Perry; additional materials gift of Mrs. Theodore Conant.
- American poetry -- 19th century
- Babcock, William P. (William Perkins), 1826-1899 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Bell, Helen Olcott, 1830-1918 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Bittinger, Charles, 1879-1970 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Bosley, Frederick A., 1881-1942 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Cohen, Rose, 1880-1925 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Comins, Eben F. (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 1879-1957 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- DeCamp, Joseph, 1858-1923 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Deland, Margaret , 1857-1945 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, 1880-1956 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Fine Arts
- Fiske, Gertrude, 1878-1961 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Gallagher, Sears, 1869-1955 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Garrison, Theodosia Pickering, 1874-1944 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Gay, Walter, 1856-1937 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hale, Lilian Wescott, 1880-1963 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hazelton, Mary Brewster (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Impressionist artists
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Janet, Pierre, 1859-1947 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- La Farge, F. (Florence Jacquelin), b. 1877 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Letters
- Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Morse, John Torrey, 1840-1937 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Newspaper clippings
- Opdycke, Leonard Eckstein, 1858-1914 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Painting
- Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1845-1928 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Perry, Thomas Sargeant, 1845-1928 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Photographs
- Poetry
- Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Putnam, William L. (William Le Baron), 1835-1918 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 1824-1898 (Curator of an exhibition) -- Correspondence
- Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943 (Author) (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred, 1845-1936 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Turner, Nancy Boyd, b. 1880 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Vandervelde, Emile, 1866-1938 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Vonnoh, Robert William, 1858-1933 (Correspondent) -- Correspondence
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Collection of Lilla Cabot Perry Materials
- Author
- Colby College Special Collections
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Colby College Special Collections Repository
