Box 2

Scope and Content Note

Contains letters re photographing portraits of Secretaries of State at the State Department.

Scope and Contents note

March 14, 1947 letter from H.G. Crim, White House usher, re book of White House paintings. April 1947 includes discussion of photographing four portraits at the White House on May 5. Also contains intro to Mrs. Knox’s November 20, 1947 lecture, Romance and Sentiment in Early American Art.

Scope and Contents note

Contains correspondence re gathering information and anecdotes about the Frick Art Reference Library for a lecture by Mrs. Knox. Responses include details of scholarly research, painting attributions, and work related to the recovery of artworks confiscated by Germany during World War II. Includes Mrs. Knox’s handwritten lecture notes. February 11, 1948 letter mentions gift of R.B. Beckett notes on William Hogarth.

Scope and Contents note

Mentions gift of photographs by Samuel Hooker, discussion of the Library’s World War II microfilming project, gifts to the library, staff list, notes on scholars using library, and a list of photographing trips with dates, place, names, days and number of negatives.

Scope and Contents note Contains discussion of Mrs. Knox's manuscript on the history of Frick Art Reference Library. Also includes former head librarian Ethelwyn Manning’s account of her years at the Frick Art Reference Library, and “Reading Room Services” (26 pages) for Mrs. Knox’s book. July 1951 letter from Mrs. Knox notes that MacMillan has turned down her manuscript on the history of the Library. Also includes notes on exhibition Privately Owned at Corcoran on which Mrs. Knox...