Box 2

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Draft includes title page, dedication, foreword, acknowledgments, 129-page text with five photographs, bibliography, and appendix of French letters and other documents. With minor annotations. Clotilde Brière's name is written on first page. Removed from black binder.

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Draft includes 15-page index, title page, dedication, acknowledgements, foreword, list of illustrations,105-page text with 24 photographs (as well as additional illustrations/photostats), bibliography, and appendix (French letters). Date is taken from acknowledgements page. Contains some annotations, and several pages of handwritten notes inserted into typescript.

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Carbon copy. Transcriptions of French letters inserted near their English translations in the text.

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Corrections to Houdon's letters in appendix and body of manuscript by Eugenie A. Tolmachoff of the French Institute, hired to make changes suggested by Harvard Press in 1948. Contains some correspondence related to the editing.

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Contains separate listing of corrections. Includes title page, foreword, acknowledgements, dedication, and a list of illustrations.

Scope and Contents note Folder contains correspondence regarding the possible publication of Helen Clay Frick's manuscript. Harvard University Press agreed to publish as long as entire cost of printing was subsidized (January 19, 1949). October 20, 1949 letter to Thomas J. Wilson: "It is very unfortunate that you should have accepted my manuscript on Houdon in the first place inasmuch as you now find so much that is wrong with it. Personally, I regret that you should have kept it almost two years before making...

Scope and Contents note Letters concern a dispute that arose when a graduate student hired to review Miss Frick's work did not fulfill his agreement and left the University. Her research materials were returned damaged, and some photostats and a card index were missing. The resolution to the dispute is unclear. Primary correspondent is Prof. Charles Seymour, Jr. January 10, 1962 letter from Miss Frick: "This [manuscript] was accepted by the Harvard Press with the condition that I review all the translations, etc. I...