Historic New England

Colleagues of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

News clippings, correspondence, and other papers related to colleagues of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. These papers were found together in one carton, arranged alphabetically by colleague with several additional articles and publications stored out of alphabetical order at the end. The se...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301842

Ref. Code: MS015.05.03

Early Writings

Poems and essays by Nina Fletcher Little, written from the ages of eight to eighteen, when her name was Nina Jarvie Fletcher. Includes some photocopies received from Selina Fletcher Little.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301843

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.01

Brookline Organizations

This subseries contains papers related to Nina Fletcher Little's involvement in the following interrelated Brookline charitable organizations: the Brookline Friendly Society, a public health and family services charitable organization, of which Nina Fletcher Little served as president from 1947-1957...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301844

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.02

Binder "An Evening with Nina Aboard the Yacht Cristina"

Scrapbook of memories from a black tie dinner honoring Nina Fletcher Little held on April 1, 1977. Carl Crossman and Roger Howelett of the Childs Gallery hosted the dinner at their home, 257 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The Yacht Christina is a reference to the steam yacht owned by Nina F. Little's ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301845

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.03

Miscellaneous Loose Papers

Sub-series

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301846

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.04

Cogswell's Grant

This series relates to Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little's home in Essex, Massachusetts, Cogswell's Grant. This tidewater farm was the Littles' summer home from 1937 until their deaths in 1993. In 1962, Nina Fletcher Little initiated plans to bequeath the property, buildings, and the outstanding f...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301847

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01

Little Collection Catalogues and Inventories

This series illustrates the different methods the Littles employed for documenting their personal collection of artwork and objects. The series includes a set of binders containing catalogue worksheets, as well as a set of card catalogues. Both cover the collections in Brookline and Essex, Massachus...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301848

Ref. Code: MS015.06.02

Subject Files

Miscellaneous files related to Cogswell's Grant, including maintenance records, papers related to the donation to SPNEA, and Essex town issues. Those files that were organized by Selina Fletcher Little appear first, while files added to this subseries by the archival processor appear after Selina Li...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301849

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.01

Financial Records

This series contains bound volumes of check stubs from the First National Bank, Ipswich, for expenses related to Cogswell's Grant. It also includes three account ledgers for the farm, covering the years 1938-1981. The entire subseries is restricted.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301850

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.02

Appraisals

This series contains two appraisals related to Cogswell's Grant. One, conducted by R. M. Bradley & Co. in 1984, appraises the land and buildings and was conducted in conjunction with the establishment of preservation restrictions. The other is for the contents of the house and was conducted by Rolan...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301851

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.03

Publications

This series contains articles, booklets, and a book concerning Cogswell's Grant.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301852

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.04

Photographs

Professional and family photographs, negatives, slides, and transparencies of Cogswell's Grant, 1936-1985. Includes room interiors, landscapes, aerial views, and farm activities. Also includes several Christmas cards printed by Bertram K. Little featuring images of the property.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301853

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.05

Collection Inventory Binders

This subseries consists of six binders containing catalogue worksheets for Little collection objects, as well as correspondence, clippings, and other documents related objects. There are separate inventories for the collections in Brookline and Essex, Massachusetts, as well as a separate inventory f...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301854

Ref. Code: MS015.06.02.01

Card Catalogues

This subseries contains eight boxes of catalogue cards. There are separate catalogues for the Littles' collections in Brookline and Essex, Massachusetts, as well as a catalogue of objects they sold or donated. Most of the objects cataloged here are two-dimensional works of art, such as paintings and...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301855

Ref. Code: MS015.06.02.02

Bertram K. Little papers

The papers of Bertram K. Little (1899-1993) organized in this series thoroughly document Little's career in publishing and non-profit management, and illustrate his expertise in history, decorative arts, and historic preservation. His involvement in dozens of museums and preservation organizations -...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301856

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01

SPNEA Papers

The papers in this subseries cover a wide array of topics, but are arranged together in this subseries because they are products of Bertram K. Little's work for SPNEA. This arrangement was created by the collections processor, in order to avoid moving some of the papers to the SPNEA/Historic New Eng...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301857

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.01

Professional Papers

Bertram K. Little's professional papers thoroughly document his career from 1926 to 1947, before he assumed the position of Director at SPNEA. Little began his career in 1926 as a clerk in the advertising department of the publishing house Little, Brown & Company. From 1930 to 1934, Little operated ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301858

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.02

Organizations

Papers related to Bertram K. Little's many organizational affiliations, including as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Shirley-Eustis House and the Fruitlands Museums, an Overseer at Strawberry Banke, and an active member of the Walpole Society and the Rushlight Club. In additional to the his...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301859

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.03

Lectures and Conferences

Correspondence, programs, clippings, and other papers related to lectures and presentations given by Bertram K. Little for historical organizations.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301860

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.04

Publications and Writings

Typescripts, manuscripts, and published writing by Bertram K. Little, including student works, pieces written for clubs or historical organizations, and journal articles. Also includes numerous files related to his 1971 history of the Brookline Savings Bank.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301861

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.05

Harvard University

Papers related to Bertram K. Little's involvement with his alma mater, Harvard University; Little was part of the class of 1923. Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and other papers related to the organization of Harvard University's tercentenary exhibition of 1936, for which Bertram K. Littl...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301862

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.06

News Clippings

Collection of clippings spanning 1928-1967. Includes articles on preservation and antiques, including many issues of the Boston Evening Transcript's "Antiques" section. Also includes two photographic postcards.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301863

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.07

World War II

Bertram K. Little papers related to Civil Defense organizations and World War II. See also the files related to his wartime job at the American Red Cross in the Professional Papers subseries.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301864

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.08

Miscellaneous Papers

Sub-series

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301865

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.09

Printing Plates

This series contains three sets of printing plates kept by Nina Fletcher Little. Two sets relate to publications by Little: her first book Some Old Brookline Houses, as well as four articles about individual artists published in the magazine Antiques. The final set of printing plates do not relate t...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301866

Ref. Code: MS015.08.01

Selina Fletcher Little Binders

This series contains three self-published, illustrated histories and scrapbooks completed by Selina Fletcher Little with assistance from Lauren MacDonald. Two volumes offer a personal history of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, their collections, and their Brookline home. The third volume thorou...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301867

Ref. Code: MS015.09.01

Little Collection Auctions

This series contains several copies of the Sotheby's auction catalogues for the Little collection auctions held in 1993 and 1994. There is also a copy of the catalogue for an auction held by Northeast Auctions in 1997, containing 42 lots from the Little estate. This series also contains some press m...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301868

Ref. Code: MS015.09.02

Elena Sarni Project

This series contains two copies of a project completed in 2001 by Elena Sarni, the Nina Fletcher and Bertram Kimball Little Folk Arts Fellow from 2000 to 2001. The product of this fellowship was Sarni's twenty-eight page essay, "The Collection of Nina Fletcher and Bertram Kimball Little: A Living Le...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301869

Ref. Code: MS015.09.03

Oral History Interviews

This series contains tape recordings, transcripts, and other material related to two sets of oral history interviews: Richard Nylander interviewing Nina Fletcher Little and Bertram K. Little in 1976 and Erica Lindamood interviewing the Littles' sons, John B. Little and Warren M. Little, in 2002. The...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301870

Ref. Code: MS015.09.04

Richard Nylander Interviews

Richard C. Nylander interviewed Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little over the course of two full days in August and September of 1976. The interviews were done at the urging of the Littles' daughter, Selina Fletcher Little, who was present at the first interview. The interviews were conducted at the ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301871

Ref. Code: MS015.09.04.01

Erica Lindamood Interviews

Erica B. Lindamood, the 2002 Little Fellow at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, interviewed John B. "Jack" Little and Warren M. "Renny" Little, the two sons of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. The interviews were conducted separately and focused on the life history of ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301872

Ref. Code: MS015.09.04.02

Letter from Ogden Codman, Jr., January 25, 1897

A seven page letter from Ogden Codman, Jr., to his mother, Sarah Bradlee Codman.

Date: 1897-01-25

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 301873

Ref. Code: MS001.18.01.18.28.001

Observations about the Charlestown Bridge

Item

Date: 1786

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 301874

Ref. Code: MS001.13.06.12.001

Massachusetts semi-annual state lottery ticket, no. 2320

Signed by George R. Minot.

Date: ca. 1790

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 301876

Ref. Code: MS001.13.06.04.001

Birth certificate for Abigail, Jemima, and Eunice Coffin

Birth certificate for Abigail, Jemima, and Eunice Coffin, daughters of Peter Coffin, Esq., probably recorded after 1695.

Date: ca. 1695

Collection: Coffin family papers

GUSN: 301877

Ref. Code: MS010.15.10.001

Agreement between Charles Harris and Susan Coffin regarding the care of the twins, Chang and Eng Bunker

Item

Date: undated

Collection: Coffin family papers

GUSN: 301879

Ref. Code: MS010.17.10.001

Agreement making Joshua Coffin the representaive of six women

Agreement created in 1827 making Joshua Coffin the representaive of six women with shares in "common or undivided land" in Newbury, Mass. It is signed by [Joylina?] C. Plummer, Eunice Plummer, Sarah K. [Rogers?], Margaret Pilsbury, Catherine D. Bunker, and Elizabeth C. George.

Date: 1827

Collection: Coffin family papers

GUSN: 301886

Ref. Code: MS010.15.07.001

Letter from George Moore to Richard Thomas Austin

Written from George Moore at the Quincy House in Quincy, Ill., to Richard Thomas Austin in Cambridge, Mass., on December 15, 1840.

Date: 1840-12-15

Collection: Cooper-Frost-Austin family papers

GUSN: 301888

Ref. Code: MS039.01.01.001

Deed for land purchased from Stephen Prentice by Gideon Frost in Cambridge, Mass.

1 deed

Date: 1767

Collection: Cooper-Frost-Austin family papers

GUSN: 301890

Ref. Code: MS039.02.01.001

"An Herculean Love Knot"

A complex drawing of a knot with fine lettering throughout, inscribed H. Clark, Jr.

Date: 1815-02-07

Collection: Cooper-Frost-Austin family papers

GUSN: 301892

Ref. Code: MS039.04.03.001

Portrait of Halfdan "Dick" M. Hanson

1 photograph

Date: ca. 1914

Collection: Halfdan M. Hanson (1884-1952) architectural collection

GUSN: 301893

Ref. Code: AR010.01.04.001

Letter from R. W. Burnham to Halfdan M. Hanson, January 15, 1916

1 letter

Date: 1916-01-15

Collection: Halfdan M. Hanson (1884-1952) architectural collection

GUSN: 301895

Ref. Code: AR010.02.05.001

Letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, Dec. 26, 1917

A letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, written on December 26, 1917, asking Hanson to, for friendship's sake, make weekly visits to Beauport to see that the work being done proceeds as it should while Sleeper recovers from a broken leg.

Date: 1917-12-26

Collection: Halfdan M. Hanson (1884-1952) architectural collection

GUSN: 301896

Ref. Code: AR010.02.07.001

Letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, January 4, 1921

Sleeper thanks Hanson for plans Hanson created, commenting that Hanson "solved all the problems, as usual, with great success." Sleeper mentions Caroline Sinkler and the Cogswell house.

Date: 1921-01-04

Collection: Halfdan M. Hanson (1884-1952) architectural collection

GUSN: 301897

Ref. Code: AR010.02.08.001

Letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, March 4, 1921

Sleeper suggests that Hanson spend time in Colorado for his health, a suggestion Hanson took.

Date: 1921-03-04

Collection: Halfdan M. Hanson (1884-1952) architectural collection

GUSN: 301898

Ref. Code: AR010.02.08.002

Guestbook page: Joan Miro

A page from Walter and Ise's guestbook with a watercolor sketch created by Joan Miro.

Date: 1959-05-24

Collection: Gropius family papers

GUSN: 301899

Ref. Code: MS012.TMP.009

Letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner to Sarah Orne Jewett, Oct. 25, [1902]

1 letter

Date: 1902-10-25

Collection: Jewett family papers

GUSN: 301900

Ref. Code: MS014.01.06.09.001

Program, 2nd Congrès International des Oeuvres et Institutions Féminines

The program for the 2nd Congrès International des Oeuvres et Institutions Féminines (2nd International Congress of Feminine Works and Institutions) held in Paris in 1899.

Date: 1899

Collection: Jewett family papers

GUSN: 301901

Ref. Code: MS014.01.04.25.001

Letter from Theodore Jewett Eastman to his aunts Mary and Sarah, Oct. 28, 1901

Letter from Theodore Eastman Jewett to his aunts Mary and Sarah Jewett discussing school, written on October 28, 1901.

Date: 1901-10-28

Collection: Jewett family papers

GUSN: 301902

Ref. Code: MS014.02.04.02.01.001

Manuscript autobiography

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 302174

Ref. Code: MS023.18.01

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