James Laver Correspondence An inventory of his correspondence at Syracuse University

Correspondence between the British author, art historian, and museum curator, and David Tatham, Dean of Men and Lecturer in Fine Arts at Syracuse University.

Language:

English

Repository:

Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

James Laver (1899-1975) was a British author, art historian and museum curator. For more than twenty years he was curator of prints and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was also a noted fashion historian.

David Tatham (1939- ) is the author of seven books and more than eighty scholarly articles, exhibition catalogue essays, and journal reviews concerning American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is presently (2010) a Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, where he taught for many years.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The James Laver Correspondence consists of correspondence between Laver and David Tatham, Fine Arts lecturer and Dean of Men at Syracuse University. The letters are largely personal in nature, most of them regarding Laver's books.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Chronological.

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