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Papers, Ca. 1937-1959

出版	1937
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bwdKkgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Collection consists of Rice's research files on American merchant James Swan, his house in Dorchester, his collection of French furniture and decorative art (including Sèvres porcelain), now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, organized into a series of notebooks and files. Files (in Box 1) include copies of articles written by Rice, chapters 1-14 of Rice's unpublished biography of Swan, notes and photocopied documents (some from French repositories) concerning Swan, extensive research on the Swan House in Dorchester, correspondence with museum curators, descendants of Swan, and especially with Ogden Codman on the history of the Swan family and house, and articles on Swan by others. There are two boxes of research notes on index cards (one in Box 2 the other in Box 3). Loose-leaf notebook on Swan (in Box 2) includes letters to Swan from Silas Lee (Wiscasset, 1797 Sept. 24) and John Hammill (Boston, 1797 Oct. 20), a copy of Swan's bookplate engraved by Joseph Callender, photographs of portraits of Swan and family by Gilbert Stuart, of the Swan House, and Paris (relating to Swan's life there), and a genealogical chart of Swan and his descendants. Another notebook (in Box 2) includes photographs and notes on French furniture imported by Swan and others at the Museum of Fine Arts and elsewhere. Box 3 mainly contains pamphlets and articles on French furniture, the Swan collection, and collectors of French furniture in America, and two notebooks containing notes and documents on "toile de jouy" and related French printed textiles. Rice's finding aid with collection.