A Guide to the Alice Barber Stephens Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 8789
University of Virginia Library
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Alice Barber Stephens Collection, Accession 8789, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase [ 1967 October 4 ] 1968 January 25
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Alice Barber Stephens
- Edward W. Bok
- William Valentine Alexander
Item Listing
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Essay about her painting, "A Girl in a Garden"n. d.AMsS, 3 p.
[Explains a painting she did of her mother and in which she tried to show the essence of young womanhood in the middle of the 19th century.]
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Receipt from Alice Barber Stephens to Ladies' Home Journal1892 October 29ADS, 1 p.
[Acknowledges receipt of $75.00 for the drawing: "The New Year Minuet."]
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Alice Barber Stephens to Edward W. Bok1893 November 14ALS, 2 p.
[Informs Bok of her willingness to work for Ladies' Home Journal if they allow her enough time.]
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Receipt from Alice Barber Stephens to Ladies' Home Journal1893 December 20ADS, 1 p.
[Acknowledges receipt of $50.00 for illustration for story, " Miss Maria's Fiftieth . "]
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Alice Barber Stephens to Edward W. Bok1894 January 21ALS, 4 p.
[Replies in regard to the return of two pictures loaned by Bok for the World's Exposition . Explains that they are to be next in an exhibit to assist a young ladies' Studio Society in showing the wealthy and powerful of Philadelphia the increasing vitality of the city's painters, sculptors, architects, etc. Offers him a new photograph of herself for the Journal. Mentions a Mr. Guild and an Academy exhibition.]
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Alice Barber Stephens to Edward W. Bok1894 March 8ALS, 1 p.
[Comments on her new photograph: it is not satisfactory to her, but she will let him judge. Responds to his inquiry re a biographical article for the Journal. Mentions Mr. Guild.]
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Receipt from Alice Barber Stephens to Ladies' Home Journal1894 November 24ADS, 1 p.
[Acknowledges receipt of $35.00 for cover design for " A Girl of the Directory . "]
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Alice Barber Stephens to William Valentine Alexander1907 February 6ALS, 2 p.
[Acknowledges receipt of pages of photographic reproduction. Mentions Miss McLaughlin.]
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Alice Barber Stephens to unknownn. d.ANS, 1 p.
[Thanks unidentified person for a "Valentine."]
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Alice Barber Stephens to unknownn. d.ALS (last page), 1 p.
[Fragment beginning . . . "with an author's thought . . . "]