Chapelbrook Foundation records
Scope and Contents
The records include correspondence on the work of the foundation, requests for grants from writers and artists and correspondence between the foundation and grant applicants. There is also a report on the first decade of the foundation. Grant recipients included Conrad Aiken (1962), Elizabeth Bishop (1960), Marc Blitzstein (1963), E. E. Cummings (1958), James T. Farrell (1960), Phillip Levine (1968), W.S. Merwin (1966), Tillie Olson (1964-1966), Kenneth Patchen (1961), Kenneth Rexroth (1958), Theodore Roethke (1959), Ruth St. Denis (1959) and Richard Wilbur (1954).
Dates of Materials
- 1953 - 1974
Creator
- Chapelbrook Foundation. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials in this collection may be governed by copyright. For reproductions of materials that are governed by fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. Researchers are responsible for determining who may hold materials' copyrights and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from Smith College Special Collections to move forward with their use.
Biographical / Historical
The Chapelbrook Foundation was established and funded November 1953 by Mina Kirstein Curtiss, Smith College Class of 1918. An additional gift of $5,000 came from her brother, George Kirstein. The foundation awarded grants to artists and scholars with established reputations. The foundation was dissolved May 12, 1971.
Extent
8.0 linear feet (17 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source unknown
- Title
- Finding aid to Chapelbrook Foundation records
- Status
- Legacy Finding Aid (Updated)
- Author
- Ellice Amanna
- Date
- 2019-10-30
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2019-10-30: Finding aid updated to current standards and published.
Repository Details
Part of the Mortimer Rare Book Collection Repository
