Access Restrictions:
By appointment only. Researchers may view one folder at a time.
In the Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson Collection
access to three categories of materials is restricted.
Category (B) includes materials to which
researchers may have access only with prior written permission from the Laura
(Riding) Jackson Board of Literary Management. Category (B) materials will
become fully open on January 1, 2010 . They are:
1) Correspondence to and from Sonia Raiziss
2) Correspondence to and from
the Guggenheim Foundation after 1975
3) Correspondence to and from Mrs. E.
M. (Sally) Chilver
4) Correspondence to and from James Mathias after
1975
6) Correspondence to and from Mark Jacobs
7) Correspondence to
and from John Nolan
8) Correspondence to and from Robert Nye, Alan Clark,
Theodore Wilentz, Joan Wilentz, Elizabeth Friedmann, William Harmon, James
Tyler
Category (C) includes materials which
will become fully open on January 1, 2016 . They
are:
1) Correspondence to and from any of the four children of Schuyler B.
Jackson, namely Benjamin Schuyler Jackson, Maria Jackson Parker, Griselda
Jackson Ohannessian, and Katharine Jackson McCagg
2) Correspondence to and
from Katharine Townsend Jackson
3) Correspondence to and from Grace
Friedberg
4) Correspondence to and from Eric and Margaret (Peggy) Rideal
and Peter and Mary Oliver
5) Correspondence to and from Mrs. Jackson's
brother, Robert Reichenthal (aka Robert Ritchey)
6) Correspondence to and
from Mrs. Jackson's sister, Isabel Mayers, and her nephew, Richard Mayers
7) Diaries of Schuyler B. Jackson and Laura (Riding) Jackson
Category (D) :
1) A group of
letters, marked "Restricted," from Laura (Riding) Jackson to Joyce Wexler,
restricted until the publication of Elizabeth Friedmann's biography of Laura
(Riding) Jackson, or until January 1, 1999, whichever comes first.
2)
Correspondence to and from Gertrude Stein, restricted until publication, or
until January 1, 1999, whichever comes first.
PROVENANCEThe provenance of the Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson
Collection is complex, the result of both gifts to and purchases by Cornell
University. The Collection originated in 1965 when Mrs. Jackson decided to
donate her papers to Cornell University, and began to send materials to the
Department of Rare Books. She continued to do so until 1987. In addition, Mrs.
Jackson bequeathed parts of the collection to Cornell University. Ms. Elizabeth
Friedmann also donated materials given to her by Laura (Riding) Jackson which
are included in the Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson Collection.
Other collections of letters written by Laura (Riding) Jackson were donated by
certain of her correspondents or purchased by Cornell University. Several of
these purchases and donations now constitute separate related collections. See
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