This collection consists of the drafts of a biography of the author's father Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) and typescripts of his letters. There is also background material on Julian's father, Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889). Both men were prominent American artists from New York state. The collection is typescripts of various drafts of the biography which was published in 1960 under the title of The life and letters of J. Alden Weir. The drafts have been corrected with insertions and deletions made in pencil. The collection cannot be dated with certainty. There are also some miscellaneous materials in the collection including some of the author's correspondence and a few of her sketches.; The papers are arranged in the following order: correspondence, artwork, miscellaneous, and drafts. Following the drafts are lists of sources and loose pages which either relate to the drafting process or were once a part of a draft. The drafts are arranged in rough chronological order according to the penciled time periods and titles used by the author. Within a given packet, labeled 1882 for example, may be material from or pertaining to other years. Thorough research into the process of writing the book or into the many letters of J. Alden Weir not included in the book but present in the drafts will require a perusal of all the drafts, almost on a page-by-page basis. See additional notes in the container list.; Biographical History; Dorothy Weir Young correspondence; Dorothy Weir Young correspondence; Dorothy Weir Young artwork; Dorothy Weir Young artwork; Dorothy Weir Young miscellany; Dorothy Weir Young miscellany; Dorothy Weir Young book drafts of The Life and Letters of J. Alden Weir; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1852; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1852-1873; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1852-1873; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1874; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1875; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1876; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1877; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1873-1875; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1875-1877; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1877-1878; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1878-1880 and list of sources; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1881; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1882; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1882; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1883; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1884; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1885-1886; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1887-1888; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1889-1891; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1892; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1893-1895; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1896-1897; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1898; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1899-1900; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1901-1902 and list of sources; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1903-1905 including sources and omissions; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1906-1909 and list of sources; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1910-1912 including sources and omissions; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1913-1915 and papers; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled 1916-1919 including sources and omissions; Dorothy Weir Young book draft labeled The Tile Club; Dorothy Weir Young miscellaneous draft pages; Dorothy Weir Young miscellaneous draft pages; Dorothy Weir Young material on West Point; Dorothy Weir Young unused draft material on trip to Spain; Dorothy Weir Young sources concerning Beaux-Arts; Dorothy Weir Young loose pages of the draft concerning taking casts of statues in the Louvre for shipment to the United States; Dorothy Weir Young omissions and duplications; Includes a self-compiled book of poetry, newspaper article about Dorothy, a Red Cross certificate, a memorandum book containing information on West Point, and a notebook labeled "Cash Book" containing research notes and miscellaneous accounts; Pages numbered 1-73.; Pages roughly numbered 200-326.; Pages roughly numbered 320-436.; Pages roughly numbered 441-519.; Pages numbered 67-345.; Pages numbered 348-636.; Some pages numbered.; Pages numbered 20-70 and 2-18.; One section's pages numbered 1-16.; Includes an article called The Studio concerning J. H. Twachtman and J. Alden Weir.; One section's pages roughly numbered 11-25.; One section's pages numbered 1-65.
