Vanderbilt Archive Flora Whitney State Dept Love Letters Aiken Adirondacks Byron Nelson ProAm Polo Doge Horse Racing Huge Photo Albums. A suite of romantic letters from Tim Coward who became Secratary of State to Flora Whitney including clandestine call in names and in one 2pp letter, 2 packed 1940s and 1950s bw photo albums one titled Pam of Whitney Tower Miller family brunched Adirondacks vacation, polo, 3 lg photos of Byron Nelson posing and playing at ProAm, Doge winning a horse race countless family genre gatherings and events, pets, formals, child on horseback, camp Wallula, catching bass at Plumey, Deerlands, Little Forked Lake, Whit in Italy during the War, WWII Africa, Aiken Prep, distance snapshots of the Lone Ranger and Joe Dimaggio, Thanksgiving, Christmas, fishing, Pam, Tommy, Mr Wannamaker, Tim, David, boat, canoe, Doc, Lonis, Mattie Ruth, Dempsey as a puppy, Nancy Bush in a convertible 1940, Whitney Tower, aboard the Ebby at Seahawanaka, deer, Edith, 1954 Copacabana table photo, Joe Gaeta and family in their Isotta Fraschini, Tim on Dark Secret by the Doge, Cody Wyoming, distance snapshot of Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans and Flying Valkyries, Little Bit plus a Flora and Quentin Roosevelt reprint from the Houghton Library Roosevelt Collection at Harvard, photo albums extensively annotated. Excerpts from the State Department letters are as follows: Listen Frufi, dont you know Id rather have you- no matter how small the share than the whole of all the world. Theres nothing you can do which could change my longing for you. I always liked Q so I understood why he didnt answer the letter I wrote him about your engagement… he was such fun and full of life. Provenance and Shipping: The first 100 lots in this sale are from the Studio of noted sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum and great granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. At one time she was regarded as the wealthiest woman in America. The 8 largest items which are identified in the first sentence of their listings are in NY NJ CT Tri-State storage 1 hour from Manhattan with pick ups administered by our staff by appt. and the remaining 92 lots were removed from her landmark Old Westbury, Long Island, NY estate by our staff during real estate staging and transported to our Florida warehouses where they are available to be shipped via UPS or Tampa Bay pick up. Decorated with murals by prominent Gilded Age to Art Deco artist colleagues and the site of legendary soirees attended by a Whos Who of actors, painters and philanthropists, the property has been listed for sale, emptied of contents and staged for its real estate sale listing. Last year our firm was commissioned by the Vanderbilt Whitney family owners to offer 22 lots of GVW sculpture and dozens of lots of paintings, important silver, jewelry, fine art photography, decorative arts and Chinese antiques descended in multiple branches and generations of the Vanderbilt Whitney family over two record setting auctions. We are now excited to present a third sale including Vanderbilt Whitney Library Books, Archive Photography and Documents plus Important Studio Art, Historic Furnishings and Garden Sculpture. Previews for items in Florida are 1 person at a time for specific advance requested lots by appt. at our main St. Petersburg, FL warehouse from Saturday January 13th through Friday January 19th as items are not staged for exhibition and are securely housed outside of preview times at multiple locations. There is no in person preview available for the 8 Tri-State storage lots, their preview is photo only. The sale is online only with no in person auction audience or warehouse activity the day of sale or the Sunday after the sale. Winning bidders are invoiced Sunday and Monday and items are not available for pick up or shipping until payments are processed electronically as there is no payment processing at our warehouse. Thank you for your interest and participation in another exciting Richard Stedman Estate Services LLC online event.

Save for a minority percentage of photos with tatters and a fold in the Doge winning photo the vast majority are perfectly sound typical album estate discovery condition however the pages that contain the annotations are faded, acidified and deteriorating and a large number of photos have come loose as have pages plus there are periodic photo absences throughout, State Dept items browned and folded.