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| Size | 8.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,000 items) |
| Abstract | Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard (1873-1956), author, art collector, and interior decorator, was related by birth and marriage to the Amis, Hooper, Blanchard, and Butterworth families. Prominent persons represented in the collection include her husband, John Osgood Blanchard; her mother, Mary ("Mamie") Amis Hooper; and her mother's three sisters, Elizabeth ("Bettie") Amis, Sallie Amis Nowland, and Julia Amis. Other prominent family members included the Amis sisters' parents, Thomas Amis and Sarah Davis Amis, and their aunt, Mary Amis Butterworth, and uncle, Samuel F. Butterworth. The collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, diary entries, clippings, pictures, and breeding and racing records, all relating to Elizabeth Blanchard's book, The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred, as well as a typed draft of the book. There are also genealogical materials on the Amis and Dulany families and copies of Amis and Cameron family wills. Family letters of the Amis, Butterworth, and Blanchard families, include letters from Sarah Davis Amis while she was living on a plantation near Columbus, Miss., in the 1830s and 1840s, to her grandmother in Warrenton, N.C.; letters to and from the four Amis sisters after their mother's death in 1852, while they travelled in Europe and lived with their Butterworth relatives in New York and Morristown, N.J.; letters among the Amises and Butterworths after the latter moved, in 1864, to California, where Samuel Butterworth was managing a mine at Almaden; letters from Thomas Amis, who went to live with relatives in Madison Parish, La., in 1870; and correspondence to and from the Blanchards after their marriage when they travelled to Japan, 1906. The additions of 1993 contain scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Hooper Blanchard to and from relatives, friends, and business associates, between 1907 and 1954; miscellaneous other papers and volumes; and three boxes of photographs chiefly depicting friends and family members, as well as places visited. |
| Creator | Blanchard, Elizabeth Amis Cameron, d. 1956. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processing Information
Processed by: Susan Ballinger, June 1976
Encoded by: Kathryn Michaelis, May 2010
This collection was originally received in two parts, Subcollection 3367(A) and Subcollection 3367(B), which have since been divided into three series. An addition was received in 1993.
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Biographical Information
Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard (1873-1956), author, art collector, and interior decorator, was related by birth and marriage to the Amis, Hooper, Blanchard, and Butterworth families. Prominent persons represented in the collection include her husband, John Osgood Blanchard (d. ca. 1912); her mother, Mary ("Mamie") Amis Hooper (b. 1843); and her mother's three sisters, Elizabeth ("Bettie") Amis (1837-1872), Sallie Amis Nowland (b. 1841), and Julia Amis (1848-1876). Other prominent family members included the Amis sisters' parents, Thomas Amis (fl. 1834-1876) and Sarah Davis Amis (d. 1852), and their aunt, Mary Amis Butterworth (fl. 1855-1880), and uncle, Samuel F. Butterworth (fl. 1855-1866).
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Scope and Content
The collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, diary entries, clippings, pictures, and breeding and racing records, all relating to Elizabeth Blanchard's book, The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred, as well as a typed draft of the book. There are also genealogical materials on the Amis and Dulany families and copies of Amis and Cameron family wills. Family letters of the Amis, Butterworth, and Blanchard families, include letters from Sarah Davis Amis while she was living on a plantation near Columbus, Miss., in the 1830s and 1840s, to her grandmother in Warrenton, N.C.; letters to and from the four Amis sisters after their mother's death in 1852, while they travelled in Europe and lived with their Butterworth relatives in New York and Morristown, N.J.; letters among the Amises and Butterworths after the latter moved, in 1864, to California, where Samuel Butterworth was managing a mine at Almaden; letters from Thomas Amis, who went to live with relatives in Madison Parish, La., in 1870; and correspondence to and from the Blanchards after their marriage when they travelled to Japan, 1906. The additions of 1993 contain scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Hooper Blanchard to and from relatives, friends, and business associates, between 1907 and 1954; miscellaneous other papers and volumes; and three boxes of photographs chiefly depicting friends and family members, as well as places visited.
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Series 1. Elizabeth Blanchard Correspondence and Related Material, 1694-1954 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Included in this series are correspondence, genealogical material, poems, miscellaneous manuscripts, and other related materials. The correspondence is chiefly between Elizabeth Blanchard and her mother, Mamie Hooper. Also included are letters from various artists, including Edward Hopper and John Singer Sargent, and friends interested in the arts.
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Subseries 1.1. Correspondence, 1925-1954 and
undated.
| Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
| Folder 1 |
1925-1930 |
| Folder 2 |
1931-1938 |
| Folder 3 |
1939-1940 |
| Folder 4 |
January-September 1941 |
| Folder 5 |
October 1941 |
| Folder 6 |
November-December 1941 |
| Folder 7 |
January-June 1942 |
| Folder 8 |
July-December 1942 |
| Folder 9 |
1943 |
| Folder 10 |
1944 |
| Folder 11 |
1945 |
| Folder 12 |
January 1946-July 1947 |
| Folder 13 |
August 1947-1949 |
| Folder 14 |
1950 |
| Folder 15 |
1951-1954 |
| Folder 16 |
Undated |
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Subseries 1.2. Other Papers, 1694-1908 and
undated.
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Series 2. Volumes
Arrangement: by subject.
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Subseries 2.1. Materials Relating to The Life and
Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest
Thoroughbred.
This subseries contains research notes for, as well as a typed draft of, Elizabeth Blanchard's book The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred. The typed draft of the book comprises volumes 1-7. The remaining volumes primarily contain information on Sir Archie's bloodlines.
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Subseries 2.2. Miscellaneous Volumes.
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Series 3. Amis Family Correspondence and Related Material, 1836-1943 and
undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly correspondence between various members of the Amis family.
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Additions of 1993.
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Correspondence and Related Material, 1907-1954.
Arrangement: by content, then chronological.
Scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Hooper Blanchard to and from relatives, friends, and business associates, between 1907 and 1954. Included are letters to Blanchard from Edmund Quincy, American painter, written 1932-1953, and from General and Madame R. Hely d'Oissel of France, most of them undated and all written in French. Several letters are among the last Blanchard received from her mother, Mamie Hooper, who died in 1943.
| Folder 124 |
Correspondence, 1907-1909 |
| Folder 125 |
Correspondence, 1910-1916 |
| Folder 126 |
Correspondence, 1917-1919 |
| Folder 127 |
Correspondence, 1920-1927 |
| Folder 128 |
Correspondence, 1933-1945 |
| Folder 129 |
Correspondence, 1946-1954 |
| Folder 130 |
Edmund Quincy correspondence, 1932-1953 |
| Folder 131 |
General and Madame R. Hely d'Oissel correspondence, 1915-1939 and undated |
| Folder 132 |
Correspondence, undated |
| Folder 133 |
Materials relating to art exhibits and auctions, 1916, 1926 and undated |
| Folder 134 |
Materials relating to the Blanchards' trip to Europe, 1926 |
| Folder 135 |
Miscellaneous invitations, 1915, 1937, 1939 |
| Folder 136 |
Materials relating to the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association, 1933-1935 |
| Folder 137 |
Miscellaneous materials |
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Volumes.
| Folder 138 |
Volume 11: Address book |
Folder 139-140
Folder 139Folder 140 |
Volume 12: Recipe book and enclosures |
| Folder 141 |
Volume 13: Scrapbook |
| Folder 142 |
Volume 14: Scrapbook, 1930s |
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Pictures.
The 26 image folders are filed in three image boxes.
Arrangement: by subject.
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