LEDOUX, Louis V. (1880-1948). An archive of letters written in the 1900s-1930s to Louis V. Ledoux.

Approximately 575 autograph or typed letters signed, written to Louis V. Ledoux and sent from various locations in the United States and Europe, primarily from New York and London. Also with related ephemera.

Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948) was an American businessman, author and collector. He was President of Ledoux & Company, his family's mining exploration and assaying firm in New York, and was a noted collector of books, manuscripts, and Japanese prints. He was a noted authority on Japanese prints and wrote collectors' reference works on the subject. He also wrote original works of poetry, and wrote about George Edward Woodberry, who had been his professor at Columbia. He served as President of the Japan Society, and he was a member of the Grolier Club.

Included in this archive of correspondence is a large group of letters and carbon copies from American writer John Gneisenau Neihardt, including a typescript of his work A Bundle of Myrrh, with a manuscript dedication from Neihardt to Ledoux, Bancroft Nebraska, June 1906.

Also included are groups of letters from artist Sydney Adamson; African American writer, poet and critic William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite; poet Amelia Josephine Burr; art historian Royal Cortissoz; organist Archer Gibson; American educator, author and composer John Erskine; poet Vachel Lindsay; poet Josephine Preston Peabody; painter Gijs Bosch Reitz; British diplomat and Japanese historian George Bailey Sansom; American war poet Alan Seeger; poet and editor Ridgely Torrence.

Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York