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Sorry if all this is already well known! [[User:Jeffrey Scott Bernstein|Jeffrey Scott Bernstein]] 16:41, 17 October 2007 (CDT) | Sorry if all this is already well known! [[User:Jeffrey Scott Bernstein|Jeffrey Scott Bernstein]] 16:41, 17 October 2007 (CDT) | ||
:Thanks for all the above info! I really haven't done much Web searching for Waldo info: 99% has come from various books and stuff that I had lying around. I do know that he was a friend of George Biddle, who once wanted him to go to Tahiti with him for a spell. Waldo went to France instead. As for being a "poet", that must be the fact that he wrote a lot of doggerel that, probably, circulated among his friends. I'll put in the S.F. Museum -- it wasn't listed in the lists I looked at. And I'll check out the 3 women letter and see what I can do with it. I know that for many years my mother was always joking that Waldo was constantly complaining about paying alimony to three women at the same time, hehe.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 17:07, 17 October 2007 (CDT) | |||
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Hayford, perhaps I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know (so excuse me in advance), but, having a few minutes on my hands, I breezed through the Net and found some factoids:
1. In the “BIDDLE FAMILY PAPERS, SERIES 2: George Biddle Correspondence” at Georgetown University [1], there is, in box 2 18, “lunch with poet Waldo Peirce, an evening with Witter Bynner and meeting with Harry S. Truman (ALS 11/16/1954)”. Poet Waldo Peirce?
2. I’m not sure if you’re already intending on including this in your list of museums: “Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - Waldo Peirce, Circus on the Move, 1937” (which is mentioned here: [2])
3. And: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - Waldo Peirce, On the Beach (His wife and twins), 1936; which is mentioned here: [3]
4. You probably know this: “In artist Waldo Peirce’s 1943 letter to Sally Jane Davis, Peirce shows that his affections are divided among three women, each happily eating a piece of his heart. The letter is among the 60 works of art in More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, organized by SITES and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.” Mentioned here: [4] And the letter is here: [5]
Sorry if all this is already well known! Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 16:41, 17 October 2007 (CDT)
- Thanks for all the above info! I really haven't done much Web searching for Waldo info: 99% has come from various books and stuff that I had lying around. I do know that he was a friend of George Biddle, who once wanted him to go to Tahiti with him for a spell. Waldo went to France instead. As for being a "poet", that must be the fact that he wrote a lot of doggerel that, probably, circulated among his friends. I'll put in the S.F. Museum -- it wasn't listed in the lists I looked at. And I'll check out the 3 women letter and see what I can do with it. I know that for many years my mother was always joking that Waldo was constantly complaining about paying alimony to three women at the same time, hehe.... Hayford Peirce 17:07, 17 October 2007 (CDT)