Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.01 02.1AllenH
- Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Allen, Horace Newton, 1858-1932
- Collection Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Topic
- Ceramics -- Korean
- Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Allen, Horace Newton, 1858-1932
- See more items in
- Charles Lang Freer Papers
- Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence
- Biographical / Historical
- Horace Newton Allen first traveled to Korea as a medical missionary in 1884. Gradually he grew close to the royal court and served in various capacities both as assistant to the court, and as a U.S. diplomatic representative. Allen was recalled to the US in 1905, after protesting America's inactivity in the face of Japan's looming domination on the peninsula. Freer purchased Allen's collection in 1907 while he was traveling overseas through his business partner Frank Hecker.
- Date
- 1907
- Container
- Box 9, Folder 13
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Letters (correspondence)
- Collection Citation
- Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
- Arrangement
- Organized chronologically under correspondent.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Letters (correspondence)
- Scope and Contents
- Letters dated 1907, Between Freer and American Missionary, diplomat, and collector Horace Newton Allen. Also includes correspondence with Allen's representative and Frank Hecker. Includes a typed catalog of the collection, with a document of certification by Edwin Morgan.
- Freer collection numbers: F1907.283; F1907.284a-b; F1907.285; F1907.286a-b; F1907.287; F1907.288a-b; F1907.289; F1907.290; F1907.291; F1907.292a-b; F1907.293; F1907.294; F1907.295; F1907.296; F1907.297; F1907.298; F1907.299; F1907.300a-b; F1907.301a-b; F1907.302a-b; F1907.303; F1907.304.1; F1907.304.2; F1907.305; F1907.306; F1907.307; F1907.308; F1907.309; F1907.310; F1907.311; F1907.312; F1907.313; F1907.314; F1907.315; F1907.316; F1907.317; F1907.318; F1907.319; F1907.320; F1907.321; F1907.322.1; F1907.322.2; F1907.323; F1907.324; F1907.325; F1907.326; F1907.327; F1907.328; F1907.329; F1907.330; F1907.331; F1907.332; F1907.333a-b; F1907.334; F1907.335; F1907.336; F1907.337; F1907.338; F1907.339; F1907.340; F1907.341; F1907.342; F1907.343a-c; F1907.344a-b; F1907.345; F1907.346.1; F1907.346.2; F1907.346.3; F1907.346.4; F1907.346.5; F1907.347; F1907.348; F1907.349; F1907.350; F1907.351; F1907.352; F1907.353; F1907.354; F1907.355; F1907.356; F1907.357; F1907.358; F1907.359; F1907.360; F1907.361
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510431462-1503510431514-4
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