RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

Alexander A. Phillips letters (RLC.Ms.511)

Redwood Library and Athenaeum

50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: (401) 847-0292
Fax: (401) 841-5680
email: redwood@redwoodlibrary.org

Scope & content

This collection consists of letters addressed to Alexander A. Phillips from various political, literary, and artistic figures including Claiborne Pell, Gerald Ford, P. G. Wodehouse, and Norman Rockwell. Also included are letters from first ladies and other members of Presidential families such as Rose Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and Patricia Nixon Cox. These letters typically acknowledge a letter or gift that they had received from Phillips.