Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence between the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and his former student and colleague Giuseppe Donato, who became a noted Philadelphia sculptor comprise the bulk of this collection. Rodin's writings consist of approximately one dozen letters, notes, and brief messages he sent on a few of his calling cards. There are also letters, one each, from Rodin's unidentified secretary, the art critic Jerome Maesse, and Judith Cladel, the French writer who was instrumental in establishing the...