Alice Parsons Millard Papers and Addenda

The collection contains 208 items housed in two boxes (with one oversize volume). The majority of the collection deals with Alice Parsons Millard's estate and assets at the time of her death. There are documents and five volumes of inventories of the house and "museum," as well as 52 inventory note cards. These inventories list items (including furniture, books, etc.) owned by the Millards and often include the price they paid for it and/or the price for which they sold it. There is also a twelve-page, typed memoir of Alice Parsons Millard by Lucille V. Miller (1984). The correspondence includes 31 pieces, sixteen of which were written by Alice Parsons Millard. Many of the letters and postcards were written while Alice was abroad. One of her letters is to her client, collector Estelle Doheny. A number of her letters were to the Vanderhoef family, particularly Francis Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr. and his mother, Cornelia Young Vanderhoef. Ten letters by Alice Parsons Millard's secretary, Gertrude E. Treat, revolve around Alice's failing health, death, and the distribution of her estate. The photographs consist of 57 black and white photographs (and two negatives) of the following: the Millard's Highland Park house, the exterior and interior of "La Miniatura," the house's exhibits, the South Pasadena House, and three gates Alice contemplated purchasing while in London. There are also several personal photographs of Alice Parsons Millard, George Millard and various family members. There are five pieces of ephemera including Alice Parsons Millard's passport (1926) and copies of three of her obituaries (1938).

The oversize guest book begins in 1924 and has 31 pages of visitors' inscriptions. Several notable people are in this volume including: Leslie Bliss, John Collier, Albert and Elsa Einstein (they visited in 1932 and 1933), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert A. Millikan and Frank Lloyd Wright.

The first addenda is several folders of material (43 items) with similar material and topics as the main collection and begins at Box 2, folder 8. The second addenda (39 items) is primarily correspondence and begins at Box 2, folder 18. The third addenda consists of four folders (93 items) and begins at Box 2, folder 27 (most of it is photocopies). It contains some photographs of Millard, La Miniatura and the house in Illinois, as well as research material about Millard and "La Miniatura" and photocopies of correspondence between Millard and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Note: Alice Parson Millard's Library of Congress authorized heading is Mrs. George M. Millard, 1873- 1938. This name is used in the container list and on the folders.