Carina Benjamin Papers
Content Description
Letters written to the Countess Rachele Maria Carolina Toussaint de St. Seigne (b.1875 - d.1954). Correspondents include Amleto Giovanni, Cicognani Elia Cardinal Dalla Costa, Giovanni Battista Montini (Pope Paul VI), Francis Cardinal Spellman, and Domenico Tardini.
See External Documents below for folder list. Added folder #11 contains biographical information re Mary A. Benjamin and Walter R. Benjamin.
Dates
- Creation: 1937-1953
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Rachele Maria Caroline Toussaint "Carina" de St. Seigne was born in Italy on January 28, 1875. She died in New York on January 11, 1954. She was married to rare books dealer Walter Romeyn Benjamin (born 1854). He was also the editor of "The Collector", a monthly magazine for autograph and historical collectors.Their daughter Mary A. Benjamin (1905-1998) became the director of her father's business after his death in 1943.
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (1 Hollinger Document Case)
Language of Materials
Italian
Metadata Rights Declarations
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Walter R. Benjamin Autographs, New York, via Mary A. Benjamin, director, 1966.
- Title
- Carina Benjamin Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Georgetown University Library Booth Family Center for Special Collections.
- Date
- Before 1990
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
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