Manuscripts and Archives

Autograph Book, 1875-1899
Mary Berenson 

The archive of the Berenson Library contains Bernard and Mary Berenson's published and unpublished manuscripts, notes, diaries, offprints of articles, biographical material, and personal photographs, as well as a large collection of letters written to the Berensons and a smaller collection of letters, copies or originals, written by Berenson, Mary, and Nicky Mariano.

Over the years the archive has grown through donations or acquisitions of other collections. It now includes papers of Giorgio Castelfranco, Kenneth Clark, Andrea Francalanci, Frederick Hartt, Giuseppe Marchini, Emilio Marcucci, Nicky Mariano, Roberto and Livia Papini, Valeria Piacentini, Laurance P. and Isabel M. Roberts, Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, and the Whitall-Smith family, as well as extensive materials of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), created after the 1966 flood and headquartered at I Tatti. Electronic finding-aids are currently available in OASIS for the Berenson, Roberts, Papini, CRIA and Stenbock Papers.  Printed finding-aids are available within the library for most of the other collections.

Requests to consult manuscript collections should be made to the archivist via this form.