Scope and Contents
This collection contains manuscript drafts for Julia Frey’s biography
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life (1994), typescripts for museum exhibits,
career related and general correspondence, articles, book reviews, reviews of Frey’s work,
contracts, and general handwritten notes. The material spans the decade of 1987-1997 with
the bulk of the material created from 1993-1997. The papers are arranged in three series: I.
Works, 1983-1995, II. Correspondence, 1979-1995, and III. Career-Related, 1985-1998.
The Works series is divided into two subseries. Subseries A.
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life contains manuscripts for the biography,
including numerous handwritten notes and typescript drafts, reader’s notes, a translated
manuscript, a final draft, and galleys. Subseries B., Other Works, includes Frey’s
manuscripts for museum catalogues, books reviews, and articles she wrote for various
publications.
Series II. Correspondence is comprised of one chronologically arranged folder of general
correspondence spanning 1983-1987, and several folders of alphabetically arranged
professional correspondence.
Series III. Career related materials includes handwritten notes, permissions for
illustrations and materials use, what appears to be a text storyboard for a screenplay based
on the biography, interviews, and lists of prospective review sources. This series also
contains numerous reviews of
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life by the
United States and British press.