archives.nypl.org -- Kathryn Beebe papers (original) (raw)

Scope and arrangement

The Kathryn Beebe Papers are mainly incoming letters to Kathryn Beebe (nee Catherine Davis), fashion and popular topic writer. The Papers, 1931-1983, bulk dates 1931,: correspondents include her second husband Roger Birtwell (1900-1985), sportwriter for the Boston Globe_ and her siblings Whitney P. Davis (brother) and Frances Louise (Davis) Lockridge (1897-1963) and her husband Richard Lockridge (1897-?). The remaining papers are legal papers which include Beebe birth certificate and divorce papers; diary (1 volume) and photographs. The photographs are pictures of her parents William Winn Davis and Laura M Laura M. Hunt; Kathryn (Davis) Beebe; Roger Birtwell and Frances (Davis) Lockridge; grandfather (?). The photographs are black and white and color.