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Albert C. Barnes Correspondence 1902-1951 ABC

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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY

In 1947, Barnes made a donation to Lincoln University, a small, historically black college located in

Chester County, Pennsylvania, to help their most needy students. Barnes and Lincoln’s president, Horace

Mann Bond (1904 – 1972), developed a professional yet cordial relationship, one that led the university

to offer Barnes a Lectureship in Art at Lincoln. After many failed attempts to form an association with

the University of Pennsylvania, Barnes wrote to Bond saying, “I was so overwhelmed with joy and with

admiration at the ease with which you disposed of the work and worry that face me in the future, that I

danced the cancan.”(36) Despite his enthusiasm for the offer, however, Barnes made a counter proposal:

an afternoon class for Lincoln University students at the Foundation. Barnes also amended the Foundation

by-laws so that, eventually, Lincoln’s board of trustees would nominate four of the five trustees of the

Barnes Foundation. On June 5, 1951, Lincoln University awarded Barnes the honorary degree of Doctor

of Science.

On the afternoon of July 24, 1951, with Fidèle sitting at his side, Barnes set out from Ker-Feal for an

appointment at the Foundation in Merion. On a rural road in Chester County, a truck slammed into

Barnes’s automobile, killing Dr. Barnes instantly and so horribly injuring Fidèle that he had to be put

down by a police officer.

Sources

1 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Alice Dewey, September 20, 1920. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence,

Barnes Foundation Archives.

2 Ibid.

3 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Charles S. Johnson, March 15, 1926 ; Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Ralph

Bunch, March 12, 1951. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes Foundation Archives. Barnes

claimed to be either six or eight years old when he attended these camp meetings in New Jersey,

most likely accompanied by his mother.

4 Warner Fite. Letter to Albert C. Barnes, March 26, 1942. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes

Foundation Archives. Testimony to the neighborhood’s rough nature is substantiated in this letter

from Fite, one of Barnes’s old school chums.

5 Richard Wattenmaker, “Dr. Barnes and The Barnes Foundation” in Great French Paintings from

The Barnes Foundation, (New York : Alfred K. Knopf, 1993), 4. Barnes said that he volunteered

at the State Hospital for the Insane in Warren, Pa., after reading William James and Pierre Janet.

It appears that he was not an intern there. See Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Warner Fite, October 14,

1946. Presidents’ Files, Albert C. Barnes Correspondence. .

6 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Alice Dewey, September 20, 1920. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence,

Barnes Foundation Archives.

7 Ibid. See also Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Alfred Hand, June 30, 1947. Albert C. Barnes

Correspondence, Barnes Foundation Archives. Barnes stated the title of his research: “Concerning

Certain Morphine Derivatives and Their Points of Activity in the Central Nervous System.”

Albert C. Barnes Correspondence 1902-1951 ABC

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8 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Herman Hille, February 5, 1907. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence,

Barnes Foundation Archives.

9 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Herman Hille, April 12, 1907. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes

Foundation Archives.

10 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Wendell P. Bush, January 30, 1923. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence,

Barnes Foundation Archives.

11 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Harry Salpeter, February 11, 1937. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence,

Barnes Foundation Archives.

12 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Alfred Henry Maurer, July 12, 1912. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence,

Barnes Foundation.

13 Albert C. Barnes. Letter to Robert von Moschzisker, October 13, 1917. Albert C. Barnes