Jane Mason (#321)

An Inventory of Her Personal Papers
1932-1959
At the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Collection Description


Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers, 1932-1959
Socialite and friend of Ernest and Pauline Hemingway. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbook, poems and writings, invitations, and photographs.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
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Provenance
Received from Tony Mason of New York, NY, in February 2001 (Acc. 2001-384).

Extent
About 250 items (5 linear inches ; 0.5 cubic feet)

Date Opened
November 2001

Processed by
Olympia Sosangelis

Encoded by
James Roth

The Papers of Jane Mason (1909-1980)

Biographical Note
Jane Mason was born Jane Coyle in Tuxedo Park, NY, on June 24, 1909. Jane took the name Kendall when her mother remarried. While studying art at the Briarcliff School in New York, Jane was presented to Washington, D.C. society. On June 11, 1929, Jane married George Grant Mason, an executive with Pan American Airways in Cuba. The Masons became friends of Ernest and Pauline Hemingway and introduced the Hemingways into Cuban society.

Collection Overview
The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence between Jane Mason and the Hemingways in the form of letters and telegrams from their residences in New York, Florida, Cuba, and from their travels, mainly from 1932 to 1938. The papers also contain correspondence between Jane Mason and mutual friends of the Hemingways, other associates, and family members. Of note is a snakeskin covered scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of Jane Mason's social life, 1926-1936. Other items include newspaper clippings, poems and writings, invitations, photographs, fragments/scraps of papers, and other miscellaneous items.

Collection Description
Papers of Jane Mason, 1932-1959 and undated.
About 400 items.
Arrangement: chronological by type.

Correspondence between Jane Mason and the Hemingways, 1932 to 1938. Also correspondence between Jane Mason and mutual friends of the Hemingways, other associates, and family members. Of note is a snakeskin covered scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of Jane Mason's social life, 1926-1936. Other items include newspaper clippings, poems and writings, invitations, photographs, fragments/scraps of papers, and other miscellaneous items.