American novelist Edith Wharton’s first published work was not a novel but a design manual that she coauthored with the Codman Estate‘s Ogden Codman Jr. Their book, The Decoration of Houses, was destined to become an interior design classic. Using original letters from Historic New England’s Codman Family Manuscript collection, this October 4 Historic New England illustrated virtual talk with Camille Arbogast, Codman family scholar, offers an inside peek into Wharton and Codman’s artistic friendship, which spanned more than forty years.

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Please call 617-994-6678 for more information, or visit https://my.historicnewengland.org/17425/wharton-and-codman to register. The link for the webinar will be included in the order confirmation for this program.