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• William Sturgis Bigelow, Correspondence, 1908-1910, and Papers, 1861-1925, Massachusetts Historical Society.
• Julia Meech, "Collecting Japanese Art in America," in her Japonisme Comes to America: The Japanese Impact on the Graphic Arts, 1876-1925 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990), pp. 41-56.
• Akiko Murakata, "Selected Letters of Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow" (Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1977).
• Curtis Prout, "Vita: William Sturgis Bigelow—Brief life of an idiosyncratic Brahmin," Harvard Magazine (September–October 1997).Read this article online.