Manuscripts

Notebook #24

Description: An index (incomplete) of places visited with reference points. Code not understood, but it could be a useful index to the workbooks; possibly compiled by Edmund Esdaile or another hand. Covers letters I- Z.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Undated
Call number: mssEsdaile
Creator: Esdaile, Katharine Ada (1881-1950)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by the Huntington Library in 1962. The collection was initially accessioned into the Huntington Art Reference Library in 1962. Sometime afterwards, the printed books and pamphlets were removed, separately catalogued, and shelved with the main body of the Art Reference Books, and the photographs were removed to the Photo Study Collection. In 2005, the Art Reference Library collection was merged into the main collection of the Huntington Library and the decision was made to re-integrate the printed material and photographs of the Esdaile collection into the papers.

Notebook #83

Manuscripts

Appears to be 6 small notebooks, largely in Edmund Esdaile's handwriting; Book F could be Katharine Esdaile. Notebook A "Lincs, with John Todhunter" (1934): Places Visited; Long Sutton (11.vii.1934); Gedney; Howell; Tattersall (page 6); Horncastle; Carstone?; Broughton Notebook B: Places Visited: Llanfair Talmararn, N. Wales; St. George's Windsor Notebook C (missing page 1?): Places Visited: Possibly Middle or Inner Temple, London – page 1 is missing; Badminton Notebook D: Places Visited: Arminchampton (?) (19.v.1934); Bishop's Cleave; Ellestone Notebook E: Places Visited: Dalham, Suffolk – St. Martin's;Dorney, Bucks Notebook F: Places Visited: Swithland; Rothlen; Leicester Cathedral (St. Martin's); Finchley; Bromley (page 23); West Ham; Chislehurst; Shoreham, Kent; Oxford; St. Decumans; N. Petherton (?) (Aug. 16) (page 57); Bridgwater; Bishop's Lydeard (?); Overton; Wrexbury, Cheshire; Nantwich; Wroxeter (page 84); Acton; Morton Say; Moreton Corbet; Oswestry; Llanyblodwelin, Montgomery, Wales; Tonbridge, (separate entry on blue paper).

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Notebook #93

Manuscripts

Notes and record of places/churches visited by Esdaile. Notes about Roubiliac's times; quotation (in French) from "Les Protestants a' Lyon au XVII siecle"; notes on Roubiliac's work: places visited: Tarposley, Cheshire (?) Canterbury; Iver (page 23); Conway: St. Margaret's Wr (Westminster?); notes (page 41); "Curious Models"; Langley Marsh; BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES.

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Notebooks of Katharine and Edmund Esdaile

Manuscripts

This series contains notebooks primarily used by Katharine Esdaile and Edmund Esdaile to document British sculptures during trips. The notebooks often contain pencil drawings and brief notes or transcriptions, and they vary in their degree of legibility. In additional, Notebook #38 contains a commonplace book kept by Katharine Esdaile in the late 1890s and Notebook #86 contains notes of classes in civil defense against mustard gas attacks, taken by Katharine Esdaile in April/May 1939. Thus far, no index has been found of the churches Katharine Esdaile visited, and there are also no lists of content in volumes written by Esdaile. Some workbooks are evidently written by Edmund Esdaile and these do have lists of contents. But how Katharine Esdaile traced relevant church entries later remains unclear. From the final volumes, she clearly was building up notes on sculptors, but how she kept records or knew where to find all the notes is also unclear. Titles and notebook numbers are chiefly based on typed labels affixed to the volumes.

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Notebook #86

Manuscripts

Written by Katharine Esdaile in pencil, seems to be notes of classes in civil defence taken in April/May 1939, immediately prior to the start of World War II in September 1939. Nothing on churches or places visited.

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Notebook #29

Manuscripts

Begun by Arundell Esdaile, 11/4/07; dated by Katharine Esdaile 1939. Arundell Esdaile's entries mainly in pen; Katharine Esdaile in pencil. Arundell Esdaile's entries not listed below. Places visited by Katharine Esdaile: - Woodford (Oct 25, 1939), Charles I (at 41 Harley St. (under C), Goudhurst (under G), Rowenden (?) (under H), Bettersder (?), book reverses Standen, Bishops Stortford (May 26, 1932), Thersted, Saffron Walden, Aspenden. Notebook is labeled: Arundell Esdaile "Books to Read" alphabetized; used by K.A.E. for mons. by place and sculptors.

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Notebook #30

Manuscripts

Dated 31 December 1953 on the flyleaf, but entries go back to 1934. Places visited (Index at beginning, by A. Esdaile): Walton at Stone (1.1.1954) (page 1), Old Coulsdon (12.11.1954), Dartford (12.vii.50), Canterbury – Cathedral Cloisters (15.vii.50) -St. Mary Magdalen, -St. Martins, Lingfield (18.viii.54) (page 7), Crowhurst, Penshurst, Norwich (1943), Claydon (1934), Barnsley (Glos) (1934), Black Boulton, Temple Church (1932 fragments) (page 15), East Hendred (1959) Oxford St. John's Chapel (12.iv.59), St. Mary Magdalen, Clapham, Patching, West Tarburg, Gobing (25.iii.61) Chichester (6.v.61), Feeling, Boxglove, Ardingbourne.

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