Manuscripts

Union of Benefices Measures [pamphlets]

Description: Four pamphlets:
Union of Benefices Measure, 1923. Church Assembly. Report of the Legislative Committee on the Union Benefices and Disposal of Churches (Metropolis) Measure, 1925 The Union of Benefices and Disposal of Churches (Metropolis) Measure, 1926 (with manuscript draft of letter from Esdaile to unidentified recipient regarding proposed legislation) Union of Benefices (Amendment) Measure, 1936
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1923-1936
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.

Articles

Manuscripts

Pages of editorials and articles from The Architect, including unattributed articles probably by Esdaile. Articles consist of: "Houses and Their Contents" (Editorial) (February 16, 1923) "Cibber's Fountain in Soho Square" (Editorial) (March 9, 1923) "Blame The Architect" (Editorial) (March 16, 1923) "The Exhibition of British Primitives at Burlington House" (Article) (October 19, 1923) "The Country Churchyard" (Editorial) (October 26, 1923) "A Greek Bas-Relief" (Article) (November 16, 1923) "The Sepulchral Use of Brick" (Article) (November 30, 1923)

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Notebook #55

Manuscripts

All notes are in mainly illegible pencil: page 47 (back page) contains "important note on collaboration from an early age" of Katharine Esdaile & Edmund Esdaile –written (later) by Edmund Esdaile) (1922-1923). Churches (places visited: Olney & District (April 1922); Garrick Club (London); Holland House (?London) (Feb. 22nd 1923); Lewisham (3.3.23); BOOK REVERSES (page 57); Southampton (page 55) –St. Michaels; -All Saints; Worcester – St. Swithins (page 67); Malvern Proxy; Twyford (May 7); Winchester (Aug. 1922) – Cathedral; Peterborough (?); Peterborough – St. John's Stamford – St. Martin's' –All Saints; Croyland; Marholm(e)(?) Church (page 107): Ashby-dela- Zouch; Bourne & Edenham (Sept. 11 1922); Ely; Stanton; Univ. Library, Cambridge: -Senate House: Trinity (College) Chapel; Christs (College) Chapel; Hitchin; Offley (16.ix.22); Haslemere (19.ix.32) (page 162); Guildford –Holy Trinity; Petworth; Guildford (again); Great Bookham.

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"Men of the Stones" pamphlets

Manuscripts

Pamphlets with three reports of "Men of the Stones" (corporate members of the Georgian Group).

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Church Assembly. The City Churches: Final Report of the Bishop of London's Commission (pamphlet)

Manuscripts

This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.

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Essays and Reviews

Manuscripts

Bound volume containing clippings of essays and reviews by Esdaile published in The Christian Science Monitor (1920-1923) pasted into book of Pianoforte music.

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Published books and pamphlets

Manuscripts

This subseries contains published copies of 4 of books and pamphlets by Esdaile.

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Union of Benefices Measures [pamphlets]

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