Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
40 letters on topics including the war (including a letter about emergency food and water supplies); the publication of "Berkshire Churches" and "Oxfordshire Churches"; the difficulty of doing research with libraries and photographs scattered around Britain to avoid bombing; the marriage of Eleanor Esdaile; and preparation of "History of Old St. Martin in the Fields."
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48 letters on topics including Esdaile's notes to the Shell Guide (to Buckinghamshire? and churches); a December 8th letter from C.T. Collins Baker at the Huntington Library about sculpture; the publication of Monuments in English Churches ("SPCK little book"); an October 27th card from Arundell Esdaile Harrington; and a short paper on Epiphanius Evesham for the Somerset Archaeological Society.
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60 letters on topics including the disastrous fire in Westminster Abbey (May 12 letter from Geoffrey Houghton-Brown) with a follow-up letter from Lord Esher suggesting a course of action; correspondence with Alderman J. B. Morrell of York (which led to Esdaile's work on Yorkshire monuments); an invitation to write articles on "monumental effigies" of Berkshire in Archaeological Society's Journal; and the destruction of the Temple Church and adjacent buildings.
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1911: 2 letters on family matters 1912: 1 letter on family matters 1913: 4 letters on family matters and Esdaile's review in The Builder 1914: 11 letters on family matters, Martin Esdaile as a baby, and the publication of "Lux Juventutis" 1915: 1 letter from James A. Mackereth thanking Esdaile for her review of his book of poems 1916: 6 letters on family matters and "Greek and Roman Portraiture" to be published by Oxford University Press.
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56 letters on topics including responses to Esdaile's November 5th letter to The Times on the preservation of church monuments through photographs; an invitation for Esdaile to become a representative of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings at the Conference (which led to the Council of National Buildings Record); an angry letter from Geoffrey Houghton-Brown about inadequate efforts to safeguard Westminster Abbey; correspondence about Joseph Wilton RA; the rejection of a novel manuscript by publisher John Murray; Arundell Esdaile's retirement from the British Museum; and a letter about the Leverhulme Fellowship (for the Dictionary of British Sculptors). The impact of the bombings destruction and uncertainty around the country is vividly brought out in these letters.
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115 pieces including 3 letters from Evelyn Berckman in Pennsylvania; correspondence about an article on "Renaissance Monuments of Buckinghamshire," published in late 1947; an article on Sir Robert Taylor in the Architectural Review; a letter from (and illustrations by) John Piper; several letters asked for information on sculptor ancestors (as a result of "English Church Monuments"); references to food and other rationing remaining a problem; and Esdaile's illness late in the year.
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