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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Article drafts accompanied by 1927 letter about a bust and some manuscript notes. Article published in The Burlington Magazine, September 1944.
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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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55 letters on topics including tea with the French Ambassador; an article from British Medical Journal about Esdaile's discovery of 2 Roubiliac terra-cottas in the Royal College of Surgeons; "Fan Mail" on the Roubiliac book; a letter (of July 17, 1931) from a couple applying for servants' positions with family; Esdaile's work on 'Old Church Monuments' (comments on draft); more work for the Italian Embassy. Proposal from Societies of Inner Temple & Middle Temple to evaluate "sepulchral monuments and mural tablets" into a "Catalogue Raisonne'"; and articles in The Times.
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Consists of: Introduction (to book/pamphlet on Abbey), together with letter on The Guardian letterhead advocating an article on the Abbey to commemorate an exhibition of Abbey sculpture. "Monuments in Westminster Abbey ... prepared by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile" (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) (2 typescript versions; one is annotated and missing front page) "Re: Westminster Abbey Mons" (manuscript fragment, with additional fragments related to monuments) 1931 letter to Editor of The Times by Katharine Esdaile on Abbey monuments and subsequent correspondence. 1940-41 Correspondence from Lord Esher and another correspondent to Katharine Esdaile about problems of preservation during World War II bombings
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Consists of full August 1934 issue with article, "English Church Monuments I" by Esdaile.
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Consists of: "A Find in the Abbey. Three Models by Roubiliac" (Article) (December 29, 1923) ( "A Founder of the British Museum.: Bust of Sir Robert Cotton" (Note) (May 13, 1924) "A Bust of Wolfe. Joseph Wilton's Work" (Letter to the Editor) (1927) "Shakespeare's Monument – A Family of Sculptors" (Article) (August 6, 1928) "Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare – Roubiliac's Copy" (Letter to the editor) (January 16, 1929) "Tombs of the Tudors: A "Blynd Prophecy" (Article) (August 8, 1934) "Seventeenth-Century Plaster Ceilings" (Letter to the Editor) (May 14, 1936) "Bernini's Bust of Charles I" (Letter to the editor, undated) Church Monuments: A [?]ance for Amateur Photographers" (Letter to the editor, undated) "Grinling Gibbons's James II" (Clipping of a letter to the editor, undated) "A Life of Roubiliac" (Letter to the Editor) (Undated)
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