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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
Consists of printer's proof fragment of only the title page, frontispiece, preface, and acknowledgement; incomplete typescript and manuscript drafts of Chapter 1 - introductory; incomplete typescript drafts of Chapters 3 and 4; annotated typescript draft of Chapter 5; and "Mrs. Arundell Esdaile's Syllabus" and "Notes on Mrs. Esdaile's Syllabus" (typescript showing early chapter headings and publisher's comments).
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Carte-de-visite portrait of E.W. Benson; portrait of A.C. Benson; film negative of portrait of Captain White Benson (possible ancestor?) and two photographs of the family of Janet Esdaile Woods, 1945-1946.
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Consists of: 1 letter to Stewart McDowell, 1902, from Oxford. 1 letter to Esdaile's father, 1904, an apology from Oxford. 3 letters to Arundell Esdaile, 1904-1905 2 letters to Eleanor Esdaile, 1947, 1949, about family matters. 7 letters to Edmund Esdaile, 1934-1945, chiefly about college bills and family business.
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25 letters including further letters from Evelyn Berckman trying to help Esdaile to break into the American market for articles, as well as letters related to Esdaile's illness. A May 16th letter from Margaret R. Toynbee includes a 7-page typescript manuscript of an article by her: "An Equestrian Statuette of James II."
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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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6 poems, manuscript and typescript, by Arundell Esdaile.
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