Manuscripts

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Description: 61 letters including a group of 10 letters by Harriet Stewart describing British country life in 1946, as well as letters related to the publication of Esdaile's "English Church Monuments."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1946
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.
Associated people: Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, (1880-1956.); Esdaile, Edmund. (1869-1935,); Gardner, Edmund G., (1846-1937,); Gardner, Percy, (1882-1935.); Gunnis, Rupert,; McDowall, Stewart Andrew,
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122 letters including many congratulatory letters on "English Church Monuments"; letters from Harriet Stewart; general enquiries about sculpture and sculptors; Esdaile's lecture to Eton College; and references to severe fuel shortages and a harsh winter and Esdaile's major accident with concussion, which affected her eye-sight.
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30 letters on topics including Arundell Esdaile's heart problems, and a January 12th letter explaining difficulties with Pantheon Press over an unpublished manuscript, as well as letters from Esdaile's brother Stewart McDowell and his wife(?) Hilda
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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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114 letters including further letters from Evelyn Berckman in Pennsylvania and topics including a talk to the Huguenot Society of London (later published); articles in The Connoisseur and Country Life; the rejection of Esdaile's novel "The Pooles" by OUP, and many letters asking for professional advice on sculpture and sculptors.
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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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