Manuscripts
Georgian Group: leaflets 1-4
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Georgian Group: miscellaneous papers
Manuscripts
Includes meeting minutes related to a survey of Georgian London, ca. 1938, and a July 1948 meeting; two early 1940s newspaper clippings; and a manuscript list of published reviews through June 1957.
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The Georgian Group: annual reports
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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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Miscellaneous membership cards, society and committee information, annuity vouchers and reader call slips
Manuscripts
Consists of British Museum reader's material call slips; East Indian Railway Company annuity vouchers, 1924-1927; a draft of a typescript proposal by the Berkshire Architectural Records Committee about photographers; a booklet "Hints for Unionist Workers"; a booklet of the West Hoathly Nursing Association (1927); four 1946 leaflets of the Council for Visual Education; a 1947 leaflet for The Help Yourself Society; four issues of the Royal Martyr Annual of the Royal Martyr Church Union (1940/1941 1945, 1946, and 1949) and a 1949 Tercentenary planning document of the church; a booklet for the Guild of Memorial Craftsmen listing Esdaile as an honorary member (1945); five booklets containing lists of members of the English Ceramic Circle (1938-1950) and a typed report on the group's Coming of Age Exhibition (1948); and miscellaneous society membership cards, exhibit invitations, and donation requests.
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Correspondence from Katharine Esdaile to family members
Manuscripts
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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Writings
Manuscripts
Includes the Sussex Note and Queries (May 1945), edited by Arundell Esdaile; the Library Association Record (June 1947) containing an article "University and Research Library Notes" by Arundell Esdaile; and various miscellaneous handwritten research notes (?), including fragments.
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Miscellaneous correspondence from extended family members
Manuscripts
Consists of: (a) Aunts (2 pieces). Undated (b) McDowall, Hilda (cousin?) (5 pieces), undated (c) Cousins (12 pieces), 1907-1950 (d) Nephews and nieces (8 pieces), 1934-1949 and undated (e) Grandchildren (5 pieces), 1947-1949 and undated (f) Miscellaneous (6 pieces), 1945, 1950 and undated
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