Manuscripts

Notebook #86

Description: Written by Katharine Esdaile in pencil, seems to be notes of classes in civil defence taken in April/May 1939, immediately prior to the start of World War II in September 1939. Nothing on churches or places visited.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1939
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.

Notebook #76

Manuscripts

Diary, largely in Edmund Esdaile's handwriting, from the end of April to mid September in an unidentified year. Poetry (pages 16-17); BLANK PAGES (18-23) Places Visited – Slindon House (pages 24-25); Poetry & Music (pages 28-38).

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Notebook #41

Manuscripts

Houses/Churches visited: Chudleigh, Bovey Tracey, Haccombe (House) Berry Pomeroy, Totnes, Dean Prior, Moreton Hampstead, Chagford, Dunford, Sawbridgeworth ("with Mrs. Wise 16 VII 35) (page 24), Stanstead Montfitchet, Essenden, Hertfordbury, Bengen, Sheephall, St. Paul's Welden, Knebworth, Great Stanmore (with Martin Aug.14.35) (page 53), Little Stanmore, Edgeware.

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Notebooks of Katharine and Edmund Esdaile

Manuscripts

This series contains notebooks primarily used by Katharine Esdaile and Edmund Esdaile to document British sculptures during trips. The notebooks often contain pencil drawings and brief notes or transcriptions, and they vary in their degree of legibility. In additional, Notebook #38 contains a commonplace book kept by Katharine Esdaile in the late 1890s and Notebook #86 contains notes of classes in civil defense against mustard gas attacks, taken by Katharine Esdaile in April/May 1939. Thus far, no index has been found of the churches Katharine Esdaile visited, and there are also no lists of content in volumes written by Esdaile. Some workbooks are evidently written by Edmund Esdaile and these do have lists of contents. But how Katharine Esdaile traced relevant church entries later remains unclear. From the final volumes, she clearly was building up notes on sculptors, but how she kept records or knew where to find all the notes is also unclear. Titles and notebook numbers are chiefly based on typed labels affixed to the volumes.

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Notebook #29

Manuscripts

Begun by Arundell Esdaile, 11/4/07; dated by Katharine Esdaile 1939. Arundell Esdaile's entries mainly in pen; Katharine Esdaile in pencil. Arundell Esdaile's entries not listed below. Places visited by Katharine Esdaile: - Woodford (Oct 25, 1939), Charles I (at 41 Harley St. (under C), Goudhurst (under G), Rowenden (?) (under H), Bettersder (?), book reverses Standen, Bishops Stortford (May 26, 1932), Thersted, Saffron Walden, Aspenden. Notebook is labeled: Arundell Esdaile "Books to Read" alphabetized; used by K.A.E. for mons. by place and sculptors.

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Notebook #34

Manuscripts

Churches visited: West Sussex – Yapton, Sidlesham, East Dean, Singleton, West Dean, North Marden, Stoughton, Racton, Funtington, West Stoke, Billingshurst (page 31), Stanford, Shipley, Thakeham, Stopham, Petworth, Tortington (page 63), Amberley, Stoke-by-Guildford(?) (May 13, 1939), Walton, Thames Ditton, Burwell Cambs, (May 31 1939), Landwade revisited, Chippenham Cambs., Wimpole (page 91), "Sefton or Sephton", Halsall, Ormeskirk, Winwick, Warrington (page 123), Prestcott, St. Nicholas, Liverpool (June 15 1939), Walton, Ashbourne, Fenny Bentley (17.VI.39), Tissington, Blore Staffs, Crickhowell (Aug. 14 1939) (page 165), Kentchurch, Grosmont, Much Dewchurch, Woodford Essex "by bus Oct. 25 1939", Derby Cathedral (9 Nov. 1939) (page 182) Derby – St. Alkmunds, Thorpe, Okeover, Ledleston.

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Notebook #39

Manuscripts

Much of this book is scarcely legible, and seems to consist of research notes on the Roubiliac family and on commissions by year (from 1742 on). Also church registers at St. Martin's and of "Foreign Churches at Somerset House" (both in London).

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