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Pierce / Pearce (surname) (various manuscript notes)


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    Edward Pierce chapter (manuscript draft)

    Manuscripts

    Consists of manuscript draft and pages/clippings from The Architect (fragments, September 9, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.

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    Smith / Smithson (surname) (manuscript notes on various architects and sculptors)

    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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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    James, Isaac (typescript and notes)

    Manuscripts

    (a) "The Case of James versus Pryce: Stone's Master and the Law, being a Westminster Abbey Discovery; tried by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper on July 17th 1617" – (typescript article, with annotations) (b) two draft manuscript versions of above article (c) "Stone's Master, or a Westminster Abbey mystery solved' (manuscript draft version of similar article) (d) Notes on Isaac James (in two hands)

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    "L" entries (miscellaneous manuscript notes)

    Manuscripts

    Includes longer manuscript entry/article on Hubert Le Sueur.

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    Wyatt (surname) (manuscript notes on sculptors with that surname)

    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.

    mssEsdaile

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    "F" entries (typescript and manuscript versions)

    Manuscripts

    Includes an annotated typescript final version, an annotated draft version; an early annotated manuscript draft version; and some miscellaneous notes.

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