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Notebook #45

Description: Churches/Places Visited: Wingham, Kent (Oct. 7 1932 – from Canterbury), Ash, Eastry, Waldershare (?) (Page 13), Chelnsford (Oct. 10, 1932), Rettendon, Great Baddow, Iver, Harefield (May 6, 1933, Fulmer, Denham (page 36), Herne (E. Kent) (May 18, 1933), Birchington, Margate, St. Nicholas at Wade, Pluckley, Biddenham, Boughton-under-Bleam (?), Ospringe, Lynsted revisited, Canterbury – St. Dunstan's, - St. Margaret's, - St. Mildred's, - St. Paul's, - St. Alphage, – St. Stephen's, Elenstone (?) (May 20, 1933), Preston (page 105), Cranford, Binfield, Hurst (?), Hambledon, Marlow, Bisham, Hitcham (page 128), Cheshurst (June 7, 1933), Waltham Abbey, Theydon Mount, - Hill Hall, Epping Old Church (page 149), Hempstead, Steeple Bumstead, Little Sampford, Felstead, Little Dunnow, Great Canfield, Hatfield (June 23, 1933), North Mumms (?), Bloxworth, Wareham (page 186), BOOK REVERSES at page 193 Note on "private correspondence of Jane, Lady Cornwallis", List of "places to visit" in Essex.
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Date: 1932-1933

Notebook #60

Manuscripts

Churches/places visited: Steeple Bumpstead (Revisited) (12.9.33); Stambourne; Toppesfield; Gestingthorpe; Chilton (Sept. 13); Great Saxham; Acton (revisited 1932) (page 29); notes from Gage's Hengrave; Colchester – St. James; Assington; Colchester – Holy Trinity; - St. Nicholas'; – All Saints; - St. Peter's North Hill; - St. James; - St. Mary at the Walls; - St. Peters; Quainton (Oct 28th 1933) (page 71); BLANK 80-83; Overbury (Nov. 1933); Wickhamford; Honington (page 94); Etherington; Tachbrook; Fulmer (Jan. 23 1936); Rickmansworth (page 115); Datchet; Clifford Chambers.

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Notebook #61

Manuscripts

Portions of this book are devoted to long digressions on Bushnell and Rysbrack. People/texts listed; churches/places visited; Brighton – St. Nicholas; Notes on John Bushnell; Teddington; Kingston (29.xii.25); More notes on Bushnell (pages 16-26); Abingdon – St. Helen's; Wycombe; RIBA (Oct. 23 1925); Fulmer (9.xi.25); BOOK REVERSES Page 41; Gresham College (?); Harefield ("Buckinghamshire Notes") (May 6 1925); Denham (page 70); Hillingdon; Uxbridge; Ickenham (1.5.25); Ruislip; Salisbury; Stourhead (page 96); Notes on Rysbrack (pages 98-106); Sherborne (?); Rinquer (?); Clothworker's Hall (5.6.25) (page 125); Firle (17.ix.25); Stoke Pogis.

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Notebook #9

Manuscripts

Very few illustrations. (Index) "Wr(Westminster) Abbey" – List of Monuments, some with source books, Wiston (289 – numbering is backward at this stage), West Grinstead, Harefield (Nov. 7 1925), (notes) Wareham (10 Feb 26, page 258). BOOK REVERSES, Hatfield (Oct. 2 1925 – page 1), Welwyn (Oct. 3), Wimpole, Conington (St. Ives, Ely (Oct. 4), Lynn (Oct. 5-6 Page 36) & Customs House, Narborough Hall, Tittleshall, Houghton, Castle Rising, Hunstanton, Norwich (Oct. 7 1935), Euston, Bury – St. Edmunds Cathedral, Little Saxham (page 107), Landwade, Burwell, "Imagers & Craftsmen", Hitchin, Luton, Harpenden, St. Albans (page 136), Hendon (Oct. 9 1925? Page 139), Arundel, Lewes, Stanmor (?) Washington, Heathfield, Chichester (page 159), Chiddingley, Hailsham, Leatherhead (March 3rd 1925), Great Bookham, Egham, Henley on Thames (page 194), Wallingford, Steeple Aston (March 4), Chipping Norton, Charlcote, Halsowen, Lichfield (Mar. 5 1926), Aston.

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Notebook #50

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Churches/places visited; St. Thomas of Canterbury, Salisbury (July 11th); Cranbourne; Wimborne – St. Giles; Leatherhead; Great St. Helen's ("with Edmund"); London (?) – St. Andrew's Undershaft; Berkhampstead (July 6 34); Wing; "Colt Ms Earl Marshal's Books" Bobbing; Preston, Near Faversham; Hambleden (page 75); Fawley (24.7.34); Baxted revisited (May 11 1935); Earl's Colne; Halstead; Bury – St. Mary's (page 99); - St. James; Stowlangtoft; Ixworth; Gt. Livermore; Ampton; Culford; Hengrave revisited (May 20 1935); Brome Revisited; Starston; Redenhall Revisited; Bournemouth – North Stoneham (page 133); Bishops Waltham (also 27 May 1933); BOOK REVERSES Notes ("Earl Marshal's Books") (page 162); Brief notes on individual sculptors.

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Notebook #65

Manuscripts

Much of this is in faded, illegible pencil. Churches, places visited/people: London – St. John at Hackney (April 30 1924): - ChCh (Christchurch?) Spitalfields; Wilton (2.5.24); "Rysbrack Statuette" (page 21); "Dr. King – Anecdotes of former (?) Times"; ChCh (May 6 24) (page 26); Bodley (Library, Oxford?) (page 43); Camera (Radcliffe, Camera, Oxford?); Stratford; St. Paul's School (May 18 24); "LFR (Roubiliac) the Pugnacious"; More notes on Roubiliac; Sherbourne; ? Notes on sculptors? Kensington Palace (page 78); Somerset House, London; Broadwater (18.X.24); Shrewsbury – St. Mary's (21.X.24); - Old St. Chad's; – New St. Chad's; - The Abbey Church; Wrexham (page 92); Gresford; Chester (24.X.24) – Cathedral; Condover; "Portraits at Chink Castle"; "Hist. Of Abby Ch. of St. Peter's Westminster"; BOOK REVERSES: "Handel Model" (page 114); Notes; BLANK (122-1; ChCh Inser (?); Notes on Roubiliac, Bushnell, Bacon, Newton, etc; Chipping Camden (page 140); SM (St. Mary's?) Oxford (June 28th 1924); Queen's College, Oxford?); St. Giles, Cripplegate; West Grinstead (Sept 25th 1924) (page 150); Horsham; Notes on Sculptors; Canons (?) & Sales Catalogues (with Roubiliac mentions); Hereford (page 170); "Notes from Victoria County History of Warwickshire"; Stamford; Malvern Priority (Oct. 31st); BLANK (page 181); BOOK REVERSES; Clink (Oct 22nd & 22th); Hampton Lovett (Oct 30); BOOK REVERSES; Stourhead page 200) – Pantheon; - Library; - church (page 239).

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Notebook #62

Manuscripts

Churches/places visited; Wingham, Kent; Ash; Eastry; Waldershare(?); "Expedition from Chelmsford Oct. 10 1932" (page 34); Great Baddow; Teversham; Mildenhall; Copy of letter of 1710 and notes (page 61-75); London(?) – St. Lukes' Old Street (14.xii.32) (not Katharine Esdaile's handwriting); Notes and Accounts of the College of Arms (1672-73) (pages 85-93); Farmham; Notes – Welbeck Ms Tour with Lord Oxford 1727-28) (pages 99-120); Notes on Esdaile ancestors (pages 121-126); Latham "Statue of the King in Stocks Market"' Bromfield Somerset (Sept. 10 1934); Goathurst; Bridgewater Brent Knoll; Burnham, Somerset; Crowcombe; High Wycombe (21.2.35); Buckleigh; Holcombe Rogus; Mausoleum at West Wycombe; Notes (page 163-168); Reading (17.1.40!) – St. Mary Butts(?); St. Giles; - St. Lawrence; BLANK PAGES (175-181); BOOK REVERSES; notes; "Clare" (page 187); More notes; Selden's Epitaph (page 206); notes.

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