Correspondence from Edmund Esdaile (1931-1957) and other children

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  Photographs of Edmund, Eleanor, Martin Esdaile

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  A 1928 studio portrait of Martin and Edmund Esdaile as boys; an undated studio portrait of Edmund as a boy; a 1915 photograph of Eleanor and Edmund; a 1937 studio portrait of Edmund; a 1937 snapshot of a sports game; and two photographs of Martin Esdaile as a young man and a postcard from him.

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  From Esdaile, Edmund

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  19 weekly letters to Katharine Esdaile from Pembroke College, Oxford – relations with Katharine Esdaile became strained over money and lack of acknowledgement of Edmund Esdaile's contributions to research.

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  Correspondence from Katharine Esdaile to family members

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  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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  Correspondence from Arundell Esdaile and Edmund Esdaile (1922-1930)

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  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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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  Correspondence from Esdaile's husband and children

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  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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  From Esdaile, Edmund

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  15 pieces consisting of 1922: letter to Katharine and Arundell Esdaile "c/o of Aunt Sophie" and postcard to Edmund Esdaile from Katharine Esdaile 1924: letters from Lancing College (School) to Katharine Esdaile; weekly letters home (October–December); and 1 letter of 19 April from St. Savior's Vicalage, London – staying with "Auntie May" and noting sculptors

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