Manuscripts

Incoming correspondence

Description: 115 pieces including 3 letters from Evelyn Berckman in Pennsylvania; correspondence about an article on "Renaissance Monuments of Buckinghamshire," published in late 1947; an article on Sir Robert Taylor in the Architectural Review; a letter from (and illustrations by) John Piper; several letters asked for information on sculptor ancestors (as a result of "English Church Monuments"); references to food and other rationing remaining a problem; and Esdaile's illness late in the year.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1948
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.
Associated people: Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, (1880-1956.); Esdaile, Edmund. (1869-1935,); Gardner, Edmund G., (1846-1937,); Gardner, Percy, (1882-1935.); Gunnis, Rupert,; McDowall, Stewart Andrew,
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