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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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Manuscripts
Clippings of unattributed reviews and articles from The Saturday Review, some with annotations, that may have been written or simply collected by Esdaile consisting of: pp. 9-10 (January 3, 1920); pp. 101-104 (January 31, 1920); pp. 135-136 (February 7, 1920); pp. 205-206 (February 28, 1920); pp. 245-248 (March 13, 1920); pp. 281-282 (March 20, 1920); pp. 323-326 (April 3, 1920); pp. 435-436 (May 8, 1920); pp. 447-450 (May 15, 1920); pp. 493-494 (May 29, 1920); pp. 29-32 (July 10, 1920); pp. 75-76 (July 24, 1920); pp. 95-98 (July 31, 1920); pp. 275-276 (October 2, 1920); pp. 5-6 (January 1, 1921); pp. 25-26 (January 8, 1921); pp. 73-74 (January 22, 1921); pp. 109-110 (February 5, 1921); pp. 297-298 (April 9, 1921); pp. 361-362 (April 30, 1921); pp. 417-418 (May 21, 1921); pp. 517-520 (June 25, 1921); pp. 137-140 (July 30, 1921).
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Clippings of unattributed reviews and articles from The Saturday Review, some with annotations, that may have been written or simply collected by Esdaile consisting of: pp. 755-758 (June 12, 1909); pp. 283-284 (October 13, 1917); pp. 387-390 (November 17, 1917); pp. 477-478 (December 15, 1917); pp. 5-8 (January 5, 1918); pp. 133-134 (February 16, 1918); pp. 177-178 (March 2, 1918); pp. 295-296 (April 6, 1918); pp. 779-780 (August 24, 1918); pp. 983-984 and pp. 993-994 (October 26, 1918); pp. 1197-1200 (December 28, 1918).
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Manuscripts
Consists of manuscript drafts and pages from The Architect (pp. 163-166, March 3, 1922, and pp. 249-252, April 7, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.
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Clippings of unattributed reviews and articles from The Saturday Review, presumably by Esdaile. Articles consist of: "Heidegger (1659-1749) (A Fantasy)" (pp. 412-414, November 24, 1917) "Senenca" (Letter to the editor) (pp. 415-416, November 24, 1917) "Norwich Shawls" (pp. 226-227 March 16, 1918) "The Kennedy Sale at Christie's (pp. 250-251, March 23, 1918) "Coal Tar" (pp. 273-274, March 30, 1918) "The Silhouette" (pp. 527-528, June 15, 1918) "Monuments and Burials (pp. 646-647, July 20, 1918) "The Wig" (pp. 695-696, August 3, 1918) "Knowledge about India" (pp. 718-720 August 10, 1918) "The Analytical Mechanism of the Internal Year" (pp. 731-732, August 10, 1918) "The Fancy" (pp. 766-767, August 24, 1918) "Sir Joseph Banks" (pp. 556-557, June 19, 1920) "The Marchand Amateur" (with manuscript corrections, pp. 86-87, January 24, 1920)
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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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