Manuscripts

Notebook #39

Description: Much of this book is scarcely legible, and seems to consist of research notes on the Roubiliac family and on commissions by year (from 1742 on). Also church registers at St. Martin's and of "Foreign Churches at Somerset House" (both in London).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Undated
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.

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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Life and Works of Francois Roubiliac (published 1928)

Manuscripts

Chiefly consists of a typescript draft identified as "The Rejected Chapter from Life of LFR"; four images of Roubiliac's works; a pen-and-ink design for the title page created by Martin Esdaile; and two typescript and one manuscript transcriptions of "A Catalogue of the Genuine and Entire Collection of Models, Moulds, Casts and Busts in Terra Cota, Marble and Bronze of Mr. L.F. Roubiliac ... at his late Dwelling House in St. Martin's Lane ... May 1762," which was reproduced in the book.

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Notebook #95

Manuscripts

(Address Book with both covers missing.) Seems to be a detailed alphabetical list of sculptors, artists, personalities, royalty, and from letter D onward, people of note who filed their wills in Canterbury, including lengthy note on Peter Esdaile's will and other Esdaile family members.

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Notebook #86

Manuscripts

Written by Katharine Esdaile in pencil, seems to be notes of classes in civil defence taken in April/May 1939, immediately prior to the start of World War II in September 1939. Nothing on churches or places visited.

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Notebook #87

Manuscripts

All in pencil and much illegible or indecipherable; lacks binding. Churches/places visited: Herne (?); Bischington; St. Nich. At Wade; Charing (?); Biddenden (May 1) (page 33): Bonylton (?) under Blean (?); Ospringe; Lynstead (?); St. Margaret's (London ?) (page 59); St. Michaels; St. Paul's; Holy Cross; St. Martin's Canterbury; Elmstone; Burfield (?); Hambleden' Bisham; Hitcham; Note on a Mausoleum in Bedfordshire (page 108); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; cure (?); (page 116); BOOK REVERSES (page 127); Chershurst (?) (7.6.33); BOOK REVERSES; Waltham Abbey (page 133); Theydon Mount; Theydon Garnon (page 150); Epping-Old Church; Hempstead; Steeple Bumpstead (page 170); Great Bardfield; Stebbing; Gr(eat?) Canfield (page 190); BLANK PAGES; Notes from Sloane Manuscripts; BOOK REVERSES; BLANK PAGES; List of Masons? (page 196-197); Further extracts from Sloane Manuscripts; BOOK REVERSES; Notes on repairs to Esdaile Home (page 206).

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Notebook #83

Manuscripts

Appears to be 6 small notebooks, largely in Edmund Esdaile's handwriting; Book F could be Katharine Esdaile. Notebook A "Lincs, with John Todhunter" (1934): Places Visited; Long Sutton (11.vii.1934); Gedney; Howell; Tattersall (page 6); Horncastle; Carstone?; Broughton Notebook B: Places Visited: Llanfair Talmararn, N. Wales; St. George's Windsor Notebook C (missing page 1?): Places Visited: Possibly Middle or Inner Temple, London – page 1 is missing; Badminton Notebook D: Places Visited: Arminchampton (?) (19.v.1934); Bishop's Cleave; Ellestone Notebook E: Places Visited: Dalham, Suffolk – St. Martin's;Dorney, Bucks Notebook F: Places Visited: Swithland; Rothlen; Leicester Cathedral (St. Martin's); Finchley; Bromley (page 23); West Ham; Chislehurst; Shoreham, Kent; Oxford; St. Decumans; N. Petherton (?) (Aug. 16) (page 57); Bridgwater; Bishop's Lydeard (?); Overton; Wrexbury, Cheshire; Nantwich; Wroxeter (page 84); Acton; Morton Say; Moreton Corbet; Oswestry; Llanyblodwelin, Montgomery, Wales; Tonbridge, (separate entry on blue paper).

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