Manuscripts

Incoming correspondence

Description: 122 letters including many congratulatory letters on "English Church Monuments"; letters from Harriet Stewart; general enquiries about sculpture and sculptors; Esdaile's lecture to Eton College; and references to severe fuel shortages and a harsh winter and Esdaile's major accident with concussion, which affected her eye-sight.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1947
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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