Manuscripts

Miscellaneous membership cards, society and committee information, annuity vouchers and reader call slips

Description: Consists of British Museum reader's material call slips; East Indian Railway Company annuity vouchers, 1924-1927; a draft of a typescript proposal by the Berkshire Architectural Records Committee about photographers; a booklet "Hints for Unionist Workers"; a booklet of the West Hoathly Nursing Association (1927); four 1946 leaflets of the Council for Visual Education; a 1947 leaflet for The Help Yourself Society; four issues of the Royal Martyr Annual of the Royal Martyr Church Union (1940/1941 1945, 1946, and 1949) and a 1949 Tercentenary planning document of the church; a booklet for the Guild of Memorial Craftsmen listing Esdaile as an honorary member (1945); five booklets containing lists of members of the English Ceramic Circle (1938-1950) and a typed report on the group's Coming of Age Exhibition (1948); and miscellaneous society membership cards, exhibit invitations, and donation requests.
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Date: 1924-1952
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Burlington Magazine

Manuscripts

Full issue containing "The Busts and Statues of Charles I" by Esdaile, pp. 9-14, with some handwritten annotations. With snapshot of altar and booklet, "King Charles the Martyr 1649 Tercentenary 1949," laid in.

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Incoming correspondence

Manuscripts

35 letters on topics including the award of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to Esdaile to work on the dictionary of British sculptors (May 10); letter of thanks from the Royal Academy of Arts for assistance with the 1938 exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe; a booklet on Lancing College; work on the Shell Guide to Oxfordshire (September 19 letter of thanks from Poet Laureate John Betjeman); the publication of a booklet on Tong Church; and a piece published in Country Life.

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Photographs of extended family

Manuscripts

Carte-de-visite portrait of E.W. Benson; portrait of A.C. Benson; film negative of portrait of Captain White Benson (possible ancestor?) and two photographs of the family of Janet Esdaile Woods, 1945-1946.

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Miscellaneous cards and notes

Manuscripts

Includes some undated Christmas cards to the Esdailes as well as two Christmas cards of the Esdailes, blank postcards with photographs of Skipton Castle, and miscellaneous notes and ephemera.

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Miscellaneous correspondence from extended family members

Manuscripts

Consists of: (a) Aunts (2 pieces). Undated (b) McDowall, Hilda (cousin?) (5 pieces), undated (c) Cousins (12 pieces), 1907-1950 (d) Nephews and nieces (8 pieces), 1934-1949 and undated (e) Grandchildren (5 pieces), 1947-1949 and undated (f) Miscellaneous (6 pieces), 1945, 1950 and undated

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The Reader

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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Miscellaneous membership cards, society and committee information, annuity vouchers and reader call slips

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