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Description: 1911: 2 letters on family matters 1912: 1 letter on family matters 1913: 4 letters on family matters and Esdaile's review in The Builder 1914: 11 letters on family matters, Martin Esdaile as a baby, and the publication of "Lux Juventutis" 1915: 1 letter from James A. Mackereth thanking Esdaile for her review of his book of poems 1916: 6 letters on family matters and "Greek and Roman Portraiture" to be published by Oxford University Press.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911-1916
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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17 letters on topics including family matters; the birth of Edmund in September after difficult pregnancy; poems written by both Katharine Esdaile; and work on an article on Blake.
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Consists of 1899: 1 family letter 1900: 3 letters including one from Professor Percy Gardner, Esdaile's Oxford mentor. 1901: 1 letter from Gardner regarding paper Katharine Esdaile has written. 1902: 4 letters including a letter of authorization from Gardner.
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Consists of: 1 letter to Stewart McDowell, 1902, from Oxford. 1 letter to Esdaile's father, 1904, an apology from Oxford. 3 letters to Arundell Esdaile, 1904-1905 2 letters to Eleanor Esdaile, 1947, 1949, about family matters. 7 letters to Edmund Esdaile, 1934-1945, chiefly about college bills and family business.
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86 letters consisting of 1951: 24 letters (January 15th from F.W. Kenderick of The British Museum regarding Rupert Gunnis's proposed book on English sculpture and "your mother's great work"); 1952: 24 letters (including letter from Lord Spencer); 1953: 38 letters (includes a November 1st letter from Rupert Gunnis suggesting that Edmund Esdaile write "a companion volume on the sculptors from 1500-1660", presumably using his mother's material).
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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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