Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
24 letters to Katharine Esdaile consisting of: 8 May 1913 from Llandaff (Wales) - reporting on lecture given 1 April 1922 from Deene (?) family - matters 6 August 1926 from Aberystwyth (Wales) - family matters 11 August 1926 from Bath (?) - announcement of British Museum appointment (?) and family matters. 15 August 1926 from Leam's End 18 August 1926 from 86A(?) – home, discusses press enquiries about his new position 19 June 1929 from Rome – at conference – met the Pope and Mrs. Strong (subject of one of Edmund's stories about his mother) 28 September 1929 from Leam's End – family matters and financial 1 October 1929 from Leam's End – family matters; Katharine Esdaile in London(?) 14 June 1932 from France – seems to be on lecture tour 20 Sept. 1932 from "BM" (British Museum); getting Martin settled in school (Lancing College) 3 October 1933 from RMS Ansonia in "mid Atlantic" – en route to Canada and USA, first crossing 8 September 1937 from British Museum – statue of Alfred the Great 9 November 1940 from Leam's End 30 July 1944 from Liverpool – museum and family in WWII 14 September 1944 from York – lecturing again 2 May 1946 from Leams End – family matters (Katharine Esdaile on holiday) 5 May 1946 from Leams End – family matters 9 October 1946 from Leams End - family matters 30 March 1947 from Leams End (?) – family matters 24 June 1947 from Leams End – 40th Wedding Anniversary love note and family matters 7 September 1947 from Stockholm – notes on visit to Sweden Undated postcard (from Leams End?) - family matters Undated, unfinished letter from Albermarle Club (London?)
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2 letters to Katharine Esdaile from her brother-in-law, Everard Esdaile, on family matters. One is dated before her wedding (1905), and the second was written following the marriage (1907).
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1 letter to Katharine Esdaile about his efforts to secure a position with Batsford (her publisher).
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19 weekly letters to Katharine Esdaile from Pembroke College, Oxford – relations with Katharine Esdaile became strained over money and lack of acknowledgement of Edmund Esdaile's contributions to research.
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15 pieces consisting of 1922: letter to Katharine and Arundell Esdaile "c/o of Aunt Sophie" and postcard to Edmund Esdaile from Katharine Esdaile 1924: letters from Lancing College (School) to Katharine Esdaile; weekly letters home (October–December); and 1 letter of 19 April from St. Savior's Vicalage, London – staying with "Auntie May" and noting sculptors
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39 letters from Eleanor Esdaile to her parents on family matters, chiefly dated from 1946-1948, and written from school, the Women's Land Army (in WWII) and from Oxford where she worked (and lived with her husband).
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