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Description: 45 letters consisting of 1942: 4 letters; 1943: 5 letters (including two from Lord Spencer); 1944: 14 letters (including two from Lord Spencer, one from Katharine Esdaile, and three from Flt. Lt. H.M. Colvin); 1945: 22 letters (including three from Lord Spencer and four from Colvin).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1942-1945
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.

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53 letters consisting of 1946: 23 letters (including 3 from Lord Spencer); 14 letters (including 2 from Lord Spencer); 1948: 9 letters; 1949: 7 letters.

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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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60 letters on topics including the disastrous fire in Westminster Abbey (May 12 letter from Geoffrey Houghton-Brown) with a follow-up letter from Lord Esher suggesting a course of action; correspondence with Alderman J. B. Morrell of York (which led to Esdaile's work on Yorkshire monuments); an invitation to write articles on "monumental effigies" of Berkshire in Archaeological Society's Journal; and the destruction of the Temple Church and adjacent buildings.

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25 letters consisting of 1959: 19 letters (includes two letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper, then Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford); 1960: 6 letters.

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95 letters including 4 letters from the Batsfords about a book on sculptors; a March 19th letter from Mary Olive Latham of Los Angeles about Jasper Latham (a British mason/sculptor and her ancestor), mentioning research done at the Huntington; a July 30th letter from architect John Harvey containing two 1-page typescript documents about Wells, Somerset: a transcript of "Documents in Wells Museum" referring to "Masons, Statuaries, etc." and "Monuments in Wells Cathedral Cloisters (signed items up to c. 1800)"; complaints from Sacheverell Sitwell about delays in publishing a book; and references to Esdaile's accident and subsequent leg problems. Includes 9 Christmas cards to the Esdailes.

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66 letters consisting of 1956: 27 letters; 1957: 26 letters (including 4 letters from Nikolaus Pevsner, writer and editor of the King Penguin series The Buildings of England); 1958: 13 letters (including some correspondence from Rupert Gunnis).

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