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Photographs of Arundell Esdaile and Katharine Esdaile

Description: 4 photographs and a contact sheet of images of Arundell Esdaile; a pencil portrait by Una Paulet, 1938; and one photograph of Katharine Esdaile at fifty-nine, dated 1940
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938-approximately 1940s
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.

Notebooks of Katharine and Edmund Esdaile

Manuscripts

This series contains notebooks primarily used by Katharine Esdaile and Edmund Esdaile to document British sculptures during trips. The notebooks often contain pencil drawings and brief notes or transcriptions, and they vary in their degree of legibility. In additional, Notebook #38 contains a commonplace book kept by Katharine Esdaile in the late 1890s and Notebook #86 contains notes of classes in civil defense against mustard gas attacks, taken by Katharine Esdaile in April/May 1939. Thus far, no index has been found of the churches Katharine Esdaile visited, and there are also no lists of content in volumes written by Esdaile. Some workbooks are evidently written by Edmund Esdaile and these do have lists of contents. But how Katharine Esdaile traced relevant church entries later remains unclear. From the final volumes, she clearly was building up notes on sculptors, but how she kept records or knew where to find all the notes is also unclear. Titles and notebook numbers are chiefly based on typed labels affixed to the volumes.

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From Esdaile, Edmund

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34 weekly letters home, some with illustrations, from Lancing College to Katharine Esdaile (and sometimes Arundell Esdaile).

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From Esdaile, Edmund

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27 weekly letters, some with illustrations, from Lancing College to Katharine and Arundell Esdaile.

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From Esdaile, Edmund

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27 weekly letters from Lancing College to Katharine and Arundell Esdaile. With a list of churches visited (?) in Leicestershire and a postcard of 22.VIII.

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From Esdaile, Edmund

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5 letters from first half of the year at Pembroke College, Oxford to Katharine and Arundell Esdaile.

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From Esdaile, Edmund

Manuscripts

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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Photographs of Arundell Esdaile and Katharine Esdaile

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