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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Notes on sculptors (pages 1 & 2); lengthy quotations from Vertue (pages 3-10); "An Agreement made good and signed for a Statue of King James the Second to be made by Mr. Grinling Gibbons" … (pages 11-14); further quotes from Vertue (pages 15-85); notes on Rysbrack, (pages 86, 89) miscellaneous notes on sculptors [by Rogers (?)]; brief notes on churches with monuments by well known sculptors (pages 96-99); brief notes on churches in Gloucestershire (in an unidentified hand) (pages 100- 101); Somersetshire; Essex (page 104); Suffolk; Norfolk; Cambridgeshire; Isle of Wight (pages 110-111), Yorkshire; East Riding; notes on well known sculptors and their works (to p. 140) Flaxman (pages 141-42); notes and quotes on sculptors John le Neve (page 159A): BLANK PAGES (159-165); BOOK REVERSES "From Work of James Barry" (pages 172-176); Hoadly, Sarah (pages 178-179); brief notes and quotations about well-known sculptors; Waagen (?) – "Art Treasures I continued" (page 184-185).
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List of contacts(?) (pages 1-4), Churches/Places: Visited Grundisburgh (pages 9-10), Helingham(?), Lionel Tollemache 6/9/1646 (page 20), Burgh, Ufford (pages 26-32), Christ's Hospital, Wren Soc XI at C.H. (pages 33-36), Phillips… (page 38), list of sculptors (in note form), Norfolk (pages 55-56). Book reverses, "Hunter's South Yorkshire" (page 62) York (page 66) Stowe (page 68).
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The book reverses itself. Pages 1-3 Notes on Book of Samuel in the Bible, apparently by Katharine Esdaile's Mother, followed by personal diary entries by Katharine Esdaile about family and professional work for February 18, 1910 (pages A-H); followed by October 25, 1929 (J-K). Subsequent pages alternate between lists of Italian Sculptors who worked in UK (pages L-S and LL-XX); works, architecture, and the school of Bernini (pages 4-6, 23-29, 31-32); "FREEMASONS WILLS" (pages BA-BF); Vertue (page 7). Churches visited (and some houses): - Henton in the Hedges (?) (31.5.37), Kings Sutton, Adderbury, Somerton (?); Woodeaton, Great Milton (pages 22-AH), Great Haseley (?), Bury St. Mary'sl Gardenhead, Old Caterham (?) Chaldon, Mentham (page 16), Bletchingley; Wilby, Geddington, Little Glenham, Hyde (page 48), Mountnessay (?), Eastwood.
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Presumably a draft of the article published in the July 1944 Architectural Review: "So-Called Aged Wren Proves to be Richard Miller by Rysbrack." (Published article not in collection.)
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Places visited – Chatham, "London & Its Environs" (page 4), Eltham Parish Church, Stroud Parish Church, Haresfield Glos (page 10), Bristol-Cathedral (April 23, 1923) (page 11), - All Saints, Colston Monument, Worcester Cathedral, Hanbury (page 24), Blockley, St. Peter's Droitwich, Bedley, Blockley (page 35), Bath Abbey, Shalford, Lambeth (page 45), ?Handel, Redhill (1923) (page 48), Reigate (August 1923), Notes (pages 61-65), Tottenham (page 71), Leyton (page 75), Flaxman, "John Kennedy's History of Leyton" (1890)(page 85), "St. Martin-in-the-Fields Registers" (page 92), Westminster Abbey (page 96), West Ham. Book reverses, Notes, "Garrick (?) Sale" (page 113), notes on sculptors (pages 115-125).
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12 items consisting of published book reviews, articles, and letters to The Times by Edmund Esdaile. Articles include "Pocket and pendant Calendars" (1935) and "George Vertue, Engraver: A Catholic Bicentenary" (in The Tablet, August 4, 1956).
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