English Church Monuments 1510 to 1840 and English Renaissance Monuments documents

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  English Church Monuments 1510 to 1840 and English Renaissance Monuments documents

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  English Renaissance Monuments and a memorandum of agreement with publisher (B.T. Batsford) for English Church Monuments 1510 to 1840 (described in contract as "English Sculpture or Some Similar Title"), both 1945; and reviews and articles about English Church Monuments. There is no evidence that English Renaissance Monuments was published; probably any material was incorporated into English Church Monuments.

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  English Church Monuments, 1510-1840 (published 1946)

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  Consists of a published bound copy of the book, English Church Monuments 1510-1840 by Katharine Esdaile [annotated] (New York: Oxford University Press), annotated by Edmund Esdaile (with inscription: "Edmund Esdaile, 1961- annotated for the Huntington Library ... the annotations are copies of those in my own copy of this book of which some are in KAE's writings but others represent my own work ...").

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  English Church Monuments, 1510-1840 (published 1946)

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  This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.

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  English Monumental Sculpture since the Renaissance documents

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  2 Memoranda of Agreement with publisher (SPCK) dated 5 October 1927 and 9 November 1927 and a 1926 letter from A. Hamilton Thompson supporting the book. There are also two related press clippings.

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  Incoming correspondence

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  63 letters including several references to the Sculptors Dictionary; the rejection of the play "Unlucky John" by the BBC; 5 letters from Harry Batsford (Publisher) about a book on British Sculptors or Sculpture (to be eventually published as "English Church Monuments"); and 11 letters from Sacheverell Sitwell, mainly about their common problems with Batsford.

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  St. Martin in the Fields: New and Old document

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  Memorandum of Agreement with publisher (SPCK).

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