Manuscripts

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 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.
Associated people: Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, (1880-1956.); Esdaile, Edmund. (1869-1935,); Gardner, Edmund G., (1846-1937,); Gardner, Percy, (1882-1935.); Gunnis, Rupert,; McDowall, Stewart Andrew,
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