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Country Life about possible articles.
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87 letters chiefly about research on Roubiliac, as well as interest from Country Life about possible articles.
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The Times on the preservation of church monuments through photographs; an invitation for Esdaile to become a representative of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings at the Conference (which led to the Council of National Buildings Record); an angry letter from Geoffrey Houghton-Brown about inadequate efforts to safeguard Westminster Abbey; correspondence about Joseph Wilton RA; the rejection of a novel manuscript by publisher John Murray; Arundell Esdaile's retirement from the British Museum; and a letter about the Leverhulme Fellowship (for the Dictionary of British Sculptors). The impact of the bombings destruction and uncertainty around the country is vividly brought out in these letters.
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61 letters including a group of 10 letters by Harriet Stewart describing British country life in 1946, as well as letters related to the publication of Esdaile's "English Church Monuments."
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English Monumental Sculpture since the Renaissance by SPCK and Life and Works of Louis Francois Roubiliac by Clarendon Press, as well as a March 12th 2 pp. list of corrections for an unidentified segment on John Bushnell.
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114 letters including further letters from Evelyn Berckman in Pennsylvania and topics including a talk to the Huguenot Society of London (later published); articles in The Connoisseur and Country Life; the rejection of Esdaile's novel "The Pooles" by OUP, and many letters asking for professional advice on sculpture and sculptors.
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