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48 letters on topics including Esdaile's notes to the Shell Guide (to Buckinghamshire? and churches); a December 8th letter from C.T. Collins Baker at the Huntington Library about sculpture; the publication of Monuments in English Churches ("SPCK little book"); an October 27th card from Arundell Esdaile Harrington; and a short paper on Epiphanius Evesham for the Somerset Archaeological Society.
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67 letters including topics such as lecturing to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society; working on the Temple monuments project (with Edmund?); and more articles in The Times including one on Epiphanius Evesham.
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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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52 letters including 29 sympathy letters written to Arundell Esdaile after the death of Katharine Esdaile in 1950 and a 1920 handmade Christmas card from Eleanor Esdaile.
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27 letters mainly on family matters, including an illness of Arundell Esdaile.
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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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