Manuscripts
James, Isaac (typescript and notes)
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James, Isaac (typescript and notes)
Manuscripts
(a) "The Case of James versus Pryce: Stone's Master and the Law, being a Westminster Abbey Discovery; tried by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper on July 17th 1617" – (typescript article, with annotations) (b) two draft manuscript versions of above article (c) "Stone's Master, or a Westminster Abbey mystery solved' (manuscript draft version of similar article) (d) Notes on Isaac James (in two hands)
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"I" and "J" entries (typescript and manuscript versions)
Manuscripts
(a) Final Version (typescript, with annotations, but pp. 1-2 only) (b) Semi-Final Version (typescript complete with annotations) (c) Draft Version (typescript with annotations) (d) First Draft Version (manuscript of Letter "I") (e) First Draft Version (manuscript of Letter "J")
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Barry, James (typescript article and manuscript note, 10 pages)
Manuscripts
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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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[Engraved portrait of Isaac Newton after Sir James Thornhill]
Manuscripts
Description Broken into 3 panels: image (26 x 21 cm.); caption (5 x 22 cm.); provenance inscription (11 x 18 cm) Babson no. BC / J13 Notes Mounted. Inscription reads: I believe this engraving to be rare -it was purchased by me at a village inn by the river side when on a boating excursion down the Cam around 1821. J. Hooper A.B." The printed caption, originally at head of engraving reads in part: "Done from an original p[aint]ing of Sir James Thornhill's in the custody of Rev. Dr. Bentley. Master of Trinity College."
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Incoming correspondence
Manuscripts
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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Manuscripts, notes, and drawings
Manuscripts
This collection contains several drafts of Edward Anthony Spitzka's manuscript "A Study of the Brain of the Late Major J.W. Powell," as well as the material he gathered to write the manuscript such as "testimonial" letters about Powell's character by various respondents who knew him. The respondents include university presidents, geologists, authors, anthropologists, ethnologists, etc. Some notable authors are: Franz Boas, Swan Burnett, Henry H. Donaldson, Charles Fletcher, W.J. McGee, F.W. Putnam, and Dr. D.S. Lamb. Also included are printed copies of Spitzka's article (one is a proof copy), notes, drawings of Powell's brains, a printed biography of Powell, and a typed draft of Spitzka's paper "Cerebral Characteristics of Distinguished Men with Special Reference to the Late Major J.W. Powell."
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