London: "Whitchurch or Little Stanmore" (typescript, 9 pages)

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  London: "Whitchurch or Little Stanmore" (typescript, 9 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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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.

  mssEsdaile

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  Research Material. St. Lawrence, Whitchurch, Little Stanmore: VHS tape

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  Relates to 1st Duke of Chandos.

  mssLB

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  Middlesex, Little Stanmore. Indenture re the almshouse at Little Stanmore, established by Mary Lake, D. (4 p.)

  Manuscripts

  The collection, which spans from 1538-2002 (bulk 1548-1780), contains 927 items pertaining chiefly to Duchess Lydia's business and financial activities in the intervening six years between her husband's death and her own, as well as the activities of her extended family. In addition, there is correspondence with her family, lawyers, and estate officials, information about the Cannons auctions and the sale of other Brydges properties, and some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century records pertaining to her own family and the Mayne and Goodall families who once lived at the Van Hattem seat at Dinton Hall in Buckinghamshire. There are also a large number of papers and deeds concerning various properties held by the family, including Cannons, Shaw and Speen.

  LB 670

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  Lawrence, Sir Thomas (typescript note, 7 pages, annotated)

  Manuscripts

  mssEsdaile.OLD

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  Essex: "Debden Church, Essex" (typescript, incomplete, 10 pages)

  Manuscripts

  mssEsdaile.OLD

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  Dominical Circle in Eastry Church, Kent (2 page, typescript)

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  mssEsdaile.OLD