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Description: The Buildings of England); 1958: 13 letters (including some correspondence from Rupert Gunnis).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1956-1958
Call number: mssEsdaile.OLD

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66 letters consisting of 1956: 27 letters; 1957: 26 letters (including 4 letters from Nikolaus Pevsner, writer and editor of the King Penguin series The Buildings of England); 1958: 13 letters (including some correspondence from Rupert Gunnis).
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86 letters consisting of 1951: 24 letters (January 15th from F.W. Kenderick of The British Museum regarding Rupert Gunnis's proposed book on English sculpture and "your mother's great work"); 1952: 24 letters (including letter from Lord Spencer); 1953: 38 letters (includes a November 1st letter from Rupert Gunnis suggesting that Edmund Esdaile write "a companion volume on the sculptors from 1500-1660", presumably using his mother's material).
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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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28 letters on topics including 3 letters from the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, the last letter on Catholics in England in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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1911: 2 letters on family matters 1912: 1 letter on family matters 1913: 4 letters on family matters and Esdaile's review in The Builder 1914: 11 letters on family matters, Martin Esdaile as a baby, and the publication of "Lux Juventutis" 1915: 1 letter from James A. Mackereth thanking Esdaile for her review of his book of poems 1916: 6 letters on family matters and "Greek and Roman Portraiture" to be published by Oxford University Press.
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48 letters including "fan mail" on 'English Monumental Sculpture' and 'Roubiliac' and work on Italian sculptors in England for the Italian Ambassador.
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