Society of Antiquaries of London
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
John Bruce collection
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 73
Abstract:
Series I, Letters to John Bruce, consists almost entirely of business and professional letters addressed to him in his roles as Secretary of the Camden Society and editor of many of its early publications. Correspondents include Octavian Blewitt; Sir Robert Harry Inglis; William Jerdan; Macvey Napier; Julia Pardoe; and Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.Series II, Letters of Caroline Amelia Halsted, contains 35 letters from the popular historian to Bruce on the subjects of her royal biographies;...
Dates:
1835-1845
Letters to John Ives
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 4
Abstract:
A collection of thirty-nine letters to the British antiquary and herald John Ives (1751-1776), from several antiquarian colleagues, collectors, and scholars.
Dates:
1771-1779
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
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Letters to John Ives
Pettigrew papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 113
Abstract:
The collection consists of letters to Pettigrew from a variety of correspondents, including scholars and antiquarians, members of the nobility and gentry, and professional colleagues. The letters concern scientific matters, including Egyptology and medicine, and the affairs of the various learned societies of which Pettigrew was a member, such as the British Archaeological Association, the Medical Society of London, the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquarians, and the Archaeologcal...
Dates:
1797-1865
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 April 12
Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Ap: 12 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, Sir Vincent Eyre is anxious to do something towards preserving the antiquities in Egypt, and intends drawing up a petition to the Khedive for that purpose, and to have it presented to him thro' the Foreign Office. But in order to give the petition full effect both with our and the Egyptians authorities, he thinks it best to obtain the sanctions and signatures of the President and Council of the R. Academy, and of the Roy: Soc: of Antiquaries. He was speaking to...
Dates:
1874 April 12
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection
Call Number: MSS 53
Abstract:
The collection comprises 15 letters from Thomas Woolner to John Frederick Lewis, written between 1874 and 1876. It also includes 5 letters from Woolner to Lewis’s wife, Marian Harper, one letter from Lewis to dealer William Vokins, and several letters from Woolner’s wife and daughter. The letters primarily concern Lewis’s declining health—he died several months after the last letter in the collection—Woolner’s admiration for Lewis’s painting, updates on the politics of the Royal Academy and...
Dates:
1863-1914, bulk 1874-1876