Armstead, Henry Hugh, 1828-1905
Person
Dates
- Existence: June 18, 1828 - December 4, 1905
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Hugh Armstead letter to Richard Redgrave, 1869 November 24
Item — Box 1, Folder: 6
Call Number: MSS 22
Scope and Contents:
"My dear Mr Redgrave, I regret not having been able to employ the young man you recommended to me, but just now there is not modelling &c enough to occupy myself and my studio. Hoping you are quite well. Very sincerely yours, H.H. Armstead."
Dates:
1869 November 24
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 January 31
Item — Box 1, Folder: 10
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Jan 31 '75. My dear Lewis, If you refuse being Mr-ed; - I was much delighted with your kind letter and the hope it offered me of a pleasant glimpse of your happy life. Please to ask Mrs Lewis to accept my bow of homage, and say with what pleasure I look forward to making her acquaintance. I know that I have already seen her several times in life, and, if I mistake not, once in her immortality as she looks in the "Bey's Garden," the guardian angel of...
Dates:
1875 January 31
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