Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910

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"Tomorrow by all means, for the pleasure of seeing you and Miss [Arabella Moulton] Barrett. I've written to Mr. [William Holman] Hunt, asking him to fix a day and hour, if tomorrow would not do for him -- is not that best?"

Scope and Contents: Rossetti tells Heaton that William Holman Hunt has suggested the next day, at 3 o'clock for his meeting with Arabella Moulton Barrett and asks Heaton to tell Hunt if they can make that time, saying if they can't that they should write to Hunt to rearrange the appointment. Rossetti asks Heaton if he could send the drawing she commissioned from him to a Mrs. Marshall, of Eaton Square, who has been ill and would like to see it, assuring Heaton that Marshall shall keep it for one day only. He...

Scope and Contents: Rossetti explains that he has been in Paris for the past ten days and so only just received Heaton's latest letter. Rossetti has heard from Ruskin that Heaton would prefer keeping the drawing from the Purgatorio of Rachel and Leah, or Matilda and Beatrice. Rossetti remarks that he has given Matilda and Beatrice the actions of Rachel and Leah and describes the two figures as "of an entirely Oriental character, as the real Rachel and...

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The collection consists of thirty-seven autograph letters, signed, written by William Holman Hunt to friends and acquaintances including Walter Crane, Sir Fred A. Eaton, and Sir William Watson. The bulk of the letters are to British artist, illustrator and designer Frederic James Shields; also present are four graphite sketches by Shields of Hunt at work at his easel.

Scope and Contents: Ruskin tells Heaton he does not have any works by William Holman Hunt and advises her to get as many Turners as possible while they are on the market, although he won't let her have his Corinth. He tells Heaton that they will rise in value and that he is "buying all I can afford" suggesting that she can "help Pre Rs after present opportunities are gone for Turner." He gives Heaton further advice on her writing. Ruskin gives Heaton prices at...

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The Liebert Autograph Collection contains chiefly British (as well as other European and American) historical and literary manuscripts and autographs, including items by James Boswell, Jr., Sir Joseph Banks, Marie Corelli, Eugene V. Debs, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, Ouida, and Alfred Tennyson. The Liebert Correspondence consists of letters written to Liebert by Ian Fleming, Beverly Nichols, John Cowper Powys, and Thornton Wilder.

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The archive comprises approximately 400 autograph letters, from upwards of 120 correspondents, addressed to Richard Redgrave (1804-1888).

Abstract: The collection comprises 57 letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton written from 1855 to 1875 (the bulk from 1855 to 1864). The letters primarily pertain to works by Rossetti, including a number of his works commissioned by Heaton. Works referenced include: Beata Beatrix, Beloved, Bethlehem Gate, Dante’s dream at the time of the death of Beatrice, ...

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The collection comprises letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton, written from 1855 to 1864.

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"My Dear Redgrave, I am sorry at the thought of being absentee at the first etching club meeting of the season but I am engaged on Thursday night at 7 and I fear cannot hope to be at leisure in time to come in later - I trust that you will have a merry meeting however and that you will give my kind rememberences to all the members. Yours ever truly, William Holman Hunt."

Scope and Contents: "My dear Mr Redgrave, I cannot now find the invitation of Mr Webster - Horsely and O'Neil and have no other means of finding their address so I must write to you. I am sorry not to be able to come. I have lost so much time lately in a variety of affairs that if I don't take every day I can for work I shall not be ready for an engagement I have later to go onto the continent with a friend of mine. I hope you will have a thoroughly pleasant day. When I see you again after your return I shall...

Scope and Contents: "My dear Redgrave, I too am just on the point of starting for the country. I must write in haste or I shall miss my train. I shall be glad to agree to - as the other members of the club did- to accept Candell's offer. My plate is now in my […] it has not or I am very much mistaken been returned to me since I gave it to you. I should like to have it to work upon a little before the proofs are taken. Yours faithfully, W. Holman Hunt." Postscript "I was very sorry at not being able to come to...

Scope and Contents: "Dear Redgrave, I am sorry that I cannot hope to entertain the members of the Etching Club on Tuesday week - the 17th - because it is improbable that I shall have done my work here by that time - and I do not like to leave till I can bring my picture with me for the meeting of the following month. I hope I shall be ready to take the place of the member who takes my duties on this occasion. Unless something [...] releases me here I shall be absent at the meeting of the 17th wherever it occurs...

Scope and Contents: "My dear Mr Redgrave, I was fortunate yesterday morning in finding Sir Henry Cole at home and free to attend to my case which he did with the greatest kindness giving me many valuable suggestions for the improvement of the memorial - altho' he felt obliged to sign it himself - which he thought under existing circumstance to be not unfavourable to the object I had in view. I have since then reformed the whole memorial, cutting out much of the matter and adding particulars about the duties...