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Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 15
Overview:
The collection comprises sketchbooks, writings, and correspondence by Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) and his family.
Dates:
circa 1812-1900
Letters to Richard Redgrave
Collection
Call Number: MSS 22
Overview:
The archive comprises approximately 400 autograph letters, from upwards of 120 correspondents, addressed to Richard Redgrave (1804-1888).
Dates:
circa 1840-circa 1880
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection
Call Number: MSS 53
Overview:
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