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  • Repository: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts X
  • Subject: Painting -- Great Britain X
  • Names: Butler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson), 1846-1933 (Roll call) X

Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis

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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