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Philip Hermogenes Calderon correspondence from John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 3
Overview:
This collection includes letters sent by John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton to Philip Hermogenes Calderon from 1886 to 1896.
Dates:
1886-1896
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens
Collection
Call Number: MSS 10
Overview:
This collection comprises an extra-illustrated copy--with many engravings and original manuscript letters--of the second edition of John Thomas Smith's Nollekens and his times, comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor: and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubillac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake (London : Henry Colburn, 1829).
Dates:
1708-1875, bulk 1768-1836
James Forbes archive: A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America
Collection
Call Number: MSS 66
Scope and Contents:
The collection comprises thirteen manuscript volumes, each of which contains numerous illustrations as well as transcriptions of letters originally composed while Forbes was in India, with a particular concentration on the natural history of India. The manuscript was finished in 1800, although most of the drawings are those done at the time of the voyage, circa 1765-1776. Volume 1 includes a presentation page, dated 11 April 1800, in which Forbes gives the set to his daughter, Elizabeth Rosée...
Dates:
circa 1765-1800
Clare Leighton collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 7
Overview:
The collection comprises original artwork and manuscript material by Clare Leighton for a series of 12 Queen's ware plates representing New England industries, produced by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons in 1952.
Dates:
1949-1953
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
Miles & Edwards and Charles Hindley & Sons correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MSS 4
Overview:
Collection of letters from notable clients sent to the London interior decoration firm Miles & Edwards and its successor, Charles Hindley & Sons, from 1832 to 1875.
Dates:
1832-1875
Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley
Collection
Call Number: MSS 24
Overview:
This collection comprises letters from Paul Nash to Mercia Oakley, written from 1909 to 1918.
Dates:
1909-1951, bulk 1909-1912
Robert Provo Norris Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 11
Overview:
The collection comprises personal diaries, watercolors, and drawings by Robert Provo Norris, most of which were created while he was a soldier stationed on the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa during the Frontier ("Kaffir") Wars of the 1840s and 1850s.
Dates:
1846-1854
Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection
Call Number: MSS 29
Overview:
The collection comprises 98 autograph letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi to her friend and physician, Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, dated between April 16, 1795, and September 10, 1816, compiled and bound together in a single album.
Dates:
1795-1816
Edwin Augustus Porcher Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 38
Overview:
The collection comprises the drawings, diary, and log books of Edwin Augustus Porcher, from tours of duty to South and East Asia (1849-1853) aboard the HMS Cleopatra and the Mediterranean and North Africa (1857-60) aboard the HMS Hibernia, HMS Kertch and HMS Boxer.
Dates:
1849-1861
Joshua Reynolds Archive
Collection
Call Number: MSS 30
Overview:
The collection comprises correspondence, notebooks, writings, and other manuscript material by or about the artist Joshua Reynolds.
Dates:
1749-1816
John Ruskin: Letters to Thomas Goff Lupton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 5
Overview:
This collection comprises letters sent by John Ruskin to Thomas Goff Lupton (or his family) from 1850 to 1873. It also includes one ALS to Lupton from Benjamin Haydon, sent in 1845.
Dates:
1845-1873
Sam Smith Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 14
Overview:
The collection comprises original work by Sam Smith including ink drawings, mock-ups, hand-carved wooden boats, paper model sets, typescripts, and correspondence.
Dates:
1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979
Whyte Family Correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MSS 19
Overview:
The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.
Dates:
1880-1892