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Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 84
Abstract:

The collection comprises correspondence by British artists, collected by Paul Mellon.

Dates: 1767-1917

Miles & Edwards and Charles Hindley & Sons correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 4
Abstract:

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

Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith

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Call Number: MSS 17
Abstract:

The collection comprises manuscripts, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith, collected by Roger W. Moss.

Dates: 1961-2011

Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 24
Abstract:

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

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Call Number: MSS 11
Abstract:

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

Paul Oppé letters to Janet Camp Troxell

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 85
Abstract:

The collection comprises letters from Paul Oppé to Janet Camp Troxell, with related material.

Dates: 1950-1957

Henry Perlee Parker collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 20
Abstract:

The collection includes two albums containing Parker's own record of the sale of his paintings and prints from his paintings.

Dates: 1822-1970

Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 6
Abstract:

The collection comprises sketchbooks and exercise books belonging to the Pease family of Durham and Yorkshire Counties, England. The Peases were part of an important network of Quaker industrialists in the northeast of England, and established the nation's first railroad in 1825. Items in the collection date from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1814-1909

Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray

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Call Number: MSS 29
Abstract:

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

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Call Number: MSS 38
Abstract:

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

Postcards of the British royal family

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Call Number: MSS 51
Abstract:

The collection comprises approximately 1000 postcards depicting members of the British royal family.

Dates: ca. 1897-ca. 2013

Pugin family archive

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Call Number: MSS 44
Abstract:

The collection comprises correspondence and other manuscript material concerning the family of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852).

Dates: ca. 1790-1870

Letters to Richard Redgrave

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Call Number: MSS 22
Abstract:

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

Dates: circa 1840-circa 1880

Joshua Reynolds Archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 30
Abstract:

The collection comprises correspondence, notebooks, writings, and other manuscript material by or about the artist Joshua Reynolds.

Dates: 1749-1816

Album of letters to David Roberts, with autographs, engraved portraits, and printed ephemera, compiled by Henry Sanford Bicknell

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Call Number: MSS 34
Scope and Contents: The album was compiled by Henry Sanford Bicknell. It includes letters to David Roberts from William Allan, Samuel Austin, Edward Hodges Baily, William Boxall, John Britton, John Burnet, Robert William Buss, Augustus Wall Callcott, George Cattermole, Alfred Edward Chalon, Henry Barnard Chalon, William Collins, Edward William Cooke, George Cooke, Charles West Cope, John Doyle, Thomas Duncan, Charles Lock Eastlake, James Elmes, William Etty, Myles Birket Foster, Andrew Geddes, Frederick...
Dates: circa 1813-circa 1864

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton

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Call Number: MSS 47
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, ...
Dates: 1855-1875

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to William Houghton Clabburn

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Call Number: MSS 31
Abstract: The collection comprises 11 letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William H. Clabburn written from 1863 to 1865. The last of these is addressed to Clabburn's wife, Hannah Louisa. The letters are accompanied by 8 envelopes addressed to Clabburn by Rossetti. Rossetti’s letters primarily relate to Clabburn’s commission of an oil replica of Rossetti’s Mary Magdalen at the door of Simon the Pharisee. The correspondence records in detail Rossetti’s artistic process...
Dates: 1863-1865

Rowe collection of botanical specimens

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Call Number: MSS 35
Abstract:

The collection comprises over 500 pressed plant specimens from the area around Liverpool, assembled by a "Miss Rowe" of 2 Elizabeth Street, in 1861.

Dates: 1861-1862

Royal College of Art Sketch Club Collection

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Call Number: MSS 54
Abstract: The collection includes the correspondence of and with various secretaries of the Royal College of Art (RCA) Students’ Group, or Sketch Club, and contains 79 letters and postcards and 11 draft letters, written between 1934 and 1937. The materials focus primarily on the group’s annual exhibition, and discuss the facilities, invite prominent figures, and solicit donations and judges for special prizes. The letters’ authors include, in addition to the groups’ secretaries, several notable...
Dates: 1934-1937

John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton

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Call Number: MSS 46
Abstract:

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

Dates: 1850-1864, bulk 1855-1864