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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 1305 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Williams Leader letter to Harry Quilter, 1889 May 16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: Leader 4
Call Number: MSS 84
Scope and Contents:

Concerning Quilter's review of Leader's work.

Dates: 1889 May 16

Benjamin Williams Leader letter to J. Manville Form Esq., 1893 April 19

 Item — Box 1, Folder: Leader 5
Call Number: MSS 84
Scope and Contents:

Concerning Leader's paintings sent to the Academy: Mead and Stream, An Old Country Church, A Hillside Road, Carting Timber.

Dates: 1893 April 19

Bernard Rackham letter to Evelyn Hunt, 1937 October 1

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 64
Call Number: MSS 54
Scope and Contents:

Rackham agrees to present a prize of one guinea.

Dates: 1937 October 1

B.L. Leary (secretary to Walter Nugent Monck) letter to unidentified recipient (probably J. Anthony Denney), 1935 August 16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 56
Call Number: MSS 54
Scope and Contents:

Leary says that Monck would be glad to attend the judging and opening of the exhibition if he is in London.

Dates: 1935 August 16

George Alder Blumer correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 50
Abstract:

These letters to George Alder Blumer are mainly about the American Medico-Psychological Association and the American Journal of Insanity, edited by Blumer. Several of the writers were, like Blumer, administrators of psychiatric hospitals in the United States and abroad.

Dates: 1886-1951, bulk 1886-1896

Collection of individually donated bookplates

 Collection
Call Number: BKP 122
Abstract:

This is an artificial collection of individually donated bookplates received since 2010.

Dates: 19th century-21st century, bulk 1900-1999

Frank Brangwyn archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 67
Scope and Contents:

The collection comprises correspondence, photographs, and printed material concerning the Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn.

Dates: ca. 1900-1920

John Britton archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 41
Abstract:

The collection comprises correspondence, articles, cuttings, and other related material, concerning the English antiquary and topographer, John Britton (1771-1857).

Dates: 1839-1851

James Bruce archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 68
Scope and Contents: The archive comprises original manuscript material concerning the travels of James Bruce of Kinnaird in North Africa and Ethiopia, from 1762 to 1774. Bruce (1730-1794) was originally posted as British consul-general at Algiers, though his diplomatic service concluded in 1765. Over the next 10 years, Bruce traveled in North Africa to document the antiquities, flora, and fauna of the region. Bruce then traveled to Ethiopia to document the source of the Nile. The bulk of material concerns...
Dates: ca. 1750-ca.1850.

Edward Burne-Jones Letters to Cormell Price

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 45
Abstract: This collection comprises 16 items, including 15 letters from Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Cormell Price and 1 autograph envelope from Burne-Jones addressed to Price. The correspondence was written over the course of a decade, between 1852 and 1862. The letters are indicative of Burne-Jones and Price’s long and close friendship and are very affectionate and personal in nature. The letters are rich in detail, with Burne-Jones sharing news of mutual friends, his Oxford lessons, his social...
Dates: 1852-1862

Edward Burne-Jones Letters to John Ruskin

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 56
Abstract:

The collection comprises letters from Edward Burne-Jones to John Ruskin, written from 1862 to ca. 1889.

Dates: 1862-ca. 1889

Katharine Jeanette Bush Archives

 Collection
Call Number: IZAR.000996
Abstract:

Archives of Katharine J. Bush related to her work and reasearch at Yale Univeristy and the Peabody Museum.

Dates: 1879-1915

Campbell Dodgson letter to Evelyn Hunt, 1937 November 28

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 20
Call Number: MSS 54
Scope and Contents:

Dodgson says he will do what Hunt asked; he only needs to know "just what I have to do, and when."

Dates: 1937 November 28

Carr family documents and letters , 1788-1894

 Item — 2: Series 2, Folder: 9
Call Number: MSS 8, Series II
Scope and Contents: Includes correspondence and printed documents or forms. The items were collected in a contemporary file labeled "Documents & old letters relating to the Carrs: photographs and paintings." They are now removed to a new folder; the original is retained.The authors of the correspondence are varied and largely unidentified. Recipients include the Lord Bishop of Cloyne, Miss Edgeworth; Harriet Carr (nee Deacon); Mrs. H. L. Carr; and Mr. Thomas Woodward.Documents...
Dates: 1788-1894

Charles Aitken letter to D. Hewitt, 1914 January 5

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 24
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:

"January 5, 1914. Dear Sir, I am very much obliged to you for your kind letter about the Lewis pictures. I will write to Christies'. I think the Birmingham Gallery must have bought some. I would be very grateful for the addresses of any owners of Lewis's pictures, if it is not troubling you too much. I am yours very truly, Charles Aitken [...]"

Dates: 1914 January 5

Charles Aitken letter to D. Hewitt, 1914 January 15

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 25
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents: "January 15, 1914. Dear Mr Hewitt, I am so much indebted to you for your kindness in sending me this valuable list. I want to see Lewis better represented here and shall try to array a little exhibition rather with a view to the Trustees being able to see his work. Mr Horton of Birmingham [i.e., Joseph Horton, d. 1927] has a good big [?] scale one "In the Harem" but he has rather an exaggerated idea of its market price. Sir Cuthbert Quilter had a good one but I do not know at present what...
Dates: 1914 January 15

Charles Joseph Hullmandel letter to Frederick N. Crouch, 1835 October 1

 Item — Box 1, Folder: Hullmandel 1
Call Number: MSS 84
Scope and Contents:

Concerning the process of printing from zinc. The letter is written on paper watermarked 1835.

Dates: 1835 October 1

Charles Joseph Hullmandel letter to "My Dear Robert", 1835 (?) April 2

 Item — Box 1, Folder: Hullmandel 2
Call Number: MSS 84
Scope and Contents:

The letter is written on paper watermarked 1835.

Dates: 1835 (?) April 2

Charles Landseer letter to Henry Mogford, March 18

 Item — Box 1, Folder: Landseer 1
Call Number: MSS 84
Scope and Contents:

Concerning a picture by Landseer for the Dublin Exhibition.

Dates: March 18