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Buckland Wright (John), Collection of Letters to Christopher
Sandford
MS.1960.028
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Table of contents
Box 1, folder 1
Box 1, folder 2
Box 1, folder 3
Box 1, folder 4
Letters to Christopher Sandford 1939
2 postcards and 13 letters sent from Buckland Wright, with materials from the first
portion of the year being sent from Paris and afterwards from England. Deals with wood
block production for Pervigilium Veneris and relays the significant tension between
Buckland Wright and Sanford over whether to use copper plates or wood-block engravings.
One letter is sent right after Buckland Wright's evacuation from Paris into London with
his wife.
Box 1, folder 5
Box 1, folder 6
Box 1, folder 7
Letters to Christopher Sandford 1945
2 postcards and 21 letters primarily regarding the production of illustrations for
Endymion and Matthew Flinders' Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798.
Mentions Buckland Wright's residential move from Bramham Gardens to Nevern Mansion, as
well as other personal matters such as the selection of Sandford as godfather to John
and Mary's children. 14 7
Box 1, folder 8
Box 1, folder 9
Box 1, folder 10
Letters to Christopher Sandford 1948
26 letters sent by Buckland Wright regarding teaching at Camberwell, the production of
Laus Veneris and Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, Pasiphae, and Hero & Leander, payments
for work, an unsucessful application to a position as Ruskin Master of Drawing at the
University of Oxford, among other matters.
Box 1, folder 11
Letters to Christopher Sandford 1949
Box 1, folder 12
Box 1, folder 13
Box 1, folder 14
Box 1, folder 15