Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Papers: Finding Aid
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Sir Sidney Carlyle Cockerell Papers
Date (inclusive): 1949-1981
Collection number: mssHM 63186-63262
Creator:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Extent:
77 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The collection contains 55 letters from English museum curator Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962)
chiefly to American scholar Muriel J. Hughes (born 1903), as well as some additional letters to Hughes from Cockerell's secretary
Dorothy Hawksley (1884-1970), and a few later pieces of ephemera.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Sir Sidney Carlyle Cockerell Papers, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Muriel J. Hughes, June 23, 1981.
Biographical Note
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) was born on July 16, 1867. He married Florence Kate
Kingsford (died 1949) in 1907, and had two daughters and one son. From 1889-1892, he
worked as a coal merchant before going to work as a secretary to William Morris and
the Kelmscott press 1892-1898. Between 1900-1904, he was in a partnership with Sir
Emery Walker. At the age of 70, Cockerell retired after being the director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for 30 years (1908-1937). Just before and a couple
years after leaving the Fitzwilliam Museum, he was the European Adviser to Felton
Trustees of National Gallery of Victoria, 1936-1939. During his long career, he was
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1910-1916, and of Downing College, 1932-1937. He
was the literary executor of William Morris, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and Thomas Hardy.
He was knighted in 1934 by the King of England. He was Hon. Litt. D. Cambridge; and
Hon. Fellow of Downing College since 1937. For the last 10 years of his life, he was
confined to his bed after heart problems. He died on May 1, 1962.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains 55 letters from English museum curator Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962)
chiefly to American scholar Muriel J. Hughes (born 1903), as well as some additional letters to Hughes from Cockerell's secretary
Dorothy Hawksley (1884-1970), and a few later pieces of ephemera.
Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes, whom he met through a mutual friend. Some of
the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who
signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to
Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death.
In a few of his letters, Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who:
invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions well-known
British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.
Arrangement
Correspondence arranged alphabetically, and followed by ephemera.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Cockerell, Sydney
Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Shaw, Bernard,
1856-1950.
Forms/Genres
Ephemera -- Great Britain -- 20th
century.
Letters (correspondence) -- Great
Britain -- 20th century.
Added Entries
Hawksley, Dorothy Webster,
1884-1970
Hughes, Muriel Joy, 1903-
Indexing: Subjects
Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-. Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle
Cockerell, friend of Ruskin and William Morris and director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel
J. Hughes, 1964, Feb. 14.
HM 63254.
Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-. Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle
Cockerell, friend of Ruskin and William Morris and director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel
J. Hughes, 1964, Dec. 26.
HM 63255.
Cockerell, Christopher, Sir, 1910-1999.In Sydney Cockerell, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Sept. 22.
HM 63216.
Cockerell, Christopher, Sir, 1910-1999. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Oct 2.
HM 63217.
Cockerell, Christopher, Sir, 1910-1999. In Christopher Cockerell: Inventor
of the Hovercraft, The Observer Profile, 1962, Aug. 5. In Ephemera
folder,
HM 63262.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Oct. 2.
HM 63243.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Oct. 26.
HM 63244.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 5.
HM 63245.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 15.
HM 63246.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 23.
HM 63247.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Feb. 13.
HM 63248.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Aug. 12.
HM 63249.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1962, Jan. 10.
HM 63252.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1962, May 6.
HM 63253.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Muriel J. Hughes, letter to
The Huntington Library, 1981, May 24.
HM 63257.
Guiness, Alec, 1914-. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1960, July 26.
HM 63226.
Hawksley, Dorothy Webster, 1884-1970.Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962). In
The Illustrated London New, 1964, Jan. 4. In Ephemera folder,
HM 63262.
Keats House. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1952,Sept.
6.
HM 63198.
Kelmscott Press, Chaucer. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1959, Feb.
HM 63210.
Kingsford, F. (Florence). In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1949, Oct.
HM 63189.
Kingsford, F. (Florence). In Obituary, The Times, 1949, Sept. 24 and 27. In
Ephemera folder,
HM 63259.
Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to
Muriel J. Hughes, 1949, Nov. 19.
HM 63190.
Miller, Betty, 1910-1965. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1953, Mar. 30.
HM 63202.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1951, Feb.
HM 63194.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1960, Feb. 16.
HM 63223.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1960, Mar.
HM 63224.
Standard, Paul, 1900-. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes,
1960, Jan. 25.
HM 63221.
Indexing: Added Entries
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Introduction for reprint of J.
W. Mackail's Life of William Morris. In Sydney
Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1949, Nov. 19.
HM 63190.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Good Handwriting. In Sydney
Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1951, Feb. 13.
HM 63194.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Note sent to Muriel J. Hughes.
On Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 15.
HM 63246.
Hughes, Muriel Joy, 1903-? Handwritten note. On Sir Sydney Carlyle, letter
to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, June 24.
HM 63211.
Briggs, R. C. H. Sir Sydney
Cockerell, 1867-1962 [biographical sketch], MS. (carbon copy typewritten: 5p.).
1962, May 5. HM 63186.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir,
1867-1962. 55 letters to Muriel
Joy Hughes, 1903-.
HM 63187-63241.
Hawksley, Dorothy Webster, 1884-1970.
15 letters to Muriel Joy Hughes,
1903-.
HM 63242-63256.
Hughes, Muriel Joy, 1903-. 1
letter to The Huntington Library, L.S. (typewritten: 1p.).
1981, May 24. HM 63257.
Victoria & Albert Museum.
1 brief letter to Sir Sydney Carlyle
Cockerell, 1867-1962, L.S. (typewritten: 1p.).
1961, Aug. 17. HM 63258.
Ephemera: Reprint from The Times of F. Kingsford, Lady Cockerell,
obituary.
1949 HM 63259
Ephemera: 3 Printed items.
1960, 1962 HM 63260
Ephemera: 4 Clippings of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell's
obituary.
1962 HM 63261.
Ephemera: 3 Miscellaneous clippings.
1962-1976 HM 63262.
