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Finding aid for Letters of British dignitaries and professionals, 1756-1951
860525C  
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  • Administrative Information
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  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Letters of British dignitaries and professionals
    Date (inclusive): 1756-1951
    Number: 860525C
    Creator/Collector: Getty Research Institute. Research Library
    Physical Description: 65.0 items
    Repository:
    The Getty Research Institute
    Special Collections
    1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
    Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
    (310) 440-7390
    Abstract: The collection, assembled by the repository, comprises 65 letters from 43 correspondents. The senders are well-known people in England, including physicians, politicians, directors of cultural institutions, and members of the peerage and the clergy. The letters cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from professional issues and public business to social activities, private relationships, and family concerns.
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    Language: Collection material is in English

    Administrative Information

    Access

    Open for use by qualified researchers.

    Publication Rights

    Preferred Citation

    Letters of British dignitaries and professionals, 1756-1951, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 860525C.
    http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa860525c

    Acquisition Information

    Received in several acquisitions, 1983-1990.

    Processing History

    Processed and cataloged by Onica Busuioceanu. The items in this collection were formerly part of the British artists letters collection (accession number 860525). They were separated when that collection was cataloged.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The collection comprises 65 letters from 43 correspondents. The letters are dated between 1756 and 1951, with the bulk from the 1820s to the 1880s and the first decade of the 20th century. The senders are well-known people, such as the physician Alison, the chemist Humphrey Davy, the pottery and porcelain manufacturer Herbert Minton, and directors of major cultural institutions, such as the British Museum, the London National Gallery, the Royal Society, and the Tate Gallery, as well as politicians and members of the peerage or the clergy. The letters cover a large variety of subjects ranging from professional issues and public business to social activities, private relationships and family concerns.
    Among the most relevant are the letters of the physician William Pulteney Alison (3), Thomas Philip De Grey, lord lieutenant of Ireland (2), Dugald Sutherland MacColl, keeper of the Tate Gallery (2), Sir Henry Ellis, Librarian of the British Museum (7), Sir William Henry Gregory, trustee of the National Gallery (4), Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquarian and collector (1), Herbert Minton, pottery and porcelain manufacturer (1), Sir John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery (1), Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, son of Benjamin Wilson (3), and a long letter from Lady Jane Davy, socialite, to the poet Robert Pearse Gillies (1). The collection was assembled by the repository.

    Arrangement note

    Arranged alphabetically in one series.

    Indexing Terms

    Subjects - Names

    Alison, William Pulteney, 1790-1859
    Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829
    Davy, Jane, Lady, 1780-1855
    De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859
    Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777-1869
    Gillies, R. P. (Robert Pearse), 1788-1858
    Gregory, William Henry, Sir, 1817-1892
    MacColl, D. S. (Dugald Sutherland), 1859-1948
    Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848
    Minton, Herbert, 1793-1858
    Rothenstein, John, 1901-1992
    Wilson, Robert Thomas, Sir, 1777-1849

    Genres and Forms of Material

    Correspondence