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INVENTORY OF THE LETTERS OF BRITISH DIGNITARIES AND
PROFESSIONALS, 1756-1951
860525C
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Title: Letters of British
dignitaries and professionals
Date (inclusive): 1756-1951
Collection number: 860525C
Extent:
65 items
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
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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Letters of British dignitaries and professionals, 1756-1951,
Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 860525C.
Received in several acquisitions, 1983-1990.
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
Arranged alphabetically in one series.
Alison, William Pulteney,
1790-1859—Correspondence
Davy, Hunphrey, Sir,
1778-1829—Correspondence
Davy, Jane, Lady,
1780-1855—Correspondence
De Grey, Thomas Philip,
Earl, 1781-1858—Correspondence
Ellis, Henry, Sir,
1777-1869—Correspondence
Gillies, Robert Pearse,
1788-1858—Correspondence
Gregory, William Henry,
Sir, 1817-1892—Correspondence
MacColl, D. S. (Dugald
Sutherland)—Correspondence
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir,
1783-1848—Correspondence
Minton, Herbert,
1793-1858—Correspondence
Rothenstein, John, Sir,
1901-1992—Correspondence
Wilson, Robert Thomas,
Sir, 1777-1849—Correspondence