Eric Millar collection, 1835-1965

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Summary

Creators:
Millar, Eric George
Abstract:
Papers belonging to Eric George Millar, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum.
Extent:
1.66 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Eric Millar collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection primarily contains letters addressed to Eric George Millar and Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell from various literary figures, artists, designers, musicians, scientists, librarians, and illustrators. There are two manuscripts concerning Phoebe Stabler, an English sculptor, along with seventeen pieces of ephemera relating to Stabler. There is also a volume compiled by Eric George Millar containing miscellaneous items relating to John Downman, a Welsh portrait and subject painter.

Biographical / historical:

Eric George Millar (1887-1966) was the Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum and a scholar interested in English illuminated manuscripts. He produced the two-volume work English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth in 1926 and 1928. He also produced a book on the Lindisfarne Gospels and a two-volume catalogue of the Chester Beatty Manuscripts. He never married and shared a home at 28 Pembroke Gardens in Kensington with his mother, Edith Mary Millar, until her death in 1942. Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (16 July 1867-1 May 1962) was an English museum curator and collector. From 1908 to 1937 he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in Britain.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Sotheby's, July 1974.
Processing information:

Processed by Gina C Giang in July 2013. In 2020, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.

Arrangement:

Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Manuscripts and ephemera.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Eric Millar collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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