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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Eric Millar collection
Creator:
Millar, Eric George
Identifier/Call Number: mssMillar
Physical Description:
1.66 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1835-1965
Abstract: Papers belonging to Eric George Millar, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more
information.
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.
[Identification of item]. Eric Millar collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Sotheby's, July 1974.
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.
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.
Processed by Gina C Giang in July 2013. In 2020, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.
Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Manuscripts and ephemera.
Former call number: mssMillar collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art students -- Great Britain
Clubs -- England -- London
Eye -- Infections
Interlibrary loans -- England
Women sculptors
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- England -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- England -- 20th century
Signatures (names) -- England
Bell, C. F. (Charles Francis), 1871-1966
Bell, Robert Anning, 1863-1933
Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943
Bispham, David, 1857-1921
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Cholmondeley, Mary, 1859-1925
Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
Dicksee, Frank, Sir, 1853-1928
Downman, John, 1750-1824
Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956
Falkner, John Meade, 1858-1932
Finberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph), 1866-1939
Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926
Lucas, John Seymour, 1849-1923
MacCarthy, Desmond, 1877-1952
Makino, Yoshio, 1874-1956
Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931
Millar, Mary Edith
Newmarch, Rosa, 1857-1940
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945
Shapland, H. P. (Henry Percival)
Stabler, Phoebe
Thirkell, Angela, 1890-1961
Art Workers Guild (Great Britain)
Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Royal Academy of Music (London, England : 1822- )