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Title: Letters of British authors
Date (inclusive): 1770-1915
Number: 860525B
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research Institute.
Research Library
Physical Description:
150 letter(s)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: This collection, assembled by the
repository, comprises 150 letters sent by 73 persons between 1770 and 1915 with the bulk
sent between the 1840s-1890s. The authors of the letters include British editors,
publishers, writers, art critics, politicians, archaeologists, scientists, writers on
architecture, and writers of dictionaries.
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Letters of British authors, 1770-1915, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute,
Accession no. 860525B.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa860525b
Assembled by the repository from many 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 150 letters sent by 73 persons. The letters are dated from 1770 to
1915, with the bulk from the 1840s to the 1890s. Three letters are dated from 1770, 1791 and
1798, and 24 are from the first quarter of the 20th century. The authors of the letters
cover a large variety of activities and professions, including British editors, publishers,
lecturers, writers, art critics, politicians, mathematicians, archaeologists, antiquarians,
botanists, naturalists, educational writers, authors on architecture and of
dictionaries.
Among the most significant letters are those signed by the biographer Mackenzie Bell to
William Michael Rossetti (1), the art historian John Britton (4), the lecturer William
Kingdon Clifford (a manuscript page), the writer Louisa Stuart Costello (6), the publisher
Robert Duncan(?) (1), the archaeologists Sir Arthur John Evans (2) and Sir John Evans (5),
the biographer James Granger (1), the antiquarian Thomas Leman (1), the biographer Henry
Currie Marillier (2), the author on architecture John Henry Parker (1), the popular science
lecturer John Henry Pepper (2), the archaeologist Frederick George Hilton Price (2), the art
dictionaries author Samuel Redgrave (2), the Irish poet and lecturer George William Russell
(5), the editor William Noel Sainsbury (2), the biographical dictionary author Thomas
Humphrey Ward (7), the archaeologist Albert Way (6), the poet Frederick Edward Weatherby
(1), with verses and illustration, and the art critic and writer Sir Frederick Wedmore
(7).
Arranged alphabetically.
Weatherby, Frederick Edward
Way, Albert,
1805-1874
Wedmore, Frederick, Sir,
1844-1921
Russell, George William,
1867-1935
Redgrave, Samuel,
1802-1876
Ward, Thomas Humphry,
1845-1926
Sainsbury, William Noel,
1825-1895
Britton, John,
1771-1857
Clifford, William Kingdon,
1845-1879
Costello, Louisa Stuart,
1799-1870
Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941
Bell, Mackenzie,
1856-1930
Marillier, H. C. (Henry
Currie), 1865-1951
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Pepper, John Henry,
1821-1900
Price, F. G. Hilton (Frederick
George Hilton), 1842-1909
Evans, John, 1823-1908
Granger, James, 1723-1776
Leman, Thomas,
1751-1826
Authors -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
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