Letters of British dignitaries and professionals, 1756-1951

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Summary

Title:

Letters of British dignitaries and professionals

Dates:

1756-1951

Creators:

Getty Research Institute. Research Library

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.

Extent:

65.0 items

Language:

Collection material is in English

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

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Acquisition information:

Received in several acquisitions, 1983-1990.

Processing information:

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.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Correspondence

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Onica Busuioceanu.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2016-02-02T17:29-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:: Open for use by qualified researchers.
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