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"As They Were: New Dialogues with the Dead."

Description

Two typescript copies of playlets, both annotated. Part I was published in The Challenge (pp. 443-444, February 23, 1923) and a fragment of the clipping accompanies one of the copies. With three short notes about the dialogues to Esdaile, 1922.

I. Sir Christopher Wren and John Bushnell (5 pages) II. Lord Burlington and Alexander Pope (5 pages) III. Horace Walpole and George Vertue (7 pages) IV. Nathaniel Smith asst. to late Mr. Roubiliac, sculptor & David Garrick, (5 pages) V. Agostino Carlini and Sir Joshua Reynolds (5 pages) VI. Richard Owen Cambridge, wit and poet, and Fanny Burney (8 pages)
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1922-1923 and undated
Call number
mssEsdaile
Creator
Esdaile, Katharine Ada (1881-1950)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by the Huntington Library in 1962. The collection was initially accessioned into the Huntington Art Reference Library in 1962. Sometime afterwards, the printed books and pamphlets were removed, separately catalogued, and shelved with the main body of the Art Reference Books, and the photographs were removed to the Photo Study Collection. In 2005, the Art Reference Library collection was merged into the main collection of the Huntington Library and the decision was made to re-integrate the printed material and photographs of the Esdaile collection into the papers.
Associated people
Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, (1880-1956.)
Esdaile, Edmund. (1869-1935,)
Gardner, Edmund G., (1846-1937,)
Gardner, Percy, (1882-1935.)
Gunnis, Rupert,
McDowall, Stewart Andrew,
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