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Correspondence regarding Southey portraits.
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SCA82-GA52-3-172
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1938-1969 (Creation)
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File consists of thirty two items of correspondence between Bertram R. Davis and others regarding portraits of Southey and contemporaries. Also includes a clipping on portraits of Sara Coleridge and Edith May Southey as well as photocopy of "Breun's Manuscript Catalogue of Engraved Portraits." A glass jar of shells collected by Southey's daughter Edith May (later Warter) and presented to Bertram R. Davis by Edith's granddaughter Mrs. F.F. Boult is also included. File and shells were donated separately by Dr. Warren U. Ober in 2012.
Correspondents include:
- Baldwyn, L (Folio Fine Art Ltd.)
- British Museum, The (Prints and Portraits)
- Curry, Kenneth
- Fox, Levi (The Shakespeare Birthplace and Trust)
- Gandy, Norman (Keswick Museum)
- Garlick, Kenneth
- Kuhn, A.J.
- New House Museum, Curator
- Ormond, R.L. (National Portrait Gallery)
- Simmons, Jack
- Warter, Henry de Grey
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Correspondence was donated by Dr. Warren Ober in February 2012.