Woolner, Thomas, 1825–1892, Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 February 1
- Call Number:
- MSS 53
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Woolner, Thomas, 1825–1892
- Title(s):
- Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis
- Date:
- 1874 February 1
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 2
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- "Feb 1 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, I was sorry to miss the pleasure of seeing you last Thursday, but I was afraid you would not be able to come to town again so soon. The election was I think perfectly satisfactory; the new manner of voting acted well, and really gained the wishes of the body by breaking the coalition of several cliques, which are individually of small account, but formidable when combined. I shall be very pleased to have a chat with you on the subject of your pictures, and anything I could do to help you towards some effective assistance would give me great delight; for I have such an extraordinary admiration for your works that I think every bit of your workmanship should be jealously preserved, and every idea of yours on canvas should be made intelligible, even tho' every bit of it may not be by your own hand. I would willingly turn down to see you some day if I could not meet you in town: but I could most likely meet you any day at the Athenaeum if I had a day or two of notice before. Most truly yours, T. Woolner"
- Additional Notes:
- With blind-embossed letterhead: 29, Welbeck Street. W.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence and Exhibitions
- Subject Terms:
- AntiquitiesArtOrientalismPaintersPaintingPhotographyPricesSculptorsSculpture
- Associated Places:
- EgyptFranceGreat BritainHayes (Bromley, London, England)Paris
- Associated People/Groups:
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
- Finding Aid Title:
- Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10701.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629893
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629893?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1